Group F Presentation

Afterward

• FOCUS
• What do you want your audience to do?
• Raise awareness
• Research information
• Publicity of one's project
• Example: Smile Campaign
• Deadline
• GRAB ATTENTION
• What can we use to grab the audience's attention?
• Use ideas that relate to your audience
• Pink for breast cancer
• Use other methods to attract the attention of your audience
• Example: Wriggly 5 Gum
• ENGAGE
• Do do you make people care enough to do what you want?
• Tell your story
• Spread the word using a variety of resources
• Set up a page where your audience can interact with your project
• Connect other causes and projects
• Example: Earthquake in Haiti
• Make people care about your project
• TAKE ACTION
• How can you get your audience to support your cause?
• Use social media
• Encourage the audience to raise awareness of your project
• Incorporate the call to action
• Spark the fire and let it grow

Group E Presentation

ONWARD AND UPWARD

• Focus
• Focus on a single outcome
• Be true
• Grab Attention
• Engage
• Take Action

A Thousand Beautiful Things

• Focuses on real world art project
• Create more beauty in the world
• Cultivating happiness

Ripple Effect

• Focus on getting your feelings out to the public
• Passionate
• Example: TOMS Shoes
• Buy a pair and one gets donated to another country
• Example: NIKE
• Want to try to do good and help other organizations
• Big with breast cancer
• Other examples: Ebay, Starbucks

Fear Factor

• Fear failure is one of the biggest risks in a company
• Fear is enemy of change
• Fear can limit your outcome
• Reward System
• Manage Emotions
• Watch Funny Videos
• Don't Over Do the To-Do List

Stretch, Realistic Goals

• Take it one day at a time
• Don't think too big at first
• Always think "will this help me reach this goal?"

Gap

• Perspective and expectation
• Don't reach for perfection
• Aim for what is feasible

Take Flight

• Make your ideas spread, get it out there
• Target the right audience
• Virality: (% people who pass on the story) x (% invitations accepted) x (average number of people invited) = ?
• If the number is >1, then the story becomes viral

Example

• Project Baby Warmth

Wing 4 Presentation

TAKE ACTION

• Become part of the solution
• Actually doing something about it
• Provides audience with participative next steps that move them closer and closer to "making a purchase", or what you want them to do

Psychology of take action

• Ask for smaller things
• Must be highly focus, absolutely specific and oriented to action
• Offer diverse opportunity to contribute
• More donations 
• More data

Design Principle 1

• MAKE IT EASY

Design Principle 2

• MAKE IT FUN
• Fun=fuel
• Positive emotions increase creative thinking
• Fun experiences increase the probability that people will continue to give

Design Principle 3

• TAILOR
• Make personal fits with people

Design Principle 4

• BE OPEN
• Prepare for openness
• Embrace open leadership
• Inspire commitment from people to complete goals

Free Write-Semester Check-in

At this point, I am VERY stressed, at least with my work load. This week alone I have three exams and a five page paper due. Next week I have two lab practicals. The following week is finals! I'm coming down to the end of the semester, finally, but hitting some obstacles I thought I wouldn't find as hard to deal with. What's working for me though is where I choose to study. I study in the library and when I need to get work done, I am able to.

On top of the work load, though, I found out that one of my good friends here is trying to transfer to another school. I'm definitely going to miss them and feel like I have nothing to do when they aren't here.

Other than that, things are starting to look good for the end of the semester. I will be good to get a month break once Christmas comes, though. Just to be able to stay at my own home in my own bed.

Free Write-Calligraphy Class

I believe the importance of a calligraphy class comes from the amount of time put into what you are writing. You probably learn to pick your words wisely because there is no messing up. Also, everything done in calligraphy was from centuries ago, it seems. I think that you learn to write in a style that is unlike no other. From looking at the past writings done in calligraphy, people can see just how their choice of words means everything the way they convey themselves in their writing.

Relating this to Steve Jobs, he probably learned how to pick and choice the reasons for his products. 

Video-Eric Berlow

• If you step back and look at the big picture, it is simple--> the more you step back the better chance you have at finding a simple answer
• Simple answers may emerge from a complex system-->Can zoom in on the simple details that matter most if you zoom out
• Complex doesn't always equal complicated
• Good visualization can encourage a simple look on a complex system

Video-George Whitesides

What is simplicity?

• Examples: coffee cups, glasses, scissors, and books
• More complex examples: Cellphone, birth control pill
• We recognize their simplicity
• Teapot problem: why is the liquid hot?
• There is trouble when asking a question that has only one answer
• Simplicity: almost non-existent

What is complexity?

• Complexity: highly developed
• Emergence

• Stacking: Simplicity (to complexity)
• Ex. Internet
• Binary
• Use simple systems to build complex systems

Simple Things

• Reliable
• Predictable
• Cheap-people will always find uses for them
• High performance or value/cost
• Potential to serve as "building blocks"

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler"

Free Write-Class Project

Making these fleece blankets will, be what I believe, the easiest part of this project. Once we have gathered our materials and found a time that works out for everyone to meet, making the blankets should be both fun and easy.

Getting donations will be the hardest part. It is hard to plan and takes a lot of time to make it happen. People are hesitant to donate money and I am the type of person who is hesitant to ask for the donation. With this combination, donations will be hard to come by.

Free Write-"In Doing My Class Project, I Learned..."

This project was fairly straight forward. The outline was good to follow to create a successful project. I learned through this project that you really have to plan ahead to be successful in social change, like my class is doing. Although this is not the only alternative, planning ahead is a really great tool. Another thing I learned is that everything we have done leading up to this project was needed to fulfill the requirements. We talked about our case study, the wings of the dragonfly and system diagrams. Putting this all together was how to be successful with this project.

Presentation-College Students Enacting Social Change

• Thesis-Students have the right to establish a Nonprofit Organization and a Non Governmental Organizations
• If you want to make a change, going about it the "right way" isn't always the best

Five Components that Allow College Students to Bring About Social Change

• Organizational skills
• Utilization of web intermediaries and social networks
• Interconnectedness
• Adaptability
• Utilization of resources

Why College is the Best Time to Start a Nonprofit

• Advice of college faculty and professors
• Provides an audience

Interconnectedness

• We have access to see and interact with people across the world
• Allows us to explore opportunities like never before
• Help other people
• Google Alerts

Facebook Effect

• Six months ago, 500 million people were actively using Facebook. Now there are 800 million users
• This is how we communicate with each other
• Expands a person's audience exponentially
• Share information

Dosomething.org

Global Giving

Youth Venture

Plan of Action

• Purpose or Mission Statement
• Ex. Invisible Children
• Ex. SHARE
• Ex. Teenagers Care 
• Deciding how the organization's programs will be paid for
• Projects the organization wishes to accomplish
• Timeline of events

Two Conclusions

• Social change is important for those who want to live a life of meaning
• Knowing you have made a difference to someone else in the world
• College students do have the power to enact social change through Nonprofit Organization
• Hard to do, but possible
• No reason to wait until you graduate

Season 1, Episode 3 Battlestar Galactica

There are prisoners on board a transport ship are given a chance to earn their freedom. Water was just found, but the actual liquid contains too much salt. The ice that floats on top is pure water though. They just need man power to get the ice melted into liquid water that everyone can drink. Admiral Adama and Captain Lee Adama have turned to the prisoners for the manpower they need to melt this ice.

Once Captain Lee Adama and the others get to the ship, the prisoners rise up against the team and take them hostage. Tom Zarek is the leader of this uprising and demands for President Roslin to step down from office. He wants elections and for everyone to be free.

Also during this episode, Doctor Gaius Baltar asks Admiral Adama for nuclear weapons to help him determine who on board is a cylon. A chemical inside the weapon will detect the radiation that the cylon needs.

In the end, the hostages are let go and Captain Lee Adama is told that President Roslin has cancer. She doesn't know if she will be around for the election in seven months. Captain Lee Adama and his father, Admiral Adama, are butting heads about how to lead the colonies. This is getting worse, as Captain Lee has finally chosen a side, and not his father's.

Free Write-Artificial Life, Yes or No?

I am very hesitant about artificial life. There are pros and cons to artificial life. What would happen the human population if there was artificial life? How would this impact me?

Artificial life would be a next step in technology and would open up a world of possibilities for the next generation. For the most part, I would say yes to artificial life, just so that we could reach this new world of technology.

Skylar Tibbits

• machines will be self repairing themselves, self assemble
• skyscrapers
• spaceshuttles
• DNA
• protein
• extremely efficient, can repair themselves
• Steps to Self Assembly
• decode into simple sequences
• programmable parts
• energy
• error correction
• is this scaleable?
• Systems with Self Assembly
• robots
• biased chains
• Future

Free Write-The Value of Experience

In the next few decades, if we find ourselves in a "matrix" like world, our experiences will have no value. Everyone will experience the same type of feelings, emotions, ect, and they will not be unique to each individual. Yes we may find ourselves in different situations, but each outcome will be the same and expected. This virtual world will be very interesting as it first plays out, with the contact lens and the the "treadmill," because this is something that is unlike nothing else. But everything will be the same in the long run, including our values.

Free Write-Who Has Inspired You

Ever since Kelly came to talk to my First Year Seminar class about her years of service both during and after college, I have been inspired by what one can do if you push for what you believe in. Kelly has accomplished so much and she is just out of college, having created her own major, studied terrorism in another country, and been chosen as the top writer for her senior thesis. Since her presentation, I find myself thinking about what I can do to better our world. I want to accomplish something as great as what she has accomplished.

TED Video

• Received a good education and wanted to give something back
• Visited a village in 1965 and to see how the underprivileged people live-->changed his life
• Wanted to dig wells for five years in a village
• Exposed to knowledge and skills poor people have
• Wanted to start a barefoot college-college for the poor
• Told him don't bring anyone with with a degree
• Had to be a dropout, ect.
• Had to provide a service
• Started the Barefoot Professional College
• Follows lifestyle of Ghandi at college
• No one gets more than $100 a month
• Come to the college with any idea, "teacher is the learner, the learners are the teachers"
• 1986-Built college
• Solar electrified. Solar powered
• Installed by a engineer
• Food is solar cooked
• Cooker made by women
• Collect rain water in case of drought
• Night school for kids
• Solar lit schools
• Participate in a democratic election to elect a prime minister

Free Write-Midterms

I think I can say that I am ready for midterms. My load has been lightened since dropping history earlier this week and I feel more relieved about the work I have to do. That doesn't mean I'm not feeling stressed. I strive to do almost perfect in my classes and when I don't achieve that, I feel mad. I am not getting enough sleep and I'm not sure what to do about that at this point.

Next Steps for Blanket Making

Next Steps for Blanket Making

• Prof Harden-->Letter head
• Put together Donation Letter
• Put together a list of places
• How we are going to make contact?
• Deliver?
• Mail?
• When to deliver--Abby L., Eric, Jazmin
• Schedule for delivery
• Phone contact
• Whose going to go?
• Creation Piece--Ally, Hannah
• How much material we will need
• Set Goal
• Size of blankets (baby, adult, children)
• Advertise cause--Abby C., Sarah
• Establish a timeline--Ann
• Fundraising back-up plan--Mitchell, Deanna
• Recruiting organizations and volunteers--Taylor (organizations and clubs on campus), Millie (Girl Scouts and organizations outside campus)
• Supervise project--Mark, Eric, Evelina, Adderlin
• Contact with community partner--George, Nathan
• Statistics, ideas

Wing 3 Presentation

• After your grab your audiences attention, you need to engage your audience-compel people to care deeply
• If you can't engage, you can be swayed
• You need a personal connection
• Characteristics:
• Transparency
• Interactivity
• Immediacy
• Facilitation-->organization acts as caretaker
• Commitment-->consumer needs to be committed to help goal of organization
• Co-creation-->consumer needs to help create ideas
• Collaboration-->consumer and organization work together
• Experience
• Trust-->between organization and consumer
• TEAM
• Tell a story
• Make us feel alive, and inspire us
• Get attention fast
• Make it sticky
• Keep your audience wondering what happens next
• Focus on protagonist
• Empathize
• Identify person relevance to engage the audience
• Must empathize with your audience's needs and feelings
• Connect with the people you are trying to reach out
• Be Authentic
• If you're not moved by the story you're telling, no one else will
• Increase feelings of closeness and connection
• Incorporate a wide variety of details
• Be open and clear with your audience
• Match the Media
• Use different forms of media to meet different preferences
• Utilize online and offline media
• Engagement and empowerment is best achieved when information flows in both directions
• ex. Tom's Shoes
• Charity: Water
• Charity: Water builds wells of clean water in developing nations
• Charity: Water used the four design principles of Engage to convey their message

Summary of First Third of Delirium

Delirium by Lauren Oliver is a futuristic novel. This novel is told in first person, by Lena Haloway. The opening chapter is all about "the procedure" that everyone has to get to rid them of a disease called amor deliria nervosa or love. In Lena's society, love is something that is taught to be feared. Love is dangerous. "It affects your mind so that you cannot think clearly, or make rational decisions about your own well-being." In the olden days, people didn't realize how deadly love was. Some thought it was a good thing. Lena is getting the procedure done on her eighteenth birthday. People have to be at least eighteen to get the procedure done. Once she has been through it, she will never have to fear getting the disease. In preparation, everyone has to read through  The Safety, Health, and Happiness Handbook, or more commonly known as The Book of Shhh. Lena is very excited about getting the procedure done and is anxiously awaiting this day.

Lena is worried, deep down though, that the procedure won't fully cure her. Her mother killed herself because she didn't want to go down for her fourth procedure. The first three hadn't worked. Her last words to Lena had been "I love you. Remember. They cannot take it."

Before the procedure, Lena has to be evaluated and is given a score on a scale from one to ten, ten being the highest. She has been preparing hard for this day and has all the right answers that the evaluators want to hear to get her a good score. On her way to the evaluation center, Hana meets up with Lena and they walk into the center together. Hana is very relaxed about the evaluation, saying things that might get her into trouble and not giving a care about what happens, the opposite of how Lena is. Lena is tense and uptight, reciting what she will say to the evaluators.

Once they make it into the building, Hana is asked to go in for the evaluation first. Before she goes though, she whispers to Lena, "You know you can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes, right?" Lena doesn't understand what Hana means, but it is too late, as Hana is already through the doors. Finally it is Lena's turn. She is escorted into a room where she is asked to take off her clothes and put on a gown. She is allowed to take all the time she needs to prepare for the examination, like meditate, which makes Lena giggle. Once she is ready, so goes through the doors to begin her evaluation.

As Lena walks into the room, the lights are so bright she cannot make out the faces of the evaluators. There are four of them and all she can make out are the silhouettes. The evaluators begin by asking about Lena, what she likes to do, what her hobbies are, ect. Lena starts her speech she has long been rehearsing. Trouble comes when she is asked what her favorite books are. Lena tells them Romeo and Juliet. They ask her why and she responds with "Because it is beautiful." The evaluators were expecting her to say that it was frightening, to see what love is like if it is not cured. With Lena's answer, though, they are shocked. When she is asked for her favorite color, Lena digs herself a deeper hole by saying gray. The thing is though, she is being honest. What she is saying is not rehearsed like the beginning was. The evaluators are once again shocked.

The very next moment is incredible. A herd of cows burst through the doors and come charging at the evaluators and Lena. She thinks she is saved because the cows start chewing up the evaluation sheets the evaluators were writing on. On the sides of the cows, the words "Not Cure. Death." is written. Lena suddenly realizes what is happening. The Invalids, the people who live in the Wilds, the unregulated land that exists between recognized cities and towns, have staged another protest. They usually attack the town of Portland once a year. As Lena looks up to the observer's booth, she sees a boy, whom she is sure is part of this protest, who winks at her. She is taken aback by this and immediately tries to get someone's attention. But as she looks back up, he is gone

Case Study-Jeroo Billimoria

Jeroo Billimoria is involved in the National Child Protection Service. She was not satisfied with the amount of kids left on the streets of India and wanted to do something to change this. There are millions of children that live on the streets. Some have run away, others have been abandoned by their families.

Jeroo originally grew up with the mindset of becoming an accountant, following in the footsteps of her parents. When finding out about the side work her father did for the people living on the streets, Jeroo switched her major to social work and enrolled in the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS). She was involved with many organizations for the homeless, like the Coalition for he Homeless in New York City. Once she was back in India, she traveled around to the shelters in Bombay, being drawn especially to the kids there. She would visit these shelters often and eventually started giving out her home phone number to these kids if they found themselves in an emergency and needed help.

The system that Jeroo was involved in, protecting children around India, was poorly developed. There were many children's agencies, but there was no way to work between these agencies or the government in a smooth way. To help this area, Jeroo had proposed the idea of coordinating services for these kids to different organizations, but there was little enthusiasm for it.

Jeroo attempted many ideas to try to change the understanding of the situation. In 1991, Jeroo founded an organization called Meljol (Coming Together) to bring children together from different backgrounds to work on projects with social benefits. She said the goal of this organization was to "create an alternative mindset for children to give them a sense of their own power." Although this was a good way to start helping these children on the streets, Jeroo was still getting phone calls from kids all the time. In 1993, she decided to go to the government telecommunications department (DOT) and propose the idea of creating a toll-free number for children's assistance. They were not convinced by Jeroo at first to immediately establish this line, but Jeroo provided evidence that showed the children would use this line if it was made available. While the DOT was processing Jeroo's request, she gathered together a team of students from TISS to compile a directory of child service organizations located in Bombay.

Gathering everything together so far, Jeroo set out to gain attention for her new network: Childline. This organizations is a "twenty-four hour helpline and emergency response system for children in distress," as stated in Chapter 7 of How to Change the World. Childline works towards getting the millions of kids off of the streets and into homes, giving them the right care they deserve. A budget was put together and in May of 1996, DOT granted Childline use of the telephone number 1098. One month later, after fourteen organizations signed on, Childline was officially launched. The organizations that signed on housed the telephones for the 24-hour Childline service, one including Youth for Unity and Voluntary Action (YUVA).

At first, the organization was not ready for what they set out to do. The people working for Childline were receiving thousands of calls. During the first year, Childline fielded 6,618 calls. In the beginning, the calls were from the kids on the streets, but as the year progressed, there were more and more calls from concerned adults and children from the middle-class. Jeroo had thought she wanted to focus Childline on the street level, but as she realized that these concerned people calling were trying to help the kids on the street as well, Jeroo saw that it was necessary to create awareness about this service amongst larger sections of the population in India. Another problem Childline ran into was locating where the call had come from. Team members set up a system of standard questions that were to be asked during each call to establish the were-abouts of the child, the time of the call, and the clothes the child was wearing. To make sure the team members could deal with any sort of situation, they began receiving training from social workers in telephone interaction. Open houses were conducted with so that people could suggest improvements for Childline, to correct the problems they were facing. A big learning experience for the workers at Childline was interacting with the police and hospital officials. They began making sure that these different groups of people or organizations could also benefit from the use or intervention of Childline in a situation. With the police, Jeroo set up a conference for these officers to realize that Childline would simplify their jobs. Eventually Childline and the police established a partnership, issuing special identification cars to the team members of Childline. With the hospital staff, workshops were set up to "sensitize" them.

The network grew as word about this 1098 number spread. More money was brought in through newspaper articles and colleges. At the end of 1997, Jeroo decided to devote herself to Childline. Shortly after this she was elected an Ashoka fellow. Ashoka is an organization that finds and invests in social entrepreneurs around the world to try and make our world a better place to live in. Jeroo went on to try to extend Childline into other cities. In June of 1998, a gathering of people from  twenty-nine other cities was organized to explore the potential for spreading the service. One colleague agreed to spread this service and within a month it was declared that she wanted to see Childline in every Indian city with a population above 1 million (twenty-three cities) by 2002.

When the service was spread nationally, there was a plan for its operation. Childline would operate like a franchise, with a "decentralized management, but with a uniform brand, operating procedures, and standards." The service would remain free and open twenty-four hours a day. The word "Childline" would always be written in both English and translated, but the logo and the phone number would remain the same everywhere. Each city would select organizations based on local need but conform to a uniform structure: A "nodal" organization, a noted academic institution, would facilitate operations, traning, documentation, and advocacy. "Collaborating" organizations would respond directly to the calls while "support" organization would handle the follow up, and "resource" organizations would help with the long-term needs. Each city would have one Childline coordinator. The government would make grants to Childline partners to pay salaries for the people placed on each team. Childline would not begin working in a city until the police commissioner and senior healthcare officials had come together with a written commitments of cooperations. Each city would be required to establish a Childline Advisory Board (CAB). Any business that wanted to publicly associate themselves with Childline at the national level would have to commit to a full partnership. The central office of Childline would be stationed in Bombay.

Within the next six months after the gathering in June of 1998, Childline had already spread to four more cities. Not everything went smoothly when Childline spread to other cities. One Childline office had to be shut down because of corruption. Another was dropped off from the network because they refused shelter to disabled children. Still others did not meet Childline's standards of care. By 2000, Childline was operating in fifteen cities  and preparatory work was being done in another fifteen. Once 2002 rolled around, not only had Childline reached their goal of spreading to the cities in India with a population over 1 million, they had spread to over forty-two cities with preparatory work under way in another twelve. The network had more than 120 organizations directly implementing the Childline service and over 2,000 organizations providing assistance. By Octoboer 2002, Childline had fielded 2.7 million calls.

At first, the government opposed this system. They were not giving Childline any money. The government became a supporter of Childline only after they realized it could help them. There reason was very specific. The service Childline was doing many of the things the government had committed to when they ratified the United Nations Convention Rights of the Child in 1992. Also, Childline "was the hallmarks of a twenty-first-century organization," integrated and decentralized, blending technology with human services. Childline was low cost as well. Another supporter of Childline were the child service organizations. Jeroo said "'We survived because we chose solid organizations." There were several wealthy individuals who greatly helped Childline. Jeroo had turned to them in times of financial trouble, to avert collapse. Although there were many groups of people who had pledged their cooperation, Childline found that these people, the police, health, and railway officials, were still very ignorant and indifferent to them. So, in 2000, with the help of the government's National Institute of Social Defense and 78 partner organizations, Childline launched a National Initiative for Child Protection. The goal of this was to make police stations, hospitals, schools and train stations more "child friendly." The underlying factor to this training was "empathy begins with understanding."

The ChildNet database system was started, which was an unusual computer program that was designed for users who were easily distracted and semiliterate. This program proved to be very useful for analyzing call patterns. They could track specific "hot points" within cities and set up medical help if a high number of calls were coming from a specific area. As Childline spread, the program also became an important source of child protection information. ChildNet could be used as a resource for bringing back missing children. With the combination of technology and human management, today's telephone calls can be greatly analyzed.

In 2001, Jeroo had received international recognition for her work from the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. Later that year, she decided to step down as Childline's executive director. She believed that a founder should leave after five to seven years. Her new plan is to build an international consortium of child help lines. Jeroo is looking to link existing lines to set up a global "help desk" for these services and to establish global standards. Recently, Jeroo launched a new organizations called Child Helpline International (CHI).

In summing up Jeroo's success with Childline, she was asked to give a one liner about her experience. She said "Learning to let go." Also, she added "Everything will not be exactly the way you want it. You have to let people take charge. The best thing is not to have a picture of what you want, but to have basic principles."

Free Write-Describe One System I'm Involved In

One system I'm involved in is Girl Scouts. This semester, I wanted to do something that involved being around kids. During my senior year of high school, I worked at a local daycare every day after school. I loved it! I looked forward to being with the kids everyday. They have a way of immediately cheering you up.

I found the Girl Scouts and was really excited to get started. I would like to help with the Daisy group, which is kindergarteners and first graders. These are the ages I was in charge of at the daycare and they are my favorite age group. Currently, because of my schedule, I am not able to be an actual leader for this semester.

If I am not there, as a leader for next semester for example, the troop will not be able to have a meeting. They will lose that week to progress further in their troop, damaging their education in this area.

Wing 2 Presentation

• Important to grab attention of audience
• ex. Bonobos
• PUVV-Personal, Unexpected, visual, visu
• Personal-->Important to make a personal relationship with audience; Facebook, tagging friends
• Unexpected-->Grabs attention, message should be new and original, suprise
• Visual-->show don't tell, humans remember more said than heard; Apple, Nike, Twitter
• Visceral-->using all five senses to invited a group into a welcoming atmotphere so they can feel comfortable, color, sounds, combining two senses with marketing campaign
• Measure your success, gage effectiveness of your campaign
• Coca Cola Happiness Machine
• io Digital Cable

Creation Story and Sentience

In real life, there is just one way to create life. Artificial life, on the other hand, can be brought about in many ways. In my story, artificial life is brought about by cloning. Once the cloning is successful, the species will reproduce and create this new, artificial life.

This process will take several days, as did the creation of real life in Genesis. God created the Earth in six days and rested on the seventh. This is how the cloning process with happen. Although the reproduction of the new species will take months, the process of developing new DNA and cloning will take only a few days. At first, people may not believe this is possible, but seeing is believing, as is the basis of Plato's Allegory of the Cave.

On the first day, the species will be brought into the lab and a strand of its DNA will be extracted. For this experiment, we are cloning a male human being. This DNA will be the basis for the newborn. To have a successful experiment, the newborn's DNA will need to be the same as the DNA of the male. The strand of this DNA will contain the intelligence of the age of the male which is was taken from. This male will be 20 years old, so the newborn's intelligence level will be that of a 20 year old.

On the second day, the sperm will be joined with an egg in a test tube. This will then be set in an environment at which fertilization can take place. There will be several days allotted for this.

After fertilization has taken place, the embryo will be placed in the female and allowed to mature until the baby is born. Once the baby is born, the DNA should match that of the 20 year old's. If this is true, the male has been cloned. Not only will there be a copy of another human being on Earth, but the baby will attain the intelligence of his or her clone. In this case, the 20 year old male.

If this experiment and creation of artificial life proves successful, then our human race has access to a whole new meaning of life. I believe this will create the urge in humans to create as many of "them" as possible. This might be just because they are interested in this area, now that we have access to it, but if too many clones are created, our world will be replicated, in a way.

In a way, this creation or cloning will create an awareness of several things. Although these people will still be human, they will be clones. I believe that the "real" human population will either be able to tell who are the clones and become aware about the differences between themselves compared to the clones, or become aware of how similar everyone on Earth is. People will also become aware of the type of technology that is needed to create clones. I think scientists will go crazy creating clones once this is figured out, which will make everyone very aware of the type of technology it takes to clone.

Old Sturbridge Village Town Meeting Reflection

At the beginning of the town meeting, I didn't really know what was being talked about. I didn't understand what we were deciding. As the meeting progressed, I began to get an understanding, from the questions that were asked. I didn't realize what it meant to be a pauper as well. I now know that this means you have given up your right to make decisions for yourself, basically. The town decides what happens to you. With the meeting, there were 17 paupers, 9 which were over the age of 60. I had a hard time trying to act like it was 1830 during the meeting, which was probably why I had a hard time understanding the meeting. Overall, the meeting was successful. If we had more time, we would have gotten more accomplished, but during the time we were allotted, we accomplished buying the farm and staying at the same tax rate.

Ray Kurzweil

2020-computers powerful enough to simulate the human brain

2029-completed reverse engineering of human brain

2045-expanded intelligence of technology/machinery by a billion fold

In 2020, I will be 27 years old. By this time, I hope to be graduated from college, and have attended grad school. I hope to be a pharmacist at this time and be engaged.

In 2029, I will be 36 years old. I hope to be married and have kids at this time. I want to be a successful pharmacist and maybe have opened my own business.

In 2045, I will be 52 years old. At this time I will be very successful in my business.

Genesis Outline and Comparison to Battlestar Gallactica

1. God created the Earth in different days
2. God created day and night
3. God made the sky and water
4. God made evening and morning
5. God created dry land
6. God created vegetation
7. God made the moon and the sun
8. God created swarms of living creatures
9. God gave them blessings
10. God made human kind-created Adam from the dust of the ground and Eve from the rib of Adam
11. On the 7th day he rested
12. God gave them everything fruitful and good to live off of
13. Adam and Eve had no humility being naked and saw no need to hide, they were one with each other
14. Serpent told them not to eat off the tree of knowledge of good and evil
15. Then the serpent convinced Eve to eat off the tree who then convinced Adam to eat off the tree.
16. God walks among them to find Adam hiding from him.
17. Adam no longer saw himself as perfect and felt the need to hide.
18. First sin and punishment come from eating off the tree
1. Serpent became a snake
2. Enmity was put between the man and woman
3. Increase in childbirth panes
4. Husband shall rule over the wife
5. Ground is cursed because husband listened to wife-eat plants of field
6. Forced to leave garden forever
19. Cain and Abel were born
20. Cain killed Abel
21. 
    

Genesis compared to Battlestar Galactica:

1. The 12 colonies were created in steps
2. The humans made the cylons, which can be compared to God creating Adam and Eve.
3. The cylons are among them at the end which can be compared to the serpent.
4. Adam and Eve no longer saw themselves as perfect when they ate of the tree which can be compared to the cylons who could no longer find themselves as perfect.
5. The cylons were destroying the other things that were created.

Free Write-6 Weeks in to School

At this very moment, I feel very overwhelmed. I have a lot of work to do and plenty of exams to study for. I thought I was managing my time well, but it doesn't look good if I'm still this stressed about getting all of my work done. There's the other fact, though, that I might be taking too many classes. Right now, I have 11 classes and it's completely stressing me out. I need to find my groove and get going. If that means dropping a class, that's what I need to do to keep my sanity in check.

I also find myself becoming homesick and wishing I was home all the time. It's even harder now because my dad and stepmom just had a baby! I never want to leave them because I want to hold my sister and be with her. My older sister is beginning to miss me too, and wishing I was home. Everything together is tough.

Revised Evolution of Information Literacy

Information literacy is an important concept to be able to grasp, especially now in my college career.  I need to learn how to filter all of the information that comes my way and know how what to do with each piece. The library here on the Siena campus has created a very good online catalog of all the information you can have access to. They have organized it in a way to help with this idea of information literacy.  This is a hard task though, because with innovations in technology, our world of obtaining information is constantly changing.  Technology, as Sean Conley said during the presentation, is both a blessing and a curse.

The concept of information literacy has constantly been changing to keep up with the changes in technology.  Years ago, the card catalog existed. All the books, magazines, newspapers...everything that the library had, was put onto a card and stored in a big drawer-type case. This was known as the card catalog. You would go to this to search for what you needed to find in the library. Card catalogs were very inefficient because you had to manually find a book that fit all of your keywords. The example in class was "albany history." You might find a card with a book on "albany" and a separate one with the keyword "history," but it was then your job to manually find a book that satisfied both words. Eventually this evolved into the use of CD-roms. Libraries would keep all of their information about their books on these CD-roms. If other libraries were looking for a book in a place other than their own library, they could just give the libraries a CD-rom of their information. Although this was a jump from the card catalog, this still proved to be very inefficient and timely. In the beginning of the 1990s, the Internet surfaced and proved to be revolutionary. This allowed rapid communication to take place between libraries and shifted the types of resources available. The online catalog was started and is now the best and most efficient way to access available materials.  This is where libraries store all of the information on their books, magazines, ect. People can sort through this catalog with ease and find what they need.


With the creation of the online catalog for libraries that the Internet has made possible, there are other aspects of this that have many advantages. Connect NY was created and is used by 11 colleges throughout New York. This is helpful when searching for library books. If the library you are at does not carry the book you are looking for, you can try to find it in Connect NY. This book is then brought to your library within two to three days. This has allowed libraries to share books between one another, which has saved money in the long run. For a college student writing a research paper, this network can come in handy.
Although there is plenty of "blessings" with these innovations of technology, there are some "curses" that have seeped through. Librarians used to play a role as the keeper of all the information and could filter the good and bad. Now, through the invention of the Internet, everyone who is capable of using the Internet has access to this information. It is no longer filtered through these "librarian" figures, which can make research very difficult. Also, with keyword searching, the computer has not become smart enough to filter useless information and keep only the useful information. For example, when "albany history" is typed into the computer, it comes up with everything that has those words, whether together or separate. The computer doesn't get that it needs to keep the two words together.

Through the innovations of technology, the idea of information literacy has evolved. Now, I believe a useful definition is being able to filter the information you receive, reading it as good or bad, and being able to get rid of it if you do not need it. Looking past the good and bad of information literacy, this is a concept we will continually need to get used to using for the rest of our lives, or at least careers.

Reading + Experience = "Ah ha" Moment

Throughout my time at school this past month, I have read many sections of several books and traveled to different places, experiencing technology and social change. One of my experiences off campus was very eye-opening and helped me understand one of the readings I did. It helped me feel more connected to what I was experiencing and want to keep participating.

The Dragonfly Effect by Jennifer Aaker and Andy Smith is a very good book. It has great aspects of what it means to participate in social change. Specifically, the book breaks down its goals into five sections of a dragonfly, the four wings and the body. In reading about the first wing, I learned how to make an effective goal and start acting on that goal. One of the places I went to off campus was the St John's/St Ann's Outreach Center. I learned a lot about my community and the need here. I believe the section of Wing 1 from The Dragonfly Effect is what has led to this center's success. There are five parts to making a goal, which spell out the acronym HATCH. The first letter is Humanistic and talks about focusing on understanding your audience. With the outreach center, they found the type of people they were reaching out to and centered their work around them, their audience. Actionable is the second letter. This part is all about creating and using short-term or micro goals to eventually achieve your long-term or macro goal. The outreach center developed micro goals, like starting the soup kitchen and food pantry to achieve their macro goal of helping the city of Albany. For the third letter, Testable, you need to identify "metrics" which will help evaluate your progress along the way. This means creating deadlines and then celebrating the along the way. St John's/St Ann's establishes what they want to do and when to do this, like with the welcome table. They can then celebrate after they have served several hundred people, knowing they have been a very important part of these peoples' lives. The fourth letter is Clarity. Being able to focus on your goal and know exactly what is needed creates a better chance for success in the long run. I believe the outreach center made goals for each event or program they hosted, planning down to every type of food available at the welcome table. Finally, Happiness is the fifth and last letter. Every goal should mean something to you and make you happy to not only strive for but complete. You should gain great satisfaction. The outreach center has volunteers which have a love for helping the community. This shines through in everything they do, which means their goals are something that make them happy.

Combining the reading of wing 1 with my experience at the outreach center, I have a much greater understanding about how a goal should be made and achieved. The outreach center made me realize what goes in to creating a goal that means a lot to you. If you are passionate about what you do, the goals you set will most likely fall in line with HATCH and you will be successful.

In the future, I can use HATCH in setting a goal. This way will help me develop a goal that I know I will be able to achieve. Going along with the "ah ha" moment talked about in class, I think this is another moment that fits that category for me. Putting the book and experience together, I fully understand the idea of goal setting for yourself.

Free Write-Describe an "Ah ha" moment

These kinds of moments happen a lot while I'm doing homework. I'll pay attention in class, but not exactly get what to do for the homework part of it. Once I sit down to do the homework, and come to the conclusion that I really don't know what's going on, if frustrates me. So I will ask for help on this and then comes that "ah ha" moment of everything from class clicking together and making sense on the homework. It's great! I am able to fly through the homework then, but get what's going on the whole time.

Relating to the course of technology and social change, these "ah ha" moments also come when learning what to do with new innovations of technology. It's a terrible thing to sit down with a piece of technology and not know what to do with it at all. I lose of sense of comfortability with the device and it makes me want to just put it down and do something else. In gaining knowledge about how to use the device, not only do I realize how effective it can be in my life but also how cool it is!

Revised St. John's/St. Ann's Outreach Center

St. John's/St. Ann's Outreach Center is located in the South End of Albany, New York and helps people who are in need. They provide a soup kitchen, food pantry, and a variety of special programs. This organization was started in 1980 and has been growing since. In this day and age, technology has taken over. I believe St. John's/St. Ann's Outreach Center would benefit greatly from the use of technology. The biggest help I see it accomplishing is keeping everyone connected throughout the city. There are so many people and companies who help out St. John's/St. Ann's and being able to stay connected is a key component that technology could help with.

St. John's/St. Ann's Outreach Center provide the people of Albany with food, clothing, furniture, and more. In getting to know the Outreach Center better, I think people need to know everything that they do. With the soup kitchen, they make homemade meals every Tuesday and Saturday from 11am-1pm. Anyone is welcome to come and participate. The volunteers there wait on the people who come to eat, allowing this time to be very social for the guests who are there. On average, the Outreach Center serves up to 300 people in this short amount of time. On the days the soup kitchen is not running, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, St. John's/St. Ann's has a food pantry open from 10am-12pm. People who come pick out food that is to be used over a three day time period for each person. The Capital District is divided into sections and each section has a food pantry for the people living in that section. These people are only allowed to belong to one pantry and have to show ID that is recent, within 30 days, to be able to use the pantry. The Outreach Center does this because they receive money from a grant to provide the people with this food. The grant is called the HPNAP Grant. They receive money every year on July 1, which is supposed to last them until June 30 of the following year. The Outreach Center plans several programs including a furniture program and holiday programs. People in need of furniture fill out a form requesting the furniture and the center gives them what they need if they have it in stock. St. John's/St. Ann's hosts Thanksgiving and Christmas programs, which include a meal as well. During Christmas, each child receives two gifts and every adult is given one gift. Lastly, there is a special program for people who are disabled or sick and cannot make it to the center, but are in desperate need of help. This is called the Home Delivery Program. Volunteers from the center go to the homes of these people and delivery food to them. Everything St. John's/St. Ann's Outreach Center does has a purpose to better the community they are in.

People outside of the Outreach Center provide a lot of help to St. John's/St. Ann's in a variety of ways. Stewarts and Price Chopper have extra bread in the mornings that are given to the center. Volunteers go over to the store at 6am and pick up what they need. Farmers growing fresh fruit and vegetables also provide their service and harvest to the center. This past hurricane though destroyed most of the farmers' crops, leaving both the Outreach Center and the farmers short of what they need. The Girl Scouts provide something called birthday boxes for St. John's/St. Ann's. These are sometimes used for special events as well. People come in asking if there is anything they can have to celebrate a birthday, and because of the Girl Scouts, they can give them these birthday boxes.

In getting to know what St. John's/St. Ann's does, we can get a better sense of how far the use of technology could go throughout the center. They could use the Internet to publicize their events and get out the word to more people. As mentioned by Professor Harden, the Apple computers that are not being used could be set up at the center for use by not only the volunteers but also the people of the city of Albany. If the businesses that the Outreach Center go to for food and service can connect with the center through the use of technology, I believe this could go a long way in growing deeper roots in the city. More businesses could get involved in helping the center as well. Technology can also help in keeping track of the people who come to the center. They can see how fast their center is growing. Recently, the Bridge to College program was started through Siena College. People in the community of Albany will be partnered with students from Siena College and learn to write together. Computers will be very helpful to this program, both for the center and community.

St. John's/St. Ann's Outreach Center is so helpful to people who need food and other necessities. They have a great start in the city of Albany and I believe they are on their way to even more success in the future. Technology can aid in this process and increase their ease of work throughout the center.

Revised Apple Store Visit

Apple has a huge role in society and is a worldwide leader in technology.  They do business in four continents and eleven countries. Although the company seems like they do most of their work in the United States, this is not true. 62% of Apple's sales are done internationally. I don't think anyone can grasp just how big this company is and how far they have come with technology. Apple has guided the development of technology to become more personal with each user. From the iPhone to the Macbook to the iPod, there are endless ways that Apple can customize these devices to fit your needs and personality.

There are several Apple devices including the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Macbook, and Apple TV. Each device has many special features to it, some that can be interchangeable with one another. An example of this is the app iCloud. This is a revolutionary app that allows you to have all of your information stored in one place. What if you accidentally dropped your iPhone in the pool? Well now that iCloud is available, your first reaction won't be to panic because all of your information is still available. iCloud also lets you buy music, for example, and have it shared on all of your Apple devices without having to buy the song separately for each one. The Macbook is made from one piece of aluminum that has been carved out. This creates a durable outside so the user can be assured everything is stored safely. The keyboard has a backlight, which is useful for all people who stay up late or after dark on their computers. Keeping our planet in mind, the Macbook is eco friendly, with arsenic-free glass. The battery life is quite impressive, lasting anywhere from five to seven hours. Music artists can use something called JAM which allows you to hook your guitar right up to your Macbook. Next up is the iPad. This "game changing" device is truly incredible. The iPad allows you to connect to the Internet almost anywhere because of its 3G network. Face-time has recently been added to the Ipad. This lets users have a video chat with another Apple user. This takes conversations to the next level. The iPad is beginning to replace paper books in college, as students have started downloading their books to their iPads. An app available for the iPad is iGrill. This app allows you to read the temperature of the grill so that you don't overcook or burn what you're cooking. The iPhone has transformed the idea of a phone. The iPhone was a top seller with 20 million sold this past year. Not only does the iPhone have the normal functions of a phone, but it also has the functions of a computer, right at your fingertips.

Apple's number one priority is you, the customer. With this in mind, there are many readily available options for you to go to to receive training on how to use a device, to seek help, or to purchase a new Apple product. Apple has personalized their service and support programs around what works best for you. In 2010 Apple ranked third overall for the best service industry and first in the realm of computer companies. This assures you that Apple really does offer the best help. In every store there is a Genius Bar. Here, customers can bring in their devices to receive the help they need right away. But what if you're not located near an Apple Store? Apple also offers Call-In Services, stationed in California and Texas. Apple employees will either help you over the phone or send you a box and have you ship your device to them for free so they can fix it. When you purchase an Apple device, you receive free training for up to one year. Apple stores have tables set up where you can bring in your device and someone will help you get to know it a little better.

Businesses have come to use Apple as their product throughout the company. This can be an example of the personal level Apple has with their users. GE is a very large company spread out over 100 countries. At the core, there is a mobile center where they develop apps to suit their company's needs. One very important app is the Transformer Monitoring app. This allows GE to keep track of their gas turbines and electric transformers stationed throughout the world. Not only does this app eliminate the time it takes to check the turbines, but it has also allows GE to run more efficiently. The Standard Charter Banking is present in six continents and uses the iPhone and iPad as the bank mobile system. The Breeze app is helpful in setting up where you want your window located when you have something open. There have been advances in airline apps as well. Commercial airlines have started using Apple, which helps get rid of the piles of paperwork pilots carries around. Right now there are over 200 aviation apps. I would say that is very impressive.

Apple is revolutionary and has took the lead in technology. They have helped guide technology in a direction that is personal with each user. In the future, I'm sure there is more to come, but we can always know that Apple is here to customize to our needs.

Evolution of Information Literacy

Information literacy is an important concept to be able to grasp, especially now in my college career.  I need to learn how to filter all of the information that comes my way and know how what to do with each piece. The library here on the Siena campus has created a very good online catalog of all the information you can have access to. They have organized it in a way to help with this idea of information literacy.  This is a hard task though, because with innovations in technology, our world of obtaining information is constantly changing.  Technology, as Sean Conley said during the presentation, is both a blessing and a curse.

The concept of information literacy has constantly been changing to keep up with the changes in technology.  Years ago, the card catalog existed. All the books, magazines, newspapers...everything that the library had, was put onto a card and stored in a big drawer-type case. This was known as the card catalog. You would go to this to search for what you needed to find in the library. Card catalogs were very inefficient because you had to manually find a book that fit all of your keywords. The example in class was "albany history." You might find a card with a book on "albany" and a separate one with the keyword "history," but it was then your job to manually find a book that satisfied both words. Eventually this evolved into the use of CD-roms. Libraries would keep all of their information about their books on these CD-roms. If other libraries were looking for a book in a place other than their own library, they could just give the libraries a CD-rom of their information. Although this was a jump from the card catalog, this still proved to be very inefficient and timely. In the beginning of the 1990s, the Internet surfaced and proved to be revolutionary. This allowed rapid communication to take place between libraries and shifted the types of resources available. The online catalog was started and is now the best and most efficient way to access available materials.  This is where libraries store all of the information on their books, magazines, ect. People can sort through this catalog with ease and find what they need.

Although there is plenty of "blessings" with these innovations of technology, there are some "curses" that have seeped through. Librarians used to play a role as the keeper of all the information and could filter the good and bad. Now, through the invention of the Internet, everyone who is capable of using the Internet has access to this information. It is no longer filtered through these "librarian" figures, which can make research very difficult. Also, with keyword searching, the computer has not become smart enough to filter useless information and keep only the useful information. For example, when "albany history" is typed into the computer, it comes up with everything that has those words, whether together or separate. The computer doesn't get that it needs to keep the two words together.

Through the innovations of technology, the idea of information literacy has evolved. Now, I believe a useful definition is being able to filter the information you receive, reading it as good or bad, and being able to get rid of it if you do not need it. Looking past the good and bad of information literacy, this is a concept we will continually need to get used to using for the rest of our lives, or at least careers.

Obstacles Faced in Assisting Others

Helping others is a great, rewarding experience.  You learn something new both about yourself and about who you are helping.  After you are done, you feel really great about yourself and have a feeling of accomplishment.  I am speaking mostly for myself, but I'm sure other people feel a relatively similar way. Although assisting others is great, there are some obstacles I will face when doing this.  I am tend to have a lot going on in my life so time management would be a big obstacle for me.  Patience usually comes easy for me, but in helping others I don't know how this would play out, which is why I bring it up as another potential obstacle.  Sometimes the people you serve feel either entitled to your help or don't show their appreciation. This last obstacle comes from this situation and feeling like I am not getting enough credit for what I am doing.

Obstacles are a part of life and will show up when I assist others.  Time management is a tough thing for me to grasp.  I tend to be a procrastinator, so finding the time to get my work done, be with friends or family, and help others might be hard to juggle for me.  I think creating a schedule and laying out everything I need to do will help me with my time management.  It was a good idea to create a Google calendar because I can see it helping me with the issue of time management.  I am a relatively patient person and don't mind waiting for something to get done or working through something that might take up time.  I worked with kids for the past two years at a daycare and have grown up taking care of my little brother.  This, I believe, requires a lot of patience and has taught me so much more about the concept of patience.  With this in mind, I hope that acquiring enough patience to assist people will not become a great obstacle.  Offering assistance to people in need generates different responses from the people you help.  Some are overly thankful and some don't say anything at all. Some let you do all the work and some join in to help get the work done together.  In a selfish way, I am sometimes the type of person who will work and, in the back of my mind, think that I should be thanked for it.  And if I don't, it makes me upset because I don't think they appreciate what I did for them.  Through this journey of helping others I need to be able to overlook that point and keep doing the best work I can, not always looking for a response to it.

Kelly Behrend did a great job in addressing what goes on in the act of service.  She has traveled to many places and helped others along the way, accomplishing so much.  One thing that struck me as being a great challenge was Kelly's teaching of ESL.  During the presentation, I was thinking that if I was put in that same situation, I would be very hesitant of actually completing it because of all the obstacles it presents in my mind.  I give Kelly so much credit for what she has accomplished, not just with the class but with her entire career thus far.

The act of assisting people presents obstacles up front.  Working through these obstacles, helping others is a really great thing.  For myself, it makes me feel so good and full of life to know I helped in some way in a person's life. I think if people let it, assisting others can have the same affect on everyone else as well.

St. John's/St. Ann's Outreach Center

St. John's/St. Ann's Outreach Center is located in the South End of Albany, New York and helps people who are in need. They provide a soup kitchen, food pantry, and a variety of special programs. This organization was started in 1980 and has been growing since. In this day and age, technology has taken over. I believe St. John's/St. Ann's Outreach Center would benefit greatly from the use of technology. The biggest help I see it accomplishing is keeping everyone connected throughout the city. There are so many people and companies who help out St. John's/St. Ann's and being able to stay connected is a key component that technology could help with.

St. John's/St. Ann's Outreach Center provide the people of Albany with food, clothing, furniture, and more. In getting to know the Outreach Center better, I think people need to know everything that they do. With the soup kitchen, they make homemade meals every Tuesday and Saturday from 11am-1pm. Anyone is welcome to come and participate. The volunteers there wait on the people who come to eat, allowing this time to be very social for the guests who are there. On average, the Outreach Center serves up to 300 people in this short amount of time. On the days the soup kitchen is not running, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, St. John's/St. Ann's has a food pantry open from 10am-12pm. People who come pick out food that is to be used over a three day time period for each person. The Capital District is divided into sections and each section has a food pantry for the people living in that section. These people are only allowed to belong to one pantry and have to show ID that is recent, within 30 days, to be able to use the pantry. The Outreach Center does this because they receive money from a grant to provide the people with this food. The grant is called the HPNAP Grant. They receive money every year on July 1, which is supposed to last them until June 30 of the following year. The Outreach Center plans several programs including a furniture program and holiday programs. People in need of furniture fill out a form requesting the furniture and the center gives them what they need if they have it in stock. St. John's/St. Ann's hosts Thanksgiving and Christmas programs, which include a meal as well. During Christmas, each child receives two gifts and every adult is given one gift. Lastly, there is a special program for people who are disabled or sick and cannot make it to the center, but are in desperate need of help. This is called the Home Delivery Program. Volunteers from the center go to the homes of these people and delivery food to them. Everything St. John's/St. Ann's Outreach Center does has a purpose to better the community they are in.

People outside of the Outreach Center provide a lot of help to St. John's/St. Ann's in a variety of ways. Stewarts and Price Chopper have extra bread in the mornings that are given to the center. Volunteers go over to the store at 6am and pick up what they need. Farmers growing fresh fruit and vegetables also provide their service and harvest to the center. This past hurricane though destroyed most of the farmers' crops, leaving both the Outreach Center and the farmers short of what they need. The Girl Scouts provide something called birthday boxes for St. John's/St. Ann's. These are sometimes used for special events as well. People come in asking if there is anything they can have to celebrate a birthday, and because of the Girl Scouts, they can give them these birthday boxes.

In getting to know what St. John's/St. Ann's does, we can get a better sense of how far the use of technology could go throughout the center. They could use the Internet to publicize their events and get out the word to more people. As mentioned by Professor Harden, the Apple computers that are not being used could be set up at the center for use by not only the volunteers but also the people of the city of Albany. If the businesses that the Outreach Center go to for food and service can connect with the center through the use of technology, I believe this could go a long way in growing deeper roots in the city. More businesses could get involved in helping the center as well. Technology can also help in keeping track of the people who come to the center. They can see how fast their center is growing.

St. John's/St. Ann's Outreach Center is so helpful to people who need food and other necessities. They have a great start in the city of Albany and I believe they are on their way to even more success in the future. Technology can aid in this process and increase their ease of work throughout the center.