Social tools and cloud computing is evolving daily in our everyday life. Companies are racing daily to be the first to the table with new software and updates to their content. Delicious social bookmarking is a social network tool that is a great way to store your favorite website links. This helps you to avoid losing links you stored in your favorites if your computer decides it no longer work. Delicious also allows you to share your links with friends, family members, and the public.
As a production student delicious is a social tool I will be able to use in my career. I can store websites that I use to accomplish my work. I can also store my favorite links and share them with my co-workers. Delicious will also allow me to bookmark my competitor’s website, and follow what they are doing that is new. It will also allow me to bookmark industry sites that can tell me what equipment are new, events that are happening like conference and seminars, and what is going on in the industry.
The amount of social tools out there are unbelievable, it is hard to keep up with them all. In this day of open source software it will be an entrepreneurs dream in this service environment. Cloud computing shares resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices on demand. Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and YouTube are the most popular. Digg is a social news website; you can follow top news stories in the last 24 hours. IKeepBookmarks like Delicious allows you to store your bookmarks for free. StumbleUpon is a discovery engine that allows you to find things that you like and catalog those items for you. If you like food the demo showed it will give you recipes magazines and other websites that are related to the type of food you like. The future creativity amongst the competitors is great. I recently read an article about millionaires before the age of 25. Many of these millionaires started a company that has something to do with the computers or internet websites. This is a trend we have to get use to; the easiest way to start a company today is to start an internet base company from the garage of your home.
The video I chose was a tutorial on how to use StumbleUpon.
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Podcast
Let me start off by saying my podcast was terrible, absolutely down right awful. I apologize that you had to listen to it. I don’t know if it was because I was in the lab on campus trying not to disturb others but it was awful. Ok Now I can talk about podcasting.
This was not the first time I recorded audio for something. I was a radio station DJ so I had to record promos, PSAs, and commercials. Believe it or not I was a rapper, even I still do not believe that, and played drums in a band, and has spent time in recording studios. Even with all that experience in recording this was the first time that I have recorded a podcast. Using garage band was easy. I enjoyed putting the podcast together even though it sounds so terrible in the end. I was able to edit with relative ease and from the sound of the final product should have spent some time enhancing my voice and the podcast.
Podcast is something that I will be able to use as a production major. I will use it if I worked for a radio station to record show content and place the entire show online or just promotional clips. I will be able to use it in television to record the newscast and post online. I will also be able to use the video podcast to show the entire television news program. Podcasting will be a tool that will be a part of my life and my career.
Podcast seems like an interesting education tool. Considering Apple makes their product for the cool effect. It is really creative that many teachers and schools have tapped into the effect that Apple was creating to reach their students. Many times traditional schools are not interested in change the way they educated children because they believe the old way of sitting at a desk and writing on a blackboard works. I do not knock the traditional way of educating children, there is absolutely a place for that, but with the evolution of technology I think it is irresponsible for educators to not want to adapt to the way children of today learn. What Duke did with passing out iPods to their freshmen class in 2004 was a great way to use the resource of a new technology. I certainly hope that is a practice they have continued and other school will begin to make it a requirement to use in educating the children of this world.
With my podcast sounding so bad, I chose a video of recording a podcast in garage band.
This was not the first time I recorded audio for something. I was a radio station DJ so I had to record promos, PSAs, and commercials. Believe it or not I was a rapper, even I still do not believe that, and played drums in a band, and has spent time in recording studios. Even with all that experience in recording this was the first time that I have recorded a podcast. Using garage band was easy. I enjoyed putting the podcast together even though it sounds so terrible in the end. I was able to edit with relative ease and from the sound of the final product should have spent some time enhancing my voice and the podcast.
Podcast is something that I will be able to use as a production major. I will use it if I worked for a radio station to record show content and place the entire show online or just promotional clips. I will be able to use it in television to record the newscast and post online. I will also be able to use the video podcast to show the entire television news program. Podcasting will be a tool that will be a part of my life and my career.
Podcast seems like an interesting education tool. Considering Apple makes their product for the cool effect. It is really creative that many teachers and schools have tapped into the effect that Apple was creating to reach their students. Many times traditional schools are not interested in change the way they educated children because they believe the old way of sitting at a desk and writing on a blackboard works. I do not knock the traditional way of educating children, there is absolutely a place for that, but with the evolution of technology I think it is irresponsible for educators to not want to adapt to the way children of today learn. What Duke did with passing out iPods to their freshmen class in 2004 was a great way to use the resource of a new technology. I certainly hope that is a practice they have continued and other school will begin to make it a requirement to use in educating the children of this world.
With my podcast sounding so bad, I chose a video of recording a podcast in garage band.
Podcasting in GarageBand from Matt Guest on Vimeo.
Monday, October 25, 2010
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Digital Storytelling
Digital storytelling helped me to develop a story for my son’s blog. I have used sound slide before, but the IMovie and Animoto were easier to use. It allowed me to not only tell the story of Joshua’s everyday life, but to also show images about what he deals with on a daily basis. Digital storytelling was something that I wanted to do, but did not have the knowledge to be able to complete this type of project. I am very excited to be able to now tell not only Joshua’s story, but also the story of my daughter Julia dance competitions.
Digital storytelling is something that will benefit me as a production student. I listened to a group of Telecommunication Advisory Council members and they have informed us to learn how to tell good stories. I am currently enrolled in a news media writing class that teaches how to create stories for radio news, television news, promotional advertising, and PSAs. We are learning how to write to videos at this time telling the story of what is in the video without talking about what is on the video. Digital storytelling will me enhance my storytelling ability in productions.
The digital storytelling lesson was one that I learn a lot about. I did not know that there was a nonprofit center for digital storytelling or a definition for the term. In this digital world telling stories are a way of life. We share our stories via blogs, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and many other medium. I looked forward to learning IMovie and Animoto. Animoto was a cool tool to use and the video that I was able to create about my son and his genetic disease of Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) was important for me to tell. The digital storytelling tools and the visual literacy tools have been great tools to learn to use. Imagine I would not have believed that there were over 50 different tools to help us tell our digital stories. I look forward to familiarizing myself with some of these tools and using them to tell my digital stories.
I chose the Discovering Digital Stories YouTube video because it states that no more do you have to be a film maker to be able to tell a digital story.
Digital storytelling is something that will benefit me as a production student. I listened to a group of Telecommunication Advisory Council members and they have informed us to learn how to tell good stories. I am currently enrolled in a news media writing class that teaches how to create stories for radio news, television news, promotional advertising, and PSAs. We are learning how to write to videos at this time telling the story of what is in the video without talking about what is on the video. Digital storytelling will me enhance my storytelling ability in productions.
The digital storytelling lesson was one that I learn a lot about. I did not know that there was a nonprofit center for digital storytelling or a definition for the term. In this digital world telling stories are a way of life. We share our stories via blogs, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and many other medium. I looked forward to learning IMovie and Animoto. Animoto was a cool tool to use and the video that I was able to create about my son and his genetic disease of Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) was important for me to tell. The digital storytelling tools and the visual literacy tools have been great tools to learn to use. Imagine I would not have believed that there were over 50 different tools to help us tell our digital stories. I look forward to familiarizing myself with some of these tools and using them to tell my digital stories.
I chose the Discovering Digital Stories YouTube video because it states that no more do you have to be a film maker to be able to tell a digital story.
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Visual Literacy
This week lesson the Visual Literacy project with photo shop was one that I had anxiety about. Not because I did not believe I would be able to complete the assignment, but after looking at the 21 page directions I scratched my head a little. Ok a lot. I had never used photo shop before so it was a new experience for me. I have to say I enjoyed working on the photo shop project of the athletic shoes. I do not own photo shop but whenever I need to create a project I will be able to go to one of the computer labs on campus and work on some of my personal work as well.
Photo shop is a tool I will use as a production student to complete many project. I currently have an entrepreneur class that requires me to create photos for an assignment of a company that I would possibly start. Each week I have to turn in a visual assignment and have been using power point and save as a jpeg. I really like the fact that I can create layers to complete my projects. There will be other class in the production department that will require me to create project using photo shop.
Photo shop is something that I will be able to use not only in my major, but also to create personal projects for myself. I like this lesson, because being able to take photos and enhance their voice is pretty cool. The Picture This: Visual Literacy Article states that “By looking at and studying photographs with your students, you will help them better understand the complexities of their world.” I do not believe I ever look at photos that way but it makes so much more sense. I recently attended a funeral of colleague’s wife and they had picture of her everywhere. I remember thinking I don’t like taking pictures. Her husband believed it was important to tell the story of her life through pictures, that there was a fifteen minutes videography on her entire life. After completing this lesson I do understand how complex our world is, but I now also understand just how that story can be told with pictures. That is why during disasters like Katrina in New Orleans and the earthquake in Haiti the pictures speak volumes to the agony that took place. The photo ideas were good to see things from a different perspective. The many different place the monkeys where layered on, shows how creative one is allowed to be when implementing visual literacy.
The video that I have chosen is a YouTube video of Windows 7 Mac Theme Background: Photoshop Tutorial.
Photo shop is a tool I will use as a production student to complete many project. I currently have an entrepreneur class that requires me to create photos for an assignment of a company that I would possibly start. Each week I have to turn in a visual assignment and have been using power point and save as a jpeg. I really like the fact that I can create layers to complete my projects. There will be other class in the production department that will require me to create project using photo shop.
Photo shop is something that I will be able to use not only in my major, but also to create personal projects for myself. I like this lesson, because being able to take photos and enhance their voice is pretty cool. The Picture This: Visual Literacy Article states that “By looking at and studying photographs with your students, you will help them better understand the complexities of their world.” I do not believe I ever look at photos that way but it makes so much more sense. I recently attended a funeral of colleague’s wife and they had picture of her everywhere. I remember thinking I don’t like taking pictures. Her husband believed it was important to tell the story of her life through pictures, that there was a fifteen minutes videography on her entire life. After completing this lesson I do understand how complex our world is, but I now also understand just how that story can be told with pictures. That is why during disasters like Katrina in New Orleans and the earthquake in Haiti the pictures speak volumes to the agony that took place. The photo ideas were good to see things from a different perspective. The many different place the monkeys where layered on, shows how creative one is allowed to be when implementing visual literacy.
The video that I have chosen is a YouTube video of Windows 7 Mac Theme Background: Photoshop Tutorial.
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