For this assignment, I thought of the perfect idea. I would remix a craigslist ad so that it was a plea for someone to take this person’s Furby off their hands. Anyone who has ever owned a Furby knows that they do weird and creepy things. They’ll turn on without batteries, randomly say things, keep moving after being run over by a car, the list goes on. Craigslist posts can be pretty wacky like this, so I thought it was an appropriate site to remix.

Here’s my craigslist ad.

For this assignment, I decided to base the story on Merrill Shale having sold his wagon and upgraded after he started raking in poker winnings. I originally tried with both Autotrader and Ebay motors, but the code was seemingly too sophisticated for X-ray googles, so I went to craigslist instead, which turned out to be pretty far from perfect as well. I could not get access to the other images on the scroll, so I found a vehicle posted that only had one photo. Then, I started remixing the elements so they would make more sense for the story I was telling. I was moderately pleased with how it looked in X-ray goggles, but when I published it, the code was apparently somewhat jumbled. I attempted to ascertain why or see if I  could, perhaps, resolve the issue with my albeit limited html knowledge, but x ray would not let me click on the actual page because it has too many elements.    This is the link to the page,  and here is a screenshot of what it looked like in xray.

I completed the assignment Storytelling Within the Web.

I altered a story on the web using X-Ray googles. The article was about the Sister Wives’ attempt to challenge Utah’s polygamy ban.

Here is my link to the original story: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/04/11/appeals-court-rejects-sister-wives-polygamy-lawsuit/82904702/

Here is what I’ve created: https://thimbleprojects.org/manzelmo/53386/

The most challenging part about this assignment was brainstorming what type of alterations were to be made to the article. I thought it’d be funny if the wives forced their husband to choose from among the four of them.

This week we focused on web related assignments. As such, one of the required assignments to complete was the assignment titled “Storytelling within the web”. This assignment required me to alter an existing webpage and intervene in the html of the site. So, I had decided that this would be the last assignment I would complete this week because it seemed like it was going to be pretty difficult, given I am not the best computer/internet technician. However, I was pleasantly surprised it was not as difficult as I had anticipated. I first followed the step by step guide provide by the professor on the class site and I was able to install X-Ray Goggles. Once I had X-Ray Goggles installed and added as a bookmark I was able to alter any webpage. The key step that helped me quite a bit was the tutorial provided by X-Ray Goggles on how to alter webpages. The tutorial helped me understand how to change different areas of the webpage and then publish it so my new webpage that I created would have its own weblink address.

The webpage I chose to alter was a Netflix webpage. I decided on a Netflix webpage because it is a pretty popular website and provides a variety of shows and movies to its viewers. Since this course’s theme is a western genre I chose to create a TV show involving my created western character, Talie. I used X-Ray Goggles to alter the webpage and added my own description of the show, type of show, year it came out, who it is starring, and changed a few other aspects. It appears as if the viewer (P.Bond) has searched a show with “cow” leading to cowgirl or cowboy shows. The viewer has clicked on one of Talie’s Wild West Town episodes and is thinking about watching one of the action packed and funny episodes! Don’t worry you too, can watch an episode and read the description of Talie’s Wild West Town by visiting this webpage!

https://thimbleprojects.org/nmotleyumw22/54601/

This assignment looked confusing and difficult at first glance, but after reading the information provided and downloading the tools recommended, I got it… sort of. I first tried creating my resume on Amazon as shown in the example, but the page decided to refresh twice during my attempt at creating my resume. So after being frustrated because I was almost done twice, but my work being deleted, I moved on over to craigslist because I thought it would be easier.

I used the X-Ray Goggles to change the information on craigslist, but unfortunately after messing around with the website I could not change the image on the original post. I have posted a screen shot below of the website, with the image blacked out, but if you visit the link shared, you will see the original image. If someone could give me tips on how to change the image, I would truly appreciate it so I may go back and fix it.

https://thimbleprojects.org/tuerost/54512/

This week, we were required to do the assignment, Storytelling Within the Web. When I first read through this assignment I was so confused and lost at what I had to do so I put it off for the last thing to complete this week. I went ahead and downloaded the X-ray Goggles to my computer and then started to think about what website I wanted to change. I ended up deciding to add myself to the USA women’s national field hockey team roster who will be competing this summer in the Rio Olympics. To my surprise, it was a lot easier to use the X-ray than I thought and I had a lot of fun with this. The only problem that I ran into was that safari would not let me create an account so I had to download google chrome to my computer and then try to use the goggles through that browser. It ended up working and I was able to create an account so that I could publish the link to my page. Check out my name on the roster here!

Below are the screenshots from the webpage. The first one is the original roster, and the second is the one I remixed. I tried to add my picture as well but I couldn’t quite figure that out so I just stuck with the USAFH symbol. I really enjoyed this assignment and plan to keep X-ray Goggles on my computer to use on other sites!