For my Jing onscreen video project, I have chosen to create an instructional video for Scrapblog (http://www.scrapblog.com/). I found the website on www.go2web20.net in the fall of 2010, when I was taking ENG 204 with Ms. Cosgrove.
Scrapblog is a Web 2.0 site that allows users to create online, digital scrapbooks for free. The tagline for the website is: “Create a world for your pictures.” As an avid real-world scrapbooker, I was hooked the moment I created my first Scrapblog digital scrapbook. Using Scrapblog, a scrapbook addict like me can save hundreds of dollars every year by using free digital scrapbook supplies provided by the site.
As to why such a video would be useful, it would help many enthusiastic but less-than-technologically-savvy Scrapblog users to enjoy an exciting feature of the site. Since the site targets a demographic similar to traditional print scrapbookers, a significant portion of the site’s users do not know how to utilize all of Scrapblog’s many features. That doesn’t mean they don’t appreciate the tools that the site provides, just that they may need some help utilizing those features to their full potential.
What attracted me to Scrapblog, even more than its convenience and money-saving potential, was its ties with Facebook and other social networking sites. This is where my onscreen video project comes in: I would like to create a video tutorial explaining how a Scrapblog album can be shared on Facebook. I feel confident that I am familiar enough with both Scrapblog and Facebook that I will be able to successfully create an easy-to-follow onscreen instructional video.
There are also methods for sharing Scrapblog albums on a blog as well as with a specific e-mail correspondent, but I think that all three options would require a longer video than the assignment requires. Thus, I will go through the process of sharing one of my Scrapblog digital scrapbooks with my Facebook page in my video. Of course, I will try to make the process as entertaining as possible with my signature witticisms and lighthearted banter (yes, one can banter with a computer).
Oh, and I won’t complain about having an excuse to create a new Scrapblog digital scrapbook, either.
Renee Boettner
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