Update: How’s life been?

So I know it’s been a while since the last time I’ve actually posted any content on this blog, so I wanted to give an update about what’s been happening in my life since the last time we’ve spoken. On May 10th 2019 I graduated from thee illustrious South Carolina State University with a Bachelors of Arts degree in Broadcast Communications. I also became a member of thee best sorority in the world, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated. Crazy huh?! I know, I still can’t believe it myself. I was in such shock when it all first happened. I became an AKA in April and received my degree in May so things happened pretty rapidly. I graduated Cum Laude averaging at an 3.2 gpa overall which I was so proud of. Even though it wasn’t easy and I had plenty overwhelming days and stressful nights, through it all I had the victory so it was all worth it. I owe all to the man above, who sits high and looks low. Recently, I was accepted into the masters program of Communications at Texas Southern University. As you can see life has been pretty good and I’ve been beyond blessed. I am so excited about this new journey in my life and cannot wait to see what the future holds. Whatever it is I know it’ll be good. Check out the pics below of some of my latest accomplishments.

Intro blog post

Hi, my name is Ashley Hendricks. I’m a 21 year old senior broad Communications major from St.Matthews, South Carolina and originally born in Brooklyn, New York. I attend thee South Carolina State University. I was born on May 13th 1997. I am the youngest of two. My favorite color is pink and my favorite My future aspirations is to attend grad school for journalism or communications and become a celebrity news and entertainment reporter. One day I want to become the next Barbara Walters, Dianne Sawyer or Oprah Winfrey. This school year I would like to graduate with honors and obtain a career in the field I’m currently pursuing. Over the summer I interned at WIS news 10 in Columbia, SC. I had a chance to shadow reporters, producers and anchors. It was very exciting and interesting. It was interesting and exciting because i had a chance to see and work with people i grew up watching on television. I also had the opportunity to travel to Miami Florida, New Orleans, and Savannah, Georgia. I went to Savannah for a leadership conference called NASAP to represent my university as a student leader. Below is a picture of me on the campus of Savannah State University at the conference. I had a blast. Furthermore my goals for this school is year is to be the best person that  I can be. I would like to gain a closer relationship with God and strengthen my faith. I plan to achieve academic excellence since I would say i'm a over achiever. I also would like to be the best student leader at my university that I can be. I learned so much at the various conferences I attended and I want to take what I learned and help and apply those same tactics to my school. Overall I just want to become a better person.

100 word blog essay

The old school album that I chose was 8701 by Usher. 8701 was the third studio album by singer Usher. This album had some of my favorite songs and todays classics such as "u got it bad", "you don't have to call", and "u remind me". 8701 was released on August 7, 2001. "u remind me" and "u got it bad" were number one singles and on the billboard hot 100. This album sold over 4.7 million copies in the United States. It debuted at number four on the US billboard 200 chart. 8701 received a 4x platinum certification from the recording industry association of America. The album earned Usher two Grammy awards, three billboard music awards and a BET award. The album was produced by Jermaine Dupri. This was one of the best albums I have ever heard. Even though it's old school I still listen to it as if it was just released. I encourage everyone to go and listen.

SC State Bulldogs Take on Kizoa

MY SC STATE BULLDOG KIZOA

Kizoa was one of my favorite social media sites to work on. I liked the fact that I could use different templates, effects and add music.

I don't have many dislikes about Kizoa except one. That one is there isn't a wide variety of music to choose from.

For this particular assignment I got a chance to go around the illustrious campus of SC State University and take pictures of 20 different bulldogs.


I had fun and experienced different offices and buildings that I never knew had bulldogs.

Catching on to the concept of how to use Kizoa was fairly easy. I enjoyed making my first slide show and it didn't take long. In the future I hope to use Kizoa more often.

Final Blog Post

I've learned so much in this past semester. This course has been about learning how to use blogger, enhancing my editing skills, networking skills by using linked in and learning to use various social media sites.

I've connected with other people that are broadcasting majors, and used sites that I would have never used before. Below is a look at the different sites I've used throughout the year and how they work.

Here's a link to my Twitter account. Twitter is one of my favorite social media sites that I've used in this course. Something I don't like about twitter is the amount of characters that I am able to use.

Sometimes I would like to voice my opinion and that gets cut short because of that. I follow 149 people. Most of the people I follow on twitter are celebrities, people from my hometown and people from my school. I find twitter helpful because of the voice it gives people.

LinkedIn is a social networking site designed specifically for the business community. People who own companies, businesses, and industries use LinkedIn and also everyday people who are trying to find jobs.

Linked ins place in the new/social media landscape is it helps people use this social networking platform to increase their business popularity.

It is essential that young professionals have and keep up quality Linked in sites because it can simply help find new places of employment, and connect with other people who may be able to help them out.

To check out my Linked In site click here

Pinterest is an online service that allows you to share images through social networking. I have several boards on my pinterest site. Some of those boards are nails, hair, celebrities, make up & beauty and fashion.

Some things I dislike about pinterest is that it's not a site that you can reach out to other people. You can't voice your opinions, write statuses nor can you make videos.

I do like that Pinterest is a place where I can find different types of girly things that aren't in stores. I love the different ideas I can get from Pinterest and the ideas aren't basic. 

Prezi is a web based presentation software, created in Hungary. It is a presentation style in which presentations follow the flow of dialogue. The company that developed Prezi was founded in Budapest, Hungary in 2009.

Prezi has additional offices in San Francisco and Mexico City. What makes Prezi unique is the smart structures that makes it easy to arrange content with a simple drag and drop,without disrupting your layout. My Prezi project consisted of my top 10 list. My top 10 was my favorite movies. Here is a link to my presentation 

I've always dreamed of going to Paris, France one day. After watching various movies and television shows I was convinced that Paris was the place for me.

It always seemed like a beautiful place to visit. For this particular project I used adobe premiere pro to edit my picture. I took my original green screen photo and blended it into the background of the Eiffel tower.

Maybe one day I'll be able to study abroad there. I learned how to blend better and work with the green screen.

This application can be used professionally for photographers or if you work for an editing company you can use it for different pictures. The green screen can be used for fun like I did by placing different backgrounds on photos. To see other steps involved click here.

 

Kizoa edits and creates slideshows that you can share online or download to your computer. Kizoa can be used to edit photos, make movies, videos and collage making. I personally don't have any dislikes about Kizoa.

What I like about Kizoa is that it's fun and easy to work with. My first time using Kizoa I had a chance to put together a slideshow with different pictures. I also had a chance to add music, beautiful template and effects.

MY SC STATE BULLDOG KIZOA


Throughout this course I've used so many different social media sites that I never thought I'd use and some that I've never heard of.

I've learned how valuable these outlets are and how to use them more effectively. I've become more interested in Pinterest and Kizoa.

Linked In can definitely help me in the business world and adobe photo shop helped me with my editing skills.

I am grateful for the experience and even the lessons the course has taught me. I can use these techniques in future classes and in the real world. Thank you Mr. Hardwood.

Where I want to be

 I've always dreamed of going to Paris, France one day. After watching various movies and television shows I was convinced that Paris was the place for me. It always seemed like a beautiful place to visit. For this particular project I used adobe premiere pro to edit my picture. I took my original green screen photo and blended it into the background of the Eiffel tower. Maybe one day I'll be able to study abroad there.

My Top 10 on Prezi

This assignment is a presentation on a web based software called Prezi. It is based on my top 10 movies of all time.

Prezi is a web based presentation software, created in Hungary. It is a presentation style in which presentations follow the flow of dialogue.

The company that developed Prezi was founded in Budapest, Hungary in 2009. Prezi has additional offices in San Francisco and Mexico City.

As of March Prezi had reportedly over 75 million users. Prezi launched in 2016. Prezi business is an HTML5 application that runs java script.

Adam Somlai-Fischer, Peter Halacsy and Peter Arvai were the founders. In early 2011, Prezi launched it's first ipad application.

A Prezi iPhone app was launched in late 2012. Being how this was my first time working with Prezi I found it rather difficult to use in the beginning.

It took a few days of playing with to actually grasps the concept. Overall I don't really like Prezi. I'd rather use power point or some other type of presentation software.

To view my top 10 movies of all time on prezi click the link below or video below.

https://prezi.com/p/elkqbhy7bng-/