Allison Arlt

This informational video provided by YouTube includes do’s and don’t’s of copyright. It highlights important information in a short amount of time that would be helpful to anyone interested in publishing content to the Internet.

I included “Before The Flood”, a documentary on climate change by Leonardo DiCaprio, in my discussion about storytelling this week. If you have not seen it, I suggest everyone take a couple hours out of one of their days to watch how DiCaprio uses the tool of a film to tell an engaging story and educate on the topic of climate change and living choices like food consumption. This is one form of a presentation that has the potential to catch attention and reach people all across the world. I’ve included a link to the trailer that shows how the film uses visuals and interviews to dig deep into the global issue.

I used Kizoa to make this short collage about climate change. While I feel as thought the idea behind Kizoa is creative and the tool itself is user-friendly, it would not be my first choice. There are many other great tools that could give me the more modern and clean theme I prefer when creating visuals. Nonetheless, it is always interesting to learn and use new tools for creation.

I found this very informational video on how to use prezi to create a project. I plan on using prezi or something similar to it for my final project.

This video relates to my research topic of climate change and food consumption. It explores what would happen if everyone in the world became vegetarian and how it would affect our planet.

I used Adobe Clip to create a 6 second video about social media. For practice, I uploaded it to YouTube as “unlisted”. This means that only people with the specific link to the video are able to see it.

This article from Climate Change News highlights how social media is hurting the climate change debate… while this article from Huff Post discusses the potential for social media to save the planet. There are obviously two sides to the debate, but there is no doubt that social media has kept the conversation about climate change in general alive.

Continuing to explore the environmental issue topic of pollution, a study from Ohio State University made the connection between air pollution and social media. The researchers looked at how social media activists affect the issue in general and how corporations benefit from online activism. The study was focused on China and it made me wonder what the results of the same research would look like in America.