Category: Class blog

Burnie Burn’s vlog comes to a close

This week something that doesnt happen often came to pass, a Rooster Teeth show ended. Burnie’s vlog which ran for just under a year aired its final episode on Rooster Teeth’s website.

If you are at all familiar with Rooster Teeth you will know that Burnie Burns founded the company in the early 2000’s to produce the web based cult classic show Red vs Blue. Something that Rooster Teeth is not known for is ending shows, heck Red vs Blue is in its fifteenth season. Sure some shows faded after not coming back from break, looking at you sportsball, but a FINAL episode is a rarity.

Burnie’s vlog would update RT fans on what projects were going on behind the scenes as well as entertain with events like ‘cartooning a Tesla’ or ‘Ellie goes to sniper school’. For many it was nice to see Burnie outside of just the weekly podcast and the vlog will be sorely missed. I see no better way to wrap the vlog than how Burnie did so himself…

Help for Lake Erie!

Lake Erie has been under some serious algae problems for over four years now; this has really caused some major issues for more than five hundred thousand residencies in Michigan and Ohio.

The EPA, (Environmental Protection Agency), is now stepping up its financial efforts to get things moving toward a more plausible resolution to eliminate the toxic blooming of phosphorous and nitrogen in Lake Erie.

The reason I chose this topic as a blog is because many people are unaware that the toxins found in algae can sicken and or kill people, animals and more.

Thank goodness the EPA, will now offer eleven million of its dollars to start working out problems the algae has create to the drinking water!

Ten tools for the brain

Wish to improve your online journalism?

What if I tell you I have the answer on how to get your information to the world instead of the paper. There is an article I can share with you on how to give national an international news with 10 tools at your fingertips. I am going to list the ten tool one can use on the internet

  • Document Cloud- allows you to publishes and manages documents; shares information across newsrooms.
  • Tor-allows journalists to communicate securely online by bouncing communications around a network until they can’t be traced back.
  • Timeline js- is great for developing graphics skills.
  • Scraper wiki-You can write computer code to acquire skills
  • Tile Mill/Map Box- help you make maps
  • Frontline SMS-it is an international texting application.
  • Zeega-mixed media tool.
  • Amara- a volunteer translation system.
  • Ushahidi- This application was made in Kenya to help deliver live news by using cell phones to “map” just about anything. My brother and I use this application to know who are the new leaders are in our country like president here in America.
  • Poderopedia- helps organized collection of people. Visualizes relationships within these power and influence networks.

Let give the Amara a try

ASL finals One fine day story

. I  did the subtitle in Swahili which is not listed in this tool, but you can translate subtitles in any language listed in the selection. I did not finish because this was a test trial I do apologize for this.

I got my information from the article that is in our reading in the class homework assignments

Amino – what is it?

Amino is a blogging application.

Yes, it is true amino is a blogging application use on your phone done by everyone around the world. This can help when you need information fast about subject or topic you like.

How does Amino work?

You download the application from your Google play store or any smartphone store. You can search for the topic you like to blog about.

Here are some photos of how to create a profile.

 

In my case, the topic is BTS, a Kpop group.

Who is B.T.S?

Bts is an acronym for bangtansonyeondan means, bulletproof boy Scouts.

It can be a mouth full when pronouncing Bts so the acronym comes in handy.

Bts is a k pop band that has been singing with Big hit entertainment June 13, 2013.

Here are the members of the band:

  • RM (formerly Rap Monster) – leader, main rapper
  • Jin (진) – vocalist, visual
  • Suga (슈가) – lead rapper
  • J-Hope (제이홉) – main dancer, lead rapper, sub-vocalist
  • Jimin (지민) – main dancer, lead vocalist
  • V (뷔) – vocalist, 2nd visual
  • Jungkook (정국) – main vocalist, lead dancer, and sub-rapper

Here is a video of want of there newest song form an album call love yourself.

DNA

Now, this is how you set up your profile. Fill out whatever it is you need to say to describe yourself in any language as you see fit. (as you can see in English and Korean in my example)

Want to know what else can be done?

This is all you can do on this site.

Polls

I am going to show you how to do polls on this site to gather information that is needed for your use only. You click on the poll in type in the information that is needed and when you want the poll to end and you will have your data. All my date is on BTS k pop group but yours can be on whatever you want here is an example listed below:

All these of these photos had permission from me on my profile on the ARMY’S amino also from the amino creator who invites you to join if you are an army( which are fans of BTS).

 

Ten tools to improve the journalism experience

The tools listed in “Ten Tools to Learn, More to Explore” can either improve or complicate the journalism experience.

Some of these tools need further explanation on how to use them because of the extended skills needed to operate the programs.

One tool, DocumentCloud, gives the ability to dig deeper into articles which can be very helpful when writing a long story.

Features available in DocumentCloud include the option of giving further information about what is presented in the article. If the desire to learn about a specific date, organization, place or person is present, journalists are given extended details about their topics.

Highlighting and annotating are a part of this tool as well. Similar to a PowerPoint, journalists can use this tool to produce public and private notes to better describe articles. Summarization is an important tool to include so that people in a rush can read a smaller excerpt of a story.

Journalist can also publish work and share with others on DocumentCloud. This gives the opportunity to receive publicity for articles and blogs at a larger perspective. Links can be posted, leading people to publications all over the world.

“DocumentCloud contains court filings, hearing transcripts, testimony, legislation, reports, memos, meeting minutes and correspondence,” said a statement on the DocumentCloud website.

This feature gives journalists the opportunity to trace back a large amount of information to include in future articles, adding another tool to connect the world.