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Social Media in Education, by : Ali Bowles

Slide	Textual Content	Graphic Content
1.	Hi, my name is Ali Bowles. Im an Early Childhood Education major here, which is why I am doing Social Media in Education.	“Edison Bulb on Chalk Board”
2.	Think back to the older days when teachers used chalk boards, old fashion grade books, and weekly flyers.	“Person Holding White Chalk”
3.	Social Media changed all of this. I am going to talk about how social media has positively impacted education and mainly the teachers.	“Social Media v1”
4.	Personal relationships: understand where the student comes from, learn more about family, learn communication preference	“Black Laptop Computer”
5.	Communication: parents meet each other, ask for help/ supplies, build classroom community	“Black Laptop Computer”
6.	Track student progress: grades, homework, see improvements and struggles, extend learning outside classroom	“Black Laptop Computer”
7.	Share student work: children become confident and proud, creates authentic audience	“Close Up of Woman Working”
8.	Share student work: can keep track of their grades, homework if they forget instruction, promotes feedback	“Photo of Sticky Notes and Colored Pens Scrambled on Table”
9.	Teachers help teachers: share ideas, lessons, and activities all over the country, chat rooms to learn from each other	“White Pad Drawing”
10.	Examples: teacherspayteachers which you see contains lesson plans and activities from teachers all over the country and they can steal ideas, classroom 2.0 and Edmodo	screenshot
11.	Quote, teachers never stop learning	“Information Sign on Paper”
12.	Example of tech learning: Flipgrid (explain it), different learning styles	screenshot
13.	Tech teaching: monitor work closely because enables replays and slow motion	screenshot
14.	Global connections: collaborate with children all over the world, see differences	“Woman Hand Touches Green Desk Globe”
15.	Global connections: learn cultures, strategies, languages, develop empathy when see children less or more fortunate, multiculturalism	Model Figure Standing on Map”
16.	Examples: more student to student focused, collaboration	screenshot
17.	Along with global connections, the social media chatting could also allow students to interact with higher level students which could involve tutoring	“Photo of a Boy Reading Book”
18.	Connect with Experts: reading a book about astronauts, get to talk with them, makes more personal and memorable and real experience	“Astronaut”
19.	Virtual fieldtrips: in the case of lower economic schools not being able to afford, children will still get the experience, useful if places are too far or just out of pure curiosity	“Yellow Bus Die- cast Model on Shelf Between Books”
20.	Conclusion: very useful for organization and communication among everyone and extremely convenient given that everyone has technology	“Shadow Depth of Field Photography of Human Index Finger”
21.	CREDITS for all images, etc.

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Pecha Kucha Presentation

This Friday, November 30th, I will be giving a Pecha Kucha presentation about Social Media in Education!

11/20/18 Class Notes

"Death By PowerPoint"

Links found on class website...

• PPT is boring and crowded, excessive words, clashing words and font colors, too many bullet points, too many slides, too much animation

5 things to avoid with presentation:

--too much info, don't write down everything (people can read!!!)

--not enough visuals 

--horrible quality (get an image that is clear when filling the screen)

--slides are all over the place (need to be organized and connected)

--lack of preparation 

--DO NOT use typical PT template (writing on left, blurry image on right, title at top)

PechaKucha: 20 seconds x 20 slides .... 16x9 design ... set to 20 secs for transition 

• Get To the PowerPoint in 20 Slides
• Presentation Tips 
• Assertion- Evidence Approach from Penn State

Last slide: Thank the audience, provide contact info (website, email...)

Black Mirror and Wired Article

The Black Mirror episode, NoseDive, describes a society where everyone is judged/ rated on how others view them. In order to have a high self-ranking, you must have a pretty smile, be a nice person,  have a perfect laugh, visibly exercise daily, and much more. Everyone that wants a high rank, has to make sure every single day that they appear to be a perfect, flawless human (robot).
I have never been a fan of this episode simply because it is scary. To me, it is scary to see a society that is so self-obsessed and technology-obsessed because deep down I think we all fear that ours will one day be to that extreme.
This episode relates to us with our social media presence because we are also judged on what we put out there for everyone to see. How we show ourselves on the Internet is how people are going to know us and remember us.

The Wired article compares to the Black Mirror episode in that Liu (and society) can literally do everything with his phone. With a smart phone, you can pay for rides, food, bills, groceries, etc, and pretty much anything else you would want to do, without ever leaving your home. This new Alipay tool is developing more and more invasive. The company added the idea of calculating a credit score based on people's individual everyday activities ("credit for everything in your life"). This company will also judge whether people are "good" or "bad" and put limitations based on their ruling.
He goes on to say that while in Shanghi, he attempted to rent a bicycle and had to pay a fee because of his "middling score". That is very much like the show. The article continues to become more and more like the show; at one time stating, "if your friend are all high-score people, its good for you. If you have some bad-credit people as friends, its not nice."

Full Brand Guide

http://acbdigital.weebly.com

My Portrait Unbound Collage and I Love NY Brand Guide

From left to right: Sunset/ soccer, UGA football, Georgia, soccer team, Limestone, education, paw print, lake, ice cream, The Masters/ pretty drink, cleats/ shinguards 

The UGA football picture license: Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivs License

The Georgia sign picture license: Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike License

The paw print picture license: Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivs License

The lake picture license: Attribution License  

I Love NY: Brand Guidelines 

their story, goals, vision, target, values, mission, fonts (Archer, Gotham, American Typewriter: carry across the smart, warm, historical tone), "it's impossible to overemphasize", logo: seasonal, transitional, clear-space, color, legal requirements, uses 

Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License
Author: Metropolitan Transportation Authority of the State of New York

SWOT and BRAND YOURSELF

SWOT: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats

• Strengths: reliable, respectful, organized, hands-on activities, diligent, time management
• Weaknesses: presenting in front of large crowds, writing paper

Brand Yourself: Considering I don't know what I want to pursue, I would say my biggest competitors are those that already know and are working to become whatever I become.

Checklist: Improving My Blog

Things To Get:

Search bar
Eye-catching: more colors
Creative Captions

My New Pictures + Combined Blog Tips

Blogs

Visual: Eye catching, well-organized, good content, style

User friendly: readily available for contact 

Verbal: relatable, not too many words, personality, audience- friendly 

Photography Tips cont.

1. Fill the frame with what you like 

2. Simplify and Exaggerate 

3. Don't center your subject- rule of thirds 

4. Create depth

5. Connect the dots- "leading lines" to visually connect options or foreground to background

6. Perspective is everything 

7. Lighting is everything

1. Rule of Thirds

2. Leading Lines

3. Diagonals

4. Framing

5. Figure to Ground

6. Fill the Frame

7. Center Dominant Eye

8. Patterns and Repetition

9. Symmetry 

"Composition is important but rules are meant to be broken..."

Two Award Winning Blogs

The TMZ website is super easy to navigate. The search bar is large so very visible and the links for "News, Sports, Pictures.." are bolded in white font against a black background which makes them stand out. The color red is used very frequently throughout which catches my attention. The headlines and top stories are listed with pictures are the top of the page. This website shows all the current drama going on in the fame world.

License: Public Domain

License: Creative Commons, the photo was
not edited. Credit to Paparazzo Presents.

The Perez Hilton website is very user friendly and eye catching. The top of the page is pink and the stories below and sliding through with backgrounds of blue, green, orange, red, yellow, and purple. There are pictures for all of the stories and again, this website contains all the drama in the fame world. As you scroll through the website, the story pictures of animated which makes me want to click them even more because they appear to be popping out. 

My Photos

I used the rule of thirds (left) on this portrait picture of a liquor bottle tree. I took the picture straight on so it does not have a special angle. The room was dark but the Christmas lights on the tree brightened it.

This is my friends walking through a parking lot. I used the rule of thirds (left) on this picture. The camera is angled diagonally and I lifted it up to make it higher. The street lights gave the light in the picture.

This is a couple cars in my apartments parking lot during the storm. I used natural sky lighting to take this landscape picture. The angle is high because I was standing on my front steps when I captured it.

This is a portrait picture of my keychain sitting on a table. The rule of thirds is used on the right in this picture.

This is the turf field at noon. The camera is angled diagonally. The lighting is natural.

This is a picture of Cam taking a picture of the volleyball game. I lifted my phone in the air to give the camera a higher angle. The photo is landscape. I used the gym's natural lighting.

Photography Tips

Composition: process that something is made, process of how parts are arranged, combining things that form a whole (shadow, angel, patterns)

How things are photographed and how things are places within the frame of photo, take natural pics (exactly what the person is doing without manipulation) to show people in their environment

1. Shoot tight and keep empty space to minimum
2. Shoot sharp, hold the camera still (use tripod) to eliminate fuzzy shots
3. Use different angles.. and your knees, climb: lower, higher, landscape, portrait
4. Use different camera lenses
5. Be aware of the light and how it affects the composition (available, natural, or bring-your-own)
6. The rule of "thirds"

My Movie Poster

I chose this picture because the obnoxious winding of the road stuck out to me. This is not a real movie. Me using the photographers picture will not effect him in any way monetarily.









This photo was taken by Rodney Cambell, found on Visual Hunt and has a CC BY-NC-ND license. No changes were made to the actual picture.

Copyright Photos with Licensing

I found this on Pexels website.
It has a Pexels License.

I found this on the Pixabay website.
It has a CC0 Creative Commons license.

I found this on the Visual Hunt website.
It has a CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication license.

My Ad

I chose to do my ad on ZzzQuil because I love it. ZzzQuil is a life savor when you're exhausted but can't fall asleep. I love that the bottle is purple because purple is a ceremonial color, and for me, sleeping is something to be celebrated. The center alignment is meant to pop out and make the statement if "ZzzQuil is all you need, nothing else." The "Time for Bed!" caption is to express excitement of sleeping after your Zzzquil kicks in. The green font color is to represented that you will feel "fresh" in the morning after taking it and also to match the colors on the bottle.  I was going to use the color red to make the words pop out more but red did not look good with the colors on the bottle. I used the white background so that the huge purple bottle has all the focus.

The website was very easy to use. It provided a lot of different templates for me to choose from and was very easy to create my poster.

My Selected Ads

FAST COMPANY (October 2013) - Hyatt Place Hotel

The picture for the ad was an outlet that was made to look mad because someone forgot their charger. Hyatt is offering to lend out forgotten items such as chargers to curling irons to yoga mats. I typed in the link to find more items they may offer but the link didn’t work. 

                                        

NEWSWEEK (Jan.9 &16, 2012) – RosettaStone

The picture was a man with his head against a tv

watching football. The main title was “More than words. Priorities.” And it continued to go on to say that we all love toys but we need to love something that won’t go out of date: new language. The ad caught my attention because all the yellow and I saw a football which is convenient    because college football just started back. 

WIRED Nov. 2013 – DIY Arduino Seat Activator 

RadioShack teamed up with Mike Riley to design this. When I first saw the Ad I thought it was saying that you could buy this chair that has a built in remote controller for the television. As I kept reading I realized that you have to build the system that allows you to do that function. You’ll need wire, resistors, electrical tape, codes, phototransitors, USBs, and much more. With this you could be able to turn the tv on and off, turn on computers, ceiling fans, lights, and even curtains. 

Winnebago Man

"Winnebago Man"

The “Winnebago Man” is an angry, profanity using RV salesman. The YouTube video that I watched was a collection of clips from the original 1988 ad for Winnebago RVs. The clips consist of the salesman having a meltdown while filming the ad. 

Years later in 2009, filmmaker Ben Steinbauer tracked down The Winnebago Man finding him living in a mountain top unaware of his viral fame. Steinbauer produced a movie all about the “The World's Angriest RV Salesman” including the original viral clips. In research for the movie, Steinbauer also spoke with the filming crew of the original clips "who describe the awful working conditions and their star’s incredibly poor attitude, the key factor that led to the group’s decision to capture and then compile Rebney’s outbursts and hand them over to their bosses at Winnebago. (The decision got Rebney fired.)"