Selecting the Team Members
We started choosing the members who will be part of the team by identifying those who have skills in writing, photo/video editing, photo/video shooting and have creative thinking in preparing blogs. Together with the teacher-coaches, we stepped on the next level: Choosing the topic.
Choosing the Topic
Choosing the topic for this blog is not quite easy because each member of the team has an individual interest, but after a long exchange of thoughts, we end up with a decision to choose this topic that concerns livelihood that we thought to be extraordinary…the life of scavengers.
Collecting the Data
Excitement and enthusiasm are the emotions that we have as we started our journey in revealing the life of scavengers. We went to the different government institutions (e.g. Environmental and Natural Resources Office, City Planning Department, Solid Waste Management Office and Balatas Dumpsite) that helped us a lot by providing us with the information we need. We also seek the help of the President of the Scavengers’ Association in the Dump Site in identifying the persons whom we interviewed.
Blog Design
For the technical aspect of this blog, we make used of softwares such as Picasa, Photoshop, Windows MovieMaker and Adobe Flash. For the uploading of photos and videos we utilized web applications like Picasa Web Album, Photosnack photowidgets,One True Media and video sharing sites like Youtube.