This my friends, is a victory post. I was up until 1am finishing everything and so here is a record of the blog posts and the link to my Final Project.
Final Project: http://raws.adc.rmit.edu.au/~s3233707/finalproject/index.html
So after a massive scare in which I avoided my blog like the plague for fear of losing all of my posts- I am back. Confident (more or less) in the fact that my blog is still here and hasn’t collapsed. AND I only lost one post which I will re-upload soon.
In my lack of posting however, I HAVE been working on my final project. I now have a basic shell of html pages which interlink. Now I just need to make them more than just pages with titles on them; but I do also have a plan for that.
The front page is looking really good, I got my tech-wiz sister to help me make it an image map- very time consuming, but worth it.
The Twitter feed I got so frustrated at earlier this semester is now fixed and displaying the way its meant to! You can see my most recent “tweet” without needing to click on the link, its just there. YAY!!
Three cheers for better wordpress and improved plugins!
Today dear readers we have been asked to submit a self analytic blog post giving ourselves a mark through answering three questions- however we will be vague and not actually name our grade in the blog post…
To see how I have changed or completed my goals- a link to my Participation Entries. I think I have done well in trying to accomplish my goals, I know I have done stuff with or on most of the things I listed in my Participation Exercise for week 4- things like keeping my blog updated regularly and trying to do things with video and images.
Now the three questions:
1.What have I done well?
I have been very good in attending the lectures and tutorials. I have also been keeping up my blog well, adding new posts regularly as well as experimenting with new things- (see my posts on uploading photos and video) and pushing my knowledge further (see post on exploring formatting in wordpress). I have been neat and have labeled all my blog posts with labels and tags.
2. What have I learnt to do better?
I have learnt to do HTML much better this semester- and even some CSS, which is quite new for me. I have also been learning to find my own voice and to be much more regular in updating my blog. I even tried playing with adding a Twitter feed to my blog, and succeeded!
3. What could I have done better?
I could have put more research into my blog, and put more time and effort into it. I also could have done better on my portfolio- going for more new and complicated ideas rather than the same old boring formats and formulas. I sometimes found it hard to know exactly what to say in my blog posts, and how much room I had to breathe as far as what was expected of those blog posts. I also wanted to do more with Seth’s blog interaction wise.
I thought I would try an experiment today. I noticed recently that there is an option to embed video clips into our blogs, and so I thought I would try it.
Seth Keen showed us a video during his lecture on Monday of Eepy Bird’s Diet Coke and Mentos Experiment. (Not entirely sure what it had to do with the lecture…) So I thought I’d try and embed that same YouTube clip on here.
I love it when I see something new and exciting that I hadn’t seen before. This afternoon I happened to glance out of the third story window and saw a horse.
A horse??
Yes, a horse- painted onto the side of a building- with a rider in American Colonial dress carrying a banner. I think it must be some sort of advertising, but I can’t think what on earth it must be for.
I love those kinds of moments, they also happen on the web- where you discover that something is interactive that you thought wasn’t.
Thats right folks, it was time to start thinking about this project a couple of weeks ago…
I think I am doing my project on the third reading, generally because I see more potential for subtlety and detail than in the others, and I am a strong believer that there is power in detail. Like in clay animation- the thing that I love the most is the incredible detail within each frame- there is so much to see. Thats the point I kindof want to make- I think.
Started with pen and paper in class this week- outlining various ideas. Already I am trashing a couple of first ideas, but there is one that I like- and my tutor likes- which I think I’ll be going with. This shall certainely be interesting…
A little bit groovy, a little bit scientific- very cool- this blog, Boing boing is quite interesting.
It has been quite a discovery finding the little worlds that belong in the internet realm- the discusions that occur on boing boing are a good example of that.
Another interesting point has been seeing how much video (and in particular YouTube) has become such a big part of the internet and the way we interact with each other. It shows that we as humans love to show rather than just describe. If there is a video- even if it is only just of someone talking- people find it more interesting to interact with. Much like an interactive moving picture book for grown-ups (in the non twisted sense). Boing boing is a great example of this- it is rare that there is a post which only contains writing, there is always some sort of a picture or video to draw in interest.
Boing boing is a quirky little blog, with lots of interesting things to see and read about. Very cool.
A friend of mine asked me if I knew how to change the size of text in our posts. I didn’t, but in the process of trying to figure it all out- discovered new things about this funky new wordpress. Very cool.
There is a button- that, when you hover over it, says “Show/Hide Kitchen Sink”- I laughed out loud.
There is also an option to change the colour of the text- very cool, but still no way to easily change the size like in Word formatting.
Thinking on wordpress random-ness- there are all these little buttons which say really random and non-accurate things- like “Turbo”. What on earth is that supposed to mean? And the Hello Dolly Plugin is still randomising away- at the moment it says “Your’re still glowin’, you’re still crowin’” whatever that means…
I think to make something really really popular- you must be at least somewhat insane and at the very least incredibly random.
