Task 6: Design a web portfolio Creating your own portfolio Because web design skills are in demand, and specifically WordPress skills, New Media faculty sometimes use WordPress as a teaching tool.  We will show you how and why to use the class WordPress.com website and later to create your own free WordPress.org portfolio, which you can use until you graduate and to apply for a job. These steps are summarized in the menu at bottom. Submitting your Task When you’ve finished fleshing out your portfolio with your own real content,  follow these steps: Add a new post in the class dashboard (not your portfolio dashboard) with a title like “Task 6: Mary Gonzalez Portfolio.” Add the URL to your portfolio

Instructions for Option A: Compare AI and human music Pick one of your favorite music genres, such as trap, folk, country, etc.💡 It’s better to be choose a rather specific style, rather than a generic category like Pop or Classical. Now choose a musical work composed and played by a human that you think exemplifies the best traits of this genre.⚠️ You must be able to find a publicly accessible recording of this song that does not require a login, such as Soundcloud, YouTube or a standalone audio file (eg, MP3) on your harddrive.⚠️ Others cannot listen to a Spotify track without logging in, so don’t use Spotify. Now find an AI tool that generates music. Create a free account

Introduction This assignment encourages you to learn more about a digital medium that we touched on earlier in the course. You may choose to explore this medium with pre-AI digital methods, or use generative AI, or use both methods and compare the two. For this initial stage, you’ll just complete a row in the “Dig Deeper” tab of this course’s Class Sheet. It will require some research but no actual media production. Fields to complete Fields to complete include: Medium Choose among: 3D models, Virtual Reality, and Augmented Reality Animation (2D or 3D) Audio (soundscape or music) Gameplay and game programming Research paper Storytelling with text and images Still images (photography or generated illustrations) Video Web and graphic design You

Goal: explore your own interests So far your learning has been determined by your instructors, but this is your chance to experiment with an aspect of new media that interests you most. To ensure you get a chance to explore what you’re truly interested in, you will submit this assignment as an individual. However, you’ll have opportunities in class to compare notes with classmates interested in the same media. Focus: one creative medium, with or without AI While you will write a reflection about your experience, your focus should be on the process of producing digital assets according to methods you researched in your answer to Task 12a. As explained in that task, you may choose create works with AI,

Task 6: Design a web portfolio Creating your own portfolio Because web design skills are in demand, and specifically WordPress skills, New Media faculty sometimes use WordPress as a teaching tool.  We will show you how and why to use the class WordPress.com website and later to create your own free WordPress.org portfolio, which you can use until you graduate and to apply for a job. These steps are summarized in the menu at bottom. Submitting your Task When you’ve finished fleshing out your portfolio with your own real content,  follow these steps: Add a new post in the class dashboard (not your portfolio dashboard) with a title like “Task 6: Mary Gonzalez Portfolio.” Add the URL to your portfolio

Introduction Like how communicating with AI for the purpose of programming, communicating with AI image generation involves a different way of speaking and refining. There are a multitude of tools available online with different options to change that often lead to very different quality of results. It will be your goal to find a good tool that you can use to emulate what you’ve previously done for Task 4 and try to utilize it to your advantage. Process Choose the same hoax you picked for Task 4 (eg, from Wikipedia’s list of hoaxes). Using an AI image manipulation tool(s) like Leonardo.ai create an original image that illustrates the hoax as if it were a real event, place, person, or phenomenon.

Choose an image manipulation tool such as Photopea. By drawing on existing images or your own creations or photographs, create fake visual evidence to support a theory or event that is clearly false by following these steps: Visit Wikipedia’s list of hoaxes. Choose a hoax to illustrate; you may search the Internet for sources to learn more about the context for this hoax, or choose another hoax for which you can find solid documentation online. Using non-AI image manipulation tool(s) like Adobe Express, Photoshop, or the GIMP, create an original or composite image that illustrates the hoax as if it were a real event, place, person, or phenomenon. In other words, furnish “evidence” that would support the supposed truth of