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> If you want to make an html link (for example, in a Google Map) the code is as follows:Replace url with the url you want to link to. Replace link with whatever you want - it's the text that will be clickable, blue, and underlined. All the others aspects of the code must remain the same (spacing, quotes, etc.). Also, don't forget that if you're putting this into a Google Map placemark you need to do it under the...

The end is near....

> Collaborative Trailer. What do you think?> Work on collaborative essay.> Present Creative Galleries.> Complete ESEI evaluatio...

Thursday time

Trailer! Check it out.> Collaborative trailer. Goal: to make a single video trailer about the whole course and the topic "What is a multimedia author?" Possible soundtrack for trailer.> Goal: to make a single essay about the course and topic. Work on collaborative essay.> Work on creative galleri...

Tuesday April 20

> We will make a collaborative trailer for the entire class. It will include "snippets" from everyone's project. These might be a few images, some text, some sound, .... etc. The trailer and the collaborative document are a statement on the class as a whole (along with your individual projects). What should we include in the trailer? Write a blog post on what we should include from your project - the post may be text or may be an image or a link or some combination. The goal is to create a post with your thoughts on your...

Tuesday April 13

YouTube DownloaderCool joke song Remember: for Thursday's class (4/15) we meet in Colson 130 to hear the presentation by digital poet and critic Loss Glazier. I will take attendance: find me and let me know that you're there, and I'll mark you present.> Audacity is a free, flexible sound editor. It is more powerful than the free editors included with most computers. (I would say it is on a par with or slightly better than Garage Band.) Download. Be sure to also download and install the LAME mp3 encoder in order to make mp3s....

Time for Thursday the 8th of April

http://www.as.wvu.edu/english/mapping_home.html> Return to the collaborative document. Work in partners: one person writes, the other helps. Continue to edit and add to the document, but also do the following: choose a paragraph and work on the "writing style." Try to retain the interest of the individual writer's style and argument, but also edit the paragraph to be less of an individual statement and more of a paragraph in an essay. In short, normalize the paragraph style so that it is part of the larger, emerging essay....

Tuesday April 6.

> Hear about the status of a few creative projects. Questions in general?> Topic: Images and video for collaborative gallery. I will talk about images and videos a bit, and then you can work on your projects. If there's time we'll work on the collaborative document, otherwise we'll do that on Thursday.> For images, Photoshop is the best, but for images that will go on the web, there are free alternatives that work just as well. Try pixlr. Play with it!Two tips: 1) Use Layers. 2) Save as a .jpg (photographic images)...