Learning About Visual Resumes

Last Thursday we learned about Visual Resumes.

A Visual Resume is like a standard resume with more graphs, pie charts and statistics.

It has more features to use than just typing up a resume itself.

Click here to view my Visual Resume.

Are assignment for the class is to do further research on the advantages and disadvantages of Visual Resumes. Here is the overall information that I've found:

 Advantages:

• Visual Resumes are creative
• Visual Resumes help see everything clearer
• It is structured in a set order
• It helps to give a lot of information in a brief, simple way

Disadvantages:

• Visual Resumes are not for every job. Some employers prefer to have a traditional resume
• Some employers will say the opposite about the resume being easy to read and say they may have to look everywhere to find the main point
• Creating a quality Visual Resume would cost money
• There may be a higher chance of someone lying on a Visual Resume than a regular resume.

Click on the titles below to view the five websites that I've found research involving Visual Resumes: 

Pros and Cons of Visual Resumes and Traditional Resumes

Visual Resumes

Visual Mapping

9 Dynamic Digital Resumes That Stand Out From the Crowd

Stand Out From the Crowd with a Visual Bio or Resume

Infograph is Done, and I'm All Caught Up with Work

The Infographs are done and I have officially caught up with all of my assignments up to this point.

The information that I gathered for my Infograph was statistics from the Fall 2011 and 2012 term.

I decided to do a compare and contrast between both of the Fall terms.

The information came from the Chancellor's Office website.

The enrollment in Fall 2011 in California Community Colleges statewide was over 1,000,000 students. In 2012, it dropped all the way to over 282,000 students.

I did a full breakdown by each student who enrolled from first-time students to returning students, as well as others.

It feels good to get caught up with all of the work I've done so far. I can't wait for class tomorrow.

The Infograph will be posted as soon as I find out how to post them.

Getting Caught Up with Infographs

In my last blog, I presented my completed cartoon.

That was basically all I did last Thursday.

Before then, the class was working on a new assignment called Infographs.

Infographs are graphs that share statistical information on a subject.

Infographs could be used to post on the Internet, newspapers, etc.

The assignment was to reach a topic (chosen by the professor) and find out statistics and other information and bring it to class.

From there, students went to piktochart.com and started playing with the tools that could be used for the website.

Since I was finishing my cartoon, I can't say how the website. 

Click here to see what Infographs looks like.

My goal in the next class period is to get completely caught up, so I won't have anything else that will hold me back from my work.

Luckily for me, I don't have that far to go.

The Cartoons is Finished

My cartoon is officially done.

As promised in my last blog, I will now share the finished product.

I did mentioned that I had to change the story from "Journalism vs. Public Relations" to "Understanding Public Relations" because I had to change the script.

Click here to check out my cartoon that I created using Xtranormal, via Youtube.

My Cartoon Ends Up Being Incomplete

Monday the class finished up with their cartoons. Unfortunately, I didn't get a chance to finish my cartoon, so  there won't be any post in this blog as promised in the last blog.

Before we shared our cartoons, Professor Cameron went over the finished Storify projects.

For the most part, he thought that the projects were okay, but nowhere what it needed to be.

He stressed that we should be telling the story right away.

After that, we worked on our cartoons.

Most of the class finished their cartoons.

At 3:00 p.m., the finished projects were being judged by the class.

The Super Bowl pre-game trash talk won with seven votes.

Click here to check out the channel of the cartoons.

As far as my project goes, all I needed to is work on emotions and movements, then it will be ready.

I had to rewrite most of the script though.

I wanted to do a piece on the difference between Journalism and Public Relations.

Instead, I did so much of Public Relations in my script that it almost put aside the Journalism perspective.

Because of this, my new project is called "Understanding Public Relations."

This project will be down tomorrow, and I will share it.



  

The Cartoons have Started, and I missed my First Quiz :(

Last Thursday the class got started with are cartoons.

We were to write down a scripted about something we were most passionate about.

For me, finding something passionate was hard to find, so after doing a lot of brainstorming, I decided to go with Journalism vs. Public Relations.

The story is two guys who just graduated from Community College and are transferring to their universities will be getting into their own majors.

One will be a Journalist major and the other will be a Public Relations major.

The person who is a Journalist major is shocked to hear that his friend decides to be a Public Relations major.

So the two compare the differences on both of the majors and career choices.  

The video will be up between tomorrow and Wednesday.

The script was supposed to be done before class so everyone would get started with their piece.

I had a lot of fun designing the background and characters.

The project is almost done, and I can't wait to show the class.

On the downside, I had a lot to do over the weekend and therefore, missed my first online quiz.

I take full blame for it, I missed manage my time.

Next time, I will be prepared to take my quiz.