Wednesday, May 1, 2013

May Day / Managing our Money / Bus 174




Objective& Purpose: I can budget my expenses 
so that can have money when I REALLY need it.




  1. These days in History
  2. How we are going to finish these movies?
    • The cameras
      • This weekend?
    • The time
  3. How will we fill our time?
    • Physics Project
    • Upstander Project
    • iWitness Pilot Project
    • *Watching Documentaries and other cool films
    • *Personal finance tracking
  4. Managing our Money: Tracking our Expenses
    • Where is my money going?
    • How can I divide my expenses into categories, so that I can evaluate them?
    • What guidelines can I set up for myself, so that I am not spending unnecessarily.
    • How can I track my spending so that my spending stays within my guidelines?
    • With money I have "found" by closely tracking my spending, how will I use this money to meet my long-term goals?
      • [these questions adapted from http://www.helium.com/items/1074533-tracking-spending-budget]

  5. Bus 174 (1/2 today, 1/2 next class + writing)
    • True story
      • Real footage taken from news, traffic cameras, and other found footage
      • Interviews conducted after the fact
      • Filmmakers used the interviews to weave a story that starts long before the bus incident and continues to ask questions about the world left afterwards
    • You will write an extensive reflection on this movie about
      • The society you see depicted
      • The realities of life in Brazil for poor people
      • The implications of how people view the Police in Brazil

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