Siree Barry

Youth Producer at
P.U.L.S.E. High School
in the Bronx, New York

My name is Siree Mariama Barry, but most people call me, Siree but also others call me Mariama too, but Siree is common. I was born on May 28, 1998, on a Thursday in St Barnabas Hospital. Right now I am currently 18 years old, a senior at P.U.L.S.E high school. Throughout my life, I moved from three different locations, starting from Burnside to River Park Towers. Now I am at Franklin Avenue, located in the Bronx. I had a lot of downfalls in my life that I wish not to speak about, but what I can talk about is what I did to stay a strong woman and get through those downfalls.
Messing up in high school had to be the worst mistake I made because it pushed me back and made me think I wouldn’t be a successful woman or come home make my parents proud and show them I did it. I didn’t have anybody to push me harder to succeed. I motivated myself by telling myself: “Do what you gotta do to show people you can do it without needing no one’s help.”  Now that I pushed myself I’m one step closer to graduating in June.
One person that I do admire today is my boyfriend. We grew up having the same struggles. He understands me more than my parents do. We both got through our struggles and problems together. We both knew if anything bad was to happen to one of us we will always have each other’s back. Currently in my life right now, he’s the only one who sees me walking down that stage. I can’t blame my actions for messing up. I can only learn from them, and I learned that no matter what I go through or whatever conflict pops up in my life I know I’m strong enough to get through it.
To be honest, at first I was saying to myself school wasn’t for me because I was failing my classes to the point where I wanted to give up, but after I entered P.U.L.S.E. High School, school is not really hard. You just have to put your mind to it and concentrate. I felt more comfortable in P.U.L.S.E. more than any high school I’ve attended to because the teachers and staff are there when you need help. They not only help you, but they also let you know when you’re not progressing. Most teachers in other schools wouldn’t even care how you are doing. The subject I’m mostly good in at school is math. I find math really easy. I prefer to be in that class because I get things done quickly. There are no extra curricular activities in this school, besides pm courses we can take to graduate earlier.
Out of school, I enjoy going home and watching Netflix, but normally what I do is work and playing volleyball. Playing volleyball has always been a hobby to me since I was a young child. I have been on many volleyball teams. I am very good at it. I also enjoy working out of school to gain experiences, but also to put money in my pocket.

My Vfolio

Include the following in a five-minute video.

• Name
• High school/Pathways and estimated graduation date
• Describe your website project (Subject: Archival documentary; Line of inquiry)
• Describe two samples of your individual work that contributed to the website project (Choose work that best shows your skills and your future trajectory).
• Describe the process of creating the work, the creative decisions you made and why, who did you work with, your role, challenges you faced, and creative problem-solving strategies that helped you solve them (personally and as a team).

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Our Website: Name TBD

Make links to three Google Community posts:

• One that describes something that you learned through hands-on real world media production experience during the workshop
• One that describes the creative decisions you made during the project and why you made them, as well as creative problem-solving
• One that describes your role and involvement in the collaborative creative process of the project.

Skills

• A skill that you have learned during the workshop and the learning area developed through that skill (Choose a skill listed on the Learning Outcome document)
• Include evidence or an artifact that demonstrates learning (refer to Types of evidence/learning artifact document)
• Describe the learning process (Refer to Talking points documents)
• Explanation of why you chose that skill/what you have gained and/or improved upon by practicing that skill

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I am a text and media block. You can add links to publicly shared Google Docs or other Web pages, and you can add images, audio tracks, or VoiceThreads — or anything you can embed.

• Log in at https://www.youthvoices.live
• Click Dashboard
• Click Pages / All Pages. Then find the Youth Producer’s Page with your name on it, and click edit. (If you don’t have a Youth Producer’s Page, ask your teacher/mentor or email allisonpr@gmail.com to set it up for you.)
• Click the edit button to in this Text Block to change this text.

You can add links to publicly shared Google Docs or other Web pages, and you can add images or videos.

New Media Arts

• What you learned this semester about website design, video-making, and other media production using Photoshop and Premiere
• A description of the process of making the website (Take us on a tour using links.)
• What you think was successful about the website (Show with links.)
• What you would change if you had more time (Show with links.)

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I am a text and media block. You can add links to publicly shared Google Docs or other Web pages, and you can add images, audio tracks, or VoiceThreads — or anything you can embed.

• Log in at https://www.youthvoices.live
• Click Dashboard
• Click Pages / All Pages. Then find the Youth Producer’s Page with your name on it, and click edit. (If you don’t have an Youth Producer’s Page, ask your teacher/mentor or email allisonpr@gmail.com to set it up for you.)
• Click the edit button to in this Text Block to change this text.

You can add links to publicly shared Google Docs or other Web pages, and you can add images or videos.
[vimeo 185374485 w=320 h=180]
Docs Sharing from paulallison on Vimeo.

Remixing EVC’s Archive

• Discuss your reactions to the youth-produced videos from the Educational Video Center’s archive. How do their decisions as interviewers, editors and video producers affect you as a viewer?
• Describe the clips that you chose from the archival video for the remix video and why you chose them. (Include links to your comments in NowComment.)
• Describe what the clips tell us about the social issue back then compared to today.
• Describe what you learned about the social justice/community content of the website.
• How you learned what you learned
• How the collaborative process impacted you personally

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I am a text and media block. You can add links to publicly shared Google Docs or other Web pages, and you can add images, audio tracks, or videos, VoiceThreads — or anything you can embed.

• Log in at https://www.youthvoices.live
• Click Dashboard
• Click Pages / All Pages. Then find the Youth Producer’s Page with your name on it, and click edit. (If you don’t have an Youth Producer’s Page, ask your teacher/mentor or email allisonpr@gmail.com to set it up for you.)
• Click the edit button to in this Text Block to change this text.

You can add links to publicly shared Google Docs or other Web pages, and you can add images or videos.
[vimeo 20326754 w=320 h=180]
MR – How I write poetry from CLPE on Vimeo.