What I did today

15/09/09

Today Thomas was in charge of our group as we were doing research for our project. I gathered information about the musical Rent. Which I then started to rewrite into paragraphs while Jane and Thomas collected information on other things to do with our project, for me to write up.

What I did Today

08/09/09

Today I looked at the different video sharing websites available on the Internet. There were some that would not work properly because they were made for the USA. Then the class was divided into groups in order to start work on our EPK projects. My team consists of Jane, Thomas and myself. The subject that we are doing is; Rent by the Youth Music Theatre Scotland. Within the the project we were all given different tasks Jane is in charge of the web design, Thomas is in charge of the research and I am responsible for writting the infermation up into the form in which it will be put onto the webpage.

A brief review of Veoh

08/09/09
Veoh is a free video sharing website on which you can view and share videos. You can also broadcast podcasts, videos and music. There is also a search bar where you type in what you are looking for.

The Home Page consists of links to other areas of the website.

The Videos Page shows featured videos. You can chose to view all categories on this page as well.

There is a Movie Page on wich you can find movies availible through the website.

On the Music Page you can look through all the videos that are on the site and chose which ones to watch.

Veoh's Channel Page lets you look at the different chanles you can view while using their site.

There is also a Groups Page on which you can view the different groups on the website.

Web Search Engines

17/09/09

The internet has many web search engines to help make navigating and finding your way around the net. Here are four search engines available for use on the internet. They are example of some of the web search engines you can use to find what you need.

A brief review of Youtube

08/09/09
Youtube is a free video sharing website. On which you can broadcast podcasts and music videos and more. A search bar i available to type in what you are looking for. The website includes;

The Home Page has a Most Popular which shows the different types of genres that are more popular. There is also a Being Viewed Now which lets you know what people are watching most at the moment.

The Videos Page has videos in order of today's most popular. It also has a category plan in which you can chose which type of videos you want to look through.

There is also a Channels Page on which you can look through the different channels available. On this page there are channels in order of most viewed this month. there is also a category plan in which you can find the different types of channels available through Youtube.

A brief review of Picasa

01/09/09
Picasa is a Google based free photo share website. The features it has include;

Search and Explore
You can search through public albums and look for pictures under a specific topic or tab

Focus on people
You can arrange your photos according to who is in them automatically

Web albums
View your pictures on global map according to were you took them

Edit to perfection
You can edit photos by lighting, color, and red eye

Be creative
Create slide shows, photo collages, make photos your desktop, add text to photos

Sharing made easy
You can create albums to share or make them public, keep notified of you favorite photographers new posts

Picasa looks easy to use and understand.

A brief review of Flickr

01/09/09
Flickr is a free photo sharing website. You can share photos and videos. The features it has include;

Upload
You can upload by email, camera, and iphoto

Edit
You can edit your photos using; photo cropper, red eye, rotate your photo, fix exposure, resize, auto fix, colors, and sharpen.

Organize
You can organize your photos by theme, into collections, photographer, groups, time, tag, text, and maps

Sharing
You have access to groups but can make your pictures private

Maps
You can use the maps to show were you took your photos and videos

Make Stuff
You can use your photos to create all sorts of things including; calendars, photo mini books, prints ie. posters, scrap books, mini cards, photo cards

Keep in touch
You can add contacts as family, friend or both. You can have daily email to tell you what your friends are up to. There is a guess pass to let non members view private pictures and videos.

Flickr seems fairly easy to use and navigate around. There is a search option to help you find pictures of a certain type or topic.

What I did today

01/09/2009
Today we worked with iweb to get use to how it works. Jane and I created a random web site. We used the different tools and used photos off the web. Then I looked at the differences between various photo websites.