HQ Fail #2-Weekly play reflection/Create GIF

This week, I decided to make a GIF about a boy playing with a seal. The process of creating a GIF was extremely fun. It was also somewhat frustrating, as I had many options to choose from once again. I settled on what seemed to be a good short section that would transition itself from beginning to end in a repeating loop. This was my attempt at making the GIF seem like it was one long video that never ended. Once I created the GIF, I went back to my blog to post it. Again, I was confused as of to which code to use to upload my GIF. I tried to use the image link on the visual tab of this week’s weekly play blog. This did not work, since I only saw the link itself. Next, I tried the image HTML and pasted it into the HTML tab then I clicked on “Publish” to see my results. At first, I was not sure what exactly I was looking at. I was looking at SIX GIFS on top of one another, all moving together at once! This was not supposed to happen. After ten minutes of backtracking, I realized I had held down the “command+v” too long, pasting duplicate copies of the HTML code. I had yet another HQ fail on my hands. I was able to delete all but one, and successfully completed my weekly play! This experience also opened the door for me to create and add a required meme/image to my weekly blog post.

My first ever #HQFAIL-Reflection

On Saturday, October 14th of 2017, I was on Hypothes.is for the first time. It was time to do some homework for #beduc476. First task: create my own account. No problem, this step was completed within one minute. Next, I had to find out which articles I had to read. Done. Next step, copy and paste the link somewhere on Hypothes.is. Wait….what? Where do I begin my annotations?! Oh. It’s the little window that’s barely visible on the top right corner of my browser. Interesting, I thought to myself. The next task was to find interesting quotes to comment on. Perhaps if I highlight them I will be able to come back to them later and locate them easily. Once I highlighted everything I wanted to annotate, I went back to my highlighted texts. I dragged my mouse over the first text and clicked on “annotate” but nothing showed up on the side! 10 minutes later, I realized I simply had to scroll down the list until I found an open window that would allow me to type in my thoughts. Piece of cake. Some time later after I completed all of my annotations for the week 3 readings, I decided it was time to go to Hypothes.is to review all of my comments. What the……no. I don’t recall how I ended up with duplicated texts!! Now I can’t delete the ones and pair my annotations with the correct texts that I originally highlighted! This was a mess. After 20 minutes of trying to figure out how to delete half highlighted texts, I gave up. I emailed Professor Van Galen asking her to guide me out of this godforsaken mess that I created for myself. After I emailed her, I went back to the Hypothes.is site, clicked on one of the half completed texts and it took me back to the original page where I found the text. Wait….is that what I think it is?? It’s a trash can icon below my highlighted text! It was located on the sub list on the right. EUREKA!! It was because I highlighted the text AND highlighted it once more in order to hit the annotate button. I quickly emailed Professor Van Galen to let her know that I figured it out. She replied some time later congratulating me on my first #HQFAIL and wished me a good weekend. As I sit in class, it just occurred to me that I should probably blog about this!

Reflections on myself as a learner in digital culture-Week 3

In our third week of class, I have experienced a plethora of emotions with regards to learning social media. For example, hypothes.is. I would click on “comment” after highlighting a specific quote. What ended up happening was I made duplicate comments as a result. After 30 frustrating minutes of trying to figure out how to delete the duplicate comment, I finally figured it out! I went from feeling annoyed to feeling elated that I am now able to use hypothes.is correctly. It has been intriguing to see the sheer amount of information that is shared and passed around on twitter! At first, I felt overwhelmed that I was constantly being fed new updates. Now, I love that I get regular updates and relevant material that pertains to my interests. I would like to learn more about what it means to follow someone, and “Cannibalize” follow lists of people I am following. What information can I glean from these people that I am not already getting from the people that I am following? Some challenges that I have experienced with regards to participatory culture into the classroom is internet safety. Educators are held accountable for all internet activity that takes place in the classroom. This has led to some educators adopting a one size fits all rule, completely banning electronics in their classroom. I would like to pose a question to my readers, what is our role as educators with regards to teaching safe social media use? How comprehensive should we get with regards to teaching safe social media use? What are some issues with regards to safe social media, that are best left to parents to decide whether to address?

Weekly Play Reflection-Meme

As I completed the meme creation assignment, several things were going through my head. What picture do I want to use? What kind of message do I want to send with this picture? Do I want it to be funny? Sarcastic? Adorable? I decided that I would use a picture of my girlfriend’s dog “Bella” who begs for food from time to time, in an adorable manner. This meme summarizes Bella perfectly with regards to her personality, and what to expect if you are eating food around her. It was a bit tricky for me at first as I attempted transfer the meme from the generator page to this blog. However I figured out that I could simply copy the picture and paste it onto this page. My questions from this assignment have to do with the embed codes. In what situation would I use a particular code such as image link, BB Code, or image HTML?