10/15/2015 #tdc1376 my luckiest day would be getting accepted into a PhD program — Ashlyn Runk (@a_renee03) October 15, 2015 This daily create is pretty straightforward. We needed to tweet about what we would imagine to be the luckiest day of our lives, which for me would be finally getting accepted into a doctoral program … Continue reading Week 7/8: Daily Creates

“Each student is to create a bumper for their show, it should be within the theme/style of your show, and include the name of the show and a ds106 radio station announcement, like “You’re listening to the Doggie Doo Show on ds106 radio, where it’s always a romp in the park”. A bumper is merely … Continue reading The Verge: Bumper

Our main task this week was to put together a radio show as a group. I would be lying if I said I wasn’t totally thrilled to be done with my portion of the assignment. I recorded and re-recorded this segment several different times because I just could not get the sound I was looking … Continue reading The Verge: Radio Clip

“Take your favorite song. Remove the lyrics. Play only up to thirty seconds of the song. Listener must be able to guess.” – 3.5 stars So this assignment was a little unclear to me. I wasn’t sure if we needed to just provide an instrumental version of our song or actually go through and remove … Continue reading What’s that song?

“Whats your morning sound like? Tell a narrative of a regular (or abnormal) morning using the movements and sounds from getting off the bed, to starting the day. This has to be all your own recording so no sound effects from outside sources. And try to keep the dialogue minimum to none at all.” – … Continue reading A morning in the life of:

“Each student should also create a commercial for their show, again it should be within the theme/style of your show, and should be 30-45 seconds long. A commercial should include something to draw the interest of a listener to the show, you are trying to convince them to tune in.” This week, we were tasked … Continue reading The Verge: Sponsored by the Alzheimer’s Association

As the weeks continue, I find myself struggling more and more with some of these assignments. I spent more time this week working on learning GIMP because I feel like it is the best tool for creating more professional/neat work and I’m just not quite there yet. I was finally able to learn how to … Continue reading Looking Back: Week Six

09/28/2015: @ds106dc#tdc1359 DreamWorks and Disney! pic.twitter.com/85OB92B4jI — Ashlyn Runk (@a_renee03) September 28, 2015 My first daily create this week involved merging two brand logos into one. I went with DreamWorks and Disney since they’re such huge competitors. I love movies from both companies and just thought it’d be funny to have them together. I grabbed … Continue reading Daily Creates Week Five

Color: While waiting for my lunch at Wawa today, I was browsing the chip aisle and came across this bag. I snapped a quick picture and when I came home and reviewed the criteria for the blitz, I figured it would be the perfect example  of using color in design to get a message across. … Continue reading The Blitz Round Two

“I really wish he would just find someone else to answer his questions. How am I supposed to get any work done if he thinks I’m the only person in this building who knows how to train…” “…I can’t wait to start school. I’ll meet new people and finally have time for my friends; I … Continue reading A Night at the Movies

“Create a children’s book cover using primarily cutting and pasting. Imagine you’re cutting shapes out of construction paper and gluing them onto another piece of paper. Except it doesn’t have to be paper. You can make a cover for a book that already exists, or make up your own. “ 3.0 Stars By the time … Continue reading Under Construction: Cat in The Hat

“Create a TV/movie poster that captures the essence of the story through the use of minimalist design/iconography.” 3.5 Stars Okay, I’m going to be really honest with you this time around. I have a folder full of slightly different versions of this poster on my desktop. This assignment was hard, and I had to finally … Continue reading MasterChef Junior

“Since 1985, the American Library Association (ALA) has tried to sell reading books as cool by showing celebrities reading their favorite books. You can read about the history of this promotional campaign here. Experiment with this tradition, introduce a celebrity with a book who hasn’t been recognized yet, but should be. Or use the poster … Continue reading Trump: Make Reading Great Again!

“Have you ever seen those crime shows that organize a case using a suspect board? Like Scandal or Blacklist? Well, that’s exactly what this assignment is. You will create a suspect board (or a board that connects different characters) to show interaction between the people. Feel free to add text, objects, and locations that connect … Continue reading Missing Chinese Food

As I read through “The Vignelli Canon,” I kept coming back to the three key ideas he emphasized at the very beginning of the booklet: semantics, syntax, and pragmatism. While his other critiques are certainly important and worth reading, I think these three points really capture the purpose of why we’re doing this unit in … Continue reading Vignelli Canon: The Essentials for Meaningful Design

At first glance, this image looks exactly like the typical Panda Express logo. But look again; notice anything different about the Panda? It doesn’t belong to Panda Express, but to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). One of my digital assignments this week, worth 4.5 stars, was to create a logo for a business … Continue reading Panda Express : WWF

This week has been one of my more challenging weeks for a number of reasons, the first being that I’m just not the comfortable with photography. I tried a long time ago to get into it, and even have a professional camera, but I never really found anything that ‘clicked’ for me. I tend to … Continue reading Looking Back: Week Five

9/22/2015: Crossing Abbey Road! Today we had to take an image of Abbey Road and edit it so someone new was crossing it. I love Super Smash Bros., so I decided to use stickers of Mario and Princess Peach. I thought it would be funny to have Mario saving Peach like he does in the … Continue reading Week Five: Daily Creates

This week, we got to experiment with photography as a form of digital story telling. We took a lot of pictures, did a lot of editing, and spent a lot of time looking for that perfect angle. Now that we’re at the end of the week, and the camera roll on my phone is ever … Continue reading Pride and Joy

Tip #1: Tap and hold to lock exposure and focus I took my first tip from an article talking about ways to improve the photographs you take with your Iphone. While I do have a Nikon at home, I don’t typically carry it around with me. Instead, I often use my Iphone 6, which has … Continue reading You’re a photographer when…

This week, we were challenged to complete a “photoblitz.” The goal of the blitz was to be creative when interpreting the list we were given. We had 20 minutes to capture as many images as we could on the list. Above are the five pictures I think were best: A photo of two things that … Continue reading The Blitz

So part of the requirements for this week involved creating a “Best of Set” album on Flickr. The idea is to add the best of the best of the photos we take as the course progresses and show them off here. I’ll continue adding to it as the weeks go on, but for now I … Continue reading Best in Show

“Find something in your house. Take a picture. Let your imagination churn. Make as many different augmented versions as you can think of. Help others see what’s in your head.” The final assignment bank I’m tackling this week is also our mandatory one: Apophenia. This one is also worth 3.5 stars, bringing my final total for … Continue reading Vitamin Cap: Multiple Personalities

“So… Everyone should have a bucket list. What’s on yours? For this assignment you should create a collage with AT LEAST four pictures of four different things you have on your bucket list. Add text to your picture of what or where it is. Then briefly tell us why it is on your bucket list.” … Continue reading When I Grow Up

This week, we are focusing on visual assignments! We have been tasked with completing at least 3 visual assignments worth at least 8 stars. For my first assignment, I decided to go ahead and do “Your love for your pet,” which asks us to make a photo collage of our favorite pet or animal. “Make … Continue reading Shades of Jade

After listening to Ira and Jad’s videos this week, I came away with three key components that work to create truly effective audio stories. The first is the presences of an anecdote and moment of reflection. Without the anecdote, there is no structure, and without reflection, there is no point. The second is how important … Continue reading Looking Back: Week Four

Five Card Story: Gambler's Woes http://t.co/BIUMo6bVSr @ds106dc #tdc1351 — Ashlyn Runk (@a_renee03) September 20, 2015 Today, 9/20/2015, we had to do a five image flickr story for our daily create. We selected 5 images from a pool of random pictures and then had to write a story to go along with it! I’m actually really … Continue reading Daily Create: Gambler’s Woes

#tdc1350 My response for Today's #ds106 Daily Create is https://t.co/YxOmqehiyM — Ashlyn Runk (@a_renee03) September 19, 2015 Today’s daily create, 9/19/2015, was to create a concrete poem, or a poem whose meaning comes in the shape and structure of the words just as much as it comes from the words themselves. Now, I am no … Continue reading Daily Create: Concrete Poem

Listening to Ira Glass talk about what makes an effective Radio show and then actually listening to him employ those strategies in one of the “My American Life” videos, which I actually talk about here, was a really cool experience. So Ira starts in the first of the four videos talking about the two most … Continue reading This American Life: Ira Glass on Storytelling

For this assignment, I decided to listen to two of the Radiolab broadcasts, Ghost Stories and Talking to Machines, as well as Episode 504: How I got into College of “My American Life.” For the first Radiolab, “Ghost Stories,” there was a huge variety of different techniques used to create the overall effect. I really … Continue reading Audio: An effective form of digital storytelling?