https://scalar.chapman.edu/scalar/test-book-/users/144

During the Scalar project, I learned many things about multimodal publishing. The publishing site utilizes a variety of multimodal features such as YouTube videos, images, Vimeo, Soundcloud, Internet URLs, and archives. I tried to link as many multimodal features as I could on my pages to give them some variety in interactiveness. Scalar also teaches you how to link pages to one another to help the flow of information go smoother. 

When adding widgets, I chose to use the Carousel, where you create a responsive gallery showing you media from the path. This one allows you to add as much imagery as you want. I also chose to create the visualization widget, which creates visualizations out of pages, media and their relationships. This one almost appeared like a circle and gives you information when you hover each relationship. 

I understand that this was just a practice to become more comfortable with using the site and all its features. However, I think this practice is very intuitive and I can see how all these skills we have learned could be really useful when actually pulling information from a variety of sources and inputting the data. This resource is a lot more complex to use than something like AdobeSpark, or WordPress. It is laid out similarly in the blog format but otherwise there is a lot more detailed user input required to make the book function.