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Building a Website

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  For the final class project, students were instructed on how to build a portfolio website. This website will be used to promote various different pieces of work that Bianca Sorci has done during her time as a communications student so far. A majority of the work is public relations related. The goal of this portfolio website is to showcase the work that she is most proud of while networking at the same time. While Bianca has created a portfolio website on a browser-based platform like Word Press and Adobe Portfolio, she has never used anything like Dreamweaver. Showing her work on a website created on Dreamweaver is a promotion within itself since it shows experience in learning how to build a website.  The social media project that was the most helpful when it came to making a website was the wikiHow project that students did as their first project. For the wikiHow project, the class had to do some basic coding. Having to learn basic coding for the first project helped stud...

Youtube Project Reflection

   Making a Youtube video can seem intimidating at first. Depending on what platform the user is making their video on, it can be pretty user friendly. The two most popular programs are Adobe Premier Pro and iMovie. Either one will work depending on your personal preference.  Using iMovie was a fairly simple process. The platform was user friendly and simple. It seemed to have a more simple layout than Adobe Premiere Pro, which is easier for a beginner who has never made a video before. Uploading clips and moving them around in order proved to be made easy by iMovie. The most challenging part of making a video on iMovie was figuring out how to properly convert the video into a file that I could post on Youtube. At first, converting the file seemed difficult. There are many different types of files that the user is able to convert it to, so it’s important to convert it to one that will work. Once the file is saved on the computer, uploading the video to Youtube is very use...