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  1. afghanwoman

    My Video tool

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    The only video tools that were available in my computer were Windows live movie maker and Jing . But I recently downloaded MPEG StreamClip , CamStudio  and Fraps from ds 106  tools depository. I have familiarity with Windows live movie maker and Jing as I have used it in my public speaking class and ds 106 class. ...
  2. afghanwoman

    Experience stories within the Web with Me

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     Evaluation of the Road Trip radio and ADAAM’s radio show Road Trip radio In my opinion the show was very well organized and the hard work of the participants was shown. therefore, the quality of the audio was good as the volume level was normal and the sounds were clear. on the other hand, there ...
  3. afghanwoman

    School and Life

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    After Taliban’s invasion of Afghanistan in 1996, women were legally banned from attending any kind of schooling. Therefore, all women schools and colleges were closed down and changed into all men’s institutes. But Afghan women did not give up despite the harsh punishments of the government, secrets schools for girls started operating. After Taliban were ...
  4. afghanwoman

    A radio show surprised all DS106ers

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      The Huge Hit     The purpose of this assignment was to use the affordances of other web sites to change their intent, meaning, or purpose to tell a story in those spaces; this assignment was considered as a five star task. To achieve this task I install the X-Ray Googles tool in mybrowser  from ...
  5. afghanwoman

    My story through Google Maps

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      The purpose of this web assignment was to use Google Maps to tell a story of historical or literary figure. this  was a 3 star assignment as well . For this reason I chose to talk about two significant  places of Afghanistan Bamiyan and Ghur. I used Wikipedia to get historical information about both Bamiyan valley and ...
  6. afghanwoman

    Gandhi in Social Media

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    The purpose of this assignment was to use the Fakebook tool to make a Facebook profile for a historical figure and make a fake tweet for the same character using the Twister tool. Thus, I chose Mahatma Gandhi, because I believe he is a great symbol of peace and unity. I used Wikipedia and some ...
  7. afghanwoman

    trash

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    Close Helpful Links Feedback Academics Cultural Centers Student Services Campus Services Employee Services College of Arts and Sciences College of Business College of Education Center for Economic Development Academic Calendar Undergraduate Academic Catalog Graduate Academic Catalog Center for International Education Commencement Faculty A to Z National Testing Services Office of the Provost Office of the ...
  8. afghanwoman

    This entry has no title posted on October 23, 2012

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    +You Search DS 106 Photobllitz Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Documents Calendar More Translate Mobile Books Offers Wallet Shopping Blogger Reader Finance Photos Videos Even more Account Options Sign in Search settings Advanced search Language tools Web History Google Google Instant is unavailable. Press Enter to search. Learn more Google Instant is off due to ...
  9. afghanwoman

    The world of Audios

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    The 10 Points Project The first song I learned The goal of this assignment was to create the first song one has learned through any type of musical medium; in a way to conjures up one’s memory of learning that song. The first song I learned was Twinkle Twinkle Little Star in elementary school. I ...
  10. afghanwoman

    My Day to Day experiences

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    Human emotion It was fun drawing human emotion with non-dominant hand, I really enjoyed drawing it. I draw a school girl with a big smile on her face to shows that happiness is the most important part of our life, life without happiness and smile does not mean much. My tree‘s words to me Well ...
  11. afghanwoman

    My voice & My Autotune

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    I have listened to autotuned sounds many times before, I wanted to do it. Therefore I decided to do this assignment; to do this project I first saw a tutorial in YouTube. Here is the link to it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx97oLyph4M&feature=related I then used Audacity to record my voice and auto tune it, I first record my ...
  12. afghanwoman

    DS 106 Radio Bumper

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    The theme for our group radio show is Halloween therefore I chose to use horror sound effects for my radio bumper. The ambience sound effect, nightmare sound effect, thunderstorm sound effect, horror scream sound effect, studio rat scream sound effect, and a horror theme song were used for making this bumper. Each sound effect was ...
  13. afghanwoman

    Laughter challenge

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    This assignment was to tell a joke in a language other than one’s mother tongue; I decided to do a joke in Indian language. I found the joke from Google; I then find some laughter sound effects from http://www.freesound.org. I used Audacity for this audio, which was easy and fun to do.  
  14. afghanwoman

    MY favorite Ringtone

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    To make this ringtone I used my favorite jazz tune called Sing Sing by Benny Goodman which is from Swing jazz era and mixed it with a pop Indian song. I used audacity for editing these two tunes; since the Jazz tune was louder than Indian pop song; I used envelope tool to trim the ...
  15. afghanwoman

    The first song I learned

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    The first song I learned was Twinkle Twinkle Little Star in elementary school. I was really obsessed with Indian songs. So when I was asked to learn this song in school, I tried to sing it like Indian songs. I downloaded the English version and Indian version from YouTube; here is the link respectfully http://www.youtube.com/user/hooplakidz?v=xKFRSIBP8pA ...
  16. afghanwoman

    The week of Design

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      I reviewed the design concepts and the linked resources in assignment document. I found it very helpful since it helped me to understand the design elements more deeply; meanwhile it was great help for me in creating my design safari. After reviewing the assignment documents I provided a basic explanation of the concepts. Here ...
  17. afghanwoman

    My day to day special experiences

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    The house I grew up I grew up in Kabul, Afghanistan; this photo is the floor plan of that house. The housing plans are kind of the same as here in most of the Kabul cities but not in the provinces though. I did this assignment because I was recently thinking about my home and ...
  18. afghanwoman

    My ds106 radio show poster

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    Our group radio show theme is Halloween; each group member will tell a story related to Halloween. One of my group members will tell a funny Halloween story, while other member will tell a romantic Halloween story. Similarly, one will have introduction and the other will end up the show by talking about the Halloween ...
  19. afghanwoman

    What is in my head?

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    Through this design I shared the important matters in my mind, this design was psychologically good because I got to think more about myself and my current concerns. I downloaded cartoon characters from Google; I then used paint for editing them. On the other hand, I took a photo of UMW campus and I made ...
  20. afghanwoman

    Zombieland

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    I used this website http://creative.avatarlabs.com for zombifing the photo. Because I couldn’t download my zombified photo from the website directly due to my laptop security system, I used PicPic editor to capture the photo. Then I used Gimp for cr...
  21. afghanwoman

    This is culture for me

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    This photo shows from what culture I came from. I downloaded the afghan girl photo from Google and I draw the Afghanistan map. Then I edited the girl’s photo to fit as the exact shape of the map. On the other hand, I wrote Afghan in Persian language to reflect more about the culture. for ...
  22. afghanwoman

    Cartoon head

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    I downloaded Vin diesel‘s photo from Google, then I crap the Popeye the sailor man‘s head in GIMP and put it in Vin Diesel’s head. I found the character of the actor on the movie and the cartoon‘s character similar, thus I taught it would be a good idea to do this. It was fun ...
  23. afghanwoman

    The super hero origins strip

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    This design shows that nothing is impossible; any goal can be achieved by courage and hardworking. To reach to success is to never give up, thus it is important to believe in one’s self and become a hero to our own self. Similarly , every super hero ‘s origin starts within his/ her self by ...
  24. afghanwoman

    The imagery horror

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    This photo is an imagery horror photo of one of my friends. I first used the http://www.photofunia.com website and then I used http://www.picmonkey.com for making the photo imagery horror. It was really fun and easy doing this assignment.
  25. afghanwoman

    My dream animal

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    The photo shows my dream animal; the photos were downloaded from Google. I used this website http://www.pizap.com for editing the photo, because it is easy to crap the photo.
  26. afghanwoman

    Swap the heads

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    In this photo I swap the mother and daughter‘s heads; the photo was downloaded from Google. I used the following website http://www.pizap.com for editing the photo. I used that website to swap the heads and adjust its color, because it is really easy...
  27. afghanwoman

    College of Veg

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    This photo is the A-Z college of Vegetables; the photos used in this college were downloaded from Google. I first used this website http://www.picmonkey.com/ but it was not useful because it had a limited space to have A-Z college. Therefore I used this website http://www.photovisi.com to make the vegetable college. I found it very useful ...
  28. afghanwoman

    My Dreams

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    My dream is to become a business woman and serve my country. Similarly, I really wish to go to Egypt and see the ancient pyramids. I love driving, even though I have my driving license in my country but I cannot drive because of the security issues for women. Thus, my dream is to be ...
  29. afghanwoman

    My dream in your eyes

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    I had a dream that Michelle Obama was walking into UMW campus and talking to me. It was a wonderful dream. I took this photo when Michelle Obama was in UMW and there was an artist who had this art. Background of the photo is UMW‘s campus, near Secobeck. I used paint for selection and ...

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