Digital Storytelling

Digital Story telling is a great way to tell a story using digital programs such as power point, Imovie, allows you to place photos in a timeline matter to tell a story. You can include captions, effects, sticker and much more to customize your story. It makes it easier, than creating a starch book. You can upload all your pictures to the computer and it allows it to go straight to the program you want yo use. Digital storytelling involves many different digital applications including a mixture computer-based images, text, recorded audio narrations, video clips and/or music. You can create your videos to make them as long as you want.

In the telecommunication view, most producers are now looking for new ideas of TV shows and film from digital story telling , They also look for talent this way. Many producers look through YouTube to find and ideas. Producers do this to get more creative and new ideas. They want to see what interest their audience. YouTube is great way for people to shoe their talent.

Here's a link to see a video: ---------> Goanimate.com

Visual Literacy

This week we learned about visual literacy and how it can be manipulated to distort images. We also found out how prevalent visual literacy is in our society, we use it everyday from streetsigns to building signs. Visual literacy is also very important because it's universal. By using only images, it does not matter the language you speak because an image can portray exactly what something looks like in real life. For example, an windows logo will be understood whether you're in the U.S. or in china. We'll be using Photoshop to edit our own images.

Visual literacy relates alot to telecommuncations because images is a way of communicating. Since i'm in the field of broadcasting visuals definitly play a great role whether its a picture telling you about our show or just giving you information about things happening in our society. Either way its unversal so everyone will understand.

I choose a video to help you understand visual literacy a little better. Here's the Link -----> Visual Literacy

Web 2.0

This week we familiarized ourselves with some Web 2.0 apllications. Web 2.0 allows internet users to control what they see on the web. There were so many applications and lots of them were new to me. I found lots of applications that i liked and that would be useful to me. One of the apps that stuck out to me was the Kideos app. I like this app because it is basically a YouTube for children. And I have younger family members that this site would be very appropriate for because the videos are monitored and safe for children. So check it out : http://kideos.com/

I plan on being in the field of telecommuncations so some of these apps are useful and some are not but its good for trying to target a certain audience.

I gave you a link to a particular app but there are plenty more apps out there to chose from to find what you are looking for. :-)