Reflecting on TCF

I have loved loved this class. When i signed up for it I wasn't really sure what i was getting myself into. Looking back on it now i am so glad that i decided to sign up for this course. I learned so many interesting things about how social media worked. As we all know the tornado hit this past week and this sent me in to panic mode. The town that i have grew up in was devastated. My dad is a minister at a church here in town and we immediately started to get to work with volunteering. The church i attend is Calvary. Its a pretty big church so we had lots of people to help and since i have a boot on i knew that my help would be a tad limited. When i realized this all i could think about was this class. I thought about all the times we talked about advertising and how to get the word out to other people. I immediately picked up my phone and started tweeting the Tuscaloosa news and James Spann! After I tweeted them I got a crew of 7 people to help me start calling the radio. We called ourselves the Social Media Crew. We sent out so many tweets and the Tuscaloosa news and all the radios were relaying our messages as soon as we got them to them. After the Tuscaloosa news and James Spann started to retweet my phone started going off like crazy!! People were mentioning me and retweeting me left and right. I knew that this was something little i could do but it took off and made me proud. When people would walk in with donations they would say we saw that the Tuscaloosa news retweeted this and the older people of the church were in shock. They couldn't believe what was going on. We tried to explain it to them but they honestly didn't understand. I am so glad i took this class and got to learn about all the different things that are going on in the world that we live in today.

Final Project!

http://www.scribd.com/full/54447296?access_key=key-2bg5075sn05v6nvs2dxo
(I hope this works i am not forsure if it will)


When I started on my project I decided that I would do a video. Needless to say i ended up doing a slide show! In my slide show the idea i had was to have the videos i thought were the most interesting about my topic and put them in with my slideshow. I asked many questions that went through my head as i researched and wanted to get other peoples opinion and then discuss the real life matters of the questions. I was planning on my presentation to be lots of discussing and digging into the matters on hand so its kinda hard for me to type about it but i can not help the tornado came. The moral of my entire project was that no matter how little information you put online there are creepers out there who can figure it all out and find out exactly where you are, as well as is it healthy to put so much information online about your life? I put two separate videos in my project that talk about two separate things. One talks about how this guy is getting a divorce and he keeps a video of the divorce. Some say this could be considered a vlog but i think that this is not considered that considering it is on youtube and not on a site that is made for vlogs. is it to much to put that online? this could be controversial and taking two separate ways. I discussed with many people on  my hall at Tut what they thought and i got mixed views. With all these mixed views i was sure that in our class i would have two separate sides as well. Some of the girls said that they didn't think it was ok because what if the parents little kid found those videos or if other people found them that could be considered really embarrassing. On the other hand their are people that think it is ok because what if he or she did not have anyone else to tell their feelings to. I wish this horrible tornado didn't come so i could do this in class :(