Bulldog News Now is a student run newscast that is starting up at SC State University. It was started by Ms. Pryor, a communications professor at SC State University, who brings years of experience in producing and reporting to the Communications program. For this edition of Campus Conversation, I caught up with Ms. Pryor to ask her about her transition to the school and what we can expect from Bulldog News Now!
The South Carolina State Men's Basketball team only have eight games left this season. Four of those games are at home where the Bulldogs play extremely well. However, the games aren't attended regularly by the majority of students and I wanted to know why. I went around campus and asked students why this is the case.
To see the individual player stats and know how your favorite player is performing click here.
To see the team's schedule for the rest of the season click here.
We have reached the end of another very fruitful, instructive, and exciting class this semester. In our Electronic Media Production II class, we learned about different social media platforms, had the opportunity to explore different ways to present projects, and we learned about the world of blogging through the amount of post and type of post we had to do.
Twitter has revolutionized the way we communicate with others across the world and the way in which we share news. Due to Final Exams, having 6 classes and a job, and becoming the technology director at my church, I haven't been as active as normal on Twitter. I did tweet the Facebook Live link from my church service on Sunday and during the break I plan to tweet more of my thoughts and share my blogs.
Been that since I initially joined Twitter. I'm Zach and I'm cool so no need to change. I enjoy Twitter. I learned how hashtags work more in detail and connected with more people as a result of this class.
Linkedin is one of the more professional social media classes. Linkedin is for people who are trying to network with other professionals. Linkedin functions as what some people have called a brag sheet. You create a profile and you tell all your accomplishments in academics and other awards that you have won.
You show the world the best version of you. If the right person sees your information they can connect with you directly or connect you to someone else that can use you or see what kind of talents you can use to help them.
Pinterest is the newest site to me because I've never used it or been on it. From my experience, Pinterest is really a giant collection of pictures and collage like spaces called boards that can be used to explore your deepest interest and express them.
I created boards for my favorite basketball team the Lakers, another board that uses scriptures and other powerful things to help people get through their days and to keep people uplifted when they are beginning to get stressed, and on my last board I will be posting my favorite songs and artist there so that people can be exposed to some good, positive, uplifting, Christian based music.
Prezi is another site we experimented with. Prezi is like Microsoft PowerPoint on steroids! Prezi has so many features and things that you can do with it that it's almost confusing if not for the tutorials and helpful hints. I struggled through making my first Prezi but it was a productive experience and I could see myself using Prezi again for future presentations.
My Top 10 Prezi presentation was so fun. I did the top 10 quotes or things that I tell myself to stay encouraged and to stay focused. You can watch it by clicking here which will take you directly to my blog post about it.
For our green screen project we had to show everyone where we want to be. I chose the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. I started with a basic picture of the Eiffel Tower.
Then I took a picture of myself in front of a green screen so that I could blend it in with the picture of the Eiffel Tower.
To blend the pictures, we used the Adobe Premiere software and an effect in it called Keying.
Keying allows you to remove the green screen background behind you and leave just you on top of the photo.
After that, I simply add text on top to let everyone know that this is where I want to be.
I have been using green screen for a while now and this project allowed me to see another avenue that I can use the green screen to do. I've only used green screens for videos and virtual sets so this was a brand new experience for me.
Kizoa was a site I never heard of before. It sounded like something crazy to me, maybe even an instrument. But Kizoa is like an online movie maker. You can drop clips or pictures together and create slideshows with different effects and music included to play in the background. They even have templates that you can use to do your slideshow. I really like that all your videos are saved on the site and that you can download them anywhere as long as you are logged in to your account.
For my first Kizoa, we had to do a Bulldog Scavenger Hunt around our campus and make a video slideshow using Kizoa. You can view mine directly below.
I enjoyed Kizoa even though it was more confusing than I wanted it to be.
This semester has truly been one of the most fun for me. Through this class I was able to become more knowledgable of social media sites and other presentation sites. I was able to learn more about editing in Adobe Premiere and was able to teach other some of the things I've learned. I also experienced what it's like to have to be consistently updating a blog.
That's the most interesting discovery I may have made all semester. Blogging requires consistency and dedication. And I learned how to blog more effectively and reader friendly like not having a bunch of text jumbled up together, including captions with pictures, and including a good bit of links for readers to click on and using effective tags so that readers can easily find my post and search my blog.
I had a blast this semester and if you'd like to view my awesome teacher Mr. Harwood's class blog, you can by clicking here.
Thank you for joining me as I reflect on a great year! Stay tuned for what's next!
This was one of the funnest things I've did this year. We went on a Bulldog Scavenger Hunt around the beautiful campus of South Carolina State University where we had to find and take pictures of the Bulldogs we found. I included my favorite finds.
Kizoa is a site we used to create this slide show. Kizoa is unlike Prezi or other video makers. I think the site has everything you need to create very good video even music that you can add directly from the site. It is fairly easy to use and doesn't make you do much of the work.
The Kizoa Assistant feature pops up often and is very helpful when you're constructing your masterpiece.
Here is my presentation! I encourage you to use Kizoa on your next presentation.
I really want to be in Paris, France to visit the Eiffel Tower. So many people I know have visited it and said that it was amazing so I'm ready to see what all the hype is about.
This image was created using Adobe Premiere Pro. With the help of a green screen and the Keying Effects in Adobe Premiere, I was able to place myself in a picture of the Eiffel Tower, coming out to look like I took a selfie in front of it.
I started with this picture of the Eiffel Tower.
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I took a picture in front of the green screen with a little smirk.
I added myself into the picture and used the keying effects as I described earlier.
And finally I added text to show the world where I want to be!
Have some fun and put yourself where you want to be!!!!
