Creating a Website

The website that was created in the final weeks of class is a great start for self-promotion. The website will be used to display personal portfolios, social media accounts, and contact information. Displaying the portfolio is one of the biggest advantages a person looking for work can use. The portfolio shows what the person seeking the job is capable of. The portfolio is also important when it comes to people who are hiring for the position. Looking at a potential job candidate’s body of work is important.

                The social media specifically used for this website was Twitter. The job that was done during the Twitter project shows people that there has been many well formulated opinions and statements put forth by the person who has connected their Twitter with the website.

                Showing that the use of social media is apart of a prospective hire’s life and that they know how to use it is an important part of the hiring process these days. If someone doesn’t know how to work or use social media especially when looking for a job in the communications field, it is looked down upon.

                Tying in social media with websites, in general, is a necessity. The way the internet has become everyone’s go-to source of research and information when looking for in-depth information of anything or anyone, when creating a website to promote yourself people must include their social media.

                Creating the website was a very interesting process in which people learned many new things. The coding process was pretty fun, and it showed us that creating a website isn’t as easy as people would think. Linking the coding to the website folder was amazing. One the code was put in whatever was being used in the folder immediately popped up on the site that was cool.

                Using adobe acrobat to edit the pdf’s so they would be able to be opened in the correct viewing format form the website was very useful. The use of photoshop to edit the photos and create the correct sizes was a game-changer as well. Creating a website is by no means done by using one platform of creation. For example, Dreamweaver was the “website creator” but as previously stated a lot of work was done in other adobe platforms to help make the content viewable in Dreamweaver.

                Overall the website project was a success and a great experience. The knowledge the entire class has come away with is huge. Knowing how to create websites is a very attractive skillset in the workforce and can help people get hired or gain income from freelance work. With times constantly changing and technology improving everyday business are looking to have a bigger presence online or even run totally online. In order to have an online business or a presence the business needs a website. Knowing how to create one

for them is a skill set that can most certainly be used in a multitude of ways.

We can make a movie

Shooting a video displaying what time is and means without talking about time can become challenging. It can also become extremely fun and creative. Throughout the process, there were many challenging occurrences. Some challenges that occurred while shooting the video for “time” were figuring out how to shoot a close-up shot and a far away shot.

                When thinking about how to display time close or far away some consideration needs to be put into shooting those scenes. Another challenge that occurred during shooting the film was making sure that each of the group members were shooting the correct content. If the content wasn’t usable that was a waste of a shot and time. While making sure that all the group members were shooting the correct content it also had to match the storyline and narrative that the film was trying to portray.

                Editing was a challenging process. The first problem and probably the biggest one was the fact that the entire group overshot. This meant that the group had to take out a lot of scenes that could have potentially helped the narrative of “time” in order to fit the allotted time frame. Another challenge of editing was the lack of experience the group had in editing films. Looking at a program and trying to figure out how to use something completely foreign to a person is challenging. Once the group learned the basics of editing it became easier to complete the project.

                Video is used as a communication tool is a very effective way to get a point across. Using video keeps the viewer involved in what is going on and it's easier to view something than to read something. Using the video for in terms of displaying what time is and means is a much more effective way than writing about time. A person can read about time as much as they want and obtain a good grasp of what it is and still not be able to fully understand it because they cannot visualize it. A photo can help a viewer visualize time, but a still photo can’t show an evolution of time.

                The public nature of the group didn’t affect the subject matter of the project. Time is relative in all aspects of life no matter the difference in anyone’s public nature they all must deal with time. Whether someone is always late, early, or on time they are including time in their life. In fact, the general public bases they’re entire life on time. People base what they do and when they do it based on what time it is and how long it takes. Everyone in this group is part of the “general public”.

                The self-portrait aspect of the filming process was pretty cool to see when the project was fully put together. Seeing everyone from the group’s face and acting in the film was an incredible experience. When acting in the scenes people can’t see themselves or fully understand how they look until they see it after.

                The entire filming process was interesting, and the group as a whole learned a lot. One of the main things that the group came away with was learning how to be creative with each other and still get things done on time. A lot of people don’t like to work in groups because members of the group tend to not carry their weight. In this group project, everyone worked well together, and each person successfully played their role. Working as a group with this one, in particular, was an amazing experience and a lot of great work got done with an awesome result.

                After this film project was completed there was a greater understand and appreciation for the film industry. The film industry puts in so much work and time into creating anything for people’s entertainment. This small film project was nowhere near the quality of industry films that are made and there were still tons of time and thought put into this project. Imagine how much planning and time is put into an industry quality film or television show. Most people just sit back and watch the tv for entertainment but people who actually understand what goes into creating a film think about how it was made what effects were used.

                The film industry is an incredible thing and being able to take part in creating a short film was an experience that the group will never forget. “Time” was an amazing subject to display.

The Twitter Experience

Twitter is a versatile application that has many ways in which people can utilize it. Many people use it for marketing or to promote their brand. Twitter is however much more valuable than it appears to be. For example, Egyptian citizens used it to coordinate the protests they ran five years ago in the fight for their freedom.

               Twitter was used as an important tool during that time. During the Boston, Massacre Twitter was the first platform to break the news to the world. It gave people safe zones to stay at who were in the immediate location. It kept people informed who were not. The downfall of Twitter during this event is that all the information wasn’t accurate.

               The terrorist attacks in Paris and Beirut spread like wildfire due to the amount of exposure Twitter can give. Many of Twitter's influencers or people who have a massive following tweeted about the tragedy which brought it to the forefront of the news.

               During Hurricane Harvey, many people didn’t have cellphone service. They turned to Twitter to receive help and inform the proper authorities where people were. If someone was stuck on a roof on a certain street people would tweet about it for the person to get to safety.

               Twitter is a useful tool, especially for journalism and politics. Journalists have more of an opportunity to become relevant or continue to be relevant in the realm of journalism. They can tweet news or news features before they are released in a newspaper or an online news source. Journalists can also reach a bigger audience through twitter by tweeting the link to their write-ups on twitter.

               Politics and Twitter are a great match. People who do not have time to sit and watch the news on the television, or who want to stay up to date with a quick synopsis go to Twitter. All major media news outlets have a Twitter and tweet daily about anything political. Especially in today’s world with the President spending more than half of his day on Twitter. Something is trending politically on Twitter almost every day.

               Twitter has been the communicator of many events throughout its history this year specifically it has communicated some pretty newsworthy events. Some of them communicated successfully and others not so much. The fires in the Amazon Rainforest were a huge event that was covered and communicated by Twitter. The devastation that occurred and the awareness brought from Twitter's reach and engagement was huge. The event was communicated successfully and brought about multiple ways for people to help the cause.

               Another event Twitter helped communicate was the whistleblower madness involving Donald Trump. It was communicated successfully because it explained how the news was released about a phone call that President Trump had with Ukraine’s national leader Volodymyr Zelensky. Trump admitted to speaking with Zelensky about his upcoming challenger Joe Biden and his son. The call was supposedly about Trump pressuring Zelensky to do something that benefits him, along with issues involving the whistleblower case. Beyond that, there is no other information known at this time about what was said in the phone call.

               There is speculation that Trump is hiding some sort of military information, along with talks of slandering Biden’s name. There is no real rhyme or reason as to why Trump would speak about Biden. Trump claims to have no pressured anyone in the phone call nor spoke on the whistleblower subject.

               An example of Twitter not communicating an event successfully was when 107 women were sworn into the 116th congress. This is extremely important because there is now 4 times the number of women in congress than there was in 1987. This gives hope to women and shows that the nation is moving in a more diverse direction. The reason this wasn’t communicated successfully on Twitter is that no one saw it or tweeted about it.

               The Twitter subjects that were chosen to be followed were ESPN, Rachel Maddow, and DJ Akademics. I chose ESPN and DJ Akademics because I have a huge interest in sports and music. These two outlets do a great job of keeping people up to date on important or notable things happening in the sports and music worlds.

               I chose to follow Rachel Maddow because I don’t personally have an interest in politics especially since Trump became our president. I do realize that she is, however, a great source of political events.

               The Twitter experience has shown me that people can easily contact each other for good and bad reasons. People can stay up to date on current events and receive help in times of emergency. This separates itself from all other apps by being the first social media outlet to receive news and starting a conversation about it.

Experience of wikiHow

In a world where being fit and working out are becoming more prevalent than ever, the online education of health and wellness has extremely expanded. There are many tutorials on how to do certain workouts and what to eat. Not every workout is suitable for everyone.

           Time under tension exercises are the most effective and least time-consuming workouts for anyone trying to gain muscle. The fact isolated muscles are being worked out and never rest makes it the most effective.

           A wikiHow article is extremely important for this topic. People in this era don’t have a lot of free time during the day. Everyone is trying to squeeze a million things into 24 hours, and still, have time to enjoy life.

           Certain people get out of work and are too tired to go exercise for an hour and a half. With the time under tension workout, people get in and out of the gym in 45 minutes. All while doing the most effective workout to gain muscle and burn fat. The fact of the matter is most people don’t know how to execute this workout or even what it is.

           The wikiHow is a step by step tutorial of how to properly execute these exercises. The wikiHow article is so important because it informs people that living a healthier life is attainable by spending two hours and 15 minutes a week. Most people who are looking for an easier alternative and don’t have much time for themselves would use these exercises.

           How this wikiHow was communicated is through pictures and a precise step by step break down. The pictures show people how to perform the workouts for the chest and triceps. It gives a detailed image to the public, for a better understanding of how to execute time under tension exercises. This is especially helpful for visual learners.

           The creator of this wikiHow article has personal experience and success performing time under tension workouts. This is known because there are multiple pictures of the person executing the exercises in the article.  

            The overall experience of creating this wikiHow article has been beneficial to the creator and the people viewing it. The creator has grown a more thorough understanding of the workout. Being able to teach a subject matter displays an incredible understanding of the matter. People must know how to perform the activity and why it matters to teach it.

           The article is beneficial to the public because it shows people how to correctly perform an exercise that will benefit their health. The overall health of a human is an important subject matter. Staying in good physical shape can expand the longevity of a persons life.

           A relatedarticle to the time under tension article is about creating bigger pectoral muscles. This article helps show people how to work out the chest muscles in a proper way. It is important to check multiple sources when learning something. This is important because people must see the similarities in the proper execution of workouts. Checking the credibility of any source is recommended when learning anything in life.

           Creating this wikiHow article has been a great experience. It has helped to grow a better understanding of procedure and detail. The importance of detail and procedure when teaching anything must thorough or else the success of knowledge attained will low. If someone is going to go take an extended amount of time to teach something it must be detailed and understandable. If it is not it will have become a waste of time for everyone involved. Creating wikiHow articles are important and should continue to be made to help inform the public.          

           

Three ideas for wikiHow article's

wikiHow is an informational website, developed to explain the step by step procedures of any task that is being searched on the website. This website is extremely useful in helping anyone that has internet connection, and a question of how to do something. This blog post will be about three different subjects and how to procedurally do them. 

The first of the three subjects will be how to do a “time under tension workout.” As a person who has worked out for over five years this wikiHow article will be very in depth. A time under tension workout is exactly what it says it is. While working out any muscle on your body, the muscles will be spending a longer amount of time under tension. This is used to increase muscle while decreasing fat, at a faster and more efficient rate than regular workouts.

Executing these workouts are fairly easy, but take some getting used to. While working on any muscle people push and pull, then release the motion bringing whichever part of the body being worked on back to the original position. This process is also known as “TO and FRO.” The push and pull are the “TO”, while the body part coming back to its original position is the “FRO”. To properly execute a Time Under Tension workout, the push or pull are going to be done at a normal rate of motion. The part which separates time under tension from all other workouts, is the release motion. 

The second of the three subjects will be how to funnel a beer. Funneling a beer is surprisingly not already on wikiHow. The art of beer funneling is something that doesn’t take a ton of time to learn. Not everything on wikiHow has to be extremely in depth, sometimes people like to learn how to do things in a couple of easy steps. 

Funneling a beer is used to get people intoxicated quicker than drinking beer at a normal rate. Beer funnels are often used at parties or tailgating events. Beer funneling takes two people to complete the process. 

The funnel itself has a bowl type shape at the top connected to a hose, in which the person drinking beer is on the bottom end drinking the beer. In order to successfully funnel a beer, the person at the top must open the can or bottle of beer pour it into the bowl while the person receiving the beer drinks it from the hose on the other end. 

The third and final subject will be how to mix a song on Protools. Now a days there are several people trying to become musical artists. In order to be successful in today’s industry artist’s must be able to mix their own vocals and beat together. In order to do so artists must have the knowledge of how Protools works and what a quality mix sounds like.

In this wikiHow tutorial there will be a step by step guide on how to mix recorded vocals into a track, so that they have a high quality of sound to compete with industry standards. Having been in the music industry for seven years, the wikiHow tutorial will be very educational. 

The Incredible Impact of Social Media

The Incredible Impact of Social Media 

Social media is the most impactful tool of this generation. It can reach anyone about anything, anywhere in the world. This of course can be extremely good or terrible, depending on how the platform is being used and by who. Social media can at times be very intrusive. 

If a family is sitting at the dinner table eating and everyone is on their phone using social media, the in-person connection is lost. It can also be intrusive in the way that people can say anything about anyone for the world to see. If you told your best friend a secret, they could easily post it on social media and now everyone knows. 

The previous example is exactly why there should be held responsibilities when using social media. People should be held accountable for posting or uploading offensive and detrimental content. Social media is an incredible tool, but also requires a massive amount of responsibility, especially when speaking on someone or something of influence. 

Recently social media has been used for a great cause. This cause was bringing awareness to the burning of the Amazon rain forest. If people didn't have social media, they would not have known so quickly. It doesn't just stop there, through social media people set up fundraisers. Major influencers such as Leonardo DiCaprio set up a campaign to raise money for the restoration of the rain forest. Without the use of social media there is no way that such a movement would have been able to take place so quickly. This example of social media being used for good is one of many. Although there are many occasions in which social media is used for negative purposes. 

The effect of social media's future is hard to decipher. With anyone being allowed to post anything, finding the truth becomes harder. People must become more educated and check multiple sources before confirming that an article or post they just read is factual. With that being said there shouldn't be a regulator deciding what can be put on the internet. As the idea might be effective it will become a problem. 

The problem lies in how the regulator would be used. In America we have freedom of speech therefore the people can say and post what they want. If this was regulated for factual information only it would be a violation of our constitutional rights. That is why checking multiple reliable sources for credibility is so important. For social media to have a mostly positive influence in the future, the people using it must be educated enough to decipher fact from fiction. 

If people check their sources and use social media with responsibility, there should be a bright future for social media in general. Of course, there will be negative situations, but with anything involving pro's comes cons. The effectiveness of social is so great positively or negatively that it is here to stay. Learn how to use it to your advantage or you will become the used one.