Week 8 Tech Tip: Weather Gadget

When I was looking through other students' blogs, I noticed that a couple of students had weather gadgets embedded into their blog. So I decided to have the weather in my blog as well! It's pretty easy to do. I just found a weather sticker link which allowed me to enter my city and state. After copying and pasting the HTML code, the gadget appeared on my blog. Pretty simple!

Week 7 Tech Tip: YouTube Playlist

Now, I have no idea why I haven't looked into this tech tip ages ago. I'm on YouTube all the time. Whether its to listen to music, find funny videos, or watching a scientific animation, I'm ALWAYS on YouTube. In fact, I'm on YouTube right now listening to music. I used to just listen to the YouTube mixes that are provided, but I finally customized my perfect playlist for each occasion. So I created a playlist called Soul Music which contains some of my favorite soul music videos:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLd6UAn61wxLIQt89RQcqZzPTD4yF-lJL6

This is usually my playlist when I walk around campus or if I have tons of homework to do. It's really soothing and powerful at the same time. In the future, I'll make more playlists for running, parties, sleeping etc. and it'll always be perfect because I made it.

Tech Tip: Google Site Navigation

For my storybook, I decided to use a vertical navigation since it was the default choice. I did try to see how my storybook would look with a horizontal navigation, and I thought the vertical one was more manageable. Google sites automatically added content to the navigation bar as as I added more stories to my story book. This made my navigation bar out of order, so I had to manually move my pages into the preferred order.

After everything was fixed, I'm pretty content with my storybook! I'm actually about to work on my second story!

Week 5 Tech Tip: Google Site Background

For this week's tech tip, I'm going to write about how one can customize his/her Google Site's background page. I decided to customize my storybook in order to fit the dark theme. Since the title of my storybook is Hera's Hennessy, I wanted the background of the website to reflect a bar or bottles of alcoholic drinks. I browsed Google images to find images of a dark bar scene, and I found the perfect one! I saved that image to my desktop, and I uploaded the image to my Google site. In the settings, there is an option to upload an image to customize the background. After selecting the image, you can choose whether to repeat the image in the background or to stretch it out. I decided to repeat the image since I thought it would look neater. My finish product can be found at this link: https://sites.google.com/site/mythologystorybook337/

I'm pretty pleased with it! I hope it exhibits the mood that I'm trying to portray on the storybook.

Image of a bar. Source.

Week 4 Tech Tip: Google site

I made my mythology storybook site today! I put more thought into this storybook than I did last semester since I'm more familiar with the process. My website can be found here: https://sites.google.com/site/mythologystorybook337/

I decided to base my storybook off of the Olympian goddess Hera and her troubles with Zeus. The storytelling style I'll be using will be through a bartender theme where Hera will spill all her troubles to the bartender. It's going to be so much fun developing this storybook!

Creating the website itself was simple with the instructions provided. Even without instructions, one could figure out how to customize their own storybook through a little bit of playing with the website. There are also pre-set themes for anyone who wants to make a website for professional business, church groups, school activities and more. I recommend Google sites to anyone who is a beginner of creating their own website.

Week 3 Tech Tip: Google Reverse Image Search

I had no idea there was such an invention where one can find reverse-find the image! This is awesome! I used the image below to practive the Google Reverse Image search:

Mystery Image. Source.

It was really simple to use the reserve search engine. I just dragged the image to the camera on the side bar and clicked search. Then there were several websites shown that contained this particular image. I found out what it was! This image shows the Ravana mask of India and it was found on Flickr. Pretty neat right?

Week 2 Tech Tip: Cheezburger

For this week's tech tip, I decided to make a motivational meme with Cheezburger. It was very easy to use. You just choose a picture, then type in the caption. You can even center the caption to the left or right side, top and bottom. I decided to join the bandwagon and make a cat meme. I notice that the growth mindset pictures had a lot of cat memes, so I decided to make one that was motivating. Below is my masterpiece:

Japanese Proverb. Source

 

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One of my favorite Japanese proverbs is Fall seven times. Get up eight. It's a nice reminder to never give up on your goals. There will be several moments in life where I will fall, but I better get back up after. So hopefully this little kitty made its way on top of that couch!

Week 1 : Tech Tip - Automotivator

I don't usually make memes or motivational posters. I was more of the person who liked quotemakers. This time I decided to try AutoMotivator for the first time. It was really simple and easy. I chose to use a random photo from the site. After selecting a photo, there are options for a title and text. Here is what I made:

Motivational Poster from AutoMotivator. Source.

I had no idea what to write that would be motivating, but I think the caption fits. If anyone is interested in making motivational posters, I'd recommend AutoMotivator.