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This semester has been very influential and educational. I began my biology classes with no knowledge whatsoever about my body, sure I knew a little bit of this, a little bit of that, but nothing concrete about it. I learned about diseases and how dangerous everything is nowadays. I was taught about prevention and how many little infections can turn into something so dangerous just because they weren't careful. I know what not to do, what not to eat, and how to take care of myself so that I wont get anything that might damage my body.

The group projects were the most fun and educational because we were all serious about what we were doing and no one distracted the other. we worked as a team and respected each other. I learnt most about the topic in groups science if we had a doubt someone on the team supported with the answer.

Even though I am not in the class were digital expression is taught I learned many thing about it. Thanks to the people that were on my team a learned what I had to learn in order to make this presentation work.

Because of this project, and this class in my semester I met some really wonderful people that I am proud to call my friends. if I had a doubt they helped me until I got it. They were supportive of me just as I was supportive of them.

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This semester was beneficial in a lot of possible ways. I started in Biology not knowing much of the risks about my health and ended with a full knowledge about the disease I got on this project, hypertension, although I pretty much learned about all the different topics we saw throughout the semester. I'm thankful for the disease we had to work on, as it is one that is fairly common and if I ever got it, I would know how to adapt my lifestyle adequately to live a satisfactory life with it.

We also had to work in Digital Expression with this project. Here we edited some of the videos we had and used the tools that the teachers here presented us with. I found this seriously interesting, as we live in a world in which technology rules the world of today. It is interesting in the way that these technology can edit some of the things that one sees every single day, such as television advertisements, radio advertisements etc. It is funny to think how one almost never stops to think about how they are created. It was a fun change to actually participate in the making of some of these.

The team I had to work on these projects with, however, was the best thing about it. Since I can recall, I've never really liked to work with people in teams. I had always found it distressing, for it always was a sort of excuse to work separately, but under one single team, if that makes sense. There never was teamwork, not one single moment where one person would sacrifice their times to get together and make an amazing project. This team acutally made my perception about teamwork change entirely. It's not a couple of strangers feeling awkward in the middle of the semester as the teacher instructs to gather. This semester started out with a couple of strange faces. As it went on, bonds grew. Now, all of us in the team share something that is out of the ordinary in everything related to teamworking. Now, we actually work together and feel happy about it. There is not one single thing that I can complain about it. I've loved every second of it, how everybody helps out and the chemistry we all felt from the moment we decided to team. It's been a great year and I am sincerely sad for it to be over and to say goodbye to the dream team.

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The interview was asked to Dr. Arturo Cadena, cardiologist, in the Zambrano Hospital . The purpose of the interview was to acquire more information regarding Hypertension from a reliable source.

http://youtu.be/41JgQ3bPQFU

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The video ad shows a new tech for treating Hypertension, including a brief explanation of its function and facts about its origin.

https://youtu.be/mm5wycX-elU

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The stop motion includes the explanation of the system Hypertension affects, along with the function of each organ that makes up the system. It also includes a real life example related to Hypertension.

https://youtu.be/KNXPCkPdDDc

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Video Ad Storyboard

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Daniela García de Alba Lobeira A01194247

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This project has been really rich in learning; regarding the aspects of systems our body works and functions on. This has made me realise all the things I didn’t fully understand of certain aspects of our body and processes we follow on a daily basis, without even realising we do them. The system we were able to understand deeply was the cardiovascular system, centered in Hypertension, a nowadays really common disease that affects such system.

I learned the cardiovascular system is in charge of supplying oxygenated blood to all the corners of our body, to help clean the blood and fill it with oxygen. I learned this system only uses the veins, arteries and the heart as a team to do all this in really short amounts of time, and in a rhythmic way.  This system can be easily disrupted by things we do or don’t do, such as lack of exercise, too much alcohol or salt consumption and lack of fruits and vegetables in our daily food ingestion. I realised some things we don’t think could harm us actually do and will have terrible and irreversible consequences.  Some diseases or problems generated by such behaviours could lead to blood clotting which could lead to either strokes or heart attacks, high blood pressure that if not limited or treated to develop too much more serious condition such as Hypertension.

The skills I have developed throughout the semester with the various stages of this project were, mainly, the usage of Garage Band and iMovie. I have learned how to combine sounds and effects to create totally new and unique soundtracks, I have also learned how to give reflect a specific emotion throughout sound effects and ringtones, to be able to get to certain goals. I know how to develop a really good presentation of the information in various ways such as podcasts, radio ads, and info graphics.

Over all I have had a wonderful and unforgettable experience with my team members. I have created a really strong bond and friendships, with inside jokes and laughter I won’t ever have with anyone else. I didn’t know them before this year and class, and am really happy they chose me to be part of their team. We have worked together every time, since the first assignment with all stages of this project and get together as tradition to work as a team and get great outcomes. I really hope we will keep our friendship over the years and hope we go further with this final project.

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Third Ad is about to think twice, to take the precautions needed for a good life choice before it's too late, you can get hypertension if you don't prevent.

https://soundcloud.com/daniela-g-de-a/radioad-3

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Second Ad is an example of a person that suffered hypertension and then died because she ignored her diagnose.

https://soundcloud.com/daniela-g-de-a/radioad-2

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First Ad is about preventive measures; quit smoking, lose weight, follow a healthy diet, limit alcohol and get a minimum of 30 minutes of exercise daily and how can it be caused.

https://soundcloud.com/daniela-g-de-a/radioad-1

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In the whole semester I've learned new and very important things. New tools appear in my life like gimp, imovie and audacity, I had previous knowledge just in imovie, so at the beginning it was a little bit difficult for me to adapt to this new tools. I really enjoy using gimp, it was very simple and easy to use at the end, practice is everything so with all the projects done in this class I practiced a lot and developed new abilities. Imovie is very simple to use, you only need to now the trick and like gimp, practice a lot, and I can make good projects using this resource, many of my other classes ask to use imovie to create videos and things like that, so practicing with this class had make things easier to me. Audacity is also a great tool, now I can make my own remixes, I like doing this kind of projects because adding songs to voice notes is somehow fun for me to make.

Besides the new tools that I’ve used in the whole semester we also learned new information, like basics concepts of many things, of images, digital audio and digital video. Learning these concepts helped a lot in the make of activities like applying some of them. A difference from this semester to the last was the flipped classroom, which is basically to review information before the class so it’s easier doing the activities because you already know how to do them.

Multimedia expression, visual expression, sonorous expression and audiovisual expression were like the principle topics in the semester, the activities done were about them and the final project is a mix of everything. I think the final project is very important and has to do a lot with the class because you put in practice all your abilities and skills learned along the semester.

The last thing that I've got to say is that working in this team has been really fantastic, each of them have their own characteristics, each of them added a plus in all the projects, we divided the work perfectly according to the abilities of each one of us, everyone works, everyone helps, everyone has show care when uploading the files and activities. Choosing them as a team has been one of the best choices of my semester.

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The podcast is about hypertension, it's called MB, Heather Collins asks questions about hypertension, some are: how does it generally affect like the person with this disease? what are the causes of hypertension and which symptoms like help you identify the disease? how to diagnose it and a real life testimony.

https://soundcloud.com/elideutsch98/415team3cardiovascularsystemhypertension

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Our infographic contains symptoms, diagnosis, causes, risk factors, statistics, random facts and graphics made by the team

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Stop Motion Storyboard