ds106assignment
Holy COW!!! I often find myself saying this after completing a DS106 assignment. It is pretty amazing how much technology is available to the common citizen (yes… I am considering myself a common citizen!) to utilize. I did not have a single clue that there was a platform that used Google Sheets to then create an epic Timeline. I would have to say, this assignment did stump me for quite sometime and I had to get up and walk away a few times because I was getting frustrated and figured out the I needed to in the end just SLOW DOWN and read the directions from start to finish. I was missing a simple step to cause me the errors. So let’s talk about the inspiration behind the color choice during my twenty minute walk. It resulted in having the two girls I nanny for choice! So.. if you were wondering what color a three and five year old want to go on an adventure looking for… it’s yellow. Yup! They couldn’t make it easy on me and say green?!? There is green everywhere you look this time of year. Well, I was up for the challenge, and my kiddos were ready for a nature walk searching for anything yellow! We found several road signs that were yellow. Additionally, we found a yellow fire hydrant and many yellow flowers! At the end of our color adventure, I am not sure who had more fun… me or the kiddos! We made it a race to see who could “iSpy” something yellow first! After my day ended with the girls, I headed back home to upload the pictures into Flickr. This was part was very straightforward! From here, I explored Timeline JR some. This is where I began to feel very overwhelmed. Once I spent time actually reading the instructions, it was SO easy! They spell out every step for you! Guess this was a good lesson to stop cutting the corners! Once I was finished, I found the embedded code and clicked on View within my post. In View, there was a place to “write” or copy and past ‘Source Code’. Once I placed it, my timeline showed up and this is when I said “Holy COW!”
