Embedding: A Progression -

So, first there's this:



Then this:
http://soundcloud.com/jbunn/apalachicola

Then this:


Hmmmm - why is it cutting off my first slide?

Here's the first slide:

Photos are from my Picasa/Google+ photos site, but I didn't know how to create or embed a slideshow from that platform, so I put them in Quicktime Pro (good thing I'm taking this class at the same time as CI5200).

Now that I'm done with everything, I don't think that the words are a great match with those images, as the poem is all about the arrival and the images are obviously after we've been there for awhile.  Kind of confusing.  But, for my first stab at this sort of thing, I feel okay about it!  Onwards and upwards, right?

Picasa -

For my niece's birthday, I made her a personalized coloring book out of photos from our family vacation. Pretty neat!

I did not edit the photos in Picasa to turn them into line drawings - just sharing them through Picasa.  Very easy to use, especially if you already have a Google account.  Picasa organizes your photos and images for you - sometimes this can be a little frustrating as it doesn't always use the same folder organization as your harddrive - but to share these, I simply clicked "Blog This" and it sent the images directly to a new post on my blog.  (By the way, I used Paint.NET to change the photos to line drawings.)

 

 

My Logo -

I used onlinelogomaker.com for mine. There were plenty of options for symbols and you could upload your own image. I wasn't crazy about the font choices - they seemed ideal if I were opening up a skateboarding shoe company, though.

Wordle Images -

Here's my first - this is from my class profile:

And this one is from a faux cover letter describing multimedia study guides to an education director at a museum:

I LOVED the idea of writing a cover letter for a job or position I really wanted, and then seeing it as a visual.  I don't know where you all stand on the whole "visualization of goals and dreams to make them a reality," but I come from a pretty new-agey momma (who, incidentally, is the media specialist for her elementary school) who really encourages me (and anyone else in her circle of friends) to do visualization exercises.  I've always been a bit cynical about the whole thing, but this assignment was pretty powerful for me personally.

Tagxedo Word Cloud in the Shape of a Rooster -

Because why not?