Wrapping Up Phase 1!

A)ry module was very interesting for me. i think the most exciting module was "our brains on media". i've learned how our brain receives the information and react it.

B)The most challenging module was "Media and Leadership-Learning The Persuasive Language of Media". i figured out that it wasn't easy to persuade people.

C)it would be better all the students taken part in this project have the chance to visit the USA.

2)

the are alot of funny moments in this video.

ACME persuasion

This video engages the Limbic part of my brain at the beginning with the exiting music playing in the background, green areas and a broad highway.
It appeals to my Reptilian brain when the fastest car appears with the loud sounds.It makes me get excited.
When I think more deeply about relationship between the fastest car in the world Bugatti and " Nike " shoes. Wonder if I could beat a Tiguan if I wore those shoes.
This video is about commercial of " Nike " shoes.Here is used some persuasive techniques.

1. Symbols : The fastest car " Bugatti " and wellknown " Nike " shoes.
2. Hyperbole : The video makes the new sport shoes seem to be much better than others.They want to show that if anyone who wears these shoes can run faster than a car.
3. Humor :Here is shown C. Ronaldo competing against Bugatti Veyron. Isn't funny?Bugatti's wheels and Ronaldo' s feet and shoes.
4. Testimonial : Choise of the greatest sportsman in the world is the most believable.He is famous and most of football lovers know him.He can persuade people easily.
5. Repetition : The video repeats with showing the same description.
6. Card Stacking :" The most comfortable shoes you have ever worn ".

Our Brain on media

I like watching horror films. I'm not afraid of watching horrors because these films teach us to be fearless and overcome the difficulties we face in our life. "The Mist" is my favorite one. The film is a real horror movie.I'd like to express the influences of three forms of brains on this film.
A quiet life in a small town. First everything is going well.Attractive nature, the happy life of a family, everything is in front of our eyes. first of all it touches the limbic part of my brain. Then everything is changed. It happens suddenly and we don't notice what happens.




Oh... My God! what a scary situation. The mist comes over the lake towards the town. It is dark, scary and even funny. Oh!! I can't breath. My heart is beating fast... My whole body is trembling. My eyes are opened. I have never had such a feeling. The mysterious mist!!! It influences to the reptilian part of my brain. I have negative emotions. The Mist brings monsters, strange creatures. The film doesn't show where they come from. We must use our imagination. When watching the film I can hear their voices,feel their thoughts and feelings. The film doesn't have a happy ending. The main character David Drayton did his best in order to find ways to escape them. It influences our neocortex brain. Imagine yourself in being such situation what would we do? Fear makes us do all which we think we could never do. at the end of the film I was nearly physically paralyzed. I felt myself among them for a while and I also had the same feelings as them. Then I realized that it wasn't a reality it's just like a dream.

MY MEDIA INVENTORY

1) BOOKS.Books are my friends. When I was a child my parents read stories to me. My favourite ones were "Malikmammed" , "Red Riding Hood". These stories are very popular among children. Then I began to read myself. By reading books I get a lot of information on many subjects. Reading books helps me to learn, think, feel and make my speech more elequent. Most of all I'm fond of reading adventure books, detective stories and historical novels. All the members of my family love books. We have a splendid library at my home. It includes the books in Azeri language, such as Nizami, Nasimi, Fizuli; in Russian language, L.Tolstoy, A.Pushkin; in English language M.Twain, J.London, A.Christie, W.Shakespeare. I prefer books by Nizami, Fizuli, J.London, A.Christie, M.Twain. These are some names in Azerbaijan and foreign literature that are very dear to me. I have read "Khamsa" by Nizami, "Leyli and Mejnun" by Fizuli, "The Mousetrap" by A.Christie, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by M.Twain. By the way I enjoy reading this book. In modern Azerbaijan literature I value C.Abdullayev. He is known as a detective writer. I have read some novels by him. At present I am reading one of his famous novel "Blue Angels". It is a dedective novel.

2) NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES. I'm intersted in newspapers and magazines. Everyday my father buys different local newspapers. I look through these magazines and newspapers and read interesting articles. But I always read sport news. "Het-trik"-a football newspaper is my favourite one. It is published 3 times a week. Everytime I buy its edition. I always follow automobile news and my favourite magazine is "Auto Bild". It is published once a month. I have a big collection of "Auto Bild" at home. With the help of these magazines I know much about cars. If you ask I'll ready to answer all your questions about cars.

3) MUSIC. I'm fond of music. I listen to music not only when I'm free. In the morning I switch on the radio and have my breakfast listening to music. On the way to school I also listen to music because my walkman is always with me. I'm fond of very modern Azerbaijan and foreign singers. I enjoy to dance to music too. I play musical instrument. I play the tar-our national musical instrument. I like to listen to the music composed by the great Azerbaijan musicians U.Hajibeyov, Q.Qarayev, F.Emirov. Like many teenagers I like to listen to the famous groups-Linkin Park, Green day, H.O.S.T Alliance-local rap group H.O.S.T is the most favourite one to me. This group was created by 4 young men in May in 2006. Each letter in this name has its own meaning.H-"hava"-air, O-"od"-fire, S-"su"-water, T-"torpaq"-land. Their famous albom is "Red in Black". Also they have very famous songs-"Let's go", "Propoganda", "She will return", "Don't believe", "I don't want", "Return me", "Don't cry", "Labirint", "Esmiralda", "From us to you", "Baku" and others. In these songs they give the main problems of our society and they represent it very successfully. Nowadays this group is being loved by every young and teenagers.http//www.havaodsutorpaq.com.The second one is Linkin Park. It is remarkable, unique, simple brilliant group. Linkin Park has its fans in everywhere in Azerbaijan. This group was created in 1996. Since their formation the band has sold more 50 million alboms, won 2 Grammy Awards. Their famous alboms are: "Collussion Course", "Minutes to Midnight", "Live in Texas", "Meteora". Their songs that are loved by everyone are "Somewhere I belong", "From the inside", "Figure 09". Besides these groups I also have favourite singers-Kirach(Turkish), Roya (Azeri), Mansum Ibrahimov, Alim Qasimov (mugam singers-our national music), Justin Timberlake, Beyonce, Jennifer Lopez, Ricky Martin.

In this picture you see me and my favourite group H.O.S.T Alliance.

4) Television. TV is a branch of mass media too. Nowadays watching TV became a social ritual. I have no time for watching TV for hours. As have a lot a lot of lessons to do I can't find time watching TV on weekdays, only weekends I can watch TV. I like to watch news programmes, talk shows and some films (without murders). During the Olympic Games TV is the main source for me to watch the games. My favorite TV programmes are "Auto Star", "Transmissiya" and comedys shows. My favourite TV channels in Azerbaijan are "ATV", "Lider", "ITV", sport channels, in the world are "NTV", "MTV", "Channel D", " Show TV" and others.

5) Video games. Games are very interesting. When I have free time I like to play games on computers. They are amusing. When I play games I have a strong will to be the winner. My favourite games are " Prince of Persia", " Call on duty", "Country Strike".

6) Computers. Computers are very important in our life. We need them everywhere. They make our life easier. I use my computer in different ways:to write reports, make Power Point presentations, play different games, listen to music, watch video files.I also use the computer as an electronic vocabulary.

7) Internet. It is a part of my life. I can't imagine my life without it. With the help of internet I can find information I need make new friends. I can virtually visit countries, cities and museums. I can easily visit web pages, see the photografhes of my favourite singers and music groups, send the letters by e-mail. One of the most interesting things for me is chat.I meet different people,communicate and enjoy my time. Now I have got a lot of friends from different countries. We all speak English. I have advanced the level of my English. THANKS FOR INTERNET I AM IN THE DOTCOM PROGRAM.

1) Internet

2)Computer

3)Music

4)Books

5)Newspapers/Magazines

6)Video Games

7)Television

1)My name is Orkhan. My name is quite a popular name in Azerbaijan. I'm 16. I live in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. B aku is an ancient and beatiful city. I come from an avarage Azerbaijan family. There are four of us: my mother, father, sister and me. I'm in the 10th form. I am good at Maths, Geography, English and computer classes. I'm crazy about computers. I enjoy playing games. I can write programs, draw, listen to music or make music on my computer. I'm fond of reading detective and fantastic stories. I also read books by classic writers. I enjoy listening to music such as pop, rock, classic, rap. I'm fond of sports. I play basketball and I 'm a member of a basketball team. I like playing football, voleyball and driving a car.I always follow rallies
I can say I'm a good organizer, with the help of my friends I often organize charitable events for the children of orphaned house.
I want you to know that I'm an easy-going person, I'm also a good mixer. I like everybody around me. I try to be kind and tolerant to others. I like to get acquinted with everybody. So I have a lot of friends. I never let my friends down.
DOTCOM will be a great chance for me to meet different young people of my age. I hope I'll get more information about media literacy. Media and web technology would make this program successful for me. I hope everything will be OK in the future. LET'S HOPE THE BEST!

2) It is impossible to imagine our life without Media. I use different means of Media: books, magazines, journals, newspapers, internet, television, radio. I have read many books. At present I am reading a book by Chingiz Abdullayev who is very popular in Europe and Azerbaijan. This book is called 'Blue Angels'. This is a dedective novel. In my free time I play different video games: 'Call of duty', 'Underground', 'Country Strike', 'GTA'. I'm fond of watching movies. My favourite ones are 'The Patriot' and 'Troya'. As I mentionet I'm fond of cars. I'm reading auto magazines. I have a big colletion of 'Auto Bild' I have subcribed to. I regularly read sports newspapers. My favourite is ' Het-trick'-football newspaper. I like to listen to the music of Linkin Park, Green Day, H.O.S.T Alliance-local rap group.
In fact Internet is a part of my life. Every day I use Internet. It helps me a lot. When I work on projects I find information I need on Internet. When using this media means I enlarge my worldoutlook, get well-informed, raise my mood, get acquinted with different cultures, find similarities and differences.
3) I think every community has its own problems, as we live near the central market every day we face with different environmental problems. It is very noisy. People selling different food products make our city dirty. We-students try to stop this pollution. Sometimes we can successed but our problems are not over. The other problem is we have few youth clubs. I think if we have different kinds of clubs we can attend in our free time.
4) Though we live in different countries we share the common world. With the help of DOTCOM I will be able to share my thoughts and knowledge with my partners from the USA. I'll make interesting Power Point presentation focused on the history, culture, traditions and cuisine of my country in order to my partners know about my country, traditions and attractions.
I hope I'll find real friends from the USA and be a friend myself in DOTCOM!