Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Relection

-Two things that I think went well were the media piece and NGO research. For the media piece, I used Emaze to gather my information and inspire people to pay attention climate change. Emaze was pretty easy to use, so I think the media piece went very well for me. For NGO research, it was my first time hearing about NGO and searching an NGO  for my topic.It was very interesting and helpful.There were a lots of choices that I can choose from. So it didn't take me much time to finish this assignment.
-If I can start over again, I would like to change my topic and five online resources for Diigo. To be honest, my topic was very general and people has talked about it for a long time.I may change my topic to a very specific issue so that I can focus more on it.  

-I really like the one presentation winch is about teenage pregnancy. It is a very serious topic and common among teenagers. It happens everywhere and gets more and more serious. So the presentation they did actually gained my attention and made me ponder. I have to do something to help with it. I may suggest friends around me and remind them to stay away from these.

Friday, January 15, 2016

Media piece - Emaze


I use Emaze to help me with my topic, Climate Change. The purpose of my media piece is to help people raising awareness about Climate Change, because it is a serious issue around the world. Imagine that everybody is doing little things to help to reduce the rising temperature of our planet, our world be become much better than current.
I use pictures, videos, and text information to develop my topic. I think Emaze is an efficient and also effective way to express my idea. First of all, Emaze has lots of templates for various of themes that people can choose from. Next, Emaze allows the changing of 3-dimensional images and settings, which can easily catch audience’s attention. Then, it supports different languages and culture which can help to come up with a common response.

https://www.emaze.com/@AFFRWRZI/climate-change-copy1-copy1


Friday, January 8, 2016

NGO: Climate Action Network Canada(CANC)

Climate Action Network (CAN) is a worldwide network of over 950 Non-Governmental Organization (NGOs) in more than 110 countries. Climate Action Network (CANC) is founded by John Bennett in Canada in 1989s. Their goal is promoting government and individual action to limit human-induced climate change to ecologically sustainable levels. CANC members work together to achieve this goal through information exchange and the coordinated development of NGO strategy on international, regional, and national climate issues.

Programs that they have are research, issues, new post, publications and campaigns. CANC allows everyone search any news or issues about climate in the website. They are trying to spread out the knowledge of concerning about climate. They have lots of issues such as: what is climate change? Getting off Fossil Fuels, Clean Energy, Impacts and Adaptation and Government Actions. So basically, they want everyone to build a awareness of what climate is serious. They encourage people using clean energy instead of fossil fuel to reduce pollution. On the home page, we can also find new post that shows the recent news, such as: Reflections on Paris, Meeting the Requirements of the Paris Agreement, etc. It has all the information about the actions that government takes, so it will be easier for people to go through and talk about it. Publications are also found on website, such as: Federal Policy, International Policy, Clean Energy, Tar Sands, Mitigation and Climate Justice. Tar sands database is a collection of hundreds documents gathered through various resources. They focus a lot on oil sands because it affects climate change tightly. Provincial, Federal and international policies are made to limit people's actions which may cause negative consequences to climate change. Campaign is also an important part of their programs. For example: Canada misses end of March deadline for announcing its contribution to global efforts to reduce carbon pollution. Canada, as part of CAN, should have announced its plan to contributing to global efforts to reduce carbon pollution by the end of March.