Job Hunting!

I chose to complete this assignment because I like to complete assignments that involve my created western character, Talie. For this assignment I had to develop a “fake” resume for a fictional person or character as such, I created a resume for Talie, the western character I created for this course. You can read more about Talie here. I had quite a bit of fun creating her resume. For her background/profile I chose a western themed address and an easy email for her to remember. Her skills and abilities revolve around what she studied and researched while in college and what she has learned by working on a ranch throughout her life. For her experience, I put that she works for the EPA monitoring and regulating pesticide and fertilizer use on surrounding Arizona ranches and farms and she also works on her own ranch. I thought these jobs were fitting for a rancher who majored in Agricultural sciences and Natural Resources. As such, for her schooling I wrote that she attended Purdue University which is a well-known university. Since Talie is the owner and operator of her ranch and sells Milk products to the local stores I figured a good leadership example is that she is the President of her own company, the Talie Smith Milk Company. For references I created a similar western character who owns the Tractor store, named Billy Bob. So, if you are looking for someone who is knowledgeable in Agricultural activities, Talie is your girl! See her resume below!

I used a Microsoft word resume format to create Talie’s resume. This assignment was worth three stars contributing to this week’s 10 star requirement.

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Find out who you are!

To start off this weeks worth of web assignments I made a BuzzFeed Quiz. I just had to join the community and make the quiz. It took a lot longer than I thought it would since I had to download all the images from Google. Also coming up with a topic was quite a bit of brainstorming but I got it. I did realize that one of my answers didn’t come up so it’s just a picture. It should say “I am if I want to win”.

I have two sisters and I love taking quizzes where I see who I am more like so I made one about us three! Take the quiz below (it’s hyperlinked) and let me know who you got!!!

Take my quiz!

This assignment was worth 4.5 stars.

Google Translate Fail

The first web assignment I selected this week was Google Translate Fail which was worth 3 1/2 stars. For this assignment were had to find something in a foreign language and then use Google Translate to laugh about it. Below is how I did this:
First, I selected a well known English saying and plugged it into Google Translate:

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After this I translated the saying into Japanese:

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Once translated, I moved the saying back into the left side of the translate box and then translated it back to English.

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This confirms for me how bad Google Translate is! It mixed up the saying almost completely and now it makes no sense! I am happy with how this turned out!

 

 

 

Journey Out West

So, I tried, unsuccessfully, to get this map to embed. I eventually gave up and decided the best way to go about it was to just share via twitter and embed that. Even the tweet, sadly, does not display a thumbnail or anything. So, for this assignment, I made a story map with a twist. I was looking for ways to incorporate other characters and this seems like a pretty good idea. I created a journey out west where I encounter several ds106 characters along the way. To create the assignment, I just opened several tabs with characters and organized them in a way that made some geographical sense. That I have been all over the country certainly helped there… After that, I just made a story out of simple interactions with the characters. The upshot of it all is that I am not more familiar with ds106 characters. I may have to use that familiarity to create a far more extensive “which character are you” buzzfeed quiz in the future.

Buzzfeed character quiz.

So, for this assignment, I reviewed a plethora of the characters from fellow ds106ers and pulled out a couple that I thought I could get into their mind the best. I typified their personas a bit, but isn’t that the point of a buzzfeed quiz? I created 4 questions to try and prevent ties, but in retrospect, 5 would have been best.  The hardest part of the assignment was trying to find out how to embed a buzzfeed post, but I never did figure it out. In the process, I found a few ways to just make the quizzes though word press, so if I develop the quiz more, I might try that instead. All I could do is post it to twitter and then embed it. That is probably better anyway because more people might see it now and actually be able to take it.

 

Character Resume

For this assignment, I had to create a resume for my created character of Buck Smith. It was actually quite easier than I expected because I just used the template that I already had for my own resume still saved on my computer.

All I had to do was erase all of my personal  information from the template, and then fill it in with information that I thought up. I didn’t want the resume to be boring, so I tried to make awards that were sort of silly. I just would think up something that I felt would be included in Buck’s resume and tried to include it. The only thing in the resume that I really had to think about was his education. I decided that Buck being homeschooled would build a stronger bond with his father, who is the sheriff, and would probably be the norm in western communities. Then I chose a university out west that Buck could attend, because Buck should be smart to pull off portraying his dad all the time. The last thing I did for the resume was come up with clubs and activities that Buck would do in college; since he wanted to go into law enforcement, I tried to place Buck into clubs/activities that are well-respected.

To conclude, it was fun trying to expand the character of Buck by making him a resume.

Buck Smith Resume

We’ve Got Some Beef up in Here

The History of Andy and Dr.Wisdom

Assignment: Your Character’s Past 3.5 Stars

Assignment Description: “If you’ve been a part of DS106 for at least a few weeks, you’ve probably already thought of and created a host character that you will be following around for the remainder of the semester. There are already a lot of assignments that deal with your character, but for this assignment, you need to explain how your character grew up, and what made them the way they are today. Did they have a happy or sad childhood? What decisions in life led them up to the point they are at now? ”

Ahhh, the ol’ story between these two cowboys. If you recall tuning into Rodeo Radio, you remember the scandal that caused the uprising of the whole event. For a quick recap, Andy decided to barge in and try to rob old man Dr. Wisdom. A lot of people might have thought that was a big coincidence, but lets go back to the beginning and see what really happened.

It all started back when these two were in the schoolhouse together. Young Dr. Wisdom, before all of his success, was just a happy go lucky kid with the perfect family. Andy, on the other hand, didn’t have it all together like the doc did. His family was struggling, he didn’t always have a home, and he was incredibly jealous of the other kids at school. Andy didn’t want anyone to know about his home life, so he put on a tough front. He always talked about shooting his guns and running around the yard faster than any of the other kids. However, the doc never gave young andy the time of day. Doc was a happy go lucky kid and he just wanted to kick a ball around with the other kids. This made Andy mad. He wanted Doc to pay attention to him! So Andy just started picking on him and picking on him, trying to get him to tick. And one day, he got on doc’s last nerve. They got into a huge argument, and the rest was history.  These two grew up hating each others guts.  Eventually, when they got older, Andy decided to move out of town. Dr. Wisdom was relieved to hear this, out of protection for his family. Who knew when Andy decided to take the anger out on someone else too! On that day of the rodeo, no one had any idea that Andy was back in town. Thankfully, on the day of the event, the gunslinger was there to save the day, and no one got hurt. Now, the doc and his family are safe, and Andy is put away for good.

 

It’s a tad roomy in here…

Create Your Own Room

I thought this assignment would be easy, all I’ve ever wanted to do is build and create my own house, including the bedroom! however, I forgot how indecisive i am… This assignment really interests me because ever since i was young I used to move house every two years, meaning i got a new bedroom to redecorate every two years, and i loved it. I used to plan it out to the extreme, being given budgets of my dad i would find the perfect wallpaper and some fresh new bedding, everything would have to look perfect.

So for this assignment I created a new board on Pinterest called ‘dream room‘ and basically searched every thing i would ever dream of having in one room.

To describe in one word what i like my dream room to be like it:
COSY

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First things first, for any room to have the ‘wow’ factor, it needs a view. End of discussion.
Whether that’s a view of the sea side

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A snowy forest,

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The big bright lights of the city,

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Or who said simplicity was bad?

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I’m glad that’s out the way now, now a colour scheme, i like, no love! Really simplistic colours, i like greys and blue’s, golds and pink, I like everything to be quite subtle.

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Now the real business starts, bed, my bed had to be the cosiest thing going, i like the puffiest duvet, fur throws, lots of pillows. I told you i like my comfort.

  1. I love everything about this bed, the headboard, the throw, the cushions, and i love white bed sheets, however many chocolate milkshakes i spill in them…

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2. Now you can’t tell me that wouldn’t be the cosiest thing ever?! to have a fire place right next to your bed? oh and a cute little dog on your bed…

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3. Do i need to say anything, its simplistic yet so wonderful, i think i need to invest in a fur bed throw now…

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The few last important things that make a room yours, are the decorations, I either have loads or none, i feel like there just no happy medium for me with decorations.

  1. I think fairly lights can make any room look cosy, with your awesome view and your fireplace, I don’t see how you could want to be anywhere else?!

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2. If you didn’t know already, I love traveling, and i couldn’t find a better way to express my love than this big map, and hanging pictures or quotes of the places you’ve been.

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3. I wish my bed side table was this organised, no chance! However I love the idea of putting the extension cord in your draw, no mess and everything is right there where you need it, very handy!

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4. Finally, as i said before I love the fairly lights, not fairly lights hanging up photographs of my adventures and loved ones, now thats a winner.

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References

Sea Side View

Mountain view

City View 

Hammock View

Colour Scheme 

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Bed 3 

Decoration 1

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Vacation of a Lifetime

I had to think of a dream vacation and create a pinterest board of it for the My Dream Vacation assignment.  Here it is:

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So my dream vacation would involve going to a very remote place with lots to see in the natural world like Norway.  I don’t mind the cold and some of the sights you see in pictures are truly breathtaking.  I don’t know what kind of food they eat there, but I imagine anything would be worth bearing to take a visit there.

Next I think I would like to visit Japan to get a look at some of the technological marvels they have there, like the robot cafe you can see on the pinterest page.  Tokyo is a big city in particular and has loads to see and explore, especially for tech heads.

One thing I’d like to do anywhere is skiing.  I’ve never done it, but it’s always been something I think I’d like to learn someday.  Something about whisking down a mountain at a fast speed just seems incredibly thrilling.  And the sights are beautiful, of course.

To make this project, all I had to do was go to pinterest, create an account, create a vacation board, and find various pins on places I would like to visit.  I don’t think about this kind of thing very often, so it took me some time to think of places I would like to go.  The keywords I came up with were Norway, Japan, and skiing.

Johnny Obvious Resume

Johnny Obvious

This is for the Character Resume assignment.

Nobody else in the world can tell you the exact situation like Johnny Obvious can.  His unique skill set can benefit… somebody.  Maybe.  Probably.  More than likely he’ll just annoy people.  But you won’t find that in his resume.

So for this assignment I made up the humorous character Johnny Obvious as a caricature of people who tend to point things out that simply don’t need to be.  The points in the resume are intentionally left mostly ambiguous to add to the humor.

I just used Microsoft Word for this assignment.  I set it to 12 point font and double space because I think that makes it more readable.  There’s no set order to the various parts of the resume, since the point is obvious.

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