Bi-Weekly Current Event #3

 

 

Esther Vargas, Vine, Jan. 29 2013 

 

 

My topic for This weeks current event is the new update on Vine. They added some new editing tool so you can time travel the video. save drafts, and have an easier way to start sessions.

 

"How to Get Started With Vine Sessions and Time Travel."

 

This article is on Mashable.

 

Park, Annie. "How to Get Started With Vine Sessions and Time Travel." Mashable. Mashable, 25 Oct. 2013. Web. 25 Oct. 2013. <http://mashable.com/2013/10/25/vine-time-travel/>.
 

In this article it is telling about how to use these new additions and how to access and use them. There are quite a few, new options that help make cooler videos. The article says "Shooting the perfect Vine video just became a little bit easier." I think that perfectly describes it. You can save drafts, shoot move than one video, and change the order of the frames. (Park)

 

 This information affects me because I love Vine and use it everyday.  It helps me stay in touch with friends from last year and meet new people. I love the funny videos and now they can be even better. I am glad they added these changes and I hope they add more.  They already have so many options but its nice to have a change. I might use it more now that I can save drafts. I did not know about these changes till now so I cant wait to check it out.

 

This will impact the world because Vine is a social media site. Millions of people use it everyday.  It helps people stay in touch and it is free entertainment. It also helps tell friends or family where you are and what you are doing. Like other social media, it helps people keep in touch but in a different way. There are all kinds of different videos so everybody uses it differently. The changes it made will probably make it even popular.

 

Bi-Weekly Blog Post #3

MagicMan, Arlo. Happy Valentines Day. Febuary 13, 2008.

This week we learned about broad casting and relationships online. Some new terms for me this week were...
Risky-Potentially harmful to someone  or their emotions.
Stereotype-Assumptions  about a group of people that are usually false.
Manipulate-Trying to make someone do something they would not usually do.
Online Predator-Someone who uses the Internet to make inappropriate relationships.

Some new web 2.0 tools I learned about was Brain Shark, Glogster, Dipity, and Projeqt. They are all used for presentations.Brain Shark is used for voice overs. Glogster is just a different kind of presentation. Project is used for adding more than just pictures. It makes complex presentations.

The positives for all these are they are free to use and make great presentations. They are also fun to use. The negative is that for Dipity you can only make three free presentations and their are limits to the aspects that are free. Still they are all really good presentation tools.

The digital literacy I learned about this week was how to judge online relationships. Some rules of that are to not talk to strangers or give out personal information. Its not safe to do this and in some cases information that you share can be shared to others and you might not want it to be. There are safe and unsafe online relationships. Some examples of these are asking questions, doing research, and possible unsafe relationships could  be different social networking sites.

This affects me because I will be more aware when or if I have any online relationships. It showed me what happens when you don't have safe online relationships. It can really ruin your life. It can hurt your now or in the future.

My week has been really good. I have not had too much homework and no big projects were due this week. This week went by really fast. Every week I feel like I am getting closer to everybody and meeting even more new people.

I'm really excited for the long weekend. I'm visiting family and I have a family reunion to go to. I can't wait to get some sleep, also!