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Final Project Workshop # 2 Progress

I was able to develop a better direction to how to make my elit project be more interactive and make sure it has the essential navigational element in it while readers are going through the piece similar to some of the ones in the electronic literature collections in (vol’s.1-4) we have all been influenced by. Both Hunter and Jenny provided some insight when I shared them a few examples of what I would like to do. We all used the Curated Collection of Tech Tools Google document provided to see how we can apply one or more of a combination of tools to our own personal ideas and projects. I have decided to use WIX as the main program and Adobe Illustrator, Animoto to create some images, videos then save them in the digital formats of PNG, JPEG, or PDF and bring into WIX as uploaded media to be used as content along with other elements to create a interactive framework filled with hidden links, sound, video, and my own poetry. This will be a Blog page that allows various ways of interaction and engagement, and most important a navigational experience.

I would like my reader to find escape, feel vulnerable and engaged when scrolling, clicking and contributing to the piece. A Blog Role such as an outside contributing writer can be added with their email,  multiple if I upgrade my plan which would be an effective feature for anyone who interacts with my piece to leave a comment and active blog of their experience. This is limited thought due to the free version and only allows me to have 1 additional blogger to add content, or comment. Being able to Invite a New Writer, Blog Writer, Guest Writer is another reason I chose Wix. I like also that I can upload media to Wix and create a world of my own and turn video clip fragments into a part of the experience that embodies the fragments of my consciousness keeping an archive of moments or interesting content for archival reflection that would live outside this dimension with no access or proof of existence if not recorded or kept in a digital format and shared with others who were in a completely different part of space in our Galaxy.

Digital Art by Jason Norton created in Adobe Illustrator

student blogs

It’s going.

This project is finally going in a direction for better or for worse. After our class workshop, I felt that I had concepts of an idea but still nothing too concrete. Over the long weekend, I really sat down and though about potential ways to tackle this project and the type of story I wanted to tell. In the end, I feel that I now have my main idea fleshed out and ready to go. I want to make this project about people’s online identities and voice within a digital space. To achieve this, I wanted to make two blogs from the same “writer” that showcases their two wickedly different sides. One side is the professional scholar who works in academia, and the other a more casual version of the same writer. I want to showcase their two sides through two blogs from the writer. The quirk is that the “real” blog will be hidden within the “professional blog”.

            After I ironed that out, I began to really focus on building the two web pages. I have begun to work on WordPress to create and publish the two blogs. I am most familiar with WordPress (especially after taking two classes with Dr. Z). The more “casual” blog will take more time to build out since I want to place much more stylistic and personal element into it compared to the other one. I feel like I will be messing with the actual composition of the blog up until the finish line.  

 This week I plan to begin to start writing the actual blogs and building the “narrative”. I have some ideas of what will be in the blogs, and I feel like they will fall into place as I begin to actually write. I want this part to be finished by the weekend, so I am able to begin to edit and fix up the blogs. I feel like I am out of my element for this project honestly, but I want to see where it goes. We will see.