Life Hacks
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Have you ever gone on pinterest to find an easier way of doing something? Maybe you needed to know how to remove permanent marker from your clothes or how to boil eggs to make them easy to peel. Whatever it was, make a video showing how to complete that "Life Hack" or maybe 2 or 3 depending on how quick/long you life hacks are. Maybe you have a shopping hack, a beauty hack, a cooking hack, etc. There are so many out there! Show us how easy they can be by putting them into a video. Bonus points to those that come up with an original life hack that isn't already on pinterest!
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Submissions So Far
Life Hack: McDonalds Sauce Holder
I saw this assignment for showcasing a life hack-and while I know many life hacks that I still use today from Pinterest-I decided to talk about my all-time favorite life hack of my McDonald’s sauce cup holder in my car. Now this does NOT apply to everyone-I mean really, …
Life Hacks 4 Life
This assignment let me achieve my dream of being a beauty guru YouTuber. I thought of a life hack that I use in my life and looked up another to try and recorded them in my well-lit bathroom. Then I zoomed to iMovie to import the footage and edit it …
Life Hacks
I have created a video that contains three simple life hacks for annoying things that happen to us almost everyday. Fixing a falling zipper trick, hands that are oil-free after eating chips from the bag, and removing excess nail polish.
Not Your Average Tutorial
For my final assignment this week, I did the “Life Hacks” assignment. I knew I needed something else to connect to my superhero character, and I got the idea to do a tutorial parody. My tutorial teaches my viewers how to protect themselves against mind-reading.
I incorporated some affectations that …
Life Hack
This is a quick and easy life hack! Get yiur clothes folded in half the time and continue on with your day. This is one I saw a long time ago but it stuck with me the whole time. I still fold my clothes like this and it …
Life Hacks
For my select one assignment I chose to do a life hacks video.
For this assignment I chose three life hacks that I actually use in my own life. While I’m sure there are other videos out there of these hacks I did not look them up and instead stuck …
Life Hack (and video lessons)
This was my first trial and error video editing. I found Filmora editing software to be a fantastic option for video creation. It works very similarly to Audacity, so the learning curve wasn’t as rough. Unfortunately, I didn’t realize that the trial version of the software would apply a …
Life hack!
For the life hacks assignment, I decided to make a video showing how to get an oil stain off a piece of clothing. I’ve had this issue before and I just learned how to do it, so I figured I’d share it. I used powerpoint to create the text images …
Life HACK
For this assignment I first researched some interesting hacks that I found online. I wanted to try something that I’ve never done or heard of before but also be able to utilize the resources I already have. That’s what so great about this hack is that most people have these …
Life Hacks
To complete this video assignment I first thought of a couple life hacks I actually use semi regularly! Once I came up with my three ideas I started recording! I found this to be the most difficult part because at times there was no one there to record for me, …
Clothing Life Hack
One assignment that we could do was Life Hacks . It was actually really fun to do! It took awhile to think of a good hack to show but my boyfriend told me about this one! When traveling and have limited space to pack things, combine clothes, fold them like …
Life Hacks
This week, I decided to create a video on a life hack that I know and would like to share with the class. While I know a lot, I feel like the majority of them are ones everyone knows. However, this one is one my roommates did not know until …
Life Hack: McDonalds Sauce Holder
I saw this assignment for showcasing a life hack-and while I know many life hacks that I still use today from Pinterest-I decided to talk about my all-time favorite life hack of my McDonald’s sauce cup holder in my car. Now this does NOT apply to everyone-I mean really, …
Life Hacks 4 Life
This assignment let me achieve my dream of being a beauty guru YouTuber. I thought of a life hack that I use in my life and looked up another to try and recorded them in my well-lit bathroom. Then I zoomed to iMovie to import the footage and edit it …
Life Hacks
I have created a video that contains three simple life hacks for annoying things that happen to us almost everyday. Fixing a falling zipper trick, hands that are oil-free after eating chips from the bag, and removing excess nail polish.
Not Your Average Tutorial
For my final assignment this week, I did the “Life Hacks” assignment. I knew I needed something else to connect to my superhero character, and I got the idea to do a tutorial parody. My tutorial teaches my viewers how to protect themselves against mind-reading.
I incorporated some affectations that …
Life Hack
This is a quick and easy life hack! Get yiur clothes folded in half the time and continue on with your day. This is one I saw a long time ago but it stuck with me the whole time. I still fold my clothes like this and it …
Life Hacks
For my select one assignment I chose to do a life hacks video.
For this assignment I chose three life hacks that I actually use in my own life. While I’m sure there are other videos out there of these hacks I did not look them up and instead stuck …
Life Hack (and video lessons)
This was my first trial and error video editing. I found Filmora editing software to be a fantastic option for video creation. It works very similarly to Audacity, so the learning curve wasn’t as rough. Unfortunately, I didn’t realize that the trial version of the software would apply a …
Life hack!
For the life hacks assignment, I decided to make a video showing how to get an oil stain off a piece of clothing. I’ve had this issue before and I just learned how to do it, so I figured I’d share it. I used powerpoint to create the text images …
Life HACK
For this assignment I first researched some interesting hacks that I found online. I wanted to try something that I’ve never done or heard of before but also be able to utilize the resources I already have. That’s what so great about this hack is that most people have these …
Life Hacks
To complete this video assignment I first thought of a couple life hacks I actually use semi regularly! Once I came up with my three ideas I started recording! I found this to be the most difficult part because at times there was no one there to record for me, …
Clothing Life Hack
One assignment that we could do was Life Hacks . It was actually really fun to do! It took awhile to think of a good hack to show but my boyfriend told me about this one! When traveling and have limited space to pack things, combine clothes, fold them like …
Life Hacks
This week, I decided to create a video on a life hack that I know and would like to share with the class. While I know a lot, I feel like the majority of them are ones everyone knows. However, this one is one my roommates did not know until …
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