Where I'm From Artifacts

                                                                My Watch

My watch is a very important artifact that belongs to me. It is a circular medal shaped watch with black in color. My watch have two black leather straps that connects to the heavy medal watch. The watch was given to me as a present form my aunt few years ago at my birthday. On the day of my birthday, my aunt and my cousin went shopping at Hong Kong, they told me I could get anything I wanted, so I asked her for a watch. When  we got to he store and I showed her the watch that I like, without hesitating my aunt took the watch and paid for it. Now with the help of the watch, I usually use it during big test so I can keep track of time, and I used  the PSAT test.

                        Picture of Dad traveling with his company for a trip to Beijing.

The picture was taken years ago when my dad in United State travel with his company for a few week trip to Beijing, China. The building in the back to the group is a the Tian An Men, the building is mainly red and orange color. Tian An Men is made to honor the first president of China. This picture is special to my family because this is my dad's first time going to Beijing, and is the first time I got a chance to living with my mom for few week after my parent divorce. The picture was taken across the street of Tiananmen Square, and it was during the winter. When my dad came back to U.S. he bought me a mini statue of Tian An Men, but the sad thing  is that we lost the statue few years ago, and have never find it again.

                                                               The Bible

The Bible is an cultural artifact that is important only to me in my family. It is a brownish old book with cross that symbolize the Christ on the cover. Inside the book is hundreds of yellowish brown paper that is fill with text and work that have different meaning and definition. The bible is a special artifact because it only belongs to me, I'm the only one in the house that believe in Christianity. When I first moved to New York, I was being send to a Catholic school. At that time I know nothing about Christianity but only Jesus is Holy person. As months pasted and I take Religion class in my school, I started to learn more about Christianity and even memorized the prayers.We have many bibles in my school, but we never get to keep one until one day, one of my nun teacher gave a Bible for me to keep as a Christmas present. 

                                                  Beats by Dr. Dre earphone

The beats earphone is  personal artifact that belongs to me. The beats earphone is mainly made out of plastic and medal. Color of the earphone would be red and black; the chord of the earphone is red just to make it stands out. I bought the earphone after I finished my Freshmen year in Millennium Brooklyn High School. I still remember the day when my mom and I was going to the Beats store in Soho and on our way we were arguing about if I should get a headphone or a earphone. I was voting for a headphone, and my mom is saying earphone is better for me. She told me how earphone could be used everyday when I'm on the train and is a lot easier to carry around with. In the end, I got persuaded by my mom and we bought the Beats earphone instead of the headphone. Something special about this artifact is that these are by first pair of Beats earphone I have, they worked very well and I'm looking in the future to get a pair of the Beats headphone.

                                            Photo of my grandma and my dog

The old lady in the picture is my grandma; the person who I love the most. My grandma in the picture is wearing a vast and a long sleeve shirt since it is cold during winter time, and my grandma have a black dog that live with her. I have no idea who took the picture, but it was taken during winter few years ago. The picture was sent to U.S. within the mail, I don't know what else came with the mail but my dad received the mail and gave me the picture. I guess my grandma wanted to show me she is well in China, and telling us that we don't have to worry about her. I love my grandma more than I love my parents. She is the only who took care of me when I was a baby all the way until I came to United State. We always keep in touch with phone, and every summer vacation I goes back to China either by myself or with my parents to visit my grandma. I usually stays in China for 1-2 month,  and I always miss her when I have to leave. 

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Social Networking Research

Class Research Question:

What technologies do MBHS students use? For what purpose ( social, learning, creative, entertainment) and in what ways do MBHS students use technologies 

Research Focus:

How is social network important to our society and how does social media affects our life?

My Research Question:

- When do you usually use social media? 

- What social media do you like the best? (Facebook, Twitter, ooVoo, YouTube)

- Do you think social media helps you with your school work?

- Does social media affects your grade?

Literature Review:

Someone on like did a pew study of social media and young adult. This study was done in February 3, 2010 by Amanda Lenhart. In the research, it say that nearly three quarters (73%) of online teens and 72% of young adult use social network sites. Adults are less likely to use the internet, only 40% uses internet. Facebook is the most popular social media, 73% of adult profile owners use Facebook, and lower percentage on other media. 

Older Adults and Social Media is another research done by someone on Pew Internet. In their survey, it shows that in 2009, internet users of age 50 and above have nearly doubled, from a average of 22% to 42%. Social media young teen user at age of 18-29 grow from 76% to 86% which is increase of 13%. 

The third resource I found online is posted by Amy Bax, called Importance of Social Networking. In her writing, she said internet is integrating into nearly all aspects of everyday business use, and many people start recognizing the important role social media and network play in the world of entrepreneurship. With the help of social network, company care able to gain contacts, client, and increase public awareness. Social network is something that business must need to make a living, this shows how importance internet is.  

Data Collection Methods:

- Survey with 10 Millennium Brooklyn 10-3 students
- Interview with students
-  Research for data and sources online



Data Analysis:

When I finish doing survey with my 10-3 classmates, some  preferences and patterns starts to appear. For my survey, I asked 10 Millennium Brooklyn 10-3 students if they use social media, and some other questions on the topic of social media. Out of the 10 students, 10 of them appears to say they all use social media. This is not too surprising to me, since kids in this modern world grow up in a community that's full with technology, they grow up learning how to use the internet and some school assignment even involve using the internet. From my survey, 7 out of 10 classmates have either Facebook, YouTube, or Twitter. A preferences that I see is more girls uses ooVoo than boys, maybe since boys are more into games and not much girls play games so they would like to text and video chat with friends online. This comes when boys said girls have "no life". Is not that girls have no life, is just the fact that girls called chatting online and facetime a life for them.


Initial Findings:

A trend that i notices from my survey collection is that most of the people have a Facebook, maybe is because Facebook is the most famous social media out of the others. Most of them also uses YouTube, but they use it to just watch videos and clips, not much of them have a YouTube account and actually records video and post it online. Maybe recording a video is just not a habit for them. There is more girls to use ooVoo than boys. Girls are more into gossiping and video chatting, and boys likes to play video games and play multiplier mode with strangers online who is playing the same game.
  
Another trend I found out from my survey is that using social media and the internet does not affects people's grade. Someone from my survey spent more than 5 hours a day on the internet but his grade in school is around B or in average. So I think is just depends on the person itself if he cares about his school work or not. If the person really do care about school, but also enjoy going online, he just have to manage his time widely. Social media does not affect a students grade.


Implication:
The research I did is very important and is a helpful sources for parents, kids, teachers, and the public. My research is mainly about they study of people using social media, and it affects people life. Since I'm bias thinking social media is actually helpful to our life, so I go against the ones who thinks social media are useless or not helpful. When people read my research, they could take it as a opinionated sources. In my study, I find out that internet and social doesn't affects a students grade, it just depends how  the students manage their time, so this source might be helpful for parents.

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