My topic is about vlogging and charity. My favorite vlogger did a 24 hour vlog to raise money for UNICEF, the vlog was entitled StickAid. His vlogging friend has done StickAid for five years and I think this idea of using vlogging to help charities is interesting and needs to become more mainstream. I think that using vlogging to raise money for charities just like using any other type of multimedia outlet to help raise money for charity is great. I think vlogging would be better because it's taking 'normal, real people' and having them helping a charity that needs money. It's kind of like the whole, "If they can do it, so can I thing" and people will want to give money if it's a person they follow and enjoy, like I did for StickAid. I'll look to see if there are any other vloggers besides Charlie and Myles and Alex, that have one the same thing or to see if any other charities have utilized vloggers to help them out. We see charities embracing vlogging and using it to help get their topic heard and to help other people want to help the charity out by using their favorite vloggers.
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I love my project because it's something that I'm interested in and I think that it is something that can really be beneficial to the charities and vloggers involved by giving them more recognition. I think the main issue or stumbling block that I'll have is finding enough resources to write my paper and do my annotated bibliography. For some reason I think that I'm limited with resources, but I'm probably wrong about that.
This sounds like a really interesting project. I personally know nothing about vlogging, but I think it is awesome that people are using vlogging to raise money for charities. It is a really interesting approach that I would enjoy hearing more about. I think the abstract follows the guidelines because it tells me what she will be talking about and why it's interesting. The annotated bibliography is descriptive and her sources seem like good ones. Her concerns are ones that I share, but I think she will be fine as she continues on and learns more. I think she should work on finding those other vloggers that are using their vlogs to help charities, just to make sure she has enough sources.
ReplyDeleteYour topic is really good, mostly because it's such a new and popular issue.
ReplyDeleteI don't think you'll have any trouble finding sources, especially articles about the vlogging phenomenon, since it's a unique and popular topic.
Your annoations may need a little note about how you're thinking of using them in your essay, but other than that, they're great sources.