Woop Woop! Let’s start with the exciting: DAILY CREATES:
My rocks.
and the mystery sound is: my dog Juno scratching at the door to come in.
Ok, not a possession but I don’t really have material possessions that I HAVE to have. I like the outdoors more. And I love going to the battlefield by my house because it’s easy to just relax and think. There’s also a lot of history there (the battle of cold harbor).
BONUS PICTURE:
DAILY CREATE IDEA:
Sum up fall in one picture:
Perfection.
Story about daily creates:
On the rocks, they walked together. Until one dog got loose. Juno ran and ran for miles. She ended up at the battlefield. I ran after her all the way there. As soon as I caught up to her she turned to go back home. Typical. What a dumb dog. Running back to our neighborhood, I happened to see her. Yeah, there she was, scratching at the door to come back in. Yes, I was slightly out of breath and slightly mad. daily create story order: Tuesday, Saturday, Wednesday.
here’s my radio show review(s). I really liked SpiritXpress’s show. It was an interesting approach but very well done overall. Our show I thought was really successful too. I had so much more fun with audio than I thought. If we had a blooper reel for the frog fantasies commercial, it would be about 10 minutes long. I could not say over 7000 pieces of frog, but that’s how they advertised themselves on the web. Weird, right?!
My experiment with web storytelling:
Yeah, not sure about web storytelling yet. It took FOREVER to modify this page, mainly because of all of the episodes that were already there. Hackasaurus is fantastic though, I had no problems with that. My main problem was coming up with funny things to type. Also, I think the formatting of my changed page is wonky. I really tried hard though! At the end, I was starting to feel more comfortable, but I like audio a lot better (something I never thought I’d say).
By far, my favorite! I love making historical figures speak in today’s colloquial or simpler speak than I’m sure they would have used. For example: Patrick Henry was all, yo bros, give me liberty or give me death. and by death I don’t mean actual death. That’s how I imagine history in my head. It makes it easier to remember when you can paraphrase historical figures in your own words. So, I made Jeffy into a procrastinator that really freaks John Adams out. I had fun typing in names that he may have been friends with, or at least frenemies with.
Keeping with the historical theme, I did a way back machine of history.com. This kind of reminded me of an assignment Dr. McClurken gave us when we were planning our own websites for digital history. The fixed resolution really bugs me for some reason. I also don’t know why they randomly changed their url to historychannel.com in 2004. Weird! and they have become more of a reality show haven recently with pawn stars (the poor man’s antiques roadshow) and swamp people (Which I personally love and could never bash…and they are somewhat historical). But they have been consistently moving away from presenting history as somewhat static archive into a more dynamic ever evolving thing. Which is totally fabulous because people always tell me ‘history never changes’. WRONG. Histories do change with each event and new findings for old events. Yes, I could rant for days about this. But I did like looking back at the old websites.
This was not my favorite assignment week, but I did a lot better than I thought I would. I think audio remains in the top spot for me, which is really weird because at the beginning, that was the part I thought I would hate most.
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