My plan is to make my Facebook page something for many to enjoy. I have an autistic younger brother. Who is in my mind one of the utmost amazing individuals I have ever had the pleasure of knowing. I want everyone else to experience and see the world through his eyes.
FOLLOW HIS PAGE: The Kellen
MISSION STATEMENT:
The Kellen, is for anyone who needs a little extra boost in their day, or just would like to know what autism is, and how autism works. Kellen is my younger brother and is overjoyed at the notion of having all of you hear and see what he has to say. I want you to laugh, smile, watch, read, and experience the world through his eyes.
TARGET AUDIENCE:
Person #1: Is a middle aged woman around 33 who has an autistic son about the age of 8. She constantly wonders how she can teach him and help him understand life, or even if he does understand. He's high functioning and seems to grasp some things, but tends to drift off into his own world most of the time. She has him mainstreamed in a public school to help him develop social skills and does her best to spread autism awareness within the school district. Late at night she lies awake envisioning where her son can go in the future, what the future could even have in store for this kind-hearted soul.
Person #2: Is a younger adolescent teenager who has a neighbor/fellow classmate who is autistic. He doesn't relate much to him and frankly knows very little about him other than the fact that he's autistic and is usually in some form or resource classes most of time. He has talked to his autistic neighbor a handful of times at school or on the bus and knows that he is really into video games. He would like to learn more about him and wouldn't mind spending an afternoon with him playing video games, but it unsure as to how to approach him because he's not sure really what autism is.
Person #3: Is a young lady who is 19 and starting her undergraduate schooling. She has still yet figure out what she wants to do in her degree, but knows she really enjoyed being a peer tutor for a friend of hers in high school who has autism. She loved spending time with her, but doesn't know much about autism, just that it varies in severity. As she contemplates her future career she ponders the idea of working with kids, teenagers, and adults with autism.
Monday, January 26, 2015
Monday, January 19, 2015
Social Networking and Stabilization... Yay or Nay?
The distance between other countries and cultures is growing smaller and smaller every second. Abilities to travel great distances in a matter of hours has connected countries over the decades. Even faster than that we have worldwide communication connections right at our fingertips. Modern technology and networking today allows us to better connect with one another via face-to-face conversations, Skype, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, text, instant messages, email, and the ever prehistoric practice of phone calls.
The ability to quickly access information has progressed us as bi pods. In a single generation technology has not just leaped into a new arena, it's constantly materializes transcended technologies faster than we can buy it. This ability to constantly express our every thought no matter how substandard or exceptional it may be has allowed us to progressed and at the very same time hinder us.
That's just basic physics folks. For every reaction, thought, idea, and movement there is an opposite counterpart. Humans have come very far. Not as far as Marty McFly did in 2015, but the technology is there. Hover boards are real people!! With this progression we have connected as countries and we have also disconnected from countries. Allies have been formed as well as enemies. Even 2nd and 3rd world countries have cellphones while still barely are able to get drinkable water.
With this there is a way to come together, and I'm not talking about the way The Beatles were talking. I'm talking about when our nation was attacked in 2001 and every single American set aside their political affiliations and stood by each other. When attacks happen in other countries like London and recently in Paris, social media allowed us to know what was happening outside of our comfortable little lives and realize there are bigger things going on. Information can be spread with one click of the finger. Though what happened in Nigeria wasn't as publicized as what happened in Paris, it was shared and publicized thanks to social networking. Now the audience can be the journalists as well.
It can, if utilized properly do vastly greater things than negative.
The ability to quickly access information has progressed us as bi pods. In a single generation technology has not just leaped into a new arena, it's constantly materializes transcended technologies faster than we can buy it. This ability to constantly express our every thought no matter how substandard or exceptional it may be has allowed us to progressed and at the very same time hinder us.
That's just basic physics folks. For every reaction, thought, idea, and movement there is an opposite counterpart. Humans have come very far. Not as far as Marty McFly did in 2015, but the technology is there. Hover boards are real people!! With this progression we have connected as countries and we have also disconnected from countries. Allies have been formed as well as enemies. Even 2nd and 3rd world countries have cellphones while still barely are able to get drinkable water.
With this there is a way to come together, and I'm not talking about the way The Beatles were talking. I'm talking about when our nation was attacked in 2001 and every single American set aside their political affiliations and stood by each other. When attacks happen in other countries like London and recently in Paris, social media allowed us to know what was happening outside of our comfortable little lives and realize there are bigger things going on. Information can be spread with one click of the finger. Though what happened in Nigeria wasn't as publicized as what happened in Paris, it was shared and publicized thanks to social networking. Now the audience can be the journalists as well.
It can, if utilized properly do vastly greater things than negative.
Social Media's Agenda on Terrorism
In real world news, Islamic Extremist attack journalist offices in Paris, France due to a controversial cover cartoon called Charlie Hebdo. While I'm not saying that this event wasn't important, only 20 lives were lost in this terror attack. What many don't know is that four days before this world renown act of terror in Paris, there was another terrorist attack in Nigeria. Unlike the attack in Paris, this one claimed hundreds of lives. The big question we should be asking is: Why didn't both attacks receive the same media coverage?
This particular comparison can be roped in with many others like it *cough Ferguson*. In an interview Ethan Zuckerman talks about how we as Americans are getting a wrong picture of what terrorism is. Like many who tried before terrorism is about power. Proving their dominance. Due to media agenda's much of what happens in the world gets swept under the rug. Media is a business, and as a business they are about what will sell. Unfortunately, people relate better to what happened in Paris, while many of us living the luxury of our first world lifestyles cannot associate with the deaths of third world villagers in a Nigeria.
Zuckerman enlightens us to the reason behind this. He says there are different types of terror. There is terror that is easy to talk about. Then, there is the terror that isn't easy to talk about. Hence, the agenda behind what is published and what isn't.
In turn, we are attributing to the media framing going on today. We as the audience let them know what we do and do not like with ratings. The media responds by publishing what we would rather see, hear, and read. As crazy at it seems the media is not controlling us, we are controlling it. The depth behind that is much greater than the prepubescent teenagers and adults attributing to it can comprehend. Mostly because they can't see the world beyond their noses, because they're stuck in front of a screen.
On the Media Interview:
http://www.onthemedia.org/story/on-the-media-2015-01-16/
This particular comparison can be roped in with many others like it *cough Ferguson*. In an interview Ethan Zuckerman talks about how we as Americans are getting a wrong picture of what terrorism is. Like many who tried before terrorism is about power. Proving their dominance. Due to media agenda's much of what happens in the world gets swept under the rug. Media is a business, and as a business they are about what will sell. Unfortunately, people relate better to what happened in Paris, while many of us living the luxury of our first world lifestyles cannot associate with the deaths of third world villagers in a Nigeria.
Zuckerman enlightens us to the reason behind this. He says there are different types of terror. There is terror that is easy to talk about. Then, there is the terror that isn't easy to talk about. Hence, the agenda behind what is published and what isn't.
In turn, we are attributing to the media framing going on today. We as the audience let them know what we do and do not like with ratings. The media responds by publishing what we would rather see, hear, and read. As crazy at it seems the media is not controlling us, we are controlling it. The depth behind that is much greater than the prepubescent teenagers and adults attributing to it can comprehend. Mostly because they can't see the world beyond their noses, because they're stuck in front of a screen.
On the Media Interview:
http://www.onthemedia.org/story/on-the-media-2015-01-16/
Thursday, January 15, 2015
(insert narcissistic introduction here)
In order to stand out from the crowd and make this this more entertaining for everyone, I am going to provide a little information about myself via an overly personal, Personal Ad on Craigslist. You're Welcome.
*Hello? Is it me you're looking for? (St. George Area) -Age 25
Hi! I'm just your typical amazonian blond gal looking for the oh so cliche "knight in shining armor". But in the wise words of Jimmy Buffett:
I like long walks on the beach, pina coladas, and getting caught in the rain-- but seriously, love the beach and not-so-secretly wish I was a California Girl. Also, not to sound too conceted, but I am the best at making pina coladas as a bartender at the famous Red Lobster where we "Seafood Differently".
Kind of a fan of yoga, and like to think I use more then half my brain-- according to studies humans only use 10% of their brains. Which is kind of crazy to think that someone somewhere used 10% of their brain to figure out humans only use 10% of their brains.
Never thought much about making love at midnight in the dunes on a cape-- if having sand in every nook and cranny of your body sounds like a good time to you, then hey, Carpe Diem (Latin for YOLO).
I'm the love that you've looked for, write to me and escape-- Really though, I am the proud owner of a nimbly fun, all-terrain tired, vicious red Ford Escape (es-skop-ay), that I love more than I love some people.
Contact me if interested ;)
*Hello? Is it me you're looking for? (St. George Area) -Age 25
Hi! I'm just your typical amazonian blond gal looking for the oh so cliche "knight in shining armor". But in the wise words of Jimmy Buffett:
I like long walks on the beach, pina coladas, and getting caught in the rain-- but seriously, love the beach and not-so-secretly wish I was a California Girl. Also, not to sound too conceted, but I am the best at making pina coladas as a bartender at the famous Red Lobster where we "Seafood Differently".
Kind of a fan of yoga, and like to think I use more then half my brain-- according to studies humans only use 10% of their brains. Which is kind of crazy to think that someone somewhere used 10% of their brain to figure out humans only use 10% of their brains.
Never thought much about making love at midnight in the dunes on a cape-- if having sand in every nook and cranny of your body sounds like a good time to you, then hey, Carpe Diem (Latin for YOLO).
I'm the love that you've looked for, write to me and escape-- Really though, I am the proud owner of a nimbly fun, all-terrain tired, vicious red Ford Escape (es-skop-ay), that I love more than I love some people.
Contact me if interested ;)
- do NOT contact me with unsolicited services or offers
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