We love you.
Not really.
Seriously, though.
Seriously, though.
Not.
quarta-feira, 14 de dezembro de 2011
Feliz Natal e um bom ano novo!
As this is the last VAGAB Club session of the year, we would like to wish you all a merry Christmas and a very happy new year! :)
quarta-feira, 7 de dezembro de 2011
Developers' Diary 1
Hello everyone! As you might have guessed from the title, this is a post about our progression on Theme 5: The Environment. Before getting into that, we have a special annoucement to make: there's a new member of group 4 in town! Please welcome Mr. Gabriel (applause)! He has no expectations at all. Let's try to change that. Ladies, I'm talking to you.
Our subject on theme 5 is The Fauna and Flora of Benavente. We're going to create a National Geographic kind of documentary about the beautiful animals and not-so-beautiful plants that exist on this area. And that's it. So far we haven't really done anything, as we have been very occupied with being awesome. But seriously now, we have been working hard on preparing what we're going to do when we get to the beautiful places that we are going to document for your viewing pleasure, just so we make sure the final product is awesome. And it will be.
Bye now.
Our subject on theme 5 is The Fauna and Flora of Benavente. We're going to create a National Geographic kind of documentary about the beautiful animals and not-so-beautiful plants that exist on this area. And that's it. So far we haven't really done anything, as we have been very occupied with being awesome. But seriously now, we have been working hard on preparing what we're going to do when we get to the beautiful places that we are going to document for your viewing pleasure, just so we make sure the final product is awesome. And it will be.
Bye now.
domingo, 6 de novembro de 2011
Family life and gender roles.
this is our theme 4 podcast + interview. We hope you enjoy it
http://soundcloud.com/vagab-marco/interview-podcast
http://soundcloud.com/vagab-marco/interview-podcast
terça-feira, 7 de junho de 2011
Gender Roles
The entire VAGAB club from Portugal did a survey equal for all groups to apply to different age groups.
Our group did the survey to 10 boys of our age, 16 to 17 years old.
The first question was a table with many chores that people usually do around the house and who does them.
Here are the results:
Cooking: Man 1, Both 7 and Woman 2
Cleaning the house: Man 0, Both 6 and Woman 4
Taking care of the laundry: Man 0, Both 2 and Woman 8
Ironing: Man 0, Both 1 and Woman 9
Cleaning the kitchen: Man 0, Both 6 and Woman 4
Cleaning the bedroom: Man 0, Both 7 and Woman 3
Doing the dishes: Man 1, Both 6 and Woman 3
Gorceries: Man 0, Both 6 and Woman 4
Maintenance of the home: Man 5, Both 5 and Woman 0
DIY: Man 7, Both 3 and Woman 0
Car maintenance: Man 9, Both 0 and Woman 1
Who changes the baby's diapers: Man 0, Both 6 and Woman 4
Who drives the car: Man 4, Both 5 and Woman 1
Who takes care of the pets: Man 3, Both 4 and Woman 3
The second question was about why the chores were divided like this. Seven of the people asked answered it was divided this way because it was their preference, one answered it was by obligation and two answered it was for both reasons.
The third question asked who was in charge of buying groceries and seven answered it was Her (or Woman), and three answered it was Both.
The fourth question asked who was in charge of the finances of the household and three answered Her, another three answered Both and four answered Him.
The fifth question was to who did they have to ask permission when they wanted to go out, three answered Her, six answered Both and one answered Him.
The sixth question asked if the boys considered that the division of tasks in their families reflected the reality in our country and five said yes, four said no and one said kind of.
The seventh question asked who got home first and seven said it was Her, one said it was Him and two forgot to answer this question.
The eighth was who spent more time at home and seven answered Her and three answered Him.
The nineth and last question asked with what disposition were the tasks accomplished, two said by initiative, three answered by obligation and five answered by initiative and obligation.
We realized that the tasks that are related to the home and are "lighter" to do are usually done by women as the heavy tasks are done by men.
Hope you enjoyed!
Love,
Bea and Joana
xxx
Our group did the survey to 10 boys of our age, 16 to 17 years old.
The first question was a table with many chores that people usually do around the house and who does them.
Here are the results:
Cooking: Man 1, Both 7 and Woman 2
Cleaning the house: Man 0, Both 6 and Woman 4
Taking care of the laundry: Man 0, Both 2 and Woman 8
Ironing: Man 0, Both 1 and Woman 9
Cleaning the kitchen: Man 0, Both 6 and Woman 4
Cleaning the bedroom: Man 0, Both 7 and Woman 3
Doing the dishes: Man 1, Both 6 and Woman 3
Gorceries: Man 0, Both 6 and Woman 4
Maintenance of the home: Man 5, Both 5 and Woman 0
DIY: Man 7, Both 3 and Woman 0
Car maintenance: Man 9, Both 0 and Woman 1
Who changes the baby's diapers: Man 0, Both 6 and Woman 4
Who drives the car: Man 4, Both 5 and Woman 1
Who takes care of the pets: Man 3, Both 4 and Woman 3
The second question was about why the chores were divided like this. Seven of the people asked answered it was divided this way because it was their preference, one answered it was by obligation and two answered it was for both reasons.
The third question asked who was in charge of buying groceries and seven answered it was Her (or Woman), and three answered it was Both.
The fourth question asked who was in charge of the finances of the household and three answered Her, another three answered Both and four answered Him.
The fifth question was to who did they have to ask permission when they wanted to go out, three answered Her, six answered Both and one answered Him.
The sixth question asked if the boys considered that the division of tasks in their families reflected the reality in our country and five said yes, four said no and one said kind of.
The seventh question asked who got home first and seven said it was Her, one said it was Him and two forgot to answer this question.
The eighth was who spent more time at home and seven answered Her and three answered Him.
The nineth and last question asked with what disposition were the tasks accomplished, two said by initiative, three answered by obligation and five answered by initiative and obligation.
We realized that the tasks that are related to the home and are "lighter" to do are usually done by women as the heavy tasks are done by men.
Hope you enjoyed!
Love,
Bea and Joana
xxx
segunda-feira, 6 de junho de 2011
Media and Us
Communication Revolution
The last two centuries are characterized by many types of revolution. Maybe the revolution that will shape the future of humanity better is the communication one. The human being is a social animal, communication with its similars is extremely necessary. The transmission of knowledge, either in time or space, becames more efficient everytime.
Let's start with the television. The television is a great way to distract yourself when bored. But it wasn't easy to create a device that monopolizes millions of people wordwide. It was needed a lot of science and years of study for it. It all started in 1817, when the swedish scientist Jakob Berzelius found out and isolated selenium, observing the photosensitivity of the chemical element that loose up electrons when exposed to light. But the thesis that the selenium possessed the property of transforming light energy in electric energy was proven only 56 years later, in 1873. In Portugal, the television showed up in 1957 becoming a national phenomenon. At the beggining, people would go to public places to watch television, since very few could afford one. Nowadays, there are 4 channels issuing in open signal in Portugal: RTP1, RTP2, SIC and TVI. These generalistic channels are the channels with greater audience in Portugal because they are free.
Moving on to the computer, which was created to organize large quantities of data, store, select and transmit them to other places quickly. The first computers were projected half a century ago. Since the 80's, personal computers invaded homes. They became responsible for most of the technological revolution of the 20th century. Very different from the computers we hae today, the first machines were huge, getting to occupy an entire office building floor. The capacity of the computer wasn't mesured in bytes but in square metres. In Portugal, it started to be commercialized in 1980.
On to the telephone, which soon became the mobile telephone. The invention of the telegraph, in 1844, stimulated the creation of the telephone. The scotchman Alexander Graham Bell, who dedicated himself to teaching deaf and mute people, discovered, accidentally, the telephone while experimenting with a musical telegraph in his lab. The first telephone was presented to the world in 1876, in an exhabition in Philadelphia, USA. In Portugal, the first telephone experiences began on th 24th of November 1877, connecting Carcavelos (a town near lisbon) to Central do Cabo in Lisbon. The first telephonic network was launched in Lisbon on the 26th of April 1882 by Edison Gower Bell Telephone Company of Europe Ltd, which had grant since the 13th of January 1882. The grant was transfered to The Anglo Portuguese Telephone Company in 1887 and kept it until 1968. The first automatic telephone service was launched in Portugal in 1930 and on the 25th of September 1937, the Anglo Portuguese Telephone Company launced the first automatic telephone station from Estrela in Lisbon.
Next is the radio. The radio is a technological resource used to provide communication through transception of information previously encoded in electromagnetic signal that spreads through space. After the television, the radio is the mean of communication of greater reach in most countries. Like the television, a radio staion can only air if it obtains government grant. In Portugal, the radio is as important or maybe more as the television. The radio is one of the symbols of the Portuguese revolution of 25th of April 1974 as it was used to give a signal to the troops to start moving in. It is also used by most people specially in the morning when people go to work or are getting ready, it keeps them company in the shower or in the car.
Last but no least is the Internet. The internet revolutionated communication systems radically. The means of communication could not escape that virtual revolution. There is a great variety of updated news, in digital publications of all kind. The Internet puts at the reach of the user every kind of news, accessed from any place or moment. As long as you have a computer and connection to the network. It started being used in Portugal in the 80's like in most countries. Until the first years of the decade of the 90's, the access and the usage of the Internet were practically restricted to a few hundreds of people in the academic and scientific portuguese communities. Nowadays, practically the whole country has access to the Internet.
The last two centuries are characterized by many types of revolution. Maybe the revolution that will shape the future of humanity better is the communication one. The human being is a social animal, communication with its similars is extremely necessary. The transmission of knowledge, either in time or space, becames more efficient everytime.
Let's start with the television. The television is a great way to distract yourself when bored. But it wasn't easy to create a device that monopolizes millions of people wordwide. It was needed a lot of science and years of study for it. It all started in 1817, when the swedish scientist Jakob Berzelius found out and isolated selenium, observing the photosensitivity of the chemical element that loose up electrons when exposed to light. But the thesis that the selenium possessed the property of transforming light energy in electric energy was proven only 56 years later, in 1873. In Portugal, the television showed up in 1957 becoming a national phenomenon. At the beggining, people would go to public places to watch television, since very few could afford one. Nowadays, there are 4 channels issuing in open signal in Portugal: RTP1, RTP2, SIC and TVI. These generalistic channels are the channels with greater audience in Portugal because they are free.
Moving on to the computer, which was created to organize large quantities of data, store, select and transmit them to other places quickly. The first computers were projected half a century ago. Since the 80's, personal computers invaded homes. They became responsible for most of the technological revolution of the 20th century. Very different from the computers we hae today, the first machines were huge, getting to occupy an entire office building floor. The capacity of the computer wasn't mesured in bytes but in square metres. In Portugal, it started to be commercialized in 1980.
On to the telephone, which soon became the mobile telephone. The invention of the telegraph, in 1844, stimulated the creation of the telephone. The scotchman Alexander Graham Bell, who dedicated himself to teaching deaf and mute people, discovered, accidentally, the telephone while experimenting with a musical telegraph in his lab. The first telephone was presented to the world in 1876, in an exhabition in Philadelphia, USA. In Portugal, the first telephone experiences began on th 24th of November 1877, connecting Carcavelos (a town near lisbon) to Central do Cabo in Lisbon. The first telephonic network was launched in Lisbon on the 26th of April 1882 by Edison Gower Bell Telephone Company of Europe Ltd, which had grant since the 13th of January 1882. The grant was transfered to The Anglo Portuguese Telephone Company in 1887 and kept it until 1968. The first automatic telephone service was launched in Portugal in 1930 and on the 25th of September 1937, the Anglo Portuguese Telephone Company launced the first automatic telephone station from Estrela in Lisbon.
Next is the radio. The radio is a technological resource used to provide communication through transception of information previously encoded in electromagnetic signal that spreads through space. After the television, the radio is the mean of communication of greater reach in most countries. Like the television, a radio staion can only air if it obtains government grant. In Portugal, the radio is as important or maybe more as the television. The radio is one of the symbols of the Portuguese revolution of 25th of April 1974 as it was used to give a signal to the troops to start moving in. It is also used by most people specially in the morning when people go to work or are getting ready, it keeps them company in the shower or in the car.
Last but no least is the Internet. The internet revolutionated communication systems radically. The means of communication could not escape that virtual revolution. There is a great variety of updated news, in digital publications of all kind. The Internet puts at the reach of the user every kind of news, accessed from any place or moment. As long as you have a computer and connection to the network. It started being used in Portugal in the 80's like in most countries. Until the first years of the decade of the 90's, the access and the usage of the Internet were practically restricted to a few hundreds of people in the academic and scientific portuguese communities. Nowadays, practically the whole country has access to the Internet.
Hope you guys liked it!
Love,
Love,
Bea and Joana
xxxx
quarta-feira, 2 de março de 2011
Our Free Time =)
Here is the video of what we like to do in our free time and of what our parents used to do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XW2TfFVeeo
Hope you enjoy it!
Love,
Bea and Joana
xxxx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XW2TfFVeeo
Hope you enjoy it!
Love,
Bea and Joana
xxxx
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