SOC-MED, a learning experience

One of the things I like about SOC-MED is that there's no quiz but it was still challenging because of all the projects and reports. I personally think that sometimes the project given to us were hard because it was new to us, like interviewing someone about their social status online or experimenting in Youtube and it takes a lot of effort to finish all the projects. Reporting is also one of my weaknesses, I don't want to report because I'm a very shy person and I easily gets embarrassed in front of a crowd.
But after all the reporting, I've gain confidence to speak up about what I really wanted to say without being so nervous. I also had so much fun because of all the experience in SOC-MED like using Twitter to tweet about our feelings and posting blogs. The use of avatars was one of my favorite activity, I created a new avatar because the old one was really outdated and I want to create one that really looks like me. The discussion about Web 2.0 taught me a lot of things that I wasn't aware of like the Typewithme, Bittorrent, Grooveshark, etc. Overall, this course offered a lot of new knowledge to each and everyone of us.

SOC-MED Youtube Experiment

Campos, Anjanette        S15
Lapus, Samantha
Lim, Tyrone
Uy, Sofia
Zantua, Jon

We conducted our Youtube Experiment during March 20, 2011 (Sunday) from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.


Category:

Above is the video category in Youtube, Sports is the most uploaded video while News and Entertainment follows.




Commonly used tags:

The image above contains the commonly used tags used by people when they uploaded the video. We noticed that most of the up-loaders used the title as their tags and they have a long list of tags.




Length of Video:

We found out that majority of the videos uploaded were less than a minute, but many also uploaded a 1 to 2 minute video, and there were lesser people who uploaded a long video.

The common video up-loaders are in between the age of 20 to 30 years old while the teenagers trailed behind, the 30 to 40 years old, however, are not the up-loader type.

As we can see, United States of America(U.S.A.) has the most number of uploads, followed by United Kingdom (U.K.), Japan and Netherlands. Most of the other countries have just 1 or 2 videos uploaded that day.

English is the most used language in the videos, while Arabic and German follows. The Others are the videos with background music or it may be a silent video.




* When we conducted the experiment, we encountered two videos which were blocked. 


Summary:

• Category: Sports has the most number of video uploads
• Length of the video: majority of the video was less than a minute
• Age group: many of the up-loaders were 20 to 30 years old of age
• Country: United States of America has the most number of uploads
• Language: English is the leading language
• Common content: Basketball, Music, Cars

Avatar

This is my newly created avatar. I made a new one since my past avatar doesn't really show a good example of who I really am. This is an image that best suits my appearance, with long, black hair, fair skin, semi-hazel eyes,  small nose, and thin lips.  I picked the blue shirt because my favorite color is blue and I love to wear plain clothes that is comfortable to wear. Blue pants/jeans is what I usually wear to school and I chose the flats because it doesn't give me a hard time walking. I also love to wear earrings because it makes a girl look elegant. (HAHA)

For me, Youtube is...

1. What is the impact of Youtube for you?

     Although I'm not a big fan of Youtube, I still think Youtube is a great website. It has a lot to offer; it provides entertainment and can be used for research purposes as well. I sometimes use Youtube to watch movie trailers and music videos that can rarely be found in other websites. Whenever we have a research, I also go to the site because it offers many educational videos. When I want to search for a video, I automatically go to Youtube because it offers almost all the videos a person would want.

2. How to use Youtube to improve education in Philippines?

     Youtube is a video-sharing website that allows anyone to upload and share their videos, so I think people can take advantage of uploading a video that will help students or anyone in particular in learning new things without the burden of paying just to learn. 

3. How do you see Youtube evolving 10 years from now?

     As we all know, time passes by so fast and technology also improves day by day, so I think all the websites that are famous today, including Youtube will improve their features just to satisfy the increasing expectations of the users. They might add new features that will attract more people to use their website as well. 

    Ten years from now, Youtube can also become infamous if there were new websites invented that would defeat the capabilities and features of Youtube.

Memorable Childhood Experience

Of the many wonderful memories I had during my childhood days, I consider going to China for a study tour as one of the most unforgettable experiences I had.

On the summer of the year 2005, my parents decided to send us (my sister, my younger brother and me) to Quanzhou, China for a six-weeks study tour. Of course, our first reaction was not good. We never wanted to be separated with our parents, because we were not used to it. Our parents keeps on insisting that going on a study tour will improve our Chinese-speaking skills and it will also be a new experience for us.

Going on a study tour gave us the opportunity to meet our tour-mates. There were 40 plus students in our group who were also studying in a Chinese school. They came from different provinces like Baguio, Zamboanga and many other more.

Living and studying in China was difficult to endure. Most of us were home sick during the first two weeks because life is not the same in China. There are no parents to tell us what to do, no maids to do household chores and no gadgets to kill our boredom. We just needed to stick to our schedule which is studying all day long and having siesta time after lunch. But, there's also something to be excited about during the week, its touring outside the school campus. We were brought to many places in China, we had the opportunity to go to many tourists spots and also go shopping.

When the tour was about to end, we were all depressed because we might not see each other again. We said farewell to each other with tears in our eyes and the hope of meeting again someday.

* I would like to share my experiences to other people, especially to those who wants to meet new friends and to those who wants to learn how to be independent. Going on a study tour will not only help a person mentally and socially, but it can also add a new list of happy memories.