Blog Design Update

I have updated the top headings and most of the pictures so that all the stuff I have posted is adequately organized. There is also a list of tabs on the side which has anything I may have missed. When I post things sometimes they get put in weird places/timeslots so I am sorry if it looks like I have posted things at weird tim...

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Journalism Analysis Project: Youtube

On YouTube there are a lot of user created news channels as well as channels produced by major TV companies. I watched a number of videos to see the quality of YouTube journalism. This video by ABC news seems to be a rebroadcast of the report they showed on ABC world news. It was posted on the day of the event so their was no wait time between broadcast and YouTube. If you are away from a TV or do not see a broadcast it is easy to see what you may have...

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New Project: What Is It? What Am I Doing?

So I was looking at what I had posted regarding the family gifted project and I realize that I never actually said what it was. The family project is almost a compilation of the work we have done thus far in gifted. We will be taking all the things we have and are learning and find a way to infuse an element of our family. Like I said previously I don't know exactly what I will be doing but you can find all the latest information on this...

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Beware Online Filter Bubbles

So I wasn't going to post a full-on analysis of this Ted talk but It did what it intended to, it made me think. The ides of having computers decide, with great accuracy, what I like and what I may like in the future is weird yet very cool. News websites aren't the only services that do this. From Pandora to Target modern life has become so wrapped up in what you want now. This helps you with getting people what you, think you, need at a better cost to you....

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Tools For Creating Infographics

20+ Tools to Create Your Own Infographics 10 Tools for Creating Infographics and Visualizations 10 Fun Tools To Easily Make Your Own Infographics So I originally found the last article I posted but as I tried to find it tonight I stumbled upon the other two. I felt like it would be good to include these as well. In the future I plan on integrating more "homemade" infographics into my blog as well as my new family project so these programs will hopefully...

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New Project!!!!!

My Family:Moms SideNursingHighschoolRoycemoreItalyDads SideMildridMontanaWhat Can I DoInterviewArticlesPictures VideosTake stories I get and infuse them with other stories, my experience, modern events/news. ___________________________________________________________________________ Ok so that was what I wrote while I was being told about my new project. For my project I was thinking about interviewing some of the people in my family and write about their...

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Ted Talk: Beware online filter bubbles.

So I watched another Ted talk today, I didn't have my chrome book so I just took notes the old fashioned way. If I have time I will retype type this all. ...

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A Pep Talk from Kid President to You

With this blog format it is really easy to get distracted from doing work. Videos like these really inspire me to keep working, in addition to my grade, and I wanted to share it with you.  Plus its super cute so you should definitely watch th...

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Ted Talks

Ted is one of the best examples of modern media that can be found today. Hundreds of lectures, conversations, and speeches on every topic can be found in a really simple format. Its like YouTube only without all of the mindless content, although I love that too. I always want to watch these but I forget so from now on once a week I will watch one a week and review it. Here are a list of some of the ones I am most interested in. We are all designers Online...

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Ted Talk: Crowdsourcing the news.

Today in class I watched this Ted talk entitled Crowd sourcing the news. In this talk, Paul Lewis, discusses the benefits that are achieved by using social medias like twitter, and facebook to create a complete version of events. He discusses two events where police reports are incorrect and using the power of the Internet he completes the story of two men's deaths. Here are my semi-coherent notes that I took while watching the video. strangers...

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Newspaper Circulation

This infographic is a pretty powerful display of the drastic changes that have happened to newspapers. News papers were doing rather well until about 2005 where everything starts dropping. The wall street journal saw a giant increase when they began counting online subscriptions. Although I believe...

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Resource Breakthrough

I have been struggling to find more newspaper articles that deal with exactly what I need. Today during English we were researching for our next paper when I realized what I needed. THE DATABASES.....there is a database that focuses just on newspapers and more that have valuable information on my topic. I have to admit it was pretty stupid of me to not realize they were there the whole time. The next analysis will be up soon, after posting so much so quick...

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Journalism Analysis Project: Infographics

Infographics are the first form of media I will be analyzing in relationship to the Newtown tragedy for my project. There are a lot of different infographics focusing on this topic. Many are about the gun laws that have come "under fire" as a result of this event. I will, however, be focusing on...

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