This course was practically built for me. I joked with my friend a few years ago that if there was a class about the internet, I would completely own at that course. Of course, when I first said that, I was overestimating my ability to complete a project like a webcomic in a timely fashion. That is something I regret. I wish I’d chosen a text-based project, because I do have a story I’d like to tell, I’m just not the artist I wish I was. I’m very glad my dream blog was appreciated, even if I didn’t write it for this class. I would have cross-posted that as my digital story, but I was slightly worried that I’d go an entire semester with only 1 or 2 blog-worthy dreams. Then I only created a grand total of 4 worthy comics.
I didn’t particularly enjoy the articles at the beginning of the semester, but they were a good introduction to what we were doing with Web 2.0. The technical stuff at the beginning was challenging, but not insurmountable. I’ve been wanting my own website for a while, though, so that could be just me and my eagerness to learn exactly what we were covering. A good part of this course was learning about different websites and tools that exist for creative purposes. The 60 tools for digital storytelling, Picnik, Audacity, Wordle, these are great tools that I didn’t know about. Comicpress, too. And one of the most excellent things was exposure to new blogs and digital stories to read.
Of the class projects, I think my favorites were the Audacity projects and the Jing project. Both of them were surrounded by technical issues (Audacity made my overheating and unhappy computer crash the first time, and the videos from Jing took 24 hours to upload) but the assignments and the projects were good and fun ideas. My least favorite of the projects was the video one, I thought the clips we had to choose from were too limiting. One problem that I noticed, something that got better in the second half of the semester, was the deadline issue. Often enough the assignments wouldn’t get posted or I wouldn’t see them until Wednesday, and the project was due Thursday. But once we started getting into the more difficult stuff, mid-semester, that got much better.
I did mean it when I said this was my favorite course this semester. This was an awesome experience. Thank you for a good time!
Monthly Archive for April, 2010
I still owe you guys a comic. There’s only one left to complete this 1 dream story. I’ve not been the most productive comic artist, and for this I apologize.
Last week I drew this for a Giant in the Playground contest.
A Rabbi, a Priest and a Buddhist Monk walk into a bar
The theme this month is “jokes”.
Here’s a Wordle of my dream log!
Also, Im Juli is my new favorite movie, and you should watch it. If you like/don’t mind foreign flicks and/or romantic movies.
Also also, FUCK YOU JIM BUTCHER! STOP CACKLING AT US AND FINISH WRITING GHOST STORY! DON’T WRITE MORE CODEX ALERA, I DON’T CARE, YOU CAN’T JUST LEAVE ME WITH THAT CLIFFHANGER FOR A YEAR! YOU BASTARD!
…. The above might make more sense to you if you read The Dresden Files and have read the most recent book, Changes.
Am I allowed to curse on my blog?
*deep breathes* Ok, next post will be a comic.
My screencast. It’s wide, so I’m linking it.
Eltville
The video Kayla and I made
Also, some idiots in Oklahoma
And back to my German paper. x_x
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