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This is my GoogleMap that I made detailing the people and places that I spoke about in my paper, along with a few added ones.

Creative Project Blog Post

Seeing as my paper and general project is about vlogging and charities, I thought that I would do something like do my own vlog. I'm not quite sure how I'm going to do that because I have a camera but I'm not sure if I have all of the necessary cables and things to do that, but I thought that would be a good idea for this project. I also thought that I could do my vlog about organ donation and the organization Donate Life because it is something that I'm close to. I guess I would have to get in contact with them and make sure that it was all right to do a vlog about their organization because I don't want to be in trouble with copyright or something like that.

I thought doing my own vlog about a charity would be a good, and very obvious, idea. I'll just have to read through the tutorials on how to upload my video to my computer and things like that, so I'll be able to have an all right vlog that hopefully won't get much scrutiny.

Skin

I decided to look at Skin for today. Once I clicked the link, I was initially shocked because there were tattoos but once I actually looked it over. It was really cool. It's a story told on skin. It really caught my attention because it is a very different way to tell a story. It's participatory and it's really amazing. It's also an interesting process to be involved in this. You have to send a letter to the organizer telling of your interest in the group and they will send you a letter back with a word that you have to get tattooed onto your body, then they will send you a letter with the complete story that you will be involved in. Once you get 'approved' you have to send in your verification forms, a close up or legible photo of the tattoo, and a photograph of the participant in which the tattoo cannot be seen. It sounds very interesting but I don't think I'd participate because I personally don't like needles, so getting a tattoo is out, but I could see if someone would want to participate because it is interesting and you would be part of something cool.

Two Five Three

When I first looked at 253, I was seriously confused. I didn't know that it was supposed to be one of those choose your own adventures stories. After looking at it and after figuring out it was a choose your own adventure thing, I actually really liked it. I used to love the choose your own adventure novels and that one was very interesting because it dealt with the London Tube system and it dealt with minutes until a crash. It wasn't your normal choose your own adventure novel but it was very interesting once you got the hang of it.

Wikipedia

I adore Wikipedia. Every time I go to search something, I'll usually Google it first but Wikipedia is usually the first link to pop up. I go to Wikipedia to search for everything. There are some things that Wikipedia doesn't have, but that's what Google is for. I think Wikipedia is great because it's so easy to use and to comprehend. The only downside to it is that anyone can edit information in, so you're not really sure if all of the information is correct or true in the articles you read on there. I think the majority of professors aren't comfortable with students using Wikipedia as a source because anyone can edit it. It's not a 'secure' site where you know the information is going to be true facts. I use Wikipedia way too much. I go on there if I can't figure out the name of a book or an author of a book or for anything really. If I can't think of something, I'll usually say, "Let's Wiki it." and if Wikipedia fails me, "Okay, I'll Google it instead." And by 'anyone can edit it', I mean anyone. I can go in and edit a wiki page, but so can other websites. They can go in and correct any wrong information that may be on there. I love Wikipedia.

YouTube

YouTube is a popular site where people can watch videos, post videos, comment on videos, like or dislike videos, and many other things. We should care because it is a very important and relevant site for my generation and anyone can be a part of it. There are many types of videos on YouTube. There are vlogs, things that were on tv/in a movie and now available on the internet, there are spoofs of things, cartoons, drawings, poetry, prose, and various other types of things. Everyone can be on YouTube and anyone can enjoy the videos that are uploaded to YouTube. Like I just said, anyone and everyone can be on YouTube and can watch it if they have internet access. I guess it depends on what is being watched, but I normally watch funny things with real people in them (vlogs) or spoofs or a television show that I missed or something along those lines. I rarely watch something on there that I feel is bad. Well, with what I've encountered, I sometimes watch fan videos of my favorite shows and sometimes those can be bad due to editing of the video itself, but very rarely do I watch something on YouTube that I think is 'bad'. I think everything that I watch on YouTube is good because if it makes me laugh, it's good. I'm not sure what my question would be. If I did have one it probably would have been something simple like what is YouTube? or something like that. I don't really have anything to ask YouTube at the moment.

Abstract -- Final

My topic is about vlogging and charity and more specifically, vlogging for charity. I love the idea of charities utilizing the internet and popular vloggers on the internet to help get their cause known. My paper is going to discuss how vloggers go about doing a vlog for charity and what kinds of charities are utilizing the internet in that way. It will also look at how many charities don't use the internet in different ways other than just having a generic website that gives a general overview. How do charities raise money for their cause. Are they willing to use youtubers to help them raise awareness and money for their organization?