It's finally the end to this amazing course lead by Mr. Harwood and it has been great. Our class utilized many different forms of media from Twitter to LinkedIn. This course was designed for students to learn and how to operate various social media outlets and how we could use them for our major.
TWITTER
Created by Jack Dorsey and launched in 2006, Twitter is one of the most famous social media sites ever created. Twitter gives users options to follow other profiles, re-tweet posts and so on. My Twitter handle is @Coolkid_Jay and I am very active on the site. I follow 3,065 people I have a bunch of tweets which mainly involve re-tweets. Below is the link to my Twitter.
LINKEDIN
From a more Business professional standpoint comes a social media site called "LinkedIn" which was launched on May 5th 2003. This site is used to display your qualifications as well as find different jobs early. You can connect to various people that fit the criteria of the job you are trying to get. Users can invite anyone to become a connection. I wasn't a user of LinkedIn until I was introduced to it by this class and I found it to be very useful. My LinkedIn page is https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-hill-5228b1113
PREZI
Prezi is known as a presentation tool that is similar to a regular PowerPoint presentation but with many more cool features. Instead of slides, Prezi allows users to use one big screen to input their ideas. There is nothing I don't dislike about Prezi. I like that it automatically saves presentations. Our class was asked to create a Prezi presentation of our "top 10 lists/things."
VINE
Vine is a short video social media network that allows users to create any type of looping video in 6 minutes. Founded in July 2012, Twitter became the owners in October 2012 before it officially launched to the public.
This first vine video is a short one word response of me asking my classmates what their favorite color was.
The next video is supposed to be funny and it features Jalen Ryant. He is a drummer and I caught him beating on a trashcan and said "When band is life."
GREEN SCREEN
The green screen project was one of my favorite projects of the course. It involved us taking a photo and imagining where we would like to be. I decided to use a photo of myself and get on stage with Beyoncé and Jay-Z during their "On The Run Tour." We had to use IMovie in order to get the pictures to merge. I learned that doing a green screen project can be aggravating but it is worth it. Green screen can be used in various ways. I know it is often used in many movies to portray something that seems realistic. It allows an image to show through another image that you can imagine.
These were the two pictures that I wanted to use for the Green screen effect:
KIZOA
The last and final project that we did in this class was a Kizoa assignment. Kizoa is an online movie maker, video editor and slideshow creator and that you can include many different effects and transitions. Kizoa can be used to show what all you have experienced using pictures or videos that you can upload to the site. I like how Kizoa is very easy to use and very interactive. There are no dislikes at all about it. My Kizoa creation involves various Bulldog statues located around campus.
bulldogs - Kizoa Video Editor - Movie MakerBeing that i'm somewhat of a heavy social media user, this course was very helpful and intriguing. Most media outlets i wasn't very familiar with but I learned to like them now that I understand how they work. I know that I will use one of maybe all of these forms of media in the future and i want to thank Mr. Harwood for teaching me and my classmates what we needed to know.
