For starters, I have officially created an email account for my blog. The address is [email protected] and it is set up to forward directly to my school account.
GIF Assignment
This week was very hectic and I was a bit pressed for time, so I took a few shortcuts along the way. Firstly, for my GIF I chose Steve Carrel as Brick in Anchorman yelling “Loud noises!”. I have created a few GIF’s previously using http://gickr.com/ and had success with it in the past. I used it again for this assignment and am happy with the outcome, however I am aware it is not as admirable to use a resource such as gickr as it is to create one without the shortcut.
- Loud Noises!
- Daily Creates
- The second shortcut that I am guilty of this week is using a photo taken a few weeks ago as my daily create. The assignment was to “Contre-jour it” . I was not aware of it at the time, however this picture is an good example of “contre-jour”. A few weeks ago that term meant nothing to me, however that was obviously pre-ds106 bootcamp. The photo was taken in Niagara Falls, Canada from a hotel window across from the falls.
- The second daily create assignment I chose to participate in was to take a photo of the one thing you must see everyday. This was a no-brainer, as I cannot function without coffee in the morning. I am making an attempt to make photos of standard items look a bit more “artsy”, and the filters through flickr certainly help that, however that only goes so far. I hope that I can look back at these daily creates at the end of the semester and see a progression of creativity and art skills.
- OhMyGott Landing Page
- I finally installed wordpress and changed the settings on my homepage,http://ohmygott.com.There is still lots of work to be done and hopefully by next week I will have some idea as to how exactly I am going to use my homepage.I’m not sure if I want the blog to be a completely separate entity or have it affiliated with my ds106 blog. Stay tuned. For now I used the 2011 theme and uploaded a photo I took in Sanibel, Florida over winter break.
- Blog Customization & Weekly Summary
- While there were many options to customize my blog, I wanted to keep the layout simple and not make it too overwhelming. I added the calendar widget to the sidebar, which will hopefully be helpful in the future to navigate through past blog posts. Other than that I essentially kept everything the same, except for installing the akismet plugin, which doesn’t do much to the layout.
- Overall, these first two weeks of DS106 bootcamp have been far more exciting than the first two weeks of any other course I have taken previously. My morning routine has a new addition; checking the daily create. I need to start getting in the habit of documenting things throughout the week, as I can recall saying to myself “I should blog about this” a few times throughout the week but then forget by the time I am actually creating the post. I think in the future I will begin to blog more than once a week, whether it be through my homepage or ds106 page. I am excited to be finished with bootcamp, and am ready for what lies ahead!
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