communicating about the environment, matching message to media, writing & journaling, drawing & painting, photos & videos, mixed media, science stories, generational learning\

This quiz response deals with media and learning, and science stories.

1. Making media can help you to change the way you are looking at something and can build a new or unique experience that you may have otherwise missed or not thought of. It can also help you to experience something through the eyes of someone else who you are trying to make the media towards.

2. making media can get you out into new locations or places that you might not have otherwise been. For example, if you are making media about something in the field like an urchin, you will get to smell the air, feel the water, maybe even handle the urchin itself. If you had instead consumed other already made media, you would not have gotten the same experience.

My Mediated experience media piece covers photos, videos, sound, media, and stories.

Mediated Experience

I have spent a lot of time in Florida and visiting the Everglades and Big Cypress is always a fun time. Alligators and Crocodiles are common to see when visiting and you can often end up getting pretty close to them. I have even gotten to hold smaller ones at some of the different visitor centers and ranger stations. Alligators and crocodiles are scaled and have a leathery feel to their skin. They are really strong and even the small ones can wiggle free if your not holding them tightly.

They also made hissing sounds sometimes, but are generally pretty chill. You can walk right past them and they wont mind at all, as seen in the picture below. Our path out of the park we were in was blocked by a small croc so we had to walk closely past him to get out. They enjoy laying on the pavement because of the warmth I believe, so you often find them relaxing in the sun even in the warm summer months.

I don’t have and recordings personally, but here is a video showing the sounds that crocodiles sometimes make!