At the beginning of the week I didn’t really understand the phrase “Stories of the Web” and I thought it meant videos or books on the web. Silly thought.  Now I sort of understand the phrase more. It refers to … Continue reading →

For my next Web Assignment I did What They Might Have Done In Social Media.  The premise of this assignment was to make a Facebook and twitter for any historical person.  I decided that my person that i wanted to do was Julius Caesar.  Since … Continue reading →

The assignment: “you will be intervening in the code and design of a website of your choice to tell a story. You are not to photoshop the design of the site (if you can), but rather intervene in the actual html and CSS of the site—though you can photoshop particular images on the site.” This ...

For the main project of the week, we were to take an existing webpage and create some changes to it. This is actually a ds106 web assignment- Storytelling within the Web and it’s worth 5 stars. The hardest part about this … Continue reading →

For my first web design assignment this week I did Google Map Trip. This assignment was to “use Google Maps to tell a story! It can be the story of a trip you took, a trip you would like to take, a … Continue reading →

Week 9 So this describes my week completely. Hopefully after I turn in my documentary on the memory of the Civil War at Hollywood Cemetery on Tuesday, things will get better. But you didn’t come here to complain about being a student. Fab Five Radio Show Okay. I just have to be biased because I’m ...

Daily Creates Way Back When- 2 Stars YouTube It Your Way- 4 Stars Telling Stories Within The Web Review of What Makes You Dynamite Interesting week. Before I really got into it, it looked terribly daunting, lots of text about stuff that I just didn’t really understand or ever heard of before.  But once I ...

Pretty good stuff, definitely liked the intro and background music, big ups to whoever did that.  The thing that sticks out to me the most is that when we did ours, it obviously didn’t have any background music or noise or whatever while recording our parts, and I actually listened to this one before I ...

Clint Eastwood Superbowl Commercial Had a little fun with Clint Eastwood here, and for the record, I am a Clint fan.  Just used the x-ray goggles, and what a simple tool they are, I don’t know why when I tried that craigslist ad earlier it wasn’t working.

New Amazon Page This took me a little longer than I expected as I had some trouble figuring it out.  After I downloaded the x-ray goggles, I first tried a craigslist page but was unable to directly edit the text that I wanted to, not sure exactly why I was struggling there.  So I read ...

I have to review the show called Serial Dater, in the beginning of this segment when everyone was saying there names it wasn’t all perfect some were loud and others were quiet.It’s not that big of a deal but it continues through when “Taylor Swift” talks it is a little choppy but I like how ...

I used a character from The Fellowship of the Ring as my alter ego character in comments this week.  He wasn’t mentioned in the movie so I figured people wouldn;t know anything about him and I could do whatever I ...

I was assigned to listen to the Digital Dynamite show this week and make comments/suggestions on their show.  Not sure how to link the individual thing, but you can scroll down and find it. I thought this show was pretty ...

This 3 star “What they might have done in Social Media” assignment was really interesting. The purpose was to take a historical figure and create a “Fakebook” and use “Twister” to show what sort of tweets the person might have … Continue reading →

The first web assignment I completed was the 2-star Way Back Time Machine and it was really interesting. For this assignment we used the WayBack Machine to search for a particular website and see how it’s changed over the years. In … Continue reading →

The assignment: “Develop your own fictitious character, give them a name and a bit of personality traits. Have that person leave comments on at least 5 blog posts by other students in our class, and where possible, they should interact with other characters there. Be interesting (do not be mean or rude!) and see how ...

This week I did three daily creates, as usual. However, in addition to our three daily creates, we had to form a 3-part story out of our daily creates and link them together. Here is my story.   Thursday, March 21st Task: Draw a picture of how waiting for something or someone makes you feel. I originally ...

To complete Storytelling within the web, I chose to intervene in the design of a post from Craigslist.  Before even searching on Craigslist, I chose to take the easier Hackasaurus approach instead of altering raw code.  I downloaded the X-Ray ...

Google Map Trip, worth 2 stars, called for me to tell a story of a trip I’d taken using Google Maps.  I chose this web assignment to increase the challenge on web storytelling and because I had just taken a trip ...

To dabble in some web storytelling, I completed the web assignment Google Translate Fail, worth 1 star, from the ds106 assignment bank. I chose this assignment because as a French minor, I know how google translate can interpret another language into English. ...

For my final assignment this week, I decided to do one called the Way Back Time Machine. Using the Way Back Time Machine website on Internet Archive, take screen shots of a favorite website overtime. Then, look at how the website has changed for better and worse. I’ve done this before, just for fun, on sites like ...

I survived Audio Week! I’m not a huge fan of doing audio, but it was neat to experiment with. I found myself using both Audacity and GarageBand depending on what audio I needed to do and relied heavily on Voice Memos on my iPod Touch to record audio as I have noticed that my Macbook likes ...

As a History major, I just had to do this web assignment from the assignment bank called “What They Might Have Done In Social Media.” Now, I was disappointed that the example was Lincoln, mostly because I know a lot about him now that I’m taking Civil War in American Memory. But oh well! I ...

Thursday,February 28, 2013: Pick a vowel. Write a one paragraph story avoiding words that contain that vowel. I can’t be a Unicorn… I am an ant. I am a bird. I am a wasp. I am a cat, a dog, a frog, a fish in a pond. I am alive. I breathe. I am not a ...

For this week, we’re working on stories on the web. Basically, I’m manipulating a real website page to create a story. I picked Reddit.com’s front page, since it’s a site I use almost daily. I soon realized what I had done. This was a lot more work than I think we were intended to do. ...

This project was actually pretty interesting to me cause I’ve always been intrigued by marketing.  Anyways, I clicked on Yahoo! just cause it’s my homepage and clicked a random date Feb 8, 1999. http://web.archive.org/web/19990208021547/http://www.yahoo.com/ And it’s just really simple, no pictures, just a bunch of links for entertainment, sports, business, etc… Then I jumped to ...

How Waiting Makes me Feel Aliens Exist World Of Happiness As I was waiting for my friend Michael Jordan, I was very displeased as to how long he was taking to meet me for dinner.  I waited for hours and eventually left, but I wasn’t so much angered anymore, but concerned for his well being. ...

They’re coming soon… I’ve spent my whole life studying their existence, discovering their whereabouts, and preparing for the invasion. The aliens are coming. This week, I disscussed some of my evidence with the general public, starting with this public service … Continue reading →

I Can Do Anything – 3OH!3. Because changing web pages and creating things on the web, you really can do anything. Web Design was so much fun to work with. I got to do a lot of things on the...

Once when the Fandom Princess was in her first year away at Mercury, she became interested in the Theatrical Club. She attended a meeting, where she sat with a vast amount of other students who were interested in drama. And as she listened to the professor, a large, talking, sky-blue … Continue reading →