This week we discussed VOCAT. I spoke about the tool’s history, contextualized its construction in relation to the techniques we’ve been using in class, and demonstrated how one uses it.
For homework I want you to find a YouTube (or Vimeo) tutorial on a subject you are interested in. I want this tutorial to have something to do with Social Media. The wisest choice to make would be finding a tutorial that will show you how to do something that could enhance your final. Here are some keywords to try searching for:
* Social Media
* html tutorial
* installing ruby tutorial
* css tutorial
* atom tutorial
* blender video tutorial
* blender animation tutorial
* gimp tutorial
* twitter api tutorial
and so on. Don’t feel restricted to these searches, but the video must be a tutorial. It should be at least 10 minutes long.
After you’ve found a tutorial, I want you to make three 140-character annotations describing successes, failures, critiques, and/or responses to the tutorial you have selected.
EX:
“This is where I get lost, this instructor needs to give me more
information to understand where he’s going with this”
and
“I was able to reproduce this for the most part, except the background of my webpage is still white, and not blue”
etc etc…
Then in the discussion section I want you to write 150 words about
the video you found, whether you were able to reproduce the results, what you thought about the lesson the instructor was giving, one strength of the tutorial, and one weakness.
