See the whole profile here:

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For this assignment I made a fake Facebook and Tweet for George Washington. I thought it was kind of funny because I go to Mary Washington.

This assignment was so fun! I used a program called Classroom tools and created both fake social media pages. I used a quote I found about his mother, Mary Washington for his post and an encouraging note to the Red Coats as a tweet. George is most associated with independence after the Revolutionary war.

It so interesting to sit down and think about the revolution social media. We think of it as second nature but to people in the past it is a foreign/non-existent tool.

I think that if George Washington was alive today he would not have used Twitter or Facebook to often but he would use it to occasional talk about the war. It was such a significant part of his life and lead to his presidency. He would probably tweet out information and encouragements to keep moving toward independence.

Media relations have revolved around social media. It would be interesting to go back and time and see what the figure heads of our past would tweet.

Assignment worth:

In this assignment, we had to create a page for any character that we chose. For me it was tricky at first because I never have been on Pinterest before. However, after playing around with the website it was easy to understand how to create a page. The challenging part with this assignment was trying to figure what character I wanted to create a page for. After I figured out that it was very simple to pin images to the page and create the Interesting Character Page. 

After a few minutes of thinking, I pretty much knew who I wanted to use for this assignment. A couple weeks ago I saw a movie with this character in it with two of my good friends. I thought it was a really good movie, my friends and I had a great time. The assignment doesn’t just remind me of the movie, it also reminds me of the great weekend we had, it’s hard to see them since we are all at different colleges. However, when we do get together it’s always a fun time.

Good Luck Guessing!!!

Interesting Character Page:

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I decided to do this assignment again because I love using pinterest and because I love guessing games! Here is my board on pinterest, and even though I pretty much gave the character away because they are in the pins, there is still a possibility of 2 characters, which one do you think it is? I am still working on trying to use the google X-ray on this board, but for some reason I cannot get it to work but I don’t want this to be late so here it is thus far! Beginning phase and the link to it.

Here is the original webpage! 

I decided to change the listing I found for a house for rent on Lake Landor (not even sure where this is in Fredericksburg, VA) and make a ridiculously cheap house for sale on Lake Anna. I changed key words in the description to associate this with Lake Anna and a $15 house for sale instead of a $1595 house for rent (monthly price) I even changed the first picture to a picture of a random house on a Lake Anna Reality site. The work on this really wasn’t tooo hard all it really required was to install the X-ray bookmark and then use it on a site and I decided to use this instead of a story or anything else because I did want to keep it simple so I couldn’t mess it up!

Here is the Link to the Live Redone page

For this assignment, we had create fake social media accounts for a historical figure.  The process to create this was pretty simple and fun. For the Fakebook, I posted my historical figure’s bio, about his family, and date of birth. I also posted a profile picture and and a cover picture behind the profile picture. The Twister Tool was very simple as well. All I had to do was be a little creative with his “handle” and the tweet he would tweet out to his followers. I wanted the posts to be funny and clever and I hope I accomplished that.

It took me awhile to think of an historical figure, I decided to go with Benjamin Franklin. There is no particular reason why I chose him, I just thought he did so many great things in his life, and it would be easy to post them on social media. I also thought that his major life events would be easy to tweet out but also have a funny twist to them as well.

Benjamin’s Franklin Fakebook:

Benjamin’s Franklin Twister:

I just had to do this assignment when I saw it! I have always wanted to go to Ireland, mostly because I am mostly Irish as far as my heritage. Also I know the landscape all over is amazing and even though it rains a lot during certain times of the year (summer for the most part) it seems like such a beautiful place to visit! Oh, and I love pinterest!! So here is my board for Ireland! This is a very possible trip one day for me and my mom to take, we have been looking at trying to take it ever since I was old enough to remember traveling to different places. The money is going to be the major thing to save up and have not only for travel expenses and/or if we decide to pay to go along with a group tour type thing, but also to buy mementos from the trip. We will be waiting until I am 21, even though the legal drinking age is 18. One place I really want to see is Dublin, not only because the Guinness Storehouse is there, but also for the famous soda bread and to visit the landmarks like the Dublin Castle. The Brazen Head (its a pub) is also in Dublin and is the oldest pub in Ireland dating back to 1198! It is nice because we do not have to learn a different language, even though there will be a definite accent and some words may be different than what we are used to. We have our passports which would be another requirement. There are no vaccines or anything that we would need in order to travel there or anything special that we would need. I am so ready to go explore Ireland!

2 stars

For my second web assignment I decided to do the Storify It assignment. The prompt was to use Storify to pull clips from around the web to tell an original story, or tell a story that is well known. As I am currently in the process of binge watching my favorite show ever, Gilmore Girls, I decided to make a Storify about how it was recently put on Netflix and I got lost all month in binge watching it.

For this Storify, I decided to start with the news that Gilmore Girls was being released, followed by a link to what the show is. I included clips from the show, the theme song, gifs and fun Buzzfeed-esque lists as well. I wanted it to show the comprehensive story of how how great this show is, and how much people love it- which is why I included tweets. I also focused on the theme of binge watching, because I know I am probably not the only one who clocked too much time on Netflix this month.

I’ve mentioned before how much I love Storify. I’ve never actually created a story using it before, but I really love the way it’s set up- incredibly intuitive and easy to use. I’ve been really impressed with it so far.

Original Assignment (3 Stars)

For this assignment, I chose the historical figure of our 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy. Turns out, JFK seemed pretty hip to the social media scene back in the 1960’s.

While creating the Fakebook page, I utilized wikipedia and other online pages to gather all the information I thought was acceptable, ranging from his siblings, when and where he was born, to his coworkers and significant figures during his presidency. Kennedy had a significant amount of siblings, and I was surprised by the number actually. Most of the pictures were automatic when I typed them in into the Friend’s block, while I had to change some of them because of the inaccuracy of the given photo. I had trouble uploading a cover photo for Kennedy, as it would glitch out the page and would lag/freeze it as well. Here is what the page looks like:

Link to JFK’s Fakebook Page

The Twister page was very easy, as typing in “JFK” gave me his profile pic and a background image as well. Oddly enough, typing in “John F. Kennedy” into that space didn’t give me anything at all, which was strange to me. For his first tweet, I simply chose his arguably most famous tweet, from his 1961 Presidential Inaugural Address.

I think social media for JFK during his time would’ve been very active, given the circumstances he had to be involved in, highlighted by the high tensions of the Cold War with the Soviet Union. Situations like Vietnam, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Space Race, and others would definitely have JFK tweeting and posting like crazy.