Picking Up Where We Left Off Last Week
1– Here is a link to the college application organizer app I showed you
2– Check out the school’s new social media directory– what do you think?
3– Continuing with LinkedIn: add each other, add me, AND under skills, add WordPress since that is what you used while blogging on the class website. WordPress powers 1 out of 7 websites in the world so it is a great thing to be familiar with and it’s free to use!
Also, as you learn new things throughout the year, in this class and in others, think about what skills or courses you can add to LinkedIn. In addition, keep track of awards or recognition you receive, and think about adding links to successful projects that really demonstrate your work. You will be doing projects in this class that you might want to include in your Linked In profile.
Finally, let’s look at the free LinkedIn app. How is this different than the website?
Timeline Project
You’re going to create an interactive timeline that will be embedded on your portfolio page on the class website.
Grading
You will be graded on effort, how well you illustrate your timeline topic, and on including what is listed below (at a minimum; you are of course free to add more than what is required).
Your Timeline MUST include:
– At least 6 slides
– At least one video (try YouTube or Vimeo)
– At least one Google map (to illustrate a location for something on your timeline)
– At least 3 pictures
Extra credit- include a Tweet (not a hash tag or account, but individual Tweet, can be yours or someone else’s that is somehow relevant to your timeline).
Topic- you can create a timeline about anything. It could be about your life, a historical event, a favorite character from a movie, book, or TV show, an important event in your life, etc.
How it Works
You will use a Google Doc spreadsheet template. You will fill in the spreadsheet fields with your own information- text, headlines, caption, and links to pictures, videos, and Google Maps.
The most important pieces of information you must fill out include:
– Start Date– the date of the event (example, 7/9/2013, date must be in this format)
– Headline– briefly say what this event is (example, My birthday)
– Text– short description of what the event is (example, I was born today!)
– Media– link to photo or video you are using
Don’t worry about End Date, Media Credit, or Media Caption. These are optional.
It might be helpful to look at the timelines created by other students before you get started. Click on Class Pages above and choose any one of the summer web design pages. Just click on different students to see their timelines on their pages.
Getting Started
Please click your name below- it will link to your individual timeline spreadsheet. This is the file you will edit to create your interactive timeline.
When you’re done
You need to preview your timeline before you can post it to your portfolio page to make sure you didn’t miss something, to check spelling, and to make sure all of your media are loading correctly.
First, click “Publish to the web” under “File” on your Google spreadsheet. Then, copy the link and paste it in the box next to Google Spreadsheet URL on the Timeline website.
You can then preview your timeline and if everything looks good, you can copy and paste the embed code (iframe) into the text editor of your page.