For this week's topic, we had to join new social media account and conduct research on how to use it. I decided to choose Twitter because, it's a huge new social media site that has become much more popular.
So what exactly is Twitter? "Twitter, and 'tweeting', is about broadcasting daily short burst messages to the world, with the hope that your messages are useful and interesting to someone. Conversely, Twitter is about discovering interesting people online, and following their burst messages for as long as they are interesting."
From my observations, twitter is basically a bulletin board of the latest news to subjects you care about. I started following my friends, news channels, sports teams and celebrities. It's a fun and fast way to share your thoughts in a short 140 characters or less. Your timeline is a collection of tweets in chronological order. You have your own timeline which shows tweets you created or retweeted by others and also your timeline feed of all the people you are following. Retweets are when you like someone else's tweet and you "retweet" it to your wall. Twitter also has hashtags, which is when you #hashtagsomething in your tweet and if it's trending you can see what other's have to say about that topic. So right now currently, hashtags that are trending are: #prayformexico #paranormalactivity #patricia. While on twitter if you click on one of those hashtags it will show others who have posted that hashtag and what they had to say. Twitter also as a bulletin board of the "hottest" new stories of what are being talked about today. Overall I think twitter is a great news source to get the latest updates on any topic you care about. Click here if you would like to join!
InDesign
This week in class we got to play around with the computer editing software, InDesign. InDesign is similar to Photoshop, but it is more of an editing program focused on making a magazine cover, newspapers, brochures, posters, flyers, books, etc.
How to use InDeisgn:
Adobe provides useful links and tools on how to get started with InDesign: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/tutorials.html
If you are wanting more help or visual aid here are some great videos to check out:
During class this week, we got to replicate a magazine cover. I was surprised at how easy
it was. To learn how to in just 15 minutes, here's a great tutorial video to check out:
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