Peer Reviews

One of the best parts about this class was getting to see everyone else's work. We were told to peer review other classmate's work and it was truly helpful because I got to see how everyone used their creativity and how their projects reflected their personalities.
Here is some feedback for the people I evaluated:

Juan Aragon
Juan's capstone project was about International Business Relations. His end product was a course to educate people about proper business etiquette and to give them an insight on new technologies that are now available to them to help them succeed. Juan created a poster with statistics that really stood out and were very informative for people who didn't know much about the subject.
He also created a power point that talked about different counties and how each country manages their businesses. It was insightful to see how advanced the business world is today and how much it has the potential to grow. The sole problem I had with his project was that I thought it needed a better website. The website was lacking in some areas, but had a really good overall layout. If he changes it to include more information and better design, it will be perfect.

Bereket Zeru
Bereket's capstone project focused on a very important topic in today's society. He claims that Wylie High School does not have the technological advancments that many other schools in Dallas are fortuante enough to have. DCCCD has smartboards, eCampus, Mac Computers, iPads, and many other high-tech products, while Wylie HS does not have these. For his end product, Bereket created a petition that needed 100 signatures to reach the Board of Trustees. He also created a website in order to spread the word and promote his project. I think Bereket's idea was great and I loved that he cared about the success of the school. The one thing that I recommended was that it would have been better if he had began the petition a while back, so he could have the 100 signatures by the time he presented. I also recommended that he make a Facebook page promoting it and begin by adding parents of students who go to Wylie HS because they would be a good target.

Capstone Final Products

CHECK OUT THE WEBSITE:
http://mikhaelmariam.wix.com/handhygiene

CHECK OUT THE VIDEO:

CHECK OUT THE POSTER:

Look & Feel Issues

I will make my website using wix.com and my video will be made on Windows Movie Maker. My video will be very persuasive because it will have the emotional aspect of how threatening lack of hand hygiene can be.
The fonts are all bold and are white on a black background for emphasis. 
The color scheme is mostly all blue and that is to go with the water and hand sanitizer theme. 
All these materials will serve to educate parents and teachers. 

Capstone Project Statement of Intent

The goal of my Capstone project is to raise awareness about the importance of hand hygiene and to get people to use hand sanitizer dispensers more often and to wash their hands more often.

This topic is important because your hand hygiene not only determines your health, but also the health of others around you. We should care to spread awareness because getting people to wash their hands could keep you in better shape.

This fits directly  with my career goal because I want to become a pediatrician. As a pediatrician, hand hygiene will play an important role in my daily life and will be something I will explain to my patients. 

This project gives back to society because I am installing hand sanitizer dispensers at my church and am hoping that kids will actually use it during Sunday school and at other times. 

PSA Ideas

For my capstone project, I will be focusing on hand hygiene. As my final product, I will be installing hand sanitizer dispensers in the Sunday School classrooms at my church, St. Philopateer Coptic Orthodox Church.

Because my PSA will be focusing on hand washing, I have been watching several YouTube videos that are PSAs in order to get ideas for my video.

Here are a few that I watched:

While most of these were very well created and put together,  I found them to be mostly pretty cheesy. 

I want to present my best work for my final Capstone project, so I am aiming to make my hand washing PSA video to be more modern and relatable to any age that watches. I have to keep in mind all ages because my audience ranges from younger children to parents and maybe even school nurses or educators who are looking for a hand washing educational video. 

In the first video, I really liked that they presented facts to the audience. It was clear cut and straight to the point. It was a little plain, however, I definitely want to include facts in my video.

In the second video, I liked that it wasn't too long or too short. It kept my attention the entire time and especially in the end, it left a very bold message for the viewers. I want my video to capture my audience's attention the whole time, so that is a big factor I take from this video.

Lastly, in the third video, the boy rapping really related to kids his age; high schoolers. Because this video was posted 2 years ago, I believe it wouldn't interest children as much anymore, because he appears to be dressed and rapping differently than how things are in today's pop culture. However, I thought they did a phenomenal job with the special effects in the background, and that is something I want to add in my video to make it interesting to the audience. 

My video will probably not have any actors like the 3 videos above. I hope to use a good video editing software and work with special effects to include pictures, sound and most importantly, the text. I hope to make the text look cool in the video, since that is what will stick to the viewers.