How can I become an advocate of Media Literacy?
Media literacy is the ability to access, evaluate, create or manipulate the media. Being an advocate of media literacy is a good opportunity, but It also shoulders a tremendous responsibility. But this massive responsibility can help a lot in amending our media literacy.
To become an advocate, the first thing to do is to embrace your role and be responsible enough to act upon it positively. In our currently situation, which is the pandemic, the effective way to help others in enhancing their media literacy is through social media. I will be collaborating with the people who want to learn/enrich more of their skills and knowledge in analyzing a reliable information.
MY PODCAST EXPERIENCE
How is my first experience in podcast?
Trying new things is like pushing ourselves to go out of our comfort zones. We may feel nervous and fear upon welcoming the unfamiliar things that we may experience but we must have the courage to face and do it. They said how can you say that you can’t do something, if you haven’t even doing anything.
When our teacher gave us a task to do a podcast I was really clueless and worried that I may not do it properly just like my other classmates seeing that they are far way better than me. But luckily my group mates were approachable and they were willing to support one other in order to finalize the task that is given to us.
Each one of us in the group has a respective job that requires to do. The role that was assigned to me was to create a cover that will represent our will in our podcast. The given role was quite challenging for me considering that It requires great ideas and creativity which I do not possess.
At first I doubted myself if I can really do it since I was concern that my group mates won’t like it and be disappointed on me. But later on, I have learned that as a group we should rely, help and share ideas with one another. Therefore they assist me to make it more appealing than the usual.
With the help of this podcast experience, I discovered that I can also have the ability to do new things and explore a new side of myself. You just have to believe in yourself that you can do it and don’t ever think on giving up because once you have start something, you have to take the responsibility.
EFFECT OF SOCIAL MEDIA
What is the Effect of Social Media to me and to my community?
Social media is a digital tool that allows a person to create and share his/her thoughts or ideas to other people. People manipulate this to interact and keep in touch with their family, friends, relatives and other people even if they are far from each other. It was also used to get the information that they want and they need.
Nowadays, social media has been a big part on the lives of many people. We have seen the significant impact of the social media to the people, mostly on the teenagers. As a student, social media has been useful to me in terms of my studies. As it expands the capacity of my knowledge and the additional information that may enhanced my skills with the use of social media.
It also helped me in correcting my grammar in English, and other terms of word that I had a hard time on understanding, aside from the assistance of the dictionary, since we all know that English was interesting yet very challenging. Correspondingly, the way I speak in English has been improved through the social media.
During the pandemic, we are unable to go out due to nervousness that we might get sick and we have no idea about the people who surrounds us might have a severe illness that may affect us. But with the aid of social media, without the need of leaving our house we can already earn the things we need with just one click.
Therefore, It produced a negative effect with my health and on my body. The reason for this occurrence ruined my usual sleep for spending much time browsing on my social media. As well as it unable me to focus more on my studies and It makes me less productive on finishing the household chores that I must do.
Social media could possibly be influential in the community in a positive and negative ways. It can encourage people to communicate with others who share the same interests. It could also provide you important information such as the weather forecast and the improper things you have to avoid as a part of the community.
Accordingly, It has a negative effect that we have to forestall. Spreading an unreliable information is one of the unpleasant cause that can harm other people. If you are going to share/post, see to it that the information came from a reliable source and double check the used words if it upset or confuse the people that may see or read your post.
MY JOURNAL 