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Storytelling Within the Web

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From the Spring 2011 ds106 class came the idea of changing up an existing web page to tell a new story " 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, but rather intervene in the actual html and CSS of the site—though you can photoshop particular images on the site. Essentially you alter the content of a web page (content, images) to make it tell a new story. Originally we recommended doing this using the Firebug extension in the Firefox browser, which does work, but is unfortunately easy to lose your work. We currently recommend Mozilla Hackasaurus -- install the X-Ray Googles in any browser and use it to re-cast the content of any web page. When you blog it, include both a screen capture in your post, but you will also need to upload the web files (HTML and media files) to your own site so it can exist as a stand alone URL. (see our older Firebug Tutorial) Consider using news sites, social media profiles, product pages, movie review pages etc. The simpler the design of the page, the easer it will be (think Craig's List).

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For Sale!

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Storytelling Within The Web

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A Craigslist Special

For this assignment, we had to take a website that has already been published and assert our own story in that website.

I chose to use an ad from Craigslist.com. The original ad offered childcare services.

 

 

 

 

I chose  remixed this ad to offer services for …

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To begin, I download X-Ray Goggles. After becoming familiar with the application, I went to different websites to look …

Web Storytelling

So I tried to publish an altered website but the X-Ray Goggles it kept telling me I needed to sign in, but it would not let me do so. Therefore I took regular screenshots of what I did but was unable to successfully publish the site.

I found tool simple …

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Shopping for Magic on Craigslist

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Storytelling Within the Web

When I read the description for this assignment, I knew I wanted to do a parody of a political article, because there’s just so much there to work with. So, I went straight to the Washington Post.

After a bit of browsing, I found the article “DeVos rescinds 72 guidance …

Web Storytelling Via Amazon

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Website Storytelling

Archives

This was an interesting  assignment for me. Changing the design of a webpage without changing the original? Not exactly something I’ve ever done before! However, after I downloaded X-Ray Goggles and did some playing around, it ended being kind’ve fun. All the advice I found said to use  simple …

Writing the Web my way

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Agent Smith – Web Hacking

Greetings…fellow agents. I am finally alone all to myself again GUAH.rgrfg…mwuahaha it is I, Dr. Howlizer! I’m finally in agent smith’s account!

Er…wait, this is google! What th…well whatever. That’s even better! Look! Look at how I changed everything on the webpage to whatever I desire! It tricks people into …

Everything is fine

So in the essence of telling a story through a web page, I decided to go to that place where you will find the most news stories and that was, of course, the BBC News homepage.

Here, there are excerpts from other news stories all collected in one place. I …

Website Remix

http://thimbleprojects.org/HTTP/athiaoflight/119578

I got really stuck on this assignment. I just had no freaking clue what to do. Then, when I was scrolling through the assignments for my 8 stars, I got this idea- do a “life assignment” that looked really easy but would never happen. I decided to remix the …

Furbies

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Updating Merrill’s Ride

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Sister Wives Strive to Survive

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 …

Web Assignment – Storytelling Within The Web

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Honest Grades

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My Internet Resume

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Rio Olympics Here I come

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 …

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Slayer Cat Shirt

For the Storytelling Within the Web assignment, I decided to juxtapose two things that you normally wouldn’t think about together.

Slayer is known as one of the most brutal thrash metal bands of all time.  I thought them releasing a shirt for cats would be pretty hilarious.  …

Storytelling within the Web

The IMBD page for The Notebook with a slightly different description.

The assignment had us change something about a preexisting web page to tell a story. I decided to change in IMBD page because it gives the description of a movie so I wanted to change it into my own …

Code*

Here is the original assignment.

Have you ever been fooled by a fake website? Did the site look just like the website you were intending to visit? It’s not hard to modify a website in subtle ways as to maintain it’s appearance yet change its message.

I modified the …

Storytelling within the Web

My last assignment for the week is called Storytelling within the Web worth four stars. I had to take a website and recreate it by hacking.

   

http://weca4.makes.org/goggles/weca4s-remix-of-small-pet-supplies-for-rabbits-ferrets-amp-others-petsmart-

Steps:

1.I went to the webpage Not Digital Truth Telling

2.Clicked on week 9

3.I scrolled down to the section telling stories within …

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I used Etsy because the format is relatively simple. Using …

Mandaalynnn the Eagle

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From the Spring 2011 ds106 class came the idea of changing up an existing web page to tell a new story” you will be intervening in the code and design …

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So for our required Storytelling Within the Web assignment, we had to change a site to something …

Tiffany, You’re Kidding Me.

Hello Everybody!

I write this with much enthusiasm and excitement as it seems I have been lead to discover something extremely fun and interesting this week. This is, of course, the X-RAY GOGGLES. Using these goggles we were required to use our own mood and judgement to play around …

The Super Car!

http://bossy1213.makes.org/goggles/bossy1213s-remix-of-mercedes-benz-slr-mclaren-722-s-ebay-

Have you heard about that amazing car from the future? Someone is selling it on eBay for a buttload of cash and supposedly it can be used to travel through time! I would love to have something like that, especially if it could also print food. Although, I would …

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Our mandatory challenge this week, worth four stars when the teacher told us it was worth five, involved manipulating the website of our choice to, more or less, fit our mood that day.

I started my assignment by taking Ms. Polack’s advice, and downloading the Mozilla X-Ray Goggles application onto …

Pocket Mac, now available;

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Time Machine

The Work Itself 

This assignment is titled “Storytelling Within The Web“. It is a required assignment for this week. Its instructions are to “install the X-Ray Googles in any browser and use it to re-cast the content of any web page. When you blog it, include both a …

Disney Takes Over: The Force Awakens

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Trip Adviser – New York

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Jerry of Eastside for Sale on eBay

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Part #5: Finale and Weekly Summary 15

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Part #2: Major Problem

In Popeye’s next part of his adventure, he encounters a major obstacle that was shaped in the form of a web assignment. How dangerous right? The web assignment that immediately came into my mind is the “Storytelling Within the Web” and revisiting this assignment provided some great creativity …

Part 2: The Crisis

The second part of Winnie’s journey involves a very serious crisis in the form of a web assignment. For this, I revisited Storytelling Within the Web and made a few edits to the front page of CNN.

As you can tell, there this a worldwide honey crisis which has been …

MJ Making A Comeback???

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Storytelling within the Web

Chins for the Win: Chinchillas Could Dominate the World

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NOT 4 DOGS (Internet Storytelling)

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X-Ray Google Storytelling 3-star

Here is the original webpage! 

I decided to change the listing I found for a house for rent on Lake Landor (not even sure where this is in Fredericksburg, VA) and make a ridiculously cheap house for sale on Lake Anna. I changed key words in the description to associate …

Having fun with PS3 Amazon Page!

Original Assignment

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Storytelling Within the Web – NYT Edition

New Webpage

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Storytelling Within The Web-3 Stars

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Storytelling Within the Web: Repurposed Faucet

I knew from the start that for my Storytelling Within the Web assignment that I wanted to re-purpose an ordinary object into something unusual and completely unrelated.  I searched Amazon.com under the “Today’s Deals” section until I came across an object that I thought I could re-purpose, a sink faucet.…

Red Sox make the World Series again!

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PacMan the Ultimate Maze Runner

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Apple offers unbelievable iPhone 6 deal…

Screenshot of Remix page

Original Assignment

Original Page

Remix Page

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It’s the NFL Time of Year

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Storytelling Within The Web

When I first starting reading this assignment it seemed really hard but it was surprisingly easy. I followed the directions and it was very simple. I chose to mess around with the Web assignment page.  I am in the middle of figuring out which assignments I want to complete. I …

Hacking – Word of the Year

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Part One: Searching

This is my first assignment for my final project!

To begin Alice’s journey, I created a Reddit.com webpage under the assignment Storytelling Within the Web.

Using X-Ray Goggles from Hackasaurus, I edited the html of a random post that I found in the subreddit r/AskReddit.

Below …

Abe Tries His Hand At Craigslist

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Introducing Me

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One Way or Another

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The Royal Baby Stroller

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What Kate’s been Pinning

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For this assignment though I wanted to make Kate’s Royal Baby Pinterest board. …

George’s Dating Profile

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I tried to edit Match profiles for about an hour, but they wouldn’t let me see anyone’s profile without signing up.  When I …

Buying Tickets

http://p.webremixes.org/rrecaxiu

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Fans React!

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I’m going to warn you now IF YOU WANT TO BE SURPRISED …

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The hardest part about this assignment was finding a webpage to actually do the …

Storytelling Within the Web

Okay, so this assignment definitely intimidated me when I first read its instructions. However, as soon as I got the X-Ray Goggles on my bookmark bar and played on a few sites, I was completely comfortable messing around with a website. So, I went on Amazon.com and searched for this …

Hackasaurus

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 Goggles into my bookmark bar, which allowed me …

It’s Tricky

It’s Tricky – Run DMC

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First, I had to download Mozilla Firefox because I didn’t have …

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Travel Hippy Style With Ozmomatics

As part of a ds106 final project story I am doing based on the Wizard of Oz, I have a part where Dorothy decides to go back to Oz. Not knowing how to find another tornado to whip her house (no one in Liberal, Kansas could explain how the house that was whipped to Oz was back in Kansas in tact. Continuity issues at the tourist trap). I decided to to the Storytelling Within the Web assignment hoping to find a travel agency with a hippy theme: From the Spring 2011 ds106 class came the idea of changing up an existing web page to tell a new story ” 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, but rather intervene in the actual html and CSS of the site—though …

Pinterest Peaks Interest

Storytelling within the Web “the idea of changing up an existing web page to tell a new story ” 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, but rather intervene in the actual html and CSS of the site—though you can photoshop particular images on the site. Essentially you alter the content of a web page (content, images) to make it tell a new story.” You can see my site here This is part one to my final story: My story starts with a girl, named Eliza, who is soon to … Continue reading →

Karma Catchers!

This is web assignment 713, “Storytelling Within The Web.” It is worth 5 stars! The assignment reads: “From the Spring 2011 ds106 class came the idea of changing up an existing web page to tell a new story ” you will be intervening in the code and design of a website of your choice to …

Final Project: Storytelling Within the Web Obama Style

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Web Storytelling Assignment

The link for this assignment is here: https://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/storytelling-within-the-web/ Here are my screenshot images for the Washington Post page that I remixed :p The standalone URL for my remixed Web Page can be found here: Washington Post front page re-done What I did, and I thought it was pretty clever and lead to an overall theme, was …

Twitter Has Been Hacked By Pirates!

Using Google X-Ray Goggles from Hackersaurus, I “hacked” Twitter to show what it would look like if pirates were to take over Twitter. Here is a screen shot of the finished project. I used the Twitter main page for my … Continue reading

THAT RABBIT’S DYNAMITE!!

I’m going to publish my weird borked edited web page for the evil awful horrid honestly quite educational Storytelling Within the Web assignment right now so that the code is at the very least out there and accessible before the storm robs me of my interwebs. Here’s what it ought to look like (flaws and …

Hey You! Here is how you tell a Story Within the Web

For this Web Assignment we were asked to take any web page of our choice and alter the content of that web page (content, images) to make it tell a new story. Here is the screen shot of the page web page I chose to alter. (Just click on the image to see the details) …

baby hacks

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baby steps baby steps
I need to play around with a more text-heavy site so I can play with all the colors and fonts, etc.!  I’ve used a lot of HTML before but since I was on a time crunch I just dawdled around Hackasaurus because Firebug wasn’t working…

Story Telling within the web

For this assignment, I chose to go to amazon and pick a gallon of Elmers glue that looked like a gallon milk. Then I edited the title, through FireBug and changed the title to ” when mommy needs her quiet time…she uses”. Long story short, my mother used to joke…

Mountain Lion Ad

Hurricane Sandy Bypasses East Coast, Baffles Meteorologists

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That’s…

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Amazon’s new real housewives.
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The Zombie King of Pop

Michael Jackson has Risen from the grave read the full story here.
In this week we started to do HTML and the web to tell stories. I took an HTML class back in highschool so I thought I’d give the whole Raw HTML thing a try and I think I…

Chicken Soup for the ds106 Soul-Storytelling within the web!

Storytelling Within the Web
From the Spring 2011 ds106 class came the idea of changing up an existing web page to tell a new story ” you will be intervening in the code and design of a website of your choice to tell a story. You are not to photoshop…

Cooking up Kittens

Storytelling Within the Web
“ 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, but rather intervene in the actual html and CSS of the site—though you can photoshop particular…

Hacking Away…

I thought this assignment was going to be very difficult and decided to take it on at the beginning of the week. Like most things about this class, I was wrong. Hackasaurus makes it so simple to do!
I got the inspiration for this ad during a halloween costume search.…

Google Recipe Search

he google recipe secret ingredient is… Children!

A Dirty Cop Cleans Himself Up: Soiled Harry

Basically, I transformed Harry the tough “do you fell lucky, punk” bad-ass into a pathetic loser with B.O, who undergoes a emotion jerking process of self-discovery:

On the Fence

MSN News tells the real story of the UMW fences!

Help Someone Else Do this Assignment

If you create a tutorial for this assignment, share it! To have your tutorials appear below, make sure your posts are showing up on the main DS106 site and that you use the following tags (or labels on Blogger) when writing the post on your own blog (You must use BOTH !): WebAssignments, WebTutorials713

Tutorials So Far

Extra! Extra! Read All About It!

Above is the screenshot. Here’s the link from Hackasaurus: https://thimbleprojects.org/HTTP/fcmaisano/568534/

So, for my web storytelling assignment, I decided to change a news article to about the yowie. The day I am writing this is the day that our radio show goes up, so I thought it was a good time. …

Tutorial: Storytelling Within The Web!

This week every DS106 student was required to create a tutorial for an assignment in the DS106 Assignment Bank.  The assignment that I decided to create a tutorial for was the Storytelling Within the Web assignment that was required for this week.  I had trouble with this assignment at first, …