For the Storify It assignment I chose to retell Snow White in my own way. Skin as white as snow, hair as dark as night, and lips as red as rose and so forth and so on. Storify made it very convenient to find media from several social media sites to create my story I had made a different story originally was was very basic, but after I got the hang of using Storify I went back and tried to create a more complex story.

2 stars

[<a href="http://storify.com/KendallSimonpie/some-day" target="_blank">View the story "Some Day" on Storify</a>]

The purpose of this assignment was to use the Fakebook tool to make a Facebook profile for a historical figure and make a fake tweet for the same character using the Twister tool.

Thus, I chose Mahatma Gandhi, because I believe he is a great symbol of peace and unity. I used Wikipedia and some of his quotes.

Then I took the screen shots of both the Fakebook and the Twister created for Mahatma Gandhi with the Jingo.

I believe if the social media existed for Mahatma Gandhi he could approach more people with his message of peace and unity.

Mahatma Gandhi ‘s Facebook

Mahatma Gandhi ‘s Tweet

 This was a 3 star assignment

Here is the Link for his facebook and Tweet:

file:///C:/Users/User/Documents/Mahtma%20Gandhi%20Tweet.HTML

http://www.classtools.net/fb/home/page

Amazon’s new real housewives.

Yes, I did it. I transformed my guilty pleasure show into a ds106 affair. I used hackasaurus which made it super easy to do. I simply put the X-Ray goggles into my bookmarks bar and went to the page I wanted to edit. I clicked x-ray goggles and voila! I could edit all the text and images I wanted, so I did. I clicked P when I was done, and copied the code it spit out. I put this code into notepad, like cogdog suggested. I saved it as an html file, which worked the second time (ok, maybe third time) I tried it. I hadn’t put notepad into unicode, so it’s understandable. Then I uploaded the file to wordpress by clicking the cool camera imposed on a musical note button at the top of posts page. Yeah, and it works! woohoo! go me! (my first attempt was awful so I deleted it.)

I thought it would be fun to insert ds106 things into a real housewives scenario. I used Martha and Cogdog as the main characters, all in good fun! I think there is also a little mention of DTLT and maybe my friend Kendall! I love the real housewives and I love ds106. I tried to insert 106 into the writing as much as possible. Hence the seemingly random 06 but it does usually follow after a 1!

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 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 easier it will be (think Craig’s List).

This is a 5 star assignment

For this assignment I actually thought was was going to be really hard and I was worried about how I was going to get this assignment done.  The tutorial on hackasaurus really helped me though, and after figuring out what I was doing the hardest thing for me was deciding what kind of story I wanted to tell on the web.  While looking on amazon I came across the chicken soup for the soul books.  This got me thinking about how awesome would it be if there was a Chicken Soup book for the ds106 soul.  That is when I got the idea to use hackasaurus and the x ray goggles.  These tools make is really easy for me to hack the site.  I even used photoshop to create a new book cover for the Chicken soup for the soul.  After I got the hang of using the X-ray goggles it was really easy to add my own words on the website.  After that I then published my story and grabbed the html code and saved it to EditPad lite.  I then saved it as an html file and uploaded it to my blog.

Below are screen shots of my amazon page Chicken Soup for the ds106 Soul:

Here is the link to my amazon page on Chicken Soup for the ds106 Soul.

What They Might Have Done In Social Media

Too bad Facebook was not around for most of history! Use the Fakebook tool to make a Facebook profile for a historical figure and make a fake tweet for the same character using the Twister tool.  See for Abraham Lincoln the example of a fake facebook profile and what he might have tweeted.

Make sure what you create is coherent with the person’s background, and explain what it might have meant for that person to use Facebook and twitter “way back then”. Include screen shots and links to what you created, and elaborate on what their use of social media might have been like if it existed for them.    

This is a 3 star assignment.

I really have enjoyed this assignment.  For this assignment I decided to use the historical figure of Susan B. Anthony.  I choose her because she really fought hard to give woman the right to vote.  To find more information on her I went to wikipedia as well as this biographical website that I used to verify my facts that I found on wikipedia.  I then took screen shots of what I created with Jing.  I believe that if social media was around when Susan B. Anthony was alive she would’ve gotten so many supporters as well as she would’ve been able to get a right to vote so much sooner.  It’s too bad that she died before the 19th amendment was passed that gave women the right to vote.  But if there was social media around in her time there would’ve been a lot more petition and avocation for women’s rights.

Here is a link to Susan B. Anthony’s facebook page that the images below are of.