Amanda

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Towards the ending of the unit it took a lot of time figuring out what my multimedia artifact should be, I mean all of the options seemed good, but I knew I had to pick the one that suits the best for my purpose of communication and topic. My options were, using a Wiki, Voice Thread, Video, Conventional Web Site, or a stand-alone Power Point. I thought using a Wiki would be a good idea because it was easy to edit information if you wanted to inform other people or educate others and its easy to share with other classmates. On the other hand, it isn't very entertaining since part of my purpose is to entertain teens and adults. It also isn't very popular, only a few schools are registered so not many people can look at it, especially adults. There aren't going to be many adults reading about it, so that was an option to cross out. A Wiki is also similar to using a conventional website, but there are some differences. What's good about using a conventional website for my design is you can add any pictures that you want and any information based on my subject. Also, it's very popular through the internet, which is a big bonus for my designs because I want a lot of adults and teens to look at it and be entertained. However, using a website it is very hard to get feedback from a person on what they think about the website. You can't communicate very efficiently and its hard to store videos to entertain people. Videos are useful because a lot of people like to be visually entertained than reading an a paragraph or essay. That wasn't going to be good for me so I didn't bother considering that again. There was also Voice Thread that can be used as my multimedia artifact, I was familiar with it, so I tried figuring out what was good and bad about it that will be for entertaining and informing teens and adults about the information in the book "Future." Voice Thread was satisfactory because it was well-populated and many teens and adults go there and look at videos. It was very useful for entertaining people, which was superb since I want to entertain people about the future, it was also easy to get comments from other people, but it was also not very informative. I want to inform teens and adults the different future lifestyles, while entertaining them, but it isn't easy to add any captions in Voice Thread. There isn't a lot of special effects that I can use to "jazz" up the video or make the video more interesting and its hard to add any background information, such as music. I didn't think using a Voice Thread was a very good idea and I didn't feel it was write for my design, so I went on.
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Next on my option was using a Power-Point, this I thought was going to be a very interesting exploration. As I tried balancing out the good things about Power-Point and the bad things about it based on my purpose, I came to a conclusion. Power-Point was good for showing slide shows that have captions written in it to write down any information or basic notes and facts. It was also very entertaining for my topic because I can add any special effects on pictures and different color backgrounds, I can also add background music. It gives a lot of tools to make a slide show entertaining and I believe I can add videos too, but Power-Point is more difficult to share with others and its not easy to get feedback and other peoples opinions. A Power-Point is also similar to making a video, but a video for my design has more benefits. While testing out using a video, in this case a video will be using an I-Movie I thought it could be easier to put in the internet. Actually, you have an option you can either have it private or put through in the internet. For me it will be putting it through the internet. Also, by using a video, an I-movie to be more exact, you can educate or in this case inform other people, such as teens and adults about the future. It's easily to entertain people too. I can make my very own slide show by combining pictures, captions, and short videos to make one big slide show or video. It's easy to insert pictures and captions, plus you have a lot more special effects to use. I can put different transitions on the captions and pictures. I can also use background music from my own play list or I can create my own music! How cool is that!? That is perfect for entertaining and informing teens and adults about the future. To get feedback from other people is even optional. Although, since you have a time limit of 3 minutes I have to find pictures and small videos that are perky enough and effective enough to let the teen or adult understand my purpose and design. I was stuck between choosing a Power-Point or an I-Movie, I balanced out all the benefits and drawbacks of both multi-media artifacts and found out that the I-Movie had more benefits then the Power- Point. I felt that using the I-Movie I can inform and entertain a numerous amount of teens and adults effectively about the future information in the book "Future."