Pinterest Dream Vacation

I’ve never used Pinterest in my life because I’ve never known what you’re supposed to do on it. So when I saw an assignment that included using Pinterest to create your dream vacation I figured now was the best chance I was going to get to finally figure out how to use Pinterest.

The full assignment was to post locations on a Pinterest board describing where I would want to go for my dream vacation. So I signed up for Pinterest and started finding pins for the locations that I would love to visit during my dream vacation if I didn’t have to worry about money or my disability of being in a wheelchair.

All of the locations that I pinned onto my board are mostly European locations but they are all locations that I would love to see at some point in my life. I’ve always loved to travel to different places in the United States, so I figured it would be an even better idea to vacation in locations with different cultures and customs than the US.

Dream VacationĀ Link

https://www.pinterest.com/cadillaceazy17/european-dream-vacation/

In my dream vacation, I would start off in the United States by going to Orlando Florida to be at the happiest place on Earth of Disney World. I’ve already been to Disney World before, but I promised myself that I would make sure to go back to Disney World sometime in my life. In Disney World I would go to the Animal Kingdom, Epcot during the day (saw it at night last time), and the Magical Kingdom.

Then after going to Disney World I would fly to Europe to start the European part of my dream vacation with the first place I would visit as Paris, France. While in Paris I would try all the best restaurants (no snails) in the area because Paris is known as the food capital of the world. I would also visit the major monuments of France like the Eiffel Tower and Louvre Museum, because those are the main things to see in France.

After going to France, I would want to travel to Barcelona, Spain to possibly catch a Barcelona Soccer game against Real Madrid filled with the best soccer players in the world of Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Neymar. Then relax near the city and checkout some of the local cuisine.

The next location I would travel to is Italy so that I could eat real italian pizza and spaghetti. I would like to go on a tour of the Roman Colosseum, so I will talk to some people about making that happen. Then to wind down, I will go to Tuscany to stay at a nice hotel and drink wine.

After winding down in Italy for a couple of days I would then travel to London to see the sites of the clock tower and the London Palace (mess with the guards that are supposed to stay still at all times). After messing with the guards I would go to the Amsterdam in Netherlands to possibly try some brownies and see the major sites like the Anne Frank exhibit of where her house was.

Then after possibly being baked in Amsterdam by eating some of the brownies, I will want to go to Belgium to have some original Belgium Waffles at a quiet cafe along with some beer; since Belgium is one of the best countries in the world for beer. Since, Belgium is so close to Germany I will travel to Frankfurt, Germany to have dinner at one the highest ranking places in the area because I’ve heard Frankfurt is the place in Germany for the best German cuisine.

Finally, I will fly out to the Fiji islands to just relax by beautiful light blue waters for a couple of days until I’m ready to end my vacation.

Overall, it was a really fun and easy assignment of creating my dream vacation on Pinterest. Pinterest has a lot of great articles about these different locations that I plan on looking at in the future because creating the dream vacation just made me want to pursue going to Europe even more.

Storytelling within the web: Talie’s Wild West Show!

This week we focused on web related assignments. As such, one of the required assignments to complete was the assignment titled ā€œStorytelling within the webā€. 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 ā€œcowā€ 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!

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

My Internet Resume

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.

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

C Ya Later

C ya later, while running, of course. Get it? I try my best to make creative titles. For this assignment, we were required to go on a run and record where we went, using a tracking app. Ā Well lucky for me I walk my dog daily, ChiChi, and today I decided to try to create a C for my dog’s name, hence the title also.

Anyways here are the pictures from today’s walk.

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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 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!

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Life is a Highway

For this assignmentĀ (2.5 stars), we were to create a trip using google maps to tell a story! I decided to go ahead and do an unwritten story of a cross country road trip that I would like to takeĀ some day. A goal of mine is to hop in my camper with some friends and just drive with really no where to be. Obviously, there are some stops that I would like to make to see certain cities but I think it be so much fun to just get in a car and not really have a plan. I used google maps to create some of what my road trip would look like, unfortunately google maps wouldn’t let me add anymore destinations after San Fransisco. But, my plan would be to drive along the southern part of the United States, up the coast of California, and then make my way back to the East Coast with making stops Nevada, Colorado, Montana and Illinois. I found this assignment to be easy and fun because I was able to actually incorporate something that I would want to do in the future!

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Now Applying!

That’s right folks, longtime independent saloon owner, Riza McHale is looking for a new job. After selling the McHale saloon to a close friend, I am now actively looking for a job with similar objectives as my previous company. I have attached my resume below. If any of ya’ll see a saloon hiring, please shoot them on over my name and number, because your girl, Riza, is looking for a job.

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NOTE: I wrote this post as my western character on purpose.

Which Chrisley are you?

For this assignment (4.5 stars), we got to create our own Buzzfeed Quiz! I chose to do this assignment over others because I am always taking silly Buzzfeed quizzes when I am bored and scrolling through Facebook. We were able to choose any characters we wanted, so I chose to do members of the Christly family from the show Chrisley Knows Best. This is one of my favorite shows and I absolutely love this family. Creating the quiz took me a few minutes to figure out, but once I learned how to do it it was fairly easy. Here is the link, take myĀ quiz and find out which Chrisley you are!

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jsteele2umw/which-chrisley-are-you-2al2w

 

Dream Room

For this assignmentĀ (3.5 stars), we had to create a Pinterest board for our dream room. I love using Pinterest so I found this assignment a lot of fun and useful because I will just keep the board for when I decide to decorate my room in the future! I went with the all white/rustic theme because I have always wanted to do that, some things I have pinned before that I would consider doing! Here is my link to my board!

https://www.pinterest.com/jennasteele2012/dream-room/

 

Character Resume

Bonnies Resume

For this assignment, I wrote a resume for Bonnie Sue.

I used my very own resume and just edited it to fit that of Bonnie Sue’s impressive array of school history and skills! The assignment instructions said we could either use a Webpage, Microsoft Word, or LinkedIn.

Enjoy!