Sunday Funny 1:My badge

The Badge

Badge Assignment:

I believe that the places you grow up in are an integral part in the development of ones identity. For me, my parents work in the public health sector, so their jobs has brought me to live in countries like the United States, Switzerland, and China. The flags are a reflection of the places that I consider home and the places that have made me who I am. Living in various places exposed me to different cultural views and has molded and shaped my identity as a person. The three equal images of flags represent the three places that I equally feel are my home and a large part of my identity. I specifically chose the images of flags because I felt that the consistent sky blue background looked appealing. I had quite a-lot of trouble completing the assignment. One of the biggest issues that I still have is adjusting the badge to fit its proper dimensions of 300 pixels wide by 250 pixels high. Whenever I tried to rescale it, it would squeeze the size of the badge thus making the division of the three flags uneven and unappealing. I am also having particular trouble in creating a link from my main site to the blog for my english class.

Sources:

http://melikedesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/swiss-flag_1421110490.jpg

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1649894/thumbs/o-AMERICAN-FLAG-facebook.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/Chinese_flag_(Beijing)_-_IMG_1104.jpg

Looking ahead to week 2

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I hope you had a happy Martin Luther King, Jr holiday!

Remember that your first short assignment is due by Tuesday. Once you’ve created your badge, upload it to your blog.

Come to class on Wednesday having read Persepolis pages 3-32 (“The Veil” through “Persepolis”) and bring your book with you.

On Friday, you’ll need to come to class having read the first chapter of Writer/Designer. We’ll spend the class session going over plans for your web sites and will discuss the reading.

When I was showing you the course site on the first day, I explained briefly the relationship between my primary domain and this subdomain that I’ve created for this course and I mentioned that you’d be creating your own subdomains too. The time for that is this week.

By Friday, I want you to create a course subdomain (you can call it what you like, but eng101.yourdomain.com is a sensible choice) and install WordPress again, this time into the subdomain. [N.B. The second time you install WordPress in Installatron, the location field will autofill directory as “blog.” Make sure to delete that line. If you leave “blog” there, then your site address will be eng101.yourdomain.com/blog/ instead of eng101.yourdomain.com.]

Repeat the process of configuring your WordPress on the subdomain, just like you did on the primary domain. Give your subdomain a title that is not “My blog.” Create a static front page and designate a posts page.

Create a menu on your subdomain and add a link in the menu back to your primary domain. Create a page on your primary domain called “Courses” and add a link to your subdomain for my class, either on the page itself, as a menu subpage, or both.

Most of the work that I explicitly assign you over the rest of the semester, starting on Friday, will go on your subdomain.

By Sunday, you’ll post your second Sunday Funnies assignment, as a blog post on your subdomain. Note that I’m switching around the order I was planning to do Sunday Funnies #2 and #3. Look for a blog post with the assignment to go up very soon.

(image credit: “Obscurae Gallery’s 2nd Annual Art Lottery” by Flickr user hrckyowian.)

Sunday Funnies 2: Triptychs

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A three panel photographic webcomic. showing a crowded scene in what appears to be an art museum, focused in close on the crowd so that the art pieces are only glimpsed in the background through the press. The text on the panels reads "When we die," ... "the best part of us lives on." ... "The metadata."

Due: 1/25

“A Softer World” is a photographic webcomic that has been running at least weekly for about twelve years now. Each comic consists of three panels with photographs and words superimposed on them–often it seems to be a single image cropped into three panels, but sometimes it’s three photos taken as a series–and then the title of the comic appears when you hover your mouse over the comic, which then serves as a sort of fourth panel or commentary. The comics tend to be quite dark.

Check out A Softer World, skip around in the archive a bit, and get a sense of how the strip works. Then make your own Softer World-style comic for this week. Take the photos yourself and edit them into a triptych, then compose your own words and add them onto the panels. Don’t forget to also draft a title phrase! You can choose whether to attempt to mimic the tone of the original or whether to satirize it.

Once you’re done, create a new post on your course website and insert the image into your post via the Media Library. If you’d like to figure out how to insert your title phrase on hover, I encourage you to try it–it’s really not difficult, but it will require just a bit of playing with HTML code. (If I get a chance, I will create a tutorial video to show you how to do it. EDIT: see the bottom of this post for the super-easy instructions) In any case, if you don’t get the fourth phrase to pop up on hover, then include it as the title of the post or as a title underneath your image.

Somewhere in your own post, include a link back to this specific blog post (in other words, link to this url: http://eng101s15.davidmorgen.org/2015/01/sunday-funnies-triptychs/ ‎not just to the main address for this site). Tag your post with “A Softer World” as well as any other tags you want to use.

Then publish your post.

(image credit: “1176: I hope someone at [REDACTED] hangs this comic in their cube.” by e horne and j comeau of A Softer World.)

Edited to add:

I forgot how incredibly easy WordPress had made it to add the hover effect, so I’m just going to include this here. When you’ve inserted your photo comic into the post, inside the post editor click on the image to select it and then click on the link button as if you’re going to add a link. There should be a URL filled in already (for the image that’s featured on this post, that URL is http://eng101s15.davidmorgen.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/metadata_a-softer-world.jpg and yours will look something like that, but with your own domain name and the title of the image you provided filled in). Just under the URL box is another called Title. Paste your fourth phrase in the title box and save the link. When you hover your mouse over the photo, the title phrase should pop up.

Welcome to Experiments in Visual Writing

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"Homework" by Flickr user Stephen Ransom

“Homework” by Flickr user Stephen Ransom

Your homework to complete before we meet again on Friday:

  • Read over this website very carefully as it constitutes the syllabus for this course. Note that the Syllabus page includes 5 subpages, covering such topics as: how to contact me and course objectives; the texts you need to buy; attendance, participation, and other policies; how you will be graded; and how Domain of One’s Own will impact your experience in this class. There is also a calendar of reading and assignments (note that there will be some additional incidental readings and assignments added as we go); and pages describing the major assignments this semester (though as of this moment the final two don’t have much specifics included yet).
  • Add this site to your bookmarks. Make certain that you can find your way back here, because you’ll be spending a lot of time visiting these pages over the course of this semester.
  • Sign up for a domain of your own. (See this post for a note about choosing a domain name.) Install WordPress on your domain. Give your site a title that is not “My blog.” Configure the settings on your site, making the front page static instead of a posts page.
  • Come back to this post once you have signed up for your domain and leave a comment. Enter your name and email and the new domain address in the “website” line when on the comment. In the body of the comment, I encourage you to ask one question about the syllabus.
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