Week 7

Part One

We’re almost there with our final video. Script is done, we picked the images, added transitions, everything looks pretty solid so far. I’m working on the audio part now—should start recording today. We’ve been using Discord to keep in touch, and it’s been working great. Easy to drop files and just talk things through without needing to schedule anything formal.

Overall the group’s working well together. Everyone’s showing up and doing their part. If we could do one thing better, maybe just plan out a clear timeline earlier. We figured stuff out as we went, but having a plan from the start might’ve helped us move faster.

Part Two
We were supposed to pick a TED talk this week, and I chose “Hire the Hackers!” by Misha Glenny. I looked for something connected to computer science, and this one was about cybersecurity. Pretty wild stories in there. The speaker talked about how some hackers—like Anonymous—aren’t just criminals. A lot of them are smart, and sometimes they hack to make a point, not to steal stuff.

He shared stories about different hackers from around the world. Some of them started as teenagers and didn’t really have a direction. They just had skills and got into the wrong crowd. What really stuck with me is how companies spend so much money on cybersecurity, but they don’t really try to understand who the hackers are. That hit me. Like, maybe if we reached some of these people earlier, things would be different.

Also, we watched Life After Death by PowerPoint—and yeah, I’ve been guilty of a few of those mistakes. Way too many words on slides, using weird fonts, or just overloading the whole thing. It was funny but true. I’ll try to keep things simpler next time I present.

This week kind of connected the dots for me—like, how knowing the tech is important, but how you use it and explain it matters too. That part’s easy to forget.