To complete my 5 stars worth of assignments, I did the “what they might have done in social media” activity. Worth 3 stars, I chose Teddy Roosevelt as my historical figure, because he is one of my favourite president’s.  His facebook showed him in his golden years and talked about his job and birthdate.

His twitter announced in 1901 that he had just become the 26th President of the United States.

Like Barack Obama did in the recent elections, I believe that Teddy Roosevelt could have really used Facebook and Twitter to promote his candidacy and get the support of the voters.

This week has taken a completely different turn from the last but if you’ve been keeping up with ds106, you should know by now this is nothing new. This week involved getting involved with the web and really taking it into our own hands. One of the assignments was Story Telling Within the Web, which involved downloading a program and altering a webpage. This is one of those weeks where I wish I was better at HTML but alas, I succeeded with the majority so I won’t beat myself up over it! I have to give praise this week to Hackasaurus, which really saved my butt. At first glance, it seemed really complicated, and like a buttload of downloads but as promised, it came through despite being overwhelmed at first. So I started off this assignment but going through craigslist and finding an ad in the Fredericksburg area to keep it local, I ended up going with one from the gig section. See:

It was a very innocent, non-funny post, right? Right. So I decided to have some fun with and add some humor to the post because how else would they attract any attention?

I know, I’m quite the comedian, please save your praise until the end of my post, aka the comments. I decided to mess with the obvious things, such as the title, but I even messed with the top links, and although I failed in changing where the links led to, at least I changed the title of the hyperlink. be sure to comment if you find any just knee-slapping hilarious. Here is the link to its own webpage just because that’s how official it is!

So for this assignment, we had to put a random story in the middle of a webpage.  I inserted part of “The Happy Prince” by Oscar Wilde into a Wikipedia article on Kim Jong-Il.  Honestly, I don’t think there is a more fitting place for this, especially since I used to have so much fun changing Wikipedia pages in middle school.  Did you know Napoleon was the primary enemy in the Vietnam War?

http://p.webremixes.org/gifocpkc

Here’s the regular page if you want to see that too.

For this assignment, we had to change a webpage to alter the descriptions of a product on Amazon.  I made a very multipurpose cork.  I used hackasaurus and just changed stuff.

http://p.webremixes.org/qdxtohzc

Here’s the actual site as well.

One of the assignments for this week was to do five stars, of our choice as usual. I decided to do the Youtube It Your Way Assignment, which involves picking a favorite video (for which I choose Bath Time!) but the kick is to alter the webpage so that no one has any actual idea of what the video is. I altered the description, the amount of views, the side videos and even the like button! See what else you can notice! I Here is a screen shot of before:

And here’s after!

To successfully do this, I used the wondeful Hackasaurus, which works such wonders. This was worth four ?’s, and it is an entirely fun assignment to do since it involves creativity and just bein silly. Here’s its own webpage if you wanna see it that way too!

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 the Ides of March just passed about a week ago, I felt that this was appropriate.

To make the Facebook I used Fakebook.  This website was super easy to use and all you had to do was insert different posts and bios similarly to how you would add them on Facebook.  Here is my Julius Caesar Facebook page:

To make his twitter I used Twister. Just like Fakebook this was quite easy to use.  You just had to type in the name of the person you were using and what you wanted to tweet.  The website inserted the picture and everything.  Here is my Julius Caesar tweet:

That’s five stars!!

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 assignment was finding a webpage to actually do the assignment on. I looked on Amazon, IMDB, Pinterest, and Craigslist. I looked at the past students work and some work that current ds106ers have done and always thought, “I wish I had thought of that.” Finally I decided to just google “weird Craigslist ads” and came across this one: Wanted: Mule named Sal.

Well it’s definitely an interesting request to make. So I decided I’d just edit it a little I keep some parts from the original and elaborated on the rest, and tried to put some humor into it. So here’s what I came up with:

Wanted: Traveling Partner

Pretty neat, huh? To create these changes I used the Moxilla Hackasaurus tool. I found it very easy to use and had no problems at all. So tell me, do you think we can find a mule, named Sal with all of these characteristics? I might be possible!