Learning from the World We Don’t Know

I’ve learned quit a few things while blogging on the World We Don’t Know, and I’ve also discovered different cool apps to use. One of the things that I found on the WWDK blog I really liked was the Vine video app challenge. It was fun, and super easy to do and reminded me of a Gif, a moving picture or small video clip that loops. I also enjoyed making the Valentine’s Day video for WWDK. It was a time for me and friends to get together and do something simple and quick for the blog that followed the theme of “valentine’s day”. One of the things I didn’t  like was having to use Mozilla Firefox Popcorn Video to edit our video’s for the web. It took to much time and energy to get it to do what you wanted it to, plus it required prior knowledge, and became a complicated source and therefore, not enjoyable. - Dileiny Cruz

Shoes. By: Grace Cushner 


What happened to us? I feel like you shut me out. What have I done? It’s not like I’ve changed. The only thing that changed was the color of my laces. Okay, maybe I’m a little worn down. Maybe I’m not all new and beautiful anymore but it’s still me. 

We used to go everywhere with each other, I was more than a pair. You would wear me to the beach. You would go biking with me. You would even bring me to a wedding, just in case. I loved being laced around you everywhere we went. 

What happened? I feel like you don’t care about me anymore. You just let everyone walk all over me and step on me. We used to be so close. Don’t you want me anymore? I get it. It’s just everything was going so well. Everything was going well until they came along. Now you’re out with them all the time, and you leave me at home. Yeah, I guess they’re pretty. They might be better than me.  They might be newer than me. But I am still the same. What’s that saying, if the shoe fits?

Will I ever be completely thrown away? Or will I be the one always there that you can’t seem to get rid of? I would rather be thrown away then be held here, forgotten. Was there any emotional connection between us? Maybe we’ve worn each other out. I was once your favorite, now I am just an extra. I have been replaced. My spot has been filled.  

So I guess that this is it. I guess this is a good-bye.

Farewell, it is time for me to a “get the boot”.  Goodbye you will never meet a more fateful sole.



WWDK Poetic Pizza Pardy Video


The WWDK team had a serious case of “pizza brain” and were given a challenge to create a video about their love of pizza. If they completed the challenge in less than an hour they would receive pizza as their reward. The team quickly put their heads together and came up with this poetic ode to pizza. 

Behind the Scene: Spring On The Yard

Hey guys! Guess who’s coming out from the rock she’s been living under lately… Me! As the temperature rises, you know what that means. It’s getting close to Summer Break! And Summer Break means an end to a school year. I’m gonna be honest with you guys, during the winter months I’ve been slacking on my studies. I’m not sure if you guys know, but I love editing videos. It’s one of my favorite parts about being in the LMC department. My Mass Media teacher Ms. Anderson, already knew I needed to do something about getting credit, and with this warm Spring weather finally breaking through it gave me many possibilities. We’ve been having Mass Media class outside and with Ms. Anderson. We took advantage of our surroundings and shot a pretty cool video. Even before we were finished shooting I volunteered to edit the whole video. In the beginning of editing I wanted to do it completely by myself because I love editing, and because I wanted all the credit points that I could get.

This is a perfect example of learning the lesson that sometimes you have to ask for help. Though I’ve been using iMovie to edit videos for about three years, there were still a lot of things I didn’t know and had to learn about. I think one thing I learned is I’m obsessed with using transitions! I had a plan in my head to use two different transitions and alternate between the two throughout the video. I did just so and after Ms. Anderson reviewed what I had done and put her tweaks on it, majority of my transitions were gone. And actually, it looked perfectly fine without all of the transitions I had in. So looks like next time, I have to ease up a bit with those.

Some more things I learned this time around with editing are trimming clips, all of the different font possibilities with titles, finding the right music and aligning the beat of it with clips in the video.

As I said before, I love editing and because of that, I want nothing more than to be better at doing it. It’ll be a long ways before I’m a “pro” at editing but I know I’m on the right track by learning new things. A little further in the future, I’ll start using Final Cut Pro to edit and get familiar with that. But until then, iMovie will continue to be my close bff.

Be sure to check out the video we did! Check back soon for it to be published! - Moreena Hashim

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  • Gracie and Zyl- earbudsGracie Cushner and Zyl Castor

Two earbuds are arguing over music choice. 

Not A ‘Setting’ by Victoria Gaetan

Making a background design for World We Don’t Know was not as easy as I thought, and did not work out as planned. First, it surprised me finding out we were actually going to create the whole background, as I thought I could just change the color, font, and theme of World We Don’t Know from the Tumblr settings area… It was hard to come up with a good idea for a background that would fit, but Lee and I eventually came up with creating a spiderweb full of the Virtual world language and branches of the World Wide Web, such as, “embed”, “share”, and a Twitter symbol. The spider-web looked pretty good, but next came up having to scan this Spider Web, and Photoshop it. Photoshop was where the issues went down…

It was a really great idea, and also something I was very interested in doing, (I always had a special place in my heart for the Settings section on things like blogs and phones….) But when it came to doing it, it would have probably worked out better if I thought realistically about what I know how to do, and picked a simpler background. A blank lined paper, with the doodles/notes of a typical LMC student (notes related to Mass Media and Writing), changing the notes weekly, or every other challenge, might have turned out to work brilliantly! The next challenge WILL work out, and I’ll be sure to make it extra saucy!

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  • All the Right Moves audio projectNancy Scofield

My weekly audio story based on the song All the Right Moves by OneRepublic, draft deux! :D (two)

- Nancy Scofield

Willette & Nia Try SoundCloud and Interviewing

My WWDk individual project was to create audio commentary using SoundCloud. My first assignment was to interview the LMC’s first years about weekly individual projects. The objective was to first learn about each project, then create questions to ask. I would say the hardest challenge of this project was recording myself. I hate the sound of my own voice. I really liked working on SoundCloud, I was able to stop the track to edit and cut out unwanted audio. It took a while to learn, my partner and I had managed to erase our first two tracks in the process. We accidentally chopped out the whole track, deleting it all together. It was interesting interviewing my peers who cooperated with technical difficulties, and it was fascinating to hear what they planned to create. Overall I could say this first commentary was a good experience, although next time I would like to use other topics to improve it a little more. Our segment on “Out of Control Teens” was more than a learning process. My partner and I both had impute and personal experiences to go along with the subject at hand. However, there still is a lot of work ahead of us. We need more information, and not let our enthusiasm get the best of us. Also, this being only our second video, it was hard to come up with topics, and stick to what’s occurring in media today. However, we still are a work in progress. I loved being able to publicly announce opinions, and sit down to discuss with my partner. Using SoundCloud gave us the opportunity to give a professional broadcast on sounds, interviews and commentary. With more patience and perseverance, who knows where we can take the show. More importantly, where it can take us.
I remember … I remember escaping the heat, the air felt nice on my skin and for once it didn’t feel like a damn winter wonderland. I remember drowning yesterday in the big green chair all alone reassuring my fatal but yet condemning social suicide. I just want real friends. I remember viewing that graffiti on the school walls, and that one sign in the reserved parking area for some teacher I probably didn’t know. “Boy you running on my mind”, “The End” and “Muzak Revolution”, they read written black. They wrote sloppy enough that no one could say it was me. Rebel, maybe? I remember. I can only think about so much. It’s all jumbled up, jigsaw puzzle. Raveled up. I remembered, I remember, They’re all memories, a past, sometimes a future. I remember staring at that “Fallout Shelter” aspired all those thoughts that left me brain dead. The flushing of it all commenced quite beautifully. I remember the rugged big chair that I carved my name into during the summer when I didn’t know this meant something to someone. I bet out of all the kids here I am no one to nobody. I remember taking photos and staring at them trying to push out words that’ll flow and sound well but, I can’t say whether its coming along well.I remember that this’ll dissolve soon enough, no one will care anymore to help me. No more, “She’s just a kid.” That’s the saddest part, no more of the foolish trips to the police station or running from the metal detectors from Urban Outfitters, Im not a bad kid. I just like the thrill. I remember the things you forgot yesterday and tomorrow but, I won’t forget today, I remember.
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I remember …
I remember escaping the heat, the air felt nice on my skin and for once it didn’t feel like a damn winter wonderland.
I remember drowning yesterday in the big green chair all alone reassuring my fatal but yet condemning social suicide. I just want real friends.
I remember viewing that graffiti on the school walls, and that one sign in the reserved parking area for some teacher I probably didn’t know. “Boy you running on my mind”, “The End” and “Muzak Revolution”, they read written black. They wrote sloppy enough that no one could say it was me. Rebel, maybe?
I remember. I can only think about so much. It’s all jumbled up, jigsaw puzzle. Raveled up.
I remembered, I remember, They’re all memories, a past, sometimes a future. I remember staring at that “Fallout Shelter” aspired all those thoughts that left me brain dead. The flushing of it all commenced quite beautifully.
I remember the rugged big chair that I carved my name into during the summer when I didn’t know this meant something to someone. I bet out of all the kids here I am no one to nobody.
I remember taking photos and staring at them trying to push out words that’ll flow and sound well but, I can’t say whether its coming along well.
I remember that this’ll dissolve soon enough, no one will care anymore to help me. No more, “She’s just a kid.” That’s the saddest part, no more of the foolish trips to the police station or running from the metal detectors from Urban Outfitters, Im not a bad kid. I just like the thrill. I remember the things you forgot yesterday and tomorrow but, I won’t forget today, I remember.