Lura's Blog - CCV - Multimedia Apps and Tools

Hello All! My Google Site Link to my E-Portfolio :  https://sites.google.com/view/lura-pratson/home In order to replicate any of the material you will learn in this blog post, you must first have a Gmail account. Sign-up here for free! This week we learned how to create websites with  Google Sites . The best part of this all is that it is FREE! Yes, that is correct! Google offers many Apps  and  Webware  that offer Freeware  for users of all ages and experience levels. If you have never created a Google Site or an E-Portfolio, this YouTube Video ( click here ) makes the process a breeze. I will admit I watched this video after having set up my site, so that being said, the process can be easy, with or without pre-instruction, depending on your skill level. (Not sure of your skill level? Try building a site before watching the video, see what you can do before hitting a wall.) For those of you who may remember last week's blog , we learned how to create websites with Wix . My Wix

  Web Design HTML and  Educational Tool Blog My Website  ( https://lurapratson.wixsite.com/lurapratson ) This week for class we were supposed to read several web-based texts and create a website with either Wix or Weebly. I google searched " Weebly vs Wix " primarily because Weebly was listed first and Wix second by the course instructions. I soon realized that Wix, if I were to take my website beyond class would be far easier to control and maintain. " Weebly is a drag and drop builder, but has more limits in its templates. In testing people found it less intuitive than Wix and more difficult to use because of this." ( Source ) Due to the limted templates (designs) and people finding it less intuitive (easy to use) than Wix, I decided to choose Wix to create my website. https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Web_design This site taught me that sometimes I don't realize how blessed I am to have grown up with the Internet. I remember in Kindergarten we were using "

CCV - Multimedia Apps and Tools Blog #2 June 9-15 This week we learned about photo editing and manipulation. Please enjoy the slideshow of my work. All photos were taken by Lura Pratson. Or, if you prefer, find the Link directly to my video on YouTube HERE If anyone has ever used WeVideo, I would love some assistance with stopping the panorama photos from being cropped/distorted when using in a video. Thank you!

CCV - Multimedia Tools and Applications Week 2: June 2-8 Blog #1 Guiding Questions : How has the Long Tail, Cloud Computing, Social Media influenced my life? Why do I need to know about these things in my field?  Why has Karen chosen to use the cloud for our blogs? Cloud Computing Cloud computing has transformed e-commerce and is explained in the YouTube video " Cloud Computing Explained ". This video explains that hardware, like servers are becoming out-dated as cloud computing is instant, scale-able, and more financially responsible for web-based businesses. The reason cloud computing is becoming the norm, is because servers take up so much space, and are incredibly expensive to own and operate. Servers allow increased traffic flow to a particular website, as more traffic arrives, more servers are needed to maintain all users access. The cloud based server, does not require any physical hardware or space, it is accessible instantly. The instant, on-demand access of cloud-ba