Final Performance

Thank you Class 24 for your hard work on the final performance.  We hope you will continue to remember that social media is not a replacement for life and let that phone go!

Say it with SHIRTS

Class 24 created T-shirts as an advertisement for their campaign about "Connected but Alone: People not Phones!

Here are a few...

Week 2 Star Performers

Week 2 has come to an end and we are starting the final week for GLPS.  It will be a week filled with practicing for the final performance, making props, video, and slides.  We will also make T-shirts to wear for the performance. 

In week 2, everyone did a great job spreading the message for our campaign which is Connected but Alone: People NOT Phones.  

We would like to congratulate 2 students who worked hard this week to contribute to the campaign.  The Star Performers for week 2 are...

Da-Hee Kim

Ji-Seung Park

Congratulations to Kate and Jason for earning a green card and recognition for all of your hard work!

Posters by Art and Design team

Art and Design team has made some posters and digital posters to give awareness to people about the topic, "Connected but alone". 

"Stop the Phone" challenge by PR group

The challenge that the Public Relations team has created is called "Stop the Phone". Our group challenged the GLPS students to not use their phones when they are dinning. When they complete the challenge, students will need to get approved by three other friends or teachers with signature. The signed posters will decorate our tree poster, which will provides a sense of community and connection in real life.

We will have the challenge taking place in week 3 and pictures will follow.

Class 24 : Script for Final Performance

SCRIPT

BY: THE CAMPAIGN TEAM OF CLASS 24

[enter the intro members]

Intro 1: Good evening, everyone. We are class 24 and today we will be presenting our Global Awareness campaign topic, Connected but Alone.These days in the modern world, technology has developed and more new age people are becoming dependent on either their smartphones, and social media.

Intro 2: However, what we’re going to do is pinpoint one of the major problems and try to show you why we need to stop ourselves from relying on social media to form connections. A lot of people have social media accounts such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and more. Those people become so engrossed with the account that they begin to slip away from reality. This can lead to isolation, being cyber bullied, or left dependent on social media. We want to raise awareness and show you that people should stop mistaking their online friends as their real friends and start looking for their real friends in reality. Here’s an example of what we mean.

[exit intro members and enter the facebook addicts, facebook with their phones]

Facebook 1: OMG did you see BTS’ new album that came out?

Facebook 2: Holy, OMG I did and it was lit! Get it? Cause their title song was called fire?

[play small clip of BTS fire in the background]

Facebook 1: LMAO of course. But Jungkook his vocals and remember Suga? They were so #goals.

Facebook 3: Guys, guys more important news. I got tickets for the golden state warriors against the lakers this weekend man.

Facebook 2: Sick, bro. You should take this guy called Ricky. He’s literally in love with basketball.

Facebook 2: Shoot, I forgot that Big Bang concert tickets are going to be sale soon. I’ll text you guys later. Ttyl

Facebook 1: Bye boo

Facebook 3: Cya

[exit facebook addicts and facebook]

[enter the school cool kids]

School kid 1: Aw dude, you heard the song Panda?

[play small clip of Panda by DESIIGNER without the swear words]

School kid 2: Yeah, man who hasn’t? It’s been all over the internet.

School kid 3: So has the news of BTS’ new album!!

School kid 1: Remind me why we’re hanging out with this chick?

School kid 2: Dunno, man it was your choice.

[enter in Facebook addict 1 and 2]

School kid 3: Aren’t they the new girls that stay on their phones 24/7?

School kid 2: Oh, they’re pretty hot. Better than you for sure.

School kid 1: Wanna ask them to hang?

[approach FB addict 1 and 2]

School kid 3: What’s up?

Facebook addict 1: I’m updating my status, wait lemme take a pic. Say cheese!

[takes picture of the three kids and they are immediately freaked out]

School kid 2: Well, we were going to ask if you wanted to hang out with us? Maybe go out for a movie?

Facebook addict 2: Depends, how many followers do you have?

School kid 1: What the heck is she talking about?

School kid 3: You mean Facebook?

[FB addict 1 and 2 nods]

School kid 1: Why do you care about that?

Facebook addict 1: [dramatic gasp] Who doesn’t? I have over 2 thousand.

[all school kids stare at her weirdly and slowly walk away from her]

School kid 1: Dude, she’s so weird.

School kid 2: Yeah, now I know why they barely got any friends. They’ve got issues.

[next day, everyone is whispering and talking about facebook addict 1 while she walks down the hallway with her phone]

School kid 3: You know, she’s got over 2 thousand followers but 0 in real life. Pathetic.

School kid 1: She’s going to hit the pavement one day, super hard yo.

[enter pokemon go addict/facebook addict 3 and bump into School kid 1]

School kid 1: Hey man, watch where you’re going. Don’t you have eyes?

Pokemon Go addict: [places pointer finger on School kid addict 1’s mouth] SHHH. I just caught a Squirtle and I gotta update my facebook status.

[Pokemon Go addict walks away]

School kid 1: Humans..

[scene ends and conclusion speakers walk up]

Conclusion 1: As you can see in our play, social media dependency can lead to serious problems. Please remember, friends on social media such as Facebook or Instagram may not be the “best” friends you can get. Always try to meet real friends, face to face, and communicate with them.

Conclusion 2: In our Global Awareness project, the PR team made challenges that can test people not to use phones during either dinner time or a certain period of time.

Conclusion 3: The Media team made a video, a Facebook page, and an Instagram page as well. Our Art and Design team created lovely and powerful posters that can inspire you to start putting down your phone and take a look around.

Conclusion 2: We hope that our presentation taught you guys how we shouldn’t rely on social media all the time and that we should focus on reality and our real selves. Just as our PR team created a challenge to not use your phones and social media, we challenge you to use less time on your phones and social media and more time on your real life.Thank you for listening and let that phone go!

Connected but alone GA video

We, the media team have created a short one and a half minute video for our campaign, Connected but alone. Please take a look at it.

Star Performers

Class 24 would like to congratulate our Star Performers from week 1.  All students are working together to create a campaign but these students stood out for their hard work and contributions.

The Star Performers are: Ashley (Yujin) Lee and Jason (Jin-Kyu) Han.  Keep up the good work and stay tuned for next week's Star Performers!

Ashley Lee

Jason Han

Say it with CHALK!

Class 24 took their message to the streets to spread their campaign around GLPS.  The chalk art they created was aimed at reminding people that social media is not a replacement for real life relationships and interactions.

Some of their messages included:

Connect but Alone
Social Media is NOT really social!
Let it go! 

Week 1- Minute to Win it Pitch

In week 1 all of the classes competed in an event called "GLPS has got Talent!".  For the event each class came on stage to pitch their ideas for a campaign about 3 topics they chose.  Classes had a minute to win it, only 1 minute to present their ideas and win over the judges.  

Class 24 presented their pitches for the topics: 

1. Violence Against Women

2. Connected but alone: Social Media Dependency

3. Ban Trump

Each group did a great job and Class 24 won the topic: Connected but alone: Social Media Dependency.  Class 24 will create a campaign to raise awareness about this topic and be posting their progress on the blog.  

Stay tuned!

Public Relations Team Introduction

Alex, Ji seung, Jun

Our team is Public Relations on the topic of Social Media Dependency. Our team members are Ji seung Park the leader, Alex Hong the writer, and Jun Lee the researcher and the publisher. Our plan is to look for an non-profit organization that is related to our topic. We will then contact the organization by making phone calls or writing a formal email. In the phone call or the email, we will explain the issue that students face nowadays and ask for their suggestions on how can we, the students, create change. When we get a reply, we will share our ideas with the rest of the class, so that everyone can participate by fulfilling their role.

Campaign Team : Connected, but Alone

Amy Song, Sarah Jeong, Kate Kim, Jason Han 

Our topic is connected, but alone. We're basically trying to raise awareness of social media dependency, even though you may think that you are super popular. We have 4 members in our team - Sarah Jeong, the leader, Kate Kim, the writer, Amy Song, the Blogger and Jason Han, the Researcher. The leader is the organizer and helps everyone else with their roles. The writer does the writing for scripts or brainstorming or ideas, the researcher looks for information about the topic, and the blogger updates the blog and helps to inform the world. What we are going to do is to create t-shirts and wear them in public in order to catch the citizens' attention. Not only that, we will be using a famous pop song but change the lyrics to get it stuck it in citizens' ears.

Art and Design Team Introduction

Minjoo Park, Se-on Park, Jin

Our team is the Art and Design team and our campaign is about Social Media Dependency. Se-on is the leader, Minjoo is the blogger/researcher, and Jin is the writer. We are going to create posters and flyers that shows how serious this problem is. Also we will create props for the presentation and performance that grabs attention and awareness. 

Media Team Introduction

Ashley, JinYoung, Ethan, Hugh

We are the media team, and our campaign is going to be about social media dependency. Our members are Ashley, our leader, Hugh, the researcher, Ethan, the writer and JinYoung, the blogger. Our team will create a Facebook page and a Instagram account for this campaign. We will also make videos and memes. On our Facebook page and Instagram account, we will post pictures of how our class is doing, and other fun facts and videos we create for the campaign. 

Welcome to Global Awareness

Are you ready to have fun and start sharing with the world a topic you think needs attention? Here is your chance to make a difference and create a Global Awareness Campaign to share what you think is important in the world today.

Stop Global Warming!No pollution is the solution!  Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. Watch your waste!Stop smoking.Don’t Drink and Drive, Arrive Alive.Just say NO to Bullying. 

The above of some examples of possible Global Awareness Campaign topics.  With your class, you will choose from a list of topics your teacher presents to you. After you have 3 possible topics you will break into 3 groups to make a "pitch" for that topic.  Tell us why your class should have a chance to create a campaign to raise awareness about the topic.  Why is the topic important to you and how will you raise awareness about it?

On Thursday evening, all classes in Global Awareness will attend an event called "GLPS has got talent!" where your class will pitch your 3 topics to a group of judges.  The class that does the best job convincing the judges that they are the best class to raise awareness for their topic will win the topic and get to do it for their Global Awareness Campaign.

Remember, you only have "one minute to win it" so work on creating a pitch that is persuasive and convincing in only 1 minute. 

Ready, set, go!

Remember to work as a TEAM and create a pitch for your topics.