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    A Life in Two Minutes- A Proposal!

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    For my first Audio Storytelling assignment this week, I decided to complete A Life in Two Minutes (2.5 stars) which asks you to explain, in your own words, a significant moment (or problem) in a life. This could be a friend’s life or your own. I chose to create an audio story of how Douglas proposed […]
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    Weekly Summary- Six

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    By far, this week has been my favorite of the whole class! Design is so interesting and new to me, yet something that has caught my attention. I enjoyed reading up on the various concepts and elements of Design as well as applying these into my own assignments this week. I feel that I completed […]
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    Layer Tennis- The Space Pug

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    For my final Design Assignment of the week, I decided to try my hands at Layer Tennis! Layer Tennis is a two player game, so for this assignment you’ll need a partner. To count, this game must be played in public on Twitter so we all can watch! Find a willing partner who will play with […]
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    Love at First Shot- Kaleidoscope

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    This week, we had a Visual Assignment required within our Design Assignments. Love at First Shot asks you to take an image of a couple obviously in love and tell their story, With a twist from Dr. Polack we also had to use a photo editing software to change something significant about the picture. I […]
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    DS106 DesignBlitz

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    This week we also had to complete a DesignBlitz, with an objective similar to that of the PhotoBlitz from last week. I really do feel that this assignment reinforced my understanding and new knowledge of Design and its various elements. Like I have said in previous posts this week, I have very much enjoyed Design […]
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    Don’t Miss Manassas, VA!

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    I also decided to complete What Are You Missing Nearby. This was an interesting assignment to complete. I recently moved to Manassas, VA in July of 2015 from Woodbridge, VA so it really was only a matter or 10 miles or so. I’d spent plenty of time in Manassas before, but after this assignment I […]
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    Pugs Not Drugs!

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    For another of the Design Assignments this week, I completed Create a T-Shirt.  Naturally, I had to create a shirt with a pug on it, and my website’s tagline “pugs not drugs.” As much as I wish this was my own creation and imagination, this saying has been used many times before I took it […]
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    Vintage-ify the Boardwalk (Ocean City, MD)

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    For my second design assignment of the week, I completed Vintage-ify a Place. I really enjoyed this assignment! I feel like at this point I’m always starting my posts like this, but I really do like completing these assignments. They are so daunting to start with, but after finishing them and seeing the final product, […]
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    Mr. Pugsly and the Treat Snatching

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    For my first Design Assignment of the week, I decided to complete the required option This Assignment is Suspect!. 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 […]
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    Reflection on The Vignelli Canon

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    Overall, I really enjoyed reading this booklet, The Vignelli Canon. It presented great insight and thoughtful information to consider as we enter into this week of Graphic Design. I was pleasantly surprised that I enjoyed reading this book so much, and I feel as though I have a new-found passion for Graphic Design. It was […]
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    Weekly Summary: Five

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    This week was by far one of my favorites in the class! I really enjoyed the visual assignments and learning more about photography and visual media techniques. I definitely learned a lot about creating visual media. For most of my visual assignments and daily creates I have been using a free online editor called Pixlr, […]
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    Photographing 101- What I Learned this Week

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    These week we had to use at least 3 different suggestions when photographing/producing images for our visual assignments this week. I pulled all of my tips from the eBook written by David duChemin. I started using these resources first for the Photoblitx challenge. For this image I decided to use my new found knowledge in […]
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    No Smiling at this Party

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    For my final Visual Assignment of the week, I decided to complete Birthdays are the Worst for 2.5 stars bringing my total for the week to 8.5 stars! I thought I would really enjoy this assignment because I enjoy this kind of photo editing so far for the class. Here is my creation! Everyone knows […]
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    Drawing the Line Somewhere

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    I completed An Album Cover for my second visual assignment this week for 2.5 stars. [So here’s something fun for everyone to do, should be quick and easy, but try to make it pretty. First, go here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random The title of the article is now the name of your band. Next, go here:http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 Go to the bottom […]
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    A Candle: Burning Inspiration and Impossiblity

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    For my first visual assignment this week, I decided to start with the required option, Apophenia. [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.] I thought this assignment was a great way to get […]
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    The Very Best of…..

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    Creating a Flickr set actually isn’t super challenging. I followed the instructions word for word, they were simply and to the point. Below, I have embedded the HTML code for my photoset. You can find my set here as well on my Flickr account. I chose these photos for a few different reasons. The first two photos are […]
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    PhotoBlitz in my Front Yard

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    I chose to do the ds106 photo blitz in my front yard. Originally, I had planned on taking a walk around the block, hoping to find a lot of inspiration through that. However, I was able to find plenty of inspiration and I didn’t even have to leave my front yard! There were so many […]
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    Weekly Summary: Four

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    This week was definitely crazy as I learned so much about audio storytelling. As I mentioned in some of my blog posts earlier this week, I was not looking forward to recording my voice and using audio techniques. Like a lot of people, I don’t like the sound of my own voice, but I quickly […]
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    PEACE through Sound- Audio Assignment 1551

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    For one of my audio assignments for the week, I chose to do “Emotions through Sound.” I figured this would be a good one to start with in order to learn how to upload, clip, merge sounds, etc. I wanted to convey a sense of calmness, or peace. I picked four different sounds which I […]
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    Listening to Stories: Getting Away with It

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    I chose to listen to an episode of The American Life entitled “Getting Away with It.” Overall, I really enjoyed listening to the stories, most of them being quite humorous. It’s amazing some of the crazy things people can get themselves into, while skating by without any consequences! As far as the audio techniques and elements go, […]
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    Reflection on Jad Abumrad’s Radio Empathy

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    I LOVED this interview, short and sweet, but directly to the point of something that I think is so important. I never wondered much about radio and the techniques behind selling/marketing radio stories and audio pieces. However, Abumrad brings to light an important point that the compelling aspects of radio lie solely in the human […]
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    Reflection on Ira Glass & Audio Storytelling

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    Ira Glass’s response and description of audio storytelling really opened my eyes to a new perspective and style of telling stories. Personally, yes I am afraid to tell stories through audio techniques, but I’m hopeful that it will be a good experience. Glass made many good points throughout. He first discussed the two main building […]
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    Weekly Summary: Three

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    This week, I learned a lot more about the elements that go into storytelling, as well as the different ways to tell a story and present to an audience. Definitely, the biggest thing I learned was the relevance and importance of digital storytelling. Not all stories have to be the stereotypical book with pictures or […]
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    Reflection on Louis the Hedgehog

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    I enjoyed this assignment! It didn’t feel to constricting or objective because it’s really up to myself and other viewers to determine the actual story told by the five pictures. These pictures happen to be of my hedgehog, King Louis, that I got with my fiance. We took this video the day we picked him […]
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    Appreciating Past DS106 Stories- “Starry Night”

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    I reviewed Sean Doud’s assignment, “Starry Night,” with the goal being to animate a classic painting. I think this is a really cool assignment because you’re able to take an already existing work and make it your own through your specific choices, creativity and imagination. It’s cool how Sean used GIMP, a GIF creator, to […]
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    The Shape of The Great Gatsby

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    According to Kurt Vonnegut’s theory on the shapes of stories, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, has a shape which defines the plot structure of the novel. I drew a picture with Vonnegut’s two axis (good/ill fortune and beginning/end). The plot line varies back and forth from good to bad, ultimately ending in a steady downfall […]
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    What is “storytelling”?

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    Like any word, “storytelling” may hold different meanings for different people. Personally, I think of stories as imaginative as well real life events. Telling these “stories” means presenting them to another person in a creative and unique fashion. And really a story can be about anything. It could range from the stereotypical dragons and princesses, […]

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