It’s The End Of My Blog As We Know It

A semester has already  passed and I still feel like the scared, shy freshman that came here not so long ago. My experience in MED 130 has been an incredible one for many reasons. Reasons such as; This is the FIRST class I have encountered that allows me to create videos for the use of class, I have been exciting to do this ever since I started my major, and this class has let me develop my creativity within those assignments. Also, I have always loved to write small pieces of fiction and post them on the Internet, and to see that one of our blog posts consisted of that, made me joyful and excited to use my ‘skill’.

Being a ‘rookie’ into the world of media production has made me learn new skills by myself and with the help of other, this class consisted of both. The assignments were dedicated to test  your abilities and allow you to see how far you could come. Thanks to this class, I have started interacting with my major more now and I know that I will have to learn how to do different tasks like I did in this class. The use of a blog was a new concept to me, but I am glad I came across such an opportunity, in the future if I ever need to create another blog for a job or other reason, I will know how to operate one thanks to my experiences in this class.

I have also learned that there are different ways to portray a certain topic more efficiently than just a boring and simple blog post with text, there are: videos, podcasts, etc. Some media templates tend to work better with a certain topic. The creator of such, should analyze and conclude which option will carry the message better.

There is a lot of process that goes into creation viral videos, podcasts, etc. The brainstorming part is the hardest part for sure. You have to be able to view the assignment in your head thoroughly in order to start  creating it. Listening is also a hard part, just because you have a certain view of the topic and are not welcoming other ideas from your classmates does not make you better, criticism was very helpful in this class, it allowed me to make simple changes so the viewers and myself were more satisfied with the end product.

 

To conclude my experience about this class, I can only say Thank You. Thank you Mr. Wagner for allowing me to attend your class and to be a part of your students. The environment that our class had developed allowed me to feel comfortable enough to speak up at one of our discussion moments regarding racism and reverse racism, I did speak up, even if it was once. That was a big accomplishment for me as well. I have learned a big handful of useful knowledge in this class compared to the boring propaganda strategies in my MED 304 class. Please don’t tell him I said that…

How To: Finals

Finals are coming up, are you guys as excited as I am????!

ME: 

Fear no more! The Fab 5 have come up with an instructional video on how to deal with finals! 😀

(Disclaimer: we are not responsible for you failing your final exams…well, maybe we are a little bit responsible, oh well.)

The Fab 5 hope you follow these tips as shown in the video and we hope you join us in Monday’s MED 130 lecture class so we can cry together about finals and we might even sign some autographs, idk…

Bring food. Thanks.

POP-POP-POP-POP Songs

*Goes into Google and types in ” la-la-la-la” because that;s the only part she remembers from the song she just heard on the radio*

Does this ever happen to anyone else besides me? I just rely on Google to find out the name of that exact song and sometimes I am successful in the search, other times I’m not…

I present to you the Top Ten Pop Songs of the year 2014, they are listed in order of preference from yours truly with a small interesting piece of information after the song is introduced, so stay tuned and enjoy 😀

*Drum roll*

I apologize for my awful sick voice, it kind of reminds me of Izma’s voice on The Emperor’s New Groove, the part where she turns into a cat and says” Is that MY voice??”

Welcome to the net of Inter

Please keep your hands and feet inside the vehicle at all times. Thanks.

I started using the Internet when I was around 8. I didn’t have any MySpace or MSN Messenger accounts at time, but I would normally log into CartoonNetwork.com and play games on there. Growing up in household where our Internet source would be Dial-up was F-R-U-S-T-R-A-T-I-N-G. Now, there is a sense of happiness and excitement when I come across the old Dial-Up sound, it brings back memories. Not all of my memories with that type of Internet source were pleasant but it’s nice to remember the ‘old days’ of my Internet experience.

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The Internet brings back a lot of memories; when I was living in Mexico my only way of communication with my American family members was through email. We still wrote each other letters and we would mail them, but Internet communication was much faster. Me and my twin brother would make PowerPoint presentations and we would attach silly pictures to each slide, my cousins would do the same on their presentations. Once I hit my rebellious teenage years, I started using MSN Messenger to talk to my friends and cousins. Messenger was really popular in Mexico for some reason and I don’t know why, I just went along with it. After my first chat experience program, I decided to give into joining Facebook and eventually Twitter and recently Instagram.

As to my recent Internet years, I started off joining the odd community of Tumblr. My Tumblr experience developed into an addiction when my few minutes would turn into looooooooooong hours. I started becoming more and more comfortable with the environment of the site and I eventually published a couple of ‘fanfiction’ stories there. I wasn’t trying to become a popular author on Tumblr but I was just trying to contribute into the community and make myself write more since it truly is my passion. Once I got a real life outside of my computer, I decided to take my writing into other bigger and better writing websites like Mibba and Quotev, but that’s another story…

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The Internet has taught me many things, but let’s just focus on the positive things… I came across a video of this girl making Mike Wazowski out of clay and I was intrigued as to how someone could make a figure out of clay! After doing some extensive research I found out that this type of clay was called Polymer Clay and it was oven-baked clay. Since I was living in Mexico at the time I knew it would be hard to get a hold of this type of clay since it was American and we usually don’t get a lot of American products in small towns like my hometown. I waited until I got back to the U.S. and rushed to the nearest Michaels and bought all the amount of polymer clay $10 could get me. I have Youtube to thank for my new acquired.
(The following are pictures of my polymer clay creations)

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