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    Senior Trip in the City!

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    18 year old Tiffany had just graduated high school. In just a couple of months she would be leaving to go to college in England. All of her friends were going to different schools in the United States but because she had dual citizenship she decided to leave the country …

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    Make My Day: Tutorial

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    Step One:

    Gather all the pictures to be used in the collage. Pictures can be found on Google images if you don’t have any of your own to use. 

    Step Two:

    Make a collage of the photos you want to use. There are many different websites that make collages. You …

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    Pop Star Out Of Place Tutorial

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    To do this assignment you first want to find the picture of the pop star that you want to use. This can be done using Google images.

    Once you find the picture you need to save it to your desktop so it can be opened in Pixlr, which is the …

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    Weekly Summary 13/14

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    This week was all about remixing, the ideas behind it, One of the most important thing learned about remixing and video projects in general is dealing with copyright. I have run into copyright issues through YouTube so I know  what it’s like to have to change the copyrighted materials in …

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    Explaining Remixing

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    Before getting started on my own remix assignments, I had to make sure I understood what a remix is. Everyone has heard of remixes to songs but there are more types of remixes than just music. For me, I learn best through example and the remix examples I viewed for …

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    Emoji Mashup

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    For this assignment you are to take a picture of one of your friends or just a person that is in the moment doing something exactly like an emoji and then mash them together for comparison.

    Being an iPhone user and an avid texter, I’ve become obsessed with emojis! The …

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    Required Assignment

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    One of the options for the required video assignment was to create a video singing multiple parts of a song.

    To make the video I used the Acapella app on my iPhone. Through the app I was prompted to sing two different parts of the song at different times then …

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    Weekly Summary 11/12

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    I cannot believe it’s already the end of week twelve! These past two weeks have dragged on but it’s finally the time to submit another weekly summary. I was excited to see what was required these past two weeks because it wasn’t a lot of tedious reading assignments. It was …

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    Facebook Narrative

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    Remembering what it was like to be in middle school is not something I like to do often. I was awkward and ugly, to put it simply. Having to look at old pictures from seventh grade through eleventh grade was a fun trip down memory lane but I never want …

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    Show Me How!

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    Watching makeup tutorials on YouTube is probably one of my favorite pastimes.  There are so many different ways to do your makeup and a wide variety of products that could be used.  In this video I decided to do a sped up video of how I do my makeup everyday.…

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    Product Review

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    I have a secret obsession… I love watching YouTube videos about anything makeup or fashion related. I can spend hours going through all the different kinds of videos people have uploaded and most of the time if they’re good at raving about all the good things about a product, I …

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    This is my story

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    This assignment (3.5 stars) was one I’d seen done many times before. It required me to tell a story using flashcards. A lot of these types of videos I’ve seen are about sad topics or bad thing that have happened in someone’s life. I knew that I wanted mine to …

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    Countdown to Christmas

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    This assignment (4 stars) was a fun way to get into the Christmas Spirit! It required me to pick 25 Christmas movies and make a countdown using clips from these movies. Although it became harder and harder to think of more movies, I managed to pull together clips from 25 …

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    Weekly Summary 10

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    This week I learned about the different techniques involved in film making and I learned how to do basic editing on videos through Movie Maker. It was fun doing video assignments this week because it was something new that we hadn’t done in the previous weeks. The feedback I …

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    Weekly Summary 9

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    I feel like this week was very easy compared to the amount of work we’ve had in the previous weeks!

    First was the evaluation of radio shows. I shared my thoughts on the Digital StoryFellas show and my group’s show, Wacky History. My reflections can be found here and here

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    A Wacky Review

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    Wacky History is as simple as it sounds. Our group focused on the history or random, wacky objects. We all did our segments separately so it was nice to hear how they all came together in the end. I honestly have nothing negative to say about the show and I …

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    Digital StoryFellas: A Review

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    The radio show I had to review was Digital StoryFellas.

    Overall the audio was good but levels aren’t even at some point and there are fluctuation of volumes.  As a whole the show was clear of unnecessary background noises except for one small part. The audio editing was average, you …

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    Daily Create Story

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    Here’s a little story about the week I had. I, Cheryl, wanted to take a day trip this week. I decided to get dressed up real nice and go to the local art museum to check out the Picasso tribute they had this month. I woke up Thursday morning, …

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    All About A Cool Tool

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    This assignment worth 3.5 stars required me to “find a cool, easy to use digital tool online!” and write a brief tutorial on how to use it.

    Today’s tutorial will be on how to use a YouTube to MP3 converter. I have found this useful in many different assignments, specifically …

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    Storytelling within the Web

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    The IMBD page for The Notebook with a slightly different description.

    The assignment had us change something about a preexisting web page to tell a story. I decided to change in IMBD page because it gives the description of a movie so I wanted to change it into my own …

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    Weekly Summary 7&8

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    These two weeks went by so fast! All the work with the radio show made the days fly by but luckily my group stayed on top of things and everything was done on time. The process of working with audio has been fun and a learning experience. I’ve learned more …

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