Digital Literacy Common Core

This week we read about digital literacy and common core curriculum from kindergarten to senior year in high school. The readings weren’t entirely deep, but it was eye-opening to see what’s happening in schools around the country. When I was in grade school, I don’t remember having to do digital presentations, or anything on the...

Weekly Play Video

Play This week I did a vlog which is linked above. I personally hate being on camera, but the vlog making process wasn't so bad. I took a video with my phone, uploaded to YouTube, and linked the video. It's not my best work, but doing a vlog has given me anxiety for a while.

Mediated Writing

Mediated writing was actually a fun process using Adobe Spark. The format makes it simple for anyone to use, and I feel like the icons for adding anything from images, media, and hyperlinks is pretty universal. This is important, so that anyone, young or old, can use with ease. My project was on a scene...

Remixing the internet

Over the last quarter, I’ve been learning how to make memes, gifs, and videos from found footage and texts. The cool thing the internet offers is a unique remix culture where one can make a completely different type of art that stems from two or more different pieces of art. This means we can take...

Stolen Culture from the internet

We all know that white culture has taken from other cultures throughout time. We know that white people have taken to jazz, hop hop, and the blues, which were created by predominately black musicians. The results have been decent, but white musicians usually capitalize off the music created by people of color, while the original...

New platforms for interesting educational websites.

Honestly, I’m not as much of a “digital ding dong” as I was before starting my digital literacy class. I’ve learned how to make a blog on WordPress and a website on Wix. I’ve been able to make GIFS and memes, and already know how to produce video and audio content for the web. This...

Harry Potter is going to save the world.

This digital literacy class has been extremely interesting thus far. We’ve learned the ins and out of Google, how YouTube works, and how social movements are being started by youngsters across the world. Piggybacking off what we’ve learned so far, it’s become obvious that Harry Potter will save the world after reading The Harry Potter...

Weekly Play GIF

    This week I decided to do a GIF. I did a Google image search for a rainy GIF and dragged the file to After Effects. From there I typed my text and found an text animation that I thought would make the GIF more attractive. After the video file was saved in After...

Social justice on digital media.

In article titled The Nuts and Bolts of Digital Civic Imagination, the topic posed was one of organizing creative courses of activism using digital media. The article uses #BlackLivesMatter as the example and touched on resources not always being available to the black community to use for activism. Once digital platforms started forming, there was more...

YouTube and what it means.

After watching Michael Wesch’s An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube and Lindsay Ellis’ Manufacturing Authenticity on YouTube, it has become clear that there’s more to YouTube than simply falling in a rabbit hole and binging. Wesch’s video tackled how YouTube as come to connect viewers and Ellis’ talks about “realness” of YouTube personalities. What happens when a...