Week 8 – Golden Record Curation Melody’s Blog Post – https://blogs.ubc.ca/melomart/2020/07/01/task-8-golden-record/ My Blog Post – https://blogs.ubc.ca/brianhametec54066b/2020/07/03/task-8-golden-record-curation/ The story of the Golden Record is fascinating, and I had actually not heard of it until taking this course. I chose to explore Melody’s post for this task because we had a number of songs in common based …
Week 7: Mode Bending Aaron’s Blog Post – https://blogs.ubc.ca/aaronko/2020/07/24/task-7-mode-bending/ My Blog Post – https://blogs.ubc.ca/brianhametec54066b/2020/06/26/task-7-mode-bending/ I think that the Mode Bending task was the one that I spent the most time thinking about and agonizing over how to structure it in this course. Eventually I settled on doing an audio presentation, which led me to choose …
Week 6: An Emoji Story Shawn’s Blog Post – https://blogs.ubc.ca/shawnetec540/2020/06/17/task-6-an-emoji-story/ My Blog Post – https://blogs.ubc.ca/brianhametec54066b/2020/06/19/task-6-an-emoji-story The emoji task was a really fun exercise that I really enjoyed doing. After reading Shawn’s emoji story post, I saw a connection in the way that we both approached the assignment. One small but interesting connection was the title …
Week 5: Twine Task Kelvin’s Post – https://blogs.ubc.ca/etec54066b2020/2020/06/10/task-5-twine-task/ My Post – https://blogs.ubc.ca/brianhametec54066b/2020/06/12/task-5-twine-task/ After reading through Kelvin’s Twine story, i just knew that this task was going to link very well with mine. The element that I found the most interesting is the style of both of our stories. Although the settings and characters are very …
Week 4: Manual Scripts Janice’s Blog Post – https://blogs.ubc.ca/janicer/2020/06/05/task-4-manual-scripts/ My Blog Post – https://blogs.ubc.ca/brianhametec54066b/2020/06/05/task-4-manual-scripts-option-1/ The linking post that I explored today was written by Janice Roper for Task #4. This was the task where we could choose between potato printing and manual script writing. Initially, I felt an immediately strong connection to Janice’s blog post …
Week 1: What Is In My Bag? Allison’s Blog Post – https://blogs.ubc.ca/arankinetec540/2020/05/17/what-is-in-my-bag/ My Blog Post – https://blogs.ubc.ca/brianhametec54066b/task-1-whats-in-your-bag/ For this linking post, I decided to look at Allison’s Week 1 Task. The first element on her page that caught my eye was the photo of her bag. I think that here decision to place it on …
For this project, I decided to examine the evolution of Musical Notation, looking at its historical development in technologies for writing and reading from its beginnings in ancient times to the present today. Please enjoy, and I welcome comments or questions at anytime. Please click here for the video transcript and references list.
For my speculative narratives, I decided to create a connected story about Jake, an 8th grade teacher at Wildwoods Middle School. Part 1 looks at his life at home, and part 2 is about his life at work. I was inspired to write this based on some of my own past experiences infused with my …
For this week’s task, I decided to use the website Tweetgen in order to make it easier for myself to deal with the 280 character limit. I don’t have a twitter account, so this “fake tweet” website was useful as it allowed me to see the character count as I typed. Check out the video …
This website was simultaneously a frustrating yet fascinating experience on aspects of user design that I have never really reflected on much before doing this activity. The opening page was my first area of confusion, and I found it difficult to figure out where to click to advance to the next screen. Due to the …