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Create Your Dream Vacation on Pinterest!
So far, 60 people have completed this assignment and it has 5381 views.
Create A Pinterest Board Of Your Dream Vacation This is an assignment for dreamers! If you don’t already have a Pinterest account, create one! Next, take a moment and contemplate where you would want to go. A vacation does not necessarily mean you have to select one place to travel to. It can involve a variety of locations. Start off by creating a “board” for your dream vacation. All you have to do to create your board is click the “create a board” option on your main profile page. You could title it “My Dream Vacation,” like I did, or ...
Color Walk Time Lines
So far, 6 people have completed this assignment and it has 2897 views.
Choose a color and then take 20 minute walk in which you take a 5-8 pictures of the color as you encounter it. Then upload the photos to Flickr and create a time line using TimeLine JS.
Create an host an interactive story using Twine
So far, 4 people have completed this assignment and it has 2681 views.
Use Twine http://www.gimcrackd.com/etc/src/ to create an interactive story. Examples: Myriad by PorpentineThe Temple by LunaRat Chaos by J ChastainAt the Bonfire by finnyBrooklyn Trash King by Ben Esposito Host your interactive story on your site and share it out.
You’re a Pinteresting Character
So far, 48 people have completed this assignment and it has 3877 views.
Build a Pinterest page of at least 20 pins for a character of your choice. Search for pins that relate to your character and things that he or she would want to pin for themselves. Use X-Ray Goggles from Hackasaurus to modify the board further to personalize it for your character. Bonus points if you build a page and have visitors to your blog guess which character you picked!
Privacy on the Web.
So far, 4 people have completed this assignment and it has 2076 views.
Count the number of open source programs you are using on your computer today. How many commercial software programs could be replaced with free and open source alternatives. I counted 4 commercial products on my system. If you need to, use a browser to get a list of open source programs which are available in place of commercial software. Think about the words "open", "community", "cooperation", compare them to the words "share", "like", "social data". How do they compare. Where could these concepts ultimately end up. What media are you using that compromises your personal data, count the programs and ...
Pop Quiz!
So far, 13 people have completed this assignment and it has 3021 views.
Using a free online quiz service (I used PollSnack), create a quiz that shows off your knowledge of a particular story. Try to make it interesting enough through the questions you choose and the way you phrase your answers that someone taking the quiz is able to see that there's a larger narrative informing the questions. Your quiz should have at least three outcomes and at least five questions.
Hidden Story In A Page
So far, 5 people have completed this assignment and it has 2674 views.
Wouldn't webpages be more interesting if the author provided commentary on the contents and went on tangents about entirely unrelated subjects? Or if a story suddenly appeared in the middle of the page? Or what if a website became self-aware? The concept for this assignment is simple: Insert a story into an existing webpage. You don't need to replace anything or remove anything. Just add your own content in whatever way is appropriate to the story. You can easily do this with Firebug (https://getfirebug.com/), or download the page and open it in a text editor. This shouldn't require modifying formatting ...
Storytelling Within the Web
So far, 105 people have completed this assignment and it has 7253 views.
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 ...
What They Might Have Done in Social Media
So far, 39 people have completed this assignment and it has 7260 views.
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 Abaraham 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 ...
Three Moon Wolf Stories
So far, 11 people have completed this assignment and it has 2653 views.
Your challenge here is to inject a story into the comment space of a product a web site such as Amazon or ebay much in the vein of the Three Wolf Moon t-shirt on Amazon (see the back story). More examples include the BIC for Her pen reviews or the Diamond Braided HDMI Cable Find an item that is ordinary and has not been given this treatment by anyone else. The point is to see if a comment can carry the essence of a story and if others will feed into it. Now when you do this, do not be ...