Getting Savvy with Social Media - Ruskin College 20-23/3/17

Dear Students and Jackie, I hope that you are enjoying the course! I have found you all to be a lot of fun to work with and it's been great to see so many of you make real progress on the course. Remember to keep going over the skills taught until they become second nature. I hope that you have some joy with Instagram today and that you are able to play around with the photographs taken yesterday. I should be there from lunchtime onwards today when our aim will be to tidy up our work ready for printing. If time, we could look at some basic photography editing skills. If time we will begin with the basics of YouTube. What a superb site YouTube is and now your Google account will allow you to configure and play with your own YouTube profile. You can make playlists, arrange videos in folders to watch later or watch again. And, of course, you can make your own channel - call it what you like (although if you called it BBC5 then you'd be contacted by our own public service co...

Think DALF ? Distance, Angle, Lighting, Framing Sketch these or think about these: Extreme close up, c lose up, medium shot, long shot, very long shot, extreme long shot Low angle, high angle, profile Key lighting, back lighting, side lighting, up lighting Using mise en scene to create frames. What effect does cropping the subject have?

Your "settings" are the key to your "security" and safety. The trouble is... Facebook is a busy page! See: How on earth do you fix your settings ? Does this make it easier? It all hinges on that tiny dark arrow in the Facebook "bar" When you click on that, a drop down menu appears. On that drop down menu, is the "settings" cog icon.

A            To develop a good understanding of online safety; to know about a range of dangers and threats and how to protect oneself as fully as possible. To increase awareness of a range of social issues linking social media with physical and mental health, legal issues and social integration. To extend knowledge of the specific language and terms being developed by users of social media.   B            To become familiar with the fundamentals of at least 4 popular social media platforms, with reference to different devices. To be able to create a personal profile on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram & Snapchat, and Blogger which one can feel comfortable with and that will have longevity. To start following other users, whether out of personal or professional interest. To be aware of the opportunities available to benefit from research, journalism and news feeds. To have...

Hello ever savvier social media students I hope that you enjoyed your first day of the course and felt like you got, or are getting, one step clodser to achieving your goals for the course. In the next post I will put up the course aims and objectives: A B C D. It would be a good idea to read these, ask yourself what we have done to cover them and blog about any progress that you have made. You could always tweet about it and put a link / embed your tweet on your blogger page. Below is the link for the fun social media terms as shown to you yesterday: Social media is  http://www.smart-words.org/abbreviations/text.html We also covered strong passwords with tips such as: 1) Phonetic spelling 2) Phone numbers 3) Numbers as letters       Make it something memorable from your life.               For example, if I have a pet called "Flossie", I might use Fl05513! The exclamation mark would be me imagining that...