When we were given the list of options for this project, I was first drawn to Cowbird because of its unusual name. When I went to the site to check it out, I absolutely fell in love with it. The authors describe it as “a library of human experience” for people to add their photos and comments about life as they’re living it. As a creative writing major, this is everything I live for. There are different levels of organizations such as themes and “seeds” and questions they ask users to answer from personal experience. To see all the different varieties in experience under a theme such as “love” or “sadness” is truly beautiful. The photos are as brilliant and diverse as the words these people write and I cannot wait to explore the rest of this tool.

Hello devoted readers, I picked Pixton for my project 2. Pixton is a program through which you create cartoons, which I dare say is why I was DRAWN to it. But in all seriousness Im very excited to have an opportunity to work with such a new and unique medium. I’ve always enjoyed actual drawing […]

I chose to work on the Soundcloud interface for the Interrogate the Interface project.

I’ve used Soundcloud on occasion before to listen to music or audio files, and I know it is one of the most popular and most used tools for uploading and sharing music.  I thought this project presents an opportunity to become more familiar with an interface, and I thought that Soundcloud would be both interesting and very useful to become familiar with.   Luckily, Soundcloud was my first choice so I didn’t have to settle for something else.

First of all, I want to say that I’m perfectly happy with the interface I ended up choosing despite the fact that it wasn’t initially my first choice on the class sign up sheet. The key word that drew me in to this tool was “video.” Not only do I like to watch videos, but I enjoy editing videos, and any software that aims to make video editing an enjoyable experience is worth looking into. What makes WeVideo different than other video editing softwares is that it is quick, simple, and collaborative. I see an advantage in having several people having the ability to edit one video at the same time, and I can see this interface being useful for education and the workplace.

Today in class we picked out our multimodal websource for our next project.  Thankfully, I got to class on time so that I could get my first (and only) choice: Creativist. Creativisit is a website that allows even the most technologically stupid people (me) to create a story in one of many fashions.  One of the examples the website gives is a story that evolves in timeline form.  That gave me an idea for our third project which I won’t give away just yet ;)

I don’t know much about it yet, but I did have time to sign up and do some preliminary research.  I know I will be able to succeed in this project because the Creativist help page is awesome, and actually helpful! I also was able to look at some of the examples and the already-published stories really impressed me.  It made powerpoint look like child’s play while still giving some structure to the project.  It did not give me motion-sickness like Prezi so that’s always a plus too.

More to come with research!

kisses!

The Interface that I chose for my project is the Easelly site which allows you to create and share visual ideas. I personally love graphics that pop off of the page so I thought that this site would fit well with my interests. I love how you can make the infographics colorful and personalized for the specific needs of the infographic. This site relates to me because at my internship over the summer, I was involved with choosing graphics to pair with blog posts, and I always found it difficult to find eye-catching graphics. With this site, you don’t have to search for the perfect graphic — you can create it!