Omar Martinez Artifact 1
Instructions:
To have a successful experience, viewers must navigate through the information and retain crucial data to build successful motives and ideas about what really happened between Dr. Thomas and Dr. Behar.
Abstract:
This hypertext assignment leads the reader through events depicting moments in Dr. Behar and Dr. Thomas professional and personal relationships. Additionally, the artifact gives insight into situations between the two which may have led to motives on the part of Dr. Thomas regarding Dr. Behar. The artifact allows for some speculation on the viewers/interactors parts.
Process:
Hi, I created this artifact through a what I believe to be a complicated process. At the beginning, I found it hard to really have a process for creation since I was not experienced at all in creating hyperlinks. I started by going to google docs and trying to figure out how to create a hyperlink assignment. I could not figure out whether to include text or images or to put in animations. I did not even know how to create any of those except for text. I thought to myself that the easiest thing to do would be to go to Microsoft Word and make an outline of what the assignment is and of what I should and am able to do with my abilities. I went to Microsoft Word and created an outline of the text and conversation that I wanted to include in my hypertext assignment. At this moment I was only concerned with developing a basic idea for what was to be included in the hypertext assignment or artifact. The inclusion of images, animation, sound or any other aspect of creativity was the least of my worries at this point. I went forward and outlined a whole idea of the steps I would take and how I would insert and the text and link them together to create an understandable artifact and story. Then came the hard part. Actually creating the hypertext assignment or artifact.
I thought to myself how in the world do I make this text interesting and how do I link it to another page? Do I use PowerPoint or one of the sites provided in the resources to create a wonderful artifact presentation? But all this was a problem for me because as I traversed the sites provided I found myself more confused and further from creating a comprehensible artifact presentation. Therefore, I chose to simply go to www.google.com and search how to hyperlink on google documents. I could not understand the directions that google gave me. I followed up by going to google documents and just going from option to option until I figured out one that worked for me. I ended up trying to create a google document presentation that would allow me to insert and animate images. But no matter how many images I inserted into the document. I could not figure out how to create hyperlinks or make the images and text work in my favor. I decided to stop using a document presentation and settled for a straight forward google docs document.
I created several documents and inserted different yet connected story text into each document page I created. Afterwards, I went to www.youtube.com and looked up how to create hyperlinks in google documents. This option worked out for me and showed me how to make links in google documents. It became more difficult from that moment forward because I had to figure out how to copy the proper addresses of the links and share them so that they could be linked and viewed. Suffice it to say that this process took me several days to figure out and to work into my artifact. I finally came to comprehend how to work links in my presentation towards the end of the week.
I spent the rest of the week connecting my hypertext, text, pages, and working images into my artifact presentation. I have not included any animation, voices, sounds, or anything other than text and images because that would take me another couple of weeks to search and comprehend. I finally put my hypertext assignment together with my outline ideas about the story and what it should reveal about Dr. Behar and my character Dr. Thomas.
Although, this process took me time to understand and complete. I found that I learned a lot about creating hyperlinks and linking things together. I learned to utilize text to tell a story a little better and I learned to use images that complement the actual dialogue. Hopefully, this will come through during the review and viewing of my artifact presentation.
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