Every picture has a story behind it and it is up to the viewer to decide what the image may be trying to portray. It was fun arranging everyone in class that were in my group because we all put our heads together to come up with an idea to tell a story in our picture.

On one side of the image the group is fighting with each other and the dominant fighters are visible. Where as, on the other side of the picture the recessive opponents become the dominant fighters and fight back. Moral of the story, fight back against those that provoke.

After breaking the ice with the exercise, we decided to take another picture to tell a different story/message.

On one side of the image we have our socials, the interactive and movement group. On the opposing side of the image, we have our tech socials. This group is on their phones and interacting through social media. I like the juxtaposition in this photo since we have two different kinds of social groups.

We decided that we didn’t want to stop there, we wanted to play with the panoramic and see how the image can be distorted.

Some of the challenges that we faced were: the perspective change also changed the lighting on the subjects and some of the movement from the subjects were minimal. Nonetheless, things like some of our subjects, the ceiling and the floor were distorted. Maybe if the camera itself had some movement it would capture the subjects to be more distorted.

All in all, this group activity was enjoyable and it definitely brought out the creativeness in all of us so it was really cool to put our heads together to come up with our product.

This was awesome 🙂

HEY EVERYONE!!! Although it took a while to get my site somewhat together, I would love to invite you guys to check out my very first blog post on there! I’m very excited about it if I do say so myself and think it could benefit some of you as well. How could your blog post possibly benefit me? Well, I’m glad you asked.

If you’re a movie lover like myself or just looking for a good watch,  then you should check out my post! basically,  I wrote about five really good movies that I have watched recently with a little description and my rating of it all. I also included the links so you can see the watch options, the actors/actresses starring in the movie, and much more. If that isn’t enticing enough, I have also made some changes to my site from the last time so maybe that will catch your attention! 

Assignment#11 Panoramic Storytelling & Multiplicity.

In this assignment I will share my multiple attempts using a 360 panorama, with my phone inside my room. This is my first attempt using the 360 panorama(Sorry for my messy bed), I think that it was a solid and good attempt, it actually looks like if it was a normal photo to me, however you can kind of see that there is some curvature on the bed and probably in the walls.

This is my second attempt on doing something with the 360 panorama, here I tried to replicate my hand in each frame, however since I was using one of my hands to grab the quarter and the other grab my phone, therefore I end it up shacking a bit, as you can see I end it with a somewhat of a fainted hand over each frame, you can even see a black void in the top left corner due to my shacking hands.

This is my last project/photo with the 360 panorama,  I tried to make a mini story with a plushy, the narrative of the story is that the plushy is trying to get to the computer, in order to start doing his homework, however he has to make a huge jump from the kingdoms of my bookbag to the land of the bed to finally arrive to the land of the laptop.

In my last piece, I discussed how I went about constructing my website. I describe how I downloaded Astra and began customizing my website by altering the theme initially.  I choose to get a starter template that will provide me with website template options that I can tweak for my own website. A starting template is what it’s called. Elementor is also what I use to design and update my pages. Elementor is a drag-and-drop page builder for WordPress. This plugin helps you to create gorgeous pages using a visual editor. It’s designed to make creating dynamic web pages simple.

Since last week, a lot has transpired, and I’ve updated my website to make it more presentable for today. I’ll show you my newly updated page, and you’ll get the opportunity to visit my website today. I haven’t completed revising the ABOUT categories, but you should have a look at the rest and let me know what I can do to better any of the work I’ve already done in the comments. I haven’t change the name of the website but I’m working on creating a really great logo for it. My website is still a working progress….

Before you read the next paragraph, take a look at my website so far. By the way, “learn more” is not working because I haven’t linked anything to it yet.  Also check out my first blog. 

I wanted to discuss nutrition in my first blog on my website, and how vital it is for people to take the required steps to care for their bodies. Food is vital because it provides energy for activity, development, and all bodily processes such as breathing, digesting food, and staying warm; as well as materials for body growth and repair, and for keeping the immune system healthy.

In the next few weeks, I’ll be writing more blog posts on my culture’s food and offering various types of dishes for you to try. I’ll show you how to cook jollof rice, Moi Moi, fried rice, and Gizdodo. You’ll get a deeper look at how to prepare Nigerian cuisine.

During the process of selecting a domain name, I thought it would be fitting if I make my website based on my podcast the Chokeholdepodcast Is a podcast about wrestling that I had started about 5 years ago with my friend from college First the process seems a little difficult because it took me a while To understand how to use WordPress from the reclaim hosting site and not from wordpress.org which was the issue I was running into but figure it out eventually.

https://giphy.com/gifs/tipsyelves-math-26gR0YFZxWbnUPtMA  

I really enjoyed delving into the process and figuring it out step by step and just kind of getting  ingratiated with the material and the website building process and although I still feel like I’m getting the hang of it I still feel that I’ve come along further than I have when I first started which is the keep and Walmart website is still in development I have a direction that I want to take it in and I’m playing to see it through and hopefully I’ll be able to bring some of these ideas to the forefront and be able to share them as I go through my process.

https://giphy.com/gifs/GGOO8NJNh5kty

(click the images above to enlarge)

Week #12 –> Welcome Back! (another FUN in person week!)

Assignment #11 – details are below!

A few semesters ago in our Digital Storytelling class we played with the idea of non traditional image-making and multiplying ourselves into a single image frame. (No photo editing software required, but it helps later on) By using the “panoramic” feature of our smart phone cameras we created two examples above to show the potentials of the project by using our immediate surrounding in this case, the hallway outside our classroom and the class. 🙂

The top image is a traditional class portrait. It’s a long stretched frame that bends itself in an overly extended way. The light source is coming from behind the photographer giving off a great amount of natural bright light. The bottom image is the opposite and we see how the bright light from the windows serves as back-lighting when the photographer is behind the light source shooting the image directly at it. The light places an emphasis on the absence of that light and creates a shadow effect of the students in their composition. We talked about how lighting can add this effect and extend a narrative.

Let’s try again with our class this week in person!

But how can we push the idea further? Should we collaborate as a single group or work in 2 or 3 smaller groups? Will other objects be added to the potentials of the project? How can we create a “story” through this idea?

But wait, “how” are these images (above) created?

1. Open your smart phones camera and set it to “panoramic” mode.
2. Arrange the subject(s) in one area to the left side of the photographer. Give a good amount of distance between the photographer and the subject(s). The subject(s) need to hold still as the photographer begins to move the camera past them until they are out of the view finders frame.
3. Once the subjects are out of the viewfinders frame the photographer stops the motion of the camera and holds it in place. The subjects then move behind and around the back of the photographer and slowly gather themselves back into a new pose or position on the right side of the photographer.
4. The photographer continues to move the camera past the subjects until they fit into the composition.

What will you do with this new technique?

How will you use it to “tell a story” in one frame using the same subjects/objects? What kind of situation or narrative can or will you you create?

Let’s share our results in class!

**Assignment #11 Details: Create a new blog post here on CT101 that tells a multiplicity story in one panoramic image frame, as you now know, the potentials are endless! Yes, you can take more than 1 picture and I highly encourage it as you will need to practice and have contrasts, perhaps you take a whole series of images? Either way, your image(s) should tell a story, share a situation or aftermath of “something” –  Perhaps your story is fictional? Perhaps your story is also written in a “How-To” tutorial format about your process? 

PS – panoramic images can be pretty big in terms of file size! Its likely best to resize the images and make them smaller before uploading them here to CT101 – I suggest resizing the images with one of these free tools -(yes, plenty to explore!)  https://fixthephoto.com/best-free-photo-resizing-software.html

What will you do? Have Fun!

This is kind of overwhelming I thought to myself as I opened up WordPress to start customizing my site (overthinkersanonymous.net) It was time to decide on a theme. Hmmmmmmm. Decisions, decisions, keeping in mind what Professor Seslow said, I went with the safest option that being twenty twenty. I was already feeling overwhelmed about creating a website in the whole so the last thing I wanted to do was complicate things more. I then proceeded to choose a background color, and image and added a little introduction to my about page.

Although it may not look like much, I worked on the appearance of my website and was just trying to figure out WordPress on the whole. If a series is considered two pages, then yes, I created a series of new pages. I added recipes and poetry pages BUT they do not show up on the menu bar which is something I have to figure out.  However, the pages pop up when you type them in the search bar. Although I rewatched the recorded lecture two or three times, I was not having the best experience with WordPress and decided that it was best if I go on YouTube. When I was adding the finishing touches to my half-complete website, I finally figured out how to edit my pages properly and decided to save that for the next assignment because at that point I was getting frustrated and when I get frustrated I don’t do things to the best of my ability but just do the bare minimum which is the last thing I wanted to do for this site.

Overall, I think I had a decent experience with my first time using WordPress though things could have gone much better. However, this is not stopping me from achieving my desired website despite the difficulties I encounter along the way which is expected because I’m not the biggest fan of technology all the time. 

Website- http://videogknow.com/

First, I went through some themes to see what I would like; I clicked the appearance tab to see the options.

Then I decided to use this theme because there’s red in the design, and that’s my favorite color.

The next thing I did was to put out a background image because having an excellent background will make your theme pop out, making it easier to see and read the text provided. After that, I decided to give my website an icon because it’s an excellent way to represent something and give you an idea of what that might be.

I used this light red as my background color since it’s bright and mixes with my theme’s colors.

(Website Icon photo)

From customizing my website, I learned that there are millions of things to choose from when building a website. You can go from gaming to business, and everyone can look at it. I haven’t decided on what to write yet, which I will in the future as soon as I can come up with some topics/ prompts so that everyone can follow.

Stepping into WordPress Blogging World….

First of all, I would like to thank prof Ryan Seslow for making the process of Domain Name Registration, Hosting Set-Up & WordPress Installation so smooth and straightforward! It literally took 5 minutes for me to complete the entire process and including the account set-up in WordPress.

To begin the process, first I click on the link of  Reclaim Hosting that prof provided to register the Domain Name. Since I wanted to build my website based on my traveling experiences, the domain name love2explore.net fits perfectly for my website, and fortunately, it was available. In fact, most of the names from my list were available.

After that, I authenticate my account by entering the required information and using the offered promo code and that’s all. Before installing  WordPress, I changed the username, email and password, saved them for me as the prof mentioned, and then I installed WordPress.

In order to make changes and customize my site, I followed this YouTube tutorial. This video shows how to work with the new WordPress 2022 Theme Editor.

Overall, I would like to say, it was a pleasant experience. I am excited about this new blogging journey with WordPress and can’t wait to start customizing my site and post my first blog. I would like to invite everyone to visit love2explore.net  and hope you all will like it!!

I have selected VideoGKnow.Com as my domain name. First, I looked through the post to better understand it before doing it, then I clicked the link provided, the reclaim link. I checked to see if some of my domain names were there, but some are taken while others are free, so I decided to go with VideoGKnow.Com. In my previous post, I mentioned that I want to use a website to provide information on specific videos games so people can get someone else’s opinion.

When you click the reclaim link (which takes you here, type your domain name), you will have to fill in some personal information after selecting a domain name. (Don’t forget to use the code sent to your york email).

After filling in your information, you will end up on this page.

They would ask to verify your Gmail that you used (they will send a link for you to click to verify ITS SIMPLE!). after that, you can head to your Cpanel and click on the first box which would be WordPress.
You click the install button, and it will begin installing; word press into your computer.

Overall experience was simple to do, but at the same time, I needed to research further to understand how to do it. I watched back the zoom video that the professor had provided us (Helpful).

Write a new blog post that shares a few of the potential domain names that you would consider using for your website. List them (at least 5-10 potential names) and say a few words about why they would be good examples for the website that you will build.

TownSafe.com

Decisive.Net

Mastersbot.com

decisivenow.com

These names can relate to me because I always wanted to make a sort of bot website for this app called discord. Discord is just like the other social media platforms which its mainly about gaming/connecting with people. I had discord since 2016 and always used it. In discord, there are bots that people make that make it a game-changer.  An example of a discord bot would be a bot called Chip.  Chip is a bot that people use to listen to music. the purpose of having a music bot is list/play your favorite music with your friends in one place.

How to use chip

What will your new website be about? This part is totally up to you! If you wish, you can use the website project itself for a specific project, for example, perhaps you want to share your passion for cooking and poetry. Which means you will be primarily writing blog posts about cooking and poetry. This can also be applied to sports, or gaming, or politics or journalism, or simply put, website that fused together many interests as well as your ct101 assignments.  Share your thoughts, excitements, fears and any other sentiments about how you are feeling about this next chapter in your life as a website owner! Please include a few hyperlinks and or screen shots of some of your favorite websites, let us know why you like them!  

I plan to make my website about either, as I said earlier, making bots for this specific platform or something related to gaming since I enjoy it very much. Listing games that I would recommend people try out. So it will mainly be a source of information type of website for a specific topic. Youtube is what I always use because of how useful it is. Many people, including myself, enjoy having something to watch to learn or find something entertaining. Another website I like is Imgflip which is a website to make memes. I always like making memes for just the laughs and giggles. Memes are very enjoyable, and making your memes is just as cool as finding memes.

Recap
Assignment 1

Assignment 2

Assignment 3

Assignment 4

Assignment 5

How am I doing in CT101?

At first, I felt like I would fail, but I am doing somewhat ok right now. I am still rather behind everyone else; I let myself go out of control and poorly managed my time. I always let the time get a hold of me and get me to think that I have time, but in reality, time never waits for me.

How many points have I earned so far, and what grade do I believe I am maintaining?
I am not sure how many points I have due to not having a lot of work, but I have started posting and commenting more.  I will keep myself in check and try to maintain an A or B when I get my final grade at the end of the semester. I have been slow and managed the time I had poorly, but I will turn this around.

What have I learned and retained the most?

I have learned a lot of ways to express and customize, including a lot of information as well. That information would be the many websites I obtained throughout this semester at CT 101, such as  https://mmm.page//,  https://assignments.ds106.us/, and https://giphy.com/. I have been experimenting and researching more with these websites to expand my creativity and knowledge of websites.

What new skills have I developed, cultivated, and displayed regularly in my weekly posts?

I started using photoshop more to get used to it to use it more in the future. I have slightly felt like my grammar got a little more substantial from posting blogs since I often double-check to see if my sentences are lined up. I have gotten better when getting ideas due to how many ideas I had to think about for the blog posts.

How do I assess my performance through self-reflection in this class?

I can assess my performance by checking the feedback on my posts so I can edit them to make them better.  If I have trouble doing a blog post, I will look back at the professor’s recording to see if I am in check when it comes to completing the blog post correctly. I can also look at other classmates post’s to help me understand more.

What do I know now that I did not know before taking this class?

I realized that it requires a lot of thinking to get some of these posts done. I know now that they are not easy as I thought they were. I also realized that this is an excellent way to find out who you are. I feel like not many people can express themselves due to the emotions they contain; by typing them out, it’s easier to see what we dislike, enjoy, love, goals, and so on.

Do I see my weekly blogging work expanding creatively? If so, please explain –  or am I stuck in a loop where my posts seem to look the same most of the time? How will I change that?

I feel like throughout most posts, I have been typing more and more just because there’s a lot to talk about when it comes to specific posts. I have started thinking more about the topic, so it gives me more ideas to write about and how to explain them in general.

Are there any assignments that you are missing? If so, list them. Are you commenting regularly on your classmates posts? Are you responding back to comments given to you by the professor & your classmates? Are you participating during the class time? If not, explain why. This is the time to be accountable. How will you make needed improvements?

I am currently missing 7,8,9,10, etc., due to my improper time management and having to do finals projects/Midterms for other classes, and I know that I can always have the time to make these up since there is no due date. I did wrong because I focused on one thing too many things to the point where I get fell behind on other work without realizing it.  I have started to get better at managing my time throughout college and slightly improved. I am slowly making up the work and will get them done.

What are you inspired to do? What are you inspired to make or create?

There’s a video game called Kingdom hearts where the main character Sora loses his friends, so he tries his best to find them. Of course, he gets many roadblocks and dead ends during his journey, but he always gets back up from it. I feel a form of similarity between me and this character because, throughout my life, I always lose confidence and feel like I am spiraling down forever, but I end up getting back on my feet and start climbing up. College can be an example of when I fell behind in everything and had regrets and self-doubt. Throughout that phase, I know that I can’t let my family down, which wakes me up and makes me move. This has been my cycle since high school.
The Main URL mmm.page/manpreet.main
Links I used- Gifer

2. In a new blog post, share your experiences working with mmm.page. What are you compelled to create? What did you create? Be sure to share the published link to your page(s) – its a good idea to take screenshots and hyperlink directly to the screenshots. (we already know how to do this)
   
   MMM. Page seemed simple to use and it was easy to understand where everything is.
   I decided to make some form of a short storytelling someone what I can go through. It feels right to me to make a short timeline and have something meaningful for others to understand someone’s view on life. It’s always calm and meaningful to express something visually through the internet. It’s not only me that is going through something like this. People worldwide feel like they are falling behind in school or life.

    Assignment #4- DS106 I decided to do this for the first assignment.
How I went about it is that first, I started with a bob ross painting 

The photo I used for assignment 1
The results of the photo
How I did this is that first, I opened up photoshop 
then I proceeded to upload the two images to photoshop

From there, I first outline the bird with the object selection tool
To place the bird photo onto the landscape photo so they can be within the same layer. After fusing them, I wondered what it would look like if I had removed some colors, which resulted in a lovely white/black photo, but I also experimented by removing other stains. This painting has three listed (Green, Red, and Blue).

By removing some of the colors, I got these results.
And, of course, counting the one I showed on top of the post. Doing this assignment made me realize how fun it can be as a project because it will show us the importance of color and what they mean. In a painting, color can represent many things, from emotion to its look. If we were to do this to other images or photos, we could see a different meaning by removing color or features to it to see a different result.

This is a project that I am interested in (project details DS106)
I found a design assignment project for the second part of this assignment. I have some skills when it comes to this but not enough to complete it. I believe I can learn more from watching youtube videos which will give me ideas and inspiration to do the project. It would be a fun project because people can put more of their minds into it and customize their teams if they want to, giving them free space.

Finding My Domain Name

As a computer science student, I have learned how to create web pages through HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. So, when the professor said, we are going to create our own website on the internet, I find it really exciting. To create a website, the first step is finding a suitable domain name for the website.

To learn more about Domain, I did some research and got to learn some interesting facts about it. A domain name identifies a network domain, it represents an Internet Protocol (IP) resource, a server computer hosting a website, or the website itself or any other service communicated via the Internet. 

I find this YouTube video very useful, it easily explains everything that someone needs to know about Domain names. The Domain Name is the unique identity of the website. A Domain Name can be anything you want as long as it is available. However, it’s important to have a domain name related to the website so that people can easily find your website on the internet.

As the professor mentioned that we can set up the website based on anything that we like. Well, this makes me confused for a while. At first, I thought I will build my website based on photography, music, and arts…. basically, whatever I love to do, then I realized it might not be a good idea to mix up everything in a single website. However, now I am considering building a website to showcase my travel experiences.

I love to travel and explore around the world and I love to watch travel videos and reels. Whenever I see any beautiful travel pictures, I want to explore those places, but planning a whole trip properly is a tedious job. I know there are some travel bloggers and influencers who do post about their experiences, however, the hotels and restaurants they recommend are mostly sponsored but not necessarily the best option to choose.  Besides that, as a student, it’s not always possible to go anywhere I want because of my tight budget.

Therefore, I am planning to set up my website based on my travel experiences where I will post not only travel photos and locations, but rather help people to plan the entire trip, including where they can stay, nearby restaurants, and nearby places they can stop by.

So here are a few domain names that I have selected for my website and I will check the availability of those names from Godaddy.com 

• Plan4Trips.com
• goPlaces.com
• explore4fun.net
• advanture2go.com
• proExplorer.net
• travelgram.com
• love2explore.net
• worldExplorer.com

I choose these names so that people can easily understand what my website going to offer them based on the Domain Name.

Now let’s talk about my personal favorite websites that I love to explore YouTube and Instagram. I have already mentioned them in one of my previous blog posts. I love YouTube because it has anything and everything that anyone is looking for. Honestly, it makes our life so easy that we don’t really need any tutors anymore to learn our passion. For example, if we want to visit a place, there are tons of videos available on YouTube and we already know what to expect from those places even before visiting there and we can plan accordingly.

Similarly, I love Instagram because I love photography and I get my inspiration from Instagram.  I also love the reels on Instagram and it is my favorite activity to do whenever I get bored.