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App Smash Final Post
posted Nov 20, , AM by brrobin3@diseinuak4web.net [ updated Nov 20, , AM ]I put the finishing touches on my instructional segment, and I really like how it's turned out. All that's left is for me to put the instructional plan up--and that's waiting for me to post this blog entry so I can put the URL into it. I've already discussed the ad campaign, so I'll go ahead and discuss the actual tutorial segment now. First and foremost, I put together a short video, using audacity for the audio, I had to use some different takes and do a little audio editing to make sure it was okay, and powerpoint for the video--I didn't need windows movie maker this time because powerpoint lets you export as a video specifically, I just had to set up custom timing for each slide so it would flow well.YouTube VideoThis is a bit different than what I had originally envisioned--using a screen capture program to go through the process in person, as it were, but once I actually learned how to go through it, I didn't think it was really necessary--mostly what you'd need to know is just where to find the information to put in, rather than what you need to do. So that, in combination that it was easier to work with and I was more familiar with powerpoint, led me to use that. Here is where I put where to find the information you need. While I used thinglink for this image, I hosted the other tutorial images on flickr and posted a link to each individual page in the dots. For ease of use, because my way of taking screen captures is just hitting printscreen and pasting them out in Microsoft Paint because that loads fast, and GIMP, while good, takes a while to open up and load things, I used that to highlight the information I needed, too. I think it worked well enough, but wasn't specifically necessary for the app smash. I didn't feel like my creativity was stifled in any way by the apps--mainly because if there was something I wanted to do with the apps I had but couldn't, I could just throw in an app that could. The only real upper limit is how much work you're willing to do, more or less. This was a little more free than my other assignments, too, because while I did a little app smashing in all of my assignments, I was given more or less free reign in this one, while the others had a specific kind of app we had to use for the assignment. Although, thinking about it, I think I used almost every single app that I had used over this semester on this assignment--which is kind of what I'm proud of the most, that I was able to include all of this. But for segments in particular, I like the animated gif that I made, and the thinglink, because they're neat and new to me. About what I would change, I don't think google sites has the best formatting options--but I wanted to keep everything together to make it easier to include things on my capstone. Finally, as this is a tutorial segment with it's own ad campaign, I think you could just use what it has and post the posters around the library, and the online ads in a couple of spots, and link everything to the tutorial and it'd be a good instructional campaign and boost usage of the system and the library as a whole, I think. |
App Smash Draft
posted Nov 16, , PM by brrobin3@diseinuak4web.netI threw together the last two flyers for the ad campaign--the one for the Inter-Library-Loan system contains more edited clipart. The QR code I got again from WebQR, and it leads to the website listed just beside it on the poster, the specific page of the project--which I used Google URL Shortener to shorten.I wanted to make this image a dotted light grey outline with a question mark in front, but I couldn't get it to look right--it didn't look immediately recognizable as a book. So I settled for blurring a little with that tool, and making it lighter before throwing the question mark in front of it, which I blurred as well because I didn't want it to be too sharp, resulting in this image  I used powerpoint for the gradient backgrounds on this, but Canva was still fiddly as it woudn't let me change the aspect ratio of the images--it wouldn't cover the whole page on it's own without having to be vastly larger than the canvas itself. So to get around this I actually had to paste two copies of the gradient image on the poster, crop one, and layer the whole image behind the cropped one so it looked like it was covering the whole image. |
TEDEd Tech Task
posted Nov 16, , PM by brrobin3@diseinuak4web.netIt was interesting, taking a scientific look at the Circe story of the Odyssey, showcasing the idea that what Circe did could have been through drugs rather than magic--indeed, some plants in the area have the exact effect of inducing behaviors and hallucinations that could lead to people believing what was described as happening. Furthermore, the plant that was given to Odysseus matched the description of a plant in the Ural mountains that can in fact counteract the drug in question. It was an interesting watch, and the quiz was neat. I liked it. I also ran through through this one, How a Few Scientists Transformed the Way We Think About Disease, by Tien Nguyen |
App Smashing Tech Task
posted Nov 2, , PM by brrobin3@diseinuak4web.net [ updated Nov 2, , PM ]For my tech task, I wanted to go ahead and make the web ads for the Books By Mail tutorial campaign. I used Canva for the formatting of the ads and adding text and backgrounds to them, the ability to just click and drag stuff makes it very easy to work with for this. To begin with, I made this for the big announcement ad--if they were to make a big post about advertising the Books by Mail service, this is a good image they could use for itI actually had to make this out of two separate pieces of clipart in GIMP: To put the book "in" the envelope I had to do a few tricks, first I cut the image of the envelope to pieces--separating the outside from the inside. I copy/pasted them both on the image of the book in GIMP, and using layers, I was able to order them so that the outside was on top, the book in the middle, the back behind the book, making it appear as if the book was in the envelope. I had to cut the bottom half of the book off--it was too long, but I love the effect it gives. Once I had the image, I threw it on Canva and picked that neat little design and the text to serve as the 'cover' of the book, and gave it all a nice little tilt to make it pop out a little more, and voila I also made an animated banner ad to post around the website for interested people to find (Edit: The animation doesn't seem to be playing here, click on the image to see it. It takes a few seconds to change frames, I wanted people to read the tagline first) This, too, was thrown together in Canva for formatting--and making the multiple frames of the animation as separate pages are downloaded from Canva as separate files. The background is a free file from Canva, and the text is from Canva as well, but the clipart is from diseinuak4web.net, and most of it is edited. The little house I added a little color too through GIMP's colorize tool--everything was tinged blue afterwards, so I had to recolor the roof and chimney, here's how it originally looked, by barretr The mailbox, much the same as the picture above, was originally two separate cliparts This mailbox from rlogman The shelves I didn't edit in gimp, I was able to do that in Canva. They're just this image from SteveLambert It's layered side-by-side with itself, the one going off screen is flipped, and I have them slightly overlapping so that distinctive blue book on the left side isn't right next to itself Making the banner an animated if was kind of tough, too, I had to look up a guide to figure out how to do it, and how to time it properly, but I like the way it came out, and this was kinda fun, too, it's been too long since I've had to do straight up image editing like that, it's kinda fun. |
App Smashing Post 1
posted Nov 2, , AM by brrobin3@diseinuak4web.net [ updated Nov 2, , AM ]In my previous projects, I addressed my essential question directly--how to help the most people become digitally literate in the most efficient and cheapest way, first with a poster of tips and information, then with a digital story about the rise of mobile devices, their importance to digital literacy, and some ideas on how to make use of those in helping people become digitally literate. This time, I want to take a practical example--not just saying here's a way you can do this, but actually doing it, so I want to do something cheap that could help a lot of people. The best way I think we could do that was by advertising for a tutorial on an online service that the library offers that lready exists--it would drum up more business for the library, and help people figure out how to do something online. Win-win. To this end, I'd like to drum up an ad-campaign for the Books-by-Mail and Inter Library Loan programs. I'll be coming up with an online ad, probably one or two versions, a big one and a little header bar version, and a poster or two to hang up at various points around the library, the posters themselves will have QR codes, and the online ads will have hyperlinks, I'll be using Canva for the ads, though I'll probably go back to diseinuak4web.net for some artwork to use and edit as the selection on Canva isn't great. Aside from this, I'll throw together another page on this website specifically for this assignment that the QR codes and online ads will link to, I'll either have a digital story-style tutorial with me talking over screencasting, or screencaps with writing on top detailing how to do it. It would give me some interesting experiences and challenges. Not the least of which is I've never actually personally used either Books-By-Mail or the Inter Library Loan system. I think it'll be fun to learn, though. |
Digital Storytelling Project - Final Post
posted Oct 26, , PM by brrobin3@diseinuak4web.net [ updated Oct 26, , PM ]I had to do a few more things to touch up my project, but most of my work I covered in my last blog post. Something I noticed and kind of accidentally messed up on was when I moved the desktop clock over so it wouldn't get cut off when I had to cut the edges off to make the picture thinner, I covered up the 's' Mobile Device Facts--so I had to load up an older version of the picture that still had it, and to make sure I got the layout correct and not skewed, I had to cut out up to half the 'c' in facts, so I could use that to line everything up.If I were to do another Digital Storytelling project, I'd probably try for some multi-image stories, I liked the idea of those better than single image stories. What I'm most pleased with, really, is that I didn't need to add or take out any material for my story, everything that I wanted to include made it run up to exactly two minutes, which I really loved when I found that out at the end of recording it. When writing up the outline I was sure I'd have to cut out something to make it fit--but it fit perfectly. Plus, I figured out how to link Youtube Videos to my blog. And through that I figured out how to embed images. Which is awesome.YouTube VideoFinally, I included full citations to what I mention in both the youtube description, and my outline, included below. |
Digital Storytelling Draft, Post
posted Oct 19, , PM by brrobin3@diseinuak4web.netI've gotten all the parts of the assignment together--the picture, the audiofile, and an outline, I just need to put them together and post them on one of the sharing sites--I figured I'd post the draft here first, though. I wasn't able to go with the image I originally planned, at least not tonight. I don't believe there's enough light in my room to take a good picture, especially of the TV--even with the brightness on the TV turned down, it makes the whole room look darker and everything look grainy. That said, I think I had a good idea for an replacement, and if I can get good lighting tomorrow, I might include it in the original idea. First, I grabbed some public domain clip art and made a desktop background for me to take a picture of--I used powerpoint again for the gradient and the text boxes, that was going to be all it was originally, just the TV on my desktop, possibly with a second, smaller monitor in front of it, or a smart phone, but then my photo plan fell through and I got to thinking--I didn't want the desktop alone if I couldn't have it on the TV, but how should I spice it up, I took a look at the Windows start menu, which was obviously designed first and foremost for smartphones and tablets, I figured it'd be a great idea and relevant to the story to include it--but I didn't want a sharp division between them. I went and downloaded an old program that I've used for art before, GIMP, or GNU Image Manipulation Program, and did a blur of the cut on the desktop and start menu--I also had to cut off part of the other side of the screen shot so it wouldn't be too wide and had to cut and paste the clock over a bit so that it wouldn't be cut off.While I was doing that, the speech was formulating in my head and I took the opportunity immediately afterwards to write down a summary--halfway between an outline and a script that I figured would be a good storyboard, as it were, and helped me make the story. I thought it might be too long and that I'd have to cut some stuff out, but it turned out, during the audio editing part, to be pretty much the exact right length. For the audio, I used Audacity--it really, really helped as I'm not good at public speaking, I had to do several 'takes' as it were, and audacity's ability to Append Record (adding to the recording instead of making a new one by holding shift while pressing the record button, I could delete flubbed takes with just control-z) let me do that instead of having to do it in one go, and that was a lifesaver. It also let me take out a couple of pauses and a moment or two where I stumbled over a word in an otherwise good take. |
Digital Storytelling Videos & Storytelling Post 1
posted Oct 18, , PM by brrobin3@diseinuak4web.netI watched a few of the digital storytelling videos, these were the most interesting. I wanted to include one of these because I love the idea of book trailers as way to improve literacy and get more people to read--this one in particular I like because the kid made two for different points of view of the book.Single Image Story - Historical Heroes Digital Story - 3D Printing I've got an idea for my storyboard as well, a photo of my TV showcasing a few clipart images of computers and other multimedia--to that end I looked up diseinuak4web.net, a website specifically devoted to providing Public Domain clipart that anyone can use for any purpose. The only thing is, I probably need to ask where to include sources on this as I want to include statistics of the growing number of smartphone and tablet owners. |
Digital Poster #2
posted Oct 5, , PM by brrobin3@diseinuak4web.net [ updated Oct 5, , PM ]I normally play projects like this by ear, so I wasn't really planning out fonts or anything else too much, nothing is set in stone for me until it's all done because sometimes I need to make changes for a better project. In any case, I used Canva for my project and I was kind of surprised at first--I thought Poster Board poster, not like a flyer, so I wasn't able to include that quiz I was talking about--I was, however, able to include QR codes, but that had it's own problems, because Web QR wasn't working properly to include the text I wanted--it was making QR codes, but it wasn't recognizing them if I tried to read it so I had to ultimately drop the aspect of just having words come up if you scanned the QR and focus back on making it link to websites. In any case, I tried using the Web QR code creator for a link to further information, but the link itself was too long, too--and had the same result ultimately I went back to the diseinuak4web.net curation tool and shorten the link through there and it worked fine. I also used the QR code images to make the poster a bit interactive--turning the picture of the QR code directly into a link for people who access it online but don't have smart phones. Or so I thought would happen at first, Canva Support tells me they do work--but only on the .pdf file for downloading it, which, for some reason, makes some of the images not show up quite correctly--though the online version shows up fine so I'm a little confuzzled by this. Still, I think it looks good and it's still accessible, so here it is. I looked at the layouts options as well to see if there were any that could help, but none that I could see had enough space to help me convey the information that I needed too--so ultimately I made my own, with the first page I decided to go with a smartphone or tablet style appearance with the text on it as it really encapsulated the idea. The free clipart helped, but I wanted a good generic Desktop or Tablet-style background for the tablet on the page, but Canva didn't really have one as an actual picture--and wouldn't let you use Backgrounds inside the frame, so I ultimately opened up a new Powerpoint presentation, made a quick slide with a gradient background as I thought that looked most like what I needed without needing to look up additional resources, took a screen cap of that and used that for the tablet background--I wound up having to make three separate backgrounds in that style For fonts, I wanted the poster to look as consistent as possible font wise--there's a lot of information and changing fonts can be distracting. That said, I went with Times New Roman (For some reason spelled Times Neue Roman on Canva?) for the headings for each page, though I did try several title styles--it took some looking to find ones that would fit--Canva really seems to like having wide open space, and I even inserted a shape behind the first and last titles to help them stand out. They looked pretty neat, though they kept jumping back to their original size every time I went to edit the text and I had to keep fixing them. Pictures in Canva were pretty limiting, too, working within it's free picture library without uploading anything more than QR codes and gradient backgrounds, but I actually think that helped me be more creative with what tools I had. They didn't have any free pictures of a family, so I wound up using their free computer clipart, and two copies of the tablet clipart that I had on the first page, I made one small enough to be a smartphone with the other as a tablet and put it all together as a picture of a family's computer devices--it's also where I used the different backgrounds. I also had to comb through the library for a picture of a lock (which I tilted to look a little better) and the 'no' symbol--they were both black so I had to turn transparency up on the lock so you could see the no symbol strike through it, I liked combining multiple clipart to make a new picture to suit my needs without needing to pay anything--that's what I think I'm proud of, I was able to do what I needed to best effect without needing external pictures to cite or having to pay Canva anything. Though if there was something I'd like to add for Canva it would be a larger free clipart library, and a way to filter out pay images from free images. Another problem that I found, though it was more an annoyance than an actual problem, was it ran rather slowly for me at points. There were times where it was lagging several seconds behind what I wanted it to do. For why I used the media that I did, it was mostly to be relevant with the material as written and to fill up space, a 3/4 pie chart for a % internet access rate, money for listing the amount of money in sales in E-Commerce, the 'family' of electronic devices above for using social media with family, the lock and no-symbol for a tip that online stuff isn't private, et cetera. For the first page, I put the images in there because I didn't want wasted blank space if I could help it, and another tablet image (it's actually the same image as the frame, just shrunk and tilted) and the image of a little information symbol would fit best. I didn't generally plan the images out in advance so much as look at what I was putting down in the text and try to find something that fit it best. As for the custom layout I made, for the first page I wanted something kinda eye catching--I thought the tablet look would help, and for the others, it's the layout I generally use for flyers--I didn't want to make it look like a page out of a book or a report, and I think the alternating picture-text text-picture sections help it stand out and generally look better. Plus it left room at the bottom for the QR codes and link information. As for how this would be used, it's a straight up digital literacy advocacy campaign poster, put it up in or near the computer lab or section of the library--the last poster specifically talks about asking for help from your local librarian if you need it, too, so that's where it'd fit best. In closing, I think, aside from having to narrow the message and audience down a bit due to space constraints, I managed to fit things together pretty well, and hopefully this could legitimately be used to help encourage digital literacy. Without further ado, here's the link, and the PDF download that's interactive. diseinuak4web.net?&utm_content=DABeZTSOUYk&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=sharebutton&cc_from_uid=UABeZa5egIg |
Digital Poster Post 1
posted Sep 28, , PM by brrobin3@diseinuak4web.netWho is the Audience? I'd like the audience to be the general public and possibly some interested teachers--generally laypeople, but also those who might be interested in helping other people become more digital literate, too. What information do you want to convey to your audience? Basically, I want to give some tips for becoming more digital literate, both for yourself, and things you can do to encourage and help other people do the same |
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