Franklin Remixed

Hello Junior Curators! Your first assignment is as follows: Create an artifact for your page of the online exhibit Click the more button below for instructions     To do this, you will need to follow the following instructions. Feel free to print them out first to keep them handy, or open up a new browser window and leave them open on your computer desktop. Instructions (details below) 1) Go to the Flickr Artifact Collection 2) Sign In 3) Choose Yahoo! ID 4) Enter the YahooID 5) Find the FranklinRemix Photos 6) Browse the Artifacts 7) Select Your Artifact Grab Your Artifact’s Ugly URL 9) Pick Your Image Tool 10) Enter Your Ugly URL 11) Upload Your Artifact 12) View Your Artifact Detailed Instructions 1) Go to the Flickr Artifact Collection Click on the home button on the top of this page, then on the link on the righthand column of this site entitled: Flickr Photo Artifact Collection. This will take you to the Flickr Photo Artifact Collection page.

Artifact Collection

• Flickr Photo Artifact Collection

2) Sign In Choose Sign In the upper righthand corner of the page: 3) Choose Yahoo! ID Choose “Sign in to Flickr using your Yahoo! ID” 4) Enter the YahooID Enter the YahooID: franklinremix and password: (you know what it is!) Make sure they are both using all lower case letters. 5) Find the FranklinRemix Photos Choose Your Photos from the homepage: 6) Browse the Artifacts Browse through the images in the two photo sets until you find the one that you want to work with. Be sure to read about the artifact as well! Think about why you choose this artifact. What does it say about Benjamin Franklin? What are you saying about the yourself and about the artifact by choosing it? Remember: You are a curator! 7) Select Your Artifact Once you found your artifact, select it, then select the All Sizes button above it. Choose a size that will work for your page - probably Medium. 8) Grab Your Artifact’s Ugly URL Scroll to the bottom of the page and grab the photo’s URL (remember what URL stands for?). To do this click in the box and choose Copy from the Edit menu. 9) Pick Your Image Tool Go back to the Franklin Remix Exhibit site and choose a Image Tool that you would like to use from the list below. Feel free to browse through the different formats to make sure you are picking the best format for your artifact. Remember: the format you use to present your artifact says a lot about your exhibit.

Image Tools

• Cartoon Caption Maker
• Magazine Cover Creator
• Motivational Poster Creator
• Movie Poster Maker
• Trading Card Maker

10) Enter Your Ugly URL After you have chosen an Image Tool, click in the box entitled “Enter the URL of the image you want to use” and choose Paste from the Edit menu. You can now complete the rest of the information for your Image Tool, depending on which one you are using. There are spaces to enter titles and subtitles, change fonts and font colors, add icons, word bubbles and more. Experiment! Be Creative! Have Fun! Just remember that you are creating this artifact from the exhibit. Would a visitor to the site (a fellow middle schooler) understand what your artifact is about? Regardless of which Tool you choose, there should be Create, Finish and Back buttons at the bottom of the screen that allow you to make changes until you are happy with your creation. When you are done, choose the Finish button. 11) Upload Your Artifact Upload your image to flickr: Next choose “Click here to automatically upload this image to your Flickr account”. Next you will be asked to authorize your computer to upload images to the franklinremix flickr account. Choose Continue. It should say “Great! You’re all set, franklinremix.” Choose Continue again. You must choose a title for your image. Be sure to include your first name and last initial. Add a description about the image explaining about why you chose this artifact and this format, and a little about the imaginary film or magazine it represents. Be sure to include some tags as well, including your first name and the name of the artifact. Leave Public checked and then choose Upload. 12) View Your Artifact View your finished artifact on Flickr: Choose go to your photostream. If you are happy with your image, you are done! If not, choose your image on flickr and choose delete above the image. Be careful not to delete anyone else’s image but your own. Either way, feel free to make as many as you’d like. Just be sure that your first name is on each image and you delete the ones you don’t like. HAVE FUN! If you have any questions, email me at franklin@whatscookin.com and I will post an answer to this site as soon as I can. -Matthew