Myspace got me Hooked!

*Social Media*

Ok, so in class the other day we discussed the topic of social media. We all basically came to the conclusion that social media tends to have a major impact on many people throughout the world. One of the many social networking sites that are being searched everyday are Wikipedia, Myspace, Facebook, Youtube etc... I actually find it crazy, scary, and interesting all at the same time about how the internet has surfaced its way to the top in the communications charts. I remember during my childhood years of when I started commincating with people through the computer, and that was when AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) was popular at the time. From that moment on, I was introduced to other social search engines that led me to comminicating with family and friends, and friends of friends. We meet so many people through social media, and little by little it begins to grow on us until we're hooked. As much as it has a major impact in our lives, social media does indeed have its ups and downs. It could benefit us as far as searching for a career, and getting in touch with people that we know, but then the cons about it is that the same way it could make us, it could certainly break us, Example: The Starwars kid (he dropped out of highschool). Anyway, I just want to sum it up by saying that I Love the Social Media, it serves a good purpose for many of us, and it is a great way to get updates with what takes place in the world. Adios!!!

Watch the Video Below

My Group video on BEAUTY is finally up just as I promised. Please watch and Enjoy. If you would like a further insight on our film..a few blogs down titled "You Are Beautiful" will tell you everything that yous are curious about. See ya!

"Beauty"

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You Are Beautiful :)

Hey..I just want to start off by saying that I am very pleased and satisfied with how my groups project about "Beauty" came out to be...I LOVE IT!!! My team members and I did an awesome job in gathering and combining all of our videos and pictures into a master piece lol. Our film included pics and videos about things that we all thought were BEAUTIFUL..in the beginning of the film, we show pics of celebrities, rich mansions and cars which basically asks the question of whether that is really considered beautiful compared to the everyday people and environment that surround us on a daily basis which is why we also showed pics. of ordinary people and pics. of nature, along with personally recorded videos of Philadelphia in City Hall, the Love Park, China Town, Houses in Fishtown (North Philadelphia), Saint Joe's Property etc.. Anyway, I also want to say Good Job to the other groups success with their film..they were all different and interesting in their own way :) Well that's about it, If anyone would like to see my groups video on BEAUTY, it's on Kai's blog..Please give me time to post the video on my blog, as it will be up for everyone to see soon on my page. ENJOY YOUR BREAK!!!

Xtra COOL!

XtraNormal.com is an interesting site that gives us the opportunity to be creative and create our own digital movie. This means that we even get to create the words that comes out of the characters mouth, and add some cool, funny sound effects that sort of make the film come to life. The other day in class, we viewed everybody's film in class, and I must admit that they each were quite awesome and funny in their own way. My groups video had the film that showed two people who were supposed to be conversating, but instead only one person was doing all the talking which was not fun to look at, but for some reason people seemed to laugh every now and then, so it did make me feel a bit better, Thanks Guys!!! Anyway, our group is hoping to edit the film so that we can actually have two people conversating with one another instead of one, and then we're looking forward to putting it on display on Blogger. That's about it!

The Update!!!

Hey everyone, so this blog is basically going to describe the status of my group's Digital Story Telling project and obviously I'm going to re-introduce what it's going to be on. The dramatic question that my group has decided on is "What is beauty?". Our goal is to set up a video that captures different aspects of our society, and to gather it all up into one piece, and from there we will determine which of those aspects of our society are considered beauty, and which are not. The topic itself is deep because many people have there own views of what they classify as beauty. It's crazy because things or people that we may look at as unappealing to the eye, others will think the complete opposite, and that is why I believe that this topic is interesting, and engaging. As of right now, we are mapping out what we want our video to look like, but we still need to adjust some other areas within our project that our group is working on, so hopefully we come up with a solution soon. Other than that, we should be fine. Kaitlin and I are working on gathering photos and famous quotes, while Kai will edit the images into a video. Once we actually do present our rough digital telling story, we would greatly appreciate your honest feedbacks on how our project could be improved. Thanks a ton!!! & Good Luck with your projects as well.