Project 3 Proposal

     For my literacy narrative I will be telling the story of how video games helped me to read, and were ultimately my first experience in attempting to read. When I was around three or four years old, video games were a big deal for my older brother and sister. They were always playing the Super Nintendo, but never letting me join in, claiming I didn't know how to play. Granted, I really didn't know how to play, so I decided I wanted to learn. When my brother and sister were at school, I would have my mom help me set up Super Mario World or Yoshi's Island so I could play. Quickly, though, I realized that playing video games involved reading the words that popped up on the screen, giving directions, and also telling the story behind the game. I was very curious as to why this little man named Mario was trying to find Princess Peach, so I would have my mom sit with me and read what the characters were saying (and she had to speak in character, I might add). Eventually she got tired of this and decided that it was time for me to learn to read on my own, buying me a little reading kit which she went over with me, sounding out words and reading simple sentences. Eventually, I worked my way up to being able to slowly read the words that appeared in the video games, and I absolutely fell in love with the characters and the stories of Mario, Princess Peach, Donkey Kong, and many more.
      By the time I was five, we had an N64 on which I continued to play many video games and follow the stories of these characters. Then, we got a game that changed everything for me, and that was the Zelda game Ocarina of Time. I was captivated not only by playing this game, but by the story and characters in the game. I would go through my brother's video game magazines, looking through for any articles on Zelda. My love of Zelda and its fantasy world eventually led me to seek out books that dealt with the fantasy world. I will expand upon how this lead to my love of reading.
     I am thinking that I will create a video by creating many little drawings, depicting me going through the events I described above. I am debating whether I want to do a voice over or put text on the screen.

Blog 7- Peer Reviews

     For my project 2 webtext analysis draft, I had Britteny and Katherine peer review my work thus far. Stylistically, both peer reviewers seemed to both like my choice of color, background, and overall organization of my analysis. Katherine did make one suggestion, that I put the navigation bar at the top of the page rather than under the image of the text, which I definitely will be doing. I think this makes more sense stylistically and logically, as it will be easier to follow the pages if the bar is at the top.
     Both peer reviewers also had similar critiques for my actual analysis so far, which I agree with. They said that basically I have good analysis to start off with, but I should add more detail to that analysis. Katherine also made some good suggestions specifically to certain web texts about elements I may want to add to my analysis. I definitely will be adding more analysis to my project.

Blog 6

List of Annotated Sources and Assets

• Covenanthouse.ca- an advertisement poster featuring a young girl sleeping in a makeshift bed, with a floor plan drawn over her surroundings, emphasizing that the streets are her “home.”

• Raisingtheroof.org- a photo of a poster with text, place on a stoop, sending a message about the reality of homeless youth.

• Raisingtheroof.org- an advertisement poster featuring a chair left out on the sidewalk, and a message comparing how people view the chair to how they view a youth left out to fend for themselves.https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2059539100114798785#editor/target=post;postID=2599694581705102478

• Publicus London- a web advertisement/image of the “iHobo” (playing on the link between youth and technology), giving information about the problem homeless youth in the UK and solutions.

• Peopleservingpeople- a billboard using children's blocks to spell the word homeless, spreading awareness of the problem of homeless youth

Rights

All of the sources I am using fall under the category of "fair use", as the purpose of using these images from their website is education, for critique, not for profit, and will only be shown to a small audience.

Citations

I propose that for my sources, I will site them giving the organization the advertisement came from, the website for the organization that I found them on, the publication (only for some, I could not find the one for the billboard) and the title of the advertisement (if possible).

Blog #5

With Ali's project, I like how she uses the green color to connect to the topic of the environment. Also, having the sequence of links aligned across the page "1,2,3..." makes the project easy to follow and very organized. Her strategy of breaking up the text on the pages for each individual ad works well.
For Marcus's project, I like the simplistic background with the simple geometric pattern and the black and gray colors. It is goes with the theme of technology and video games. I also like how each webtext is introduced with a large picture of the text centered at the top of the page. The only thing I do not like about this project is the white text on the black background is a bit hard to read and the alignment of the text is strange. I feel like it should be more broken up to make it more reader friendly.
For Shannon's project, I like her use of the New York skyline as the background, emphasizing the city. I think she should have organized her webtexts more separately, like creating a separate link for each one like the other projects did.

For my project, I would like to have a home page featuring a small introduction to the project and then links to the five different texts. The color scheme for the project will probably be simple gray and white, as I want the links and images to pop out.  On each page I will have the featured advertisement, with separate headings to break up the different strategies used for each text.