Tute Week 6

This week, we firstly went to Persona's. You put in your first and last name and it searches for instances of your name on the web and then depicts these findings in a visualiser. Mine didn't actually have anything about me but it found stuff about another Kristen Skinner that is apparently a baseball/softball player. You can see my results below.

Then we went to googlemaps and made our own map. I did mind on The Netherlands as I lived there for 6 months on a University exchange.

View The Netherlands in a larger map

Then we went to Sketchcast (my new favorite site) and I made a sketch, check it out!

From our lecture last week they provided links to lots of fun websites. The ones I liked are;

Internet Archive

On this website you can see how websites have progressed over time from when they first came onto the internet to the present day.

Polyvore

This website lets you create your own magazine layout of fashion! So much fun picking pretty shoes and bags to match. Hours of fun. You can also put text in, it looks really professional. Its a good way to express creativity on the internet.

Disaster Maps

Disaster maps is an online visualiser of disasters that are currently happening around the world such as earthquakes, hurricanes, floods etc. Its a really quick and easy way to see whats happening around the world.

SpeedTest

Speedtest is another online visualiser that shows how fast information is travelling across the internet to different parts of the world. For example you can choose to connect to Russia and then see in real time how long it takes the informaiton to get there. Pretty cool!