Nicole's Life

Nicole Panza was born on January 13, 1993 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. When Nicole was two years old her sister Jordan was born. Nicole and Jordan got along well as little kids, but began to argue with each other as they became teenagers.

  Nicole has lived in Watertown her whole life with her sister, her mom Rosemary, and her dad David. Her mom works as a grant administrator at Boston College, and her dad helps out special need kids. Nicole comes from an Irish(mom), and Italian(dad) heritage. 

Nicole has been playing field hockey since she's been in third grade. This is her favorite activity because she thinks it is fun.

When Nicole was five she went to the Cunniff Elementary School in Watertown, MA also that year she went on a surprise family vacation to Disney World which she considers her funnest memory to this day. Her favorite part of this trip was Magic Kingdom, because of the rides she got to go on. Nicole's other fun trip was she went on a West Coast road trip where she ended up going to Arizona, Nevada, and then California. Also Nicole owns a cottage in Harwich, Cape Cod where she visited every summer until 2007.

A peek into the life of James Dunoyer

On June 10, 1993, James Dunoyer was welcomed into the world at Beth Israel Hospital. He has lived in the small town of Watertown his whole entire life. James currently lives with his mom, dad and little sister. A lot of his family still lives in France and he has been to France to visit them four times. James started skateboarding and film editing in his middle school years and he pursues those activities. Lucky for him, if he ever gets hurt skateboarding, his mom

can help him because she is a nurse. Also, if he ever runs into any trouble on a film project he's working on, his dad can help him because he is a film editor. James has combined his skills in both of those areas and has even made several skateboarding videos. He is currently a junior at Watertown High School. He plans on going to college to major in film editing. So what is he doing now? Well, he's sitting in his media class writing a mini-biography on me. 

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written by Kevin Phu

The Life Of Despina Najarian

On November 30th, I interviewed Despina Najarian and asked her a few questions about her life. She started off my telling me where she was born. She was born in Malden, MA on May 26, 1993. Despina went to Hosmer Elementary School in Watertown Mass. She has two older brothers, one that is 27 and the other one is 24. Her oldest brother has a daughter, she was born May 25th, 2009 ( a day before Despina's birthday) her name is Dessie. Despina is currently living in Watertown, MA attending Watertown High School. 

Despina lives with her father and her mother. Her mother is Greek and her father is Armenian. They are both working people, her mother works at CVS as a beauty advisor and a cashier. Her father is an auto man and he fixes cars. Her mother was born in Athens, Greece and her father was born in Kuwait City, Kuwait. I found it very interesting when she shared with me that she lived in Greece from the age of 14 months to age 5. Also she goes back to Greece every summer. She can also speak Greek fluently.

Despina also has a cat named Alina, she got her in march of 2009. She is addicted to a couple of things: make-up ( like almost every teenage girl) and facebook ( like whole world). Despina also has a best friend by the name of Sarah Shin, which she met  in fourth grade and has been very close friends with ever since. When Despina gets older she wants to become a nurse or an obstetrician. Not only is she very connected to her culture but she embraces it.  

By: Farrah Dornevil

Shane's Life

Shane Fitzgerald was born in Newton, Massachusetts on February 9, 1993.  When he was two years old his brother Cory was born.  That same year he got his first pet, Snickers.  Snickers is a Beagle Black Lab mix.  At the age of five he started attending the Cunniff Elementary School in Watertown, MA.  After elementary school he went to Watertown Middle School.  Shane loves playing and watching sports, especially football and basketball.  

 He has lived in the same house in Watertown his whole life with his parents and brother.  Shane's father owns a bar (Fit-z 's) and his mom works in sales at a painting company.   Shane enjoys traveling and has been on many trips.  He has been to Florida four times and also has been to California.  In fifth grade Shane traveled to Ireland for a wedding.  He was able to see where his family is from.  Now Shane is a junior at Watertown High and plans on on going to college.

By: Nicole Panza

ANIMOTOS and AUTOBIOGRAPHIES

HOWDY CLASS:

If you haven't finished your ANIMOTO and blog about Animoto vs. Final Cut PLEASE DO SO.

If you have finished then please begin creating a rough draft of your AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
Create the file in GOOGLE DOCS....BE PREPARED TO HAVE A ROUGH DRAFT WHEN WE ARE BACK IN CLASS ON TUESDAY....OR ELSE...

Make sure to start with your birth and end with death....just kidding...end with where you are now in your life. If you have ideas beyond the LIFESTORY then please include that too!

I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING THEM!
HAVE AN AWESOME WEEKEND!
MS. V

Animoto

Animoto is a very interesting site.  I like how it makes the video for you and how the music flows with the pictures.  I would rather work with Final Cut because it gives you more choices of how to make your video and what to incorporate into it.  With Final Cut, you can choose how your video should be presented.

My video is more about my culture and what the most important aspect of it is.

Today in Interactive Journalism we used a video creation site called animoto.com. I liked Final Cut better because you can add better features and better music. Animoto was an alright site but I feel that it can be upgraded in quality. I also think that this was very easy. All together I think Animoto is alright, but not as good as Final Cut.