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]]> Welcome back from Thanksgiving break!

Since our class last met, I have worked lots on my third project! I recruited my friends at Virginia Tech to share images of their food with me during the week of class before break.  I began editing the images for Instagram and uploaded about three dozen post while I was home.  Additionally, I took screen shots of the posts and uploaded them to a Prezi presentation.

I worked through the many challenges and the short comings of the various programs I was using.  Towards the end of the presentation, I realized that the captions for my Instagram posts did not tell my story as completely as I desired.  I had several of my peers review my Prezi and got similar responses.

I will be presenting on Wednesday, but I still have revisions to make before my project is complete.  First, I need to edit several captions for post on the @very_hungry_hokie Instagram.  Second, I need to take screenshots of the edited posts and upload them to the Prezi presentation.  Finally, I need to update my “Work Cited” and figure out how I want to credit my peers that assisted me in this project.  Additionally, I am continually documenting the challenges I have faced to explain in my project three memo.


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]]> Write a blog post that informally proposes the story you will focus on for your remix, or in the language of Chapter 3 of Writer/Designer, “the what” you will focus on. Include the following information:

  • Tell us the story you have chosen.
  • Explain what portion of the story, if relevant.
  • Give us the bibliographic citations and/or links to at least three sources that you will use as you work on your project. You can use any bibliographic format you like, but be sure there’s enough information for me to confirm the sources.

Today in class we started working on Project 3.  I arrived a few minutes late, due to another teacher’s conflicting office hours.  I arrived just in time to hear about the importance of attendance and timelines important for Project 3.

The “What”

Tortoise and the Hare

 The Relevance 

I would like to apply the story to the journey to success for two individuals. The first stays in school for a number of years getting a variety of degrees and the latter character gets a job immediately after graduation.

The Sources

  1. “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost – http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/frost/section7.rhtml
  2. http://www.slideshare.net/prashfqb/hare-tort-modern-theory
  3. http://childhoodreading.com/?p=3

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