Storytelling Within the Web Assignment: How Cynics See UMW

Do you know anyone on campus who aaaallways has something negative to say about the school? In some cases what they say is true, but most of the time they just need something to complain about in front of their friends. It gets annoying. Wouldn’t it be simpler to transfer if you dont like the university? Apparently that concept is too complicated.

I created the How Cynics See UMW page by taking the original UMW homepage and editing the text to what is usually negatively said about the campus; “There’s no parties here!” “The food service here sucks!” ect. I do agree with a few of these, such as the small amount of diversity and the fact that our school’s slogan is cheesy, but I don’t complain about these aspects every waking moment! For the most part, I wouldn’t have selected any other college to attend.

Here’s the original UMW homepage

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And here’s how cynics see it
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I was unable to change the UMW logo and slogan just by typing over the text because the whole space was an image. This was the only place on the site where I had to use GIMP, since everything else was a basic editable text area.

Check out the main page to see the text a bit clearer. And for pete’s sake, don’t turn into one of these people!! People like these make the school more unbearable than what they actually claim.

Hurricane Sandy Bypasses East Coast, Baffles Meteorologists

Storytelling within the web!  This assignment would have been really fun if I didn’t have a massive case of writer’s block when I decided to get down to it.  I decided to remix a cnn webpage as if the coming hurricane-apocalypse mix was going to miss the east coast.

That’s just part of the work I had done.  I used the hackasaurus X-Ray Goggles tool that was suggested on the assignments page.  From there, I just made all of my changes (which were all text). Here’s the actual page.  I followed @cogdog’s post for guidance in uploading the actual page.