Daily Tasks

Today we will transition to our next major project. To start, we will discuss some of the readings for today.

Next, we will take a quick tour of the Twine program used to create the stories.

Next, we will go over our next assignment.

For homework, complete the reading for Friday and begin thinking about your Twine project.

Today we will look at some playlists to discuss characteristics of strong descriptions:

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Next we will conduct a brief reflection. Use this link. I will give you prompts.

For homework, please complete these two tasks before class on Wednesday:

1. Reading. Go to the reading for Wednesday, read the item(s), and then share your thoughts.

2. Peer review. Go to the list of playlists, and then use the list below to identify items to peer review. Open the item, and then play the songs while reading through the entries. Add a comment responding to these prompts:

• How well does the project situate the character and story for you? If you had not read the book, would it still make sense?
• What can you say about the song selections? Are there any items that fit better…

Today will be another work day. For the most part. We will start by taking a quick look at another playlist example.

I will also go over some aspects of working with aesthetics in the playlist.  You will possibly want to learn to work with fonts.

For more on styling using heading or paragraphs, check this tutorial. You will be using a different syntax. Something like:

<p style="color:blue;font-size:46px;"> I'm a big, blue, <strong>strong</strong> paragraph </p>

I'm a big, blue, strong paragraph

You can also use <span> and </span> tags to style not paragraphs but individual segments of text:

<span style="color:red;">red text</span>

You may also want to know some of the color codes to give the fonts the colors you want.

For homework, be sure to have your playlist drafted before class on Friday.

Today we will work on our playlists. The draft of the playlist is due on Friday. Follow these steps:

First, use the Add Content option on our site to begin composing your playlist. Once the posting opens, you will want to get comfortable with the following composing strategies. In class, we will try them all, and then you can use them as you continue to work. I will first guide us:

Images: Upload an image. You must first have an image ready to upload. For this assignment, we will make sure that we either use images that are permissioned for re-use or we will link to the image. When searching for images, you can adjust the search to find only images available to re-use. Then you can download them and use the Image icon on the toolbar to upload them.

If you need to use an image you don't have permission for, you can link to it. You will need to be in Source mode on the web posting. Use the codes available here.

Links: To add a link, simply use the link icon on the toolbar.

Styled text: To change aspects of a section of text, you can…

Today we will go over class logistics. One piece will be to create an account on the class web site. You can just follow this link to create your account.

Between now and Friday the 11th, create your account and think about the relationship between music and literary characters.

Also, complete this reading before class on Friday.