Digital Storytelling is a great new way to teach people today. Children and many other people will pay more attention to what you are trying to teach them if they are entertained. They will respond better if you can convey to them your point through a five minute video rather than reading aloud a play that takes days and 200 pages to read.
People have begun telling their stories and ideas through the internet, power points and video sites. With these tools, it is much easier to visualize and grasp the concept. You can give examples or show pictures to help get the point across.
This video shows how storytelling has transformed with the help of digital storytelling.
Web 2.0 has also added many applications to the concept of digital storytelling. The key to digital storytelling is finding the best tool through which your audience will receive the information.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Web 2.0
As time moves on, our technology has rapidly become more and more advanced. Many people don't even know they are using Web 2.0. However blogging sites, Facebook Applications, Internet Radio, Hulu and many other applications are all a part of Web 2.0.
We have used this technology to educate, communicate, entertain and much, much more. Technology is constantly growing and learning to adapt to these changes is a great advantage for our society. However, we still need to be cautious towards it as well. This video shows how much our technology has changed, and it also shows Web 2.0.
There is a list of all the Web 2.0 applications online. You can test some of them out. I know I have found some very useful ones to use in my everyday life. I feel if I didn't have them, I would not be as connected with the world.
We have used this technology to educate, communicate, entertain and much, much more. Technology is constantly growing and learning to adapt to these changes is a great advantage for our society. However, we still need to be cautious towards it as well. This video shows how much our technology has changed, and it also shows Web 2.0.
There is a list of all the Web 2.0 applications online. You can test some of them out. I know I have found some very useful ones to use in my everyday life. I feel if I didn't have them, I would not be as connected with the world.
Photoshop
I have never had much experience with Adobe Photoshop, until I began this class, and I have already learned so much about it just from completing one assignment using it. It just always seemed so complicated to me, but I have found the more you use it the better you get at it.
Photoshop is extremely complicated because there are so many things you can do with it. However, it is an extremely useful tool especially in the media today.
I have found many video tutorials on YouTube that teach you how to do several different things using Photoshop. This video I thought was interesting and manipulated the picture in a very creative way.
There are a multitude of specific tutorials for Photoshop online, depending on what you would like to do with a picture.
Photoshop is extremely complicated because there are so many things you can do with it. However, it is an extremely useful tool especially in the media today.
I have found many video tutorials on YouTube that teach you how to do several different things using Photoshop. This video I thought was interesting and manipulated the picture in a very creative way.
There are a multitude of specific tutorials for Photoshop online, depending on what you would like to do with a picture.
Visual Literacy
Today our country is extremely obsessed with the way we look. We have to fit a certain image, and if not then we are not considered beautiful. Well, what if the image our social media of our country is portraying to us is fake?
Girls and women not only in our country, but all over the world have become obsessed with the way they look. Many more women are getting plastic surgery, and many young girls by the age of 16 want plastic surgery! Girls have started becoming obsessed with the way they look at such an early age, and this trend has begun to become very unhealthy.
Dove has begun a Beauty Campaign to show that everyone is beautiful. They are trying to redesign the way beauty is portrayed. In this video, it gives the statistics and low self-esteem of women and girls about themselves.
It is a very scary fact that girls ages 8-12 have such low self- esteem and want to change their bodies. This could be the problem behind eating disorders, depression and many other health issues.
Something needs to be changed in social media for the future betterment of our society.
Girls and women not only in our country, but all over the world have become obsessed with the way they look. Many more women are getting plastic surgery, and many young girls by the age of 16 want plastic surgery! Girls have started becoming obsessed with the way they look at such an early age, and this trend has begun to become very unhealthy.
Dove has begun a Beauty Campaign to show that everyone is beautiful. They are trying to redesign the way beauty is portrayed. In this video, it gives the statistics and low self-esteem of women and girls about themselves.
It is a very scary fact that girls ages 8-12 have such low self- esteem and want to change their bodies. This could be the problem behind eating disorders, depression and many other health issues.
Something needs to be changed in social media for the future betterment of our society.
Even YouTube has Copyright Issues
After watching many videos people have put on YouTube, many of them have had copyright issues. Today in class we were shown a Disney copyright video that someone had made using different animated Disney movies. The video educated us on some main copyright rules and issues through the use of the Disney movie clips.
After looking around on YouTube, I found that even YouTube has had issues with copyright rules and with people uploading videos that they stole. YouTube recently deleted about 30,000 videos and many user accounts off their Web site as a result of this.
In this video from YouTube, a man explains how stealing copyrighted media from anyone, no matter who it is, is wrong.
In the video, he plays the good guy, a lawyer, and the devil's advocate, a thief. He also plays the angry people who made the original works that people have stolen. He is trying to convey everyone's thoughts on the matter of copyright through this video. He debates the ethics and rights we have as Americans concerning copyright. He shows how stealing from someone is against the law and strongly discourages it.
After looking around on YouTube, I found that even YouTube has had issues with copyright rules and with people uploading videos that they stole. YouTube recently deleted about 30,000 videos and many user accounts off their Web site as a result of this.
In this video from YouTube, a man explains how stealing copyrighted media from anyone, no matter who it is, is wrong.
In the video, he plays the good guy, a lawyer, and the devil's advocate, a thief. He also plays the angry people who made the original works that people have stolen. He is trying to convey everyone's thoughts on the matter of copyright through this video. He debates the ethics and rights we have as Americans concerning copyright. He shows how stealing from someone is against the law and strongly discourages it.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
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