After having Claudia Rose on my show for DS106 Radio, I got really intrigued in her story. So, I decided that I would make a photo that’s a good representation of something big that’s going on in her life right now. As most of you know, she killed her husband. I used these silhouettes to … Continue reading DS106 Wallpaper

Hey guys, Lena here! I used to dream of vacations, but now that I’m married, I get to plan a Honeymoon!! Somewhere that I’ve always wanted to go is Aruba. My friends have told me that it’s amazing and I NEED to go. In order to convince El Jota that it’s worth it to go … Continue reading Destination Honeymoon

One assignment I did this week is focused on my new husband (of course). I wanted to make him a Valentine’s Day Card since we weren’t married on Valentine’s and I love the holiday. I also just wanted to show how much I love him! Hope this doesn’t make anyone jealous… http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/valentine/ Worth: 3 stars … Continue reading El Jota

On Thursday, I listened to DS106 Radio and it was awesome! The two groups that were on were “NOIR not the father” and “NOIRTalk.” I’ll start off with “NOIRTalk.” This show was intriguing in a totally different way. This group changed the pace of the radio shows by bringing in a different perspective and slowing … Continue reading DS106 Radio Listen Along

Today’s Daily Create was to post a video of what makes me laugh out loud. This is actually an older video, but I found it in my library and started dying!! This is my friend Leah and I messing around with the special effects on my Mac. I hope you guys get a good laugh … Continue reading I Hope You LOL At This

Today’s Daily Create was to create an “abstract drawing” that depicted our favorite moment in the past week. I am not very artistic, so please excuse the poor craftsmanship. My favorite moment in this past week was when I got together with a group of my friends and we all went to Chick Fil A. … Continue reading My Favorite Moment This Past Week

Today’s Daily Create was to show our different sides with pictures. I took two photos of my Uncle Don and I. One from when I was really little and one from last summer at my cousins wedding. Here are the two compared:

The first piece of work I put on in[spire] is titled “Emotions Through Sound” and was done by Shannon Grubbs. I really liked how Shannon did this because the sounds she used are really everyday sounds. It’s so easy to get caught up in the cyclic routine of life and forget the little things surrounding … Continue reading IN[SPIRE]

But actually, I don’t remember what week this was… Oh well, all I know is that I now have a week off. This week was a lot of work, but pretty fun! The Radio Show was obviously the biggest part of this week, but it was a good project. Like most sane people, I usually … Continue reading What Week Was This?

This week, “That Group” had to finish up our radio show. On Tuesday, we spent 5 hours in the audio studio in the ITCC… yes, I correctly typed a 5 there. We knew that this project would take a lot of time to do, but I don’t think we expected to do 5 hours consecutively. … Continue reading Week 2 Process & Final Radio Show

I like the idea of having us comment more. It’s easy to say you like something, but it can get tricky when someone asks the “why?” I think commenting has definitely made me get more creative, whether it be interpreting someone else’s work or thinking about how I could branch off of it. These are … Continue reading Commenting

Today’s Daily Create was a bit challenging! The task was to make a movie trailer of our fear. Since I am not very good at video editing, this made it more challenging for me. Also, who really wants to make a video about their fear? For mine, I did the fear that someone knocks on … Continue reading Horror Trailer

Today’s Daily Create was to create a #heelconcept picture with an everyday object. I used a cup to emulate the heel in this photo.

Today’s Daily Create was to create a DS106 spaceship. I am terrible at drawing so please disregard the poor craftmanship displayed here. My creation is a simple drawing, but it depicts Groom, Burtis, and Bond controlling the spaceship that’s taking over UMW. Do I need to explain more than #DS106ForLife ?

Another week down…here’s the wrap-up: This week was the starting week of our radio shows! Here’s the blog post I wrote narrating my week 1 process and progress with my group: http://ds106.christineloehr.org/radio-show/week-1-processprogress/ Another task this week was to create a promo poster/ad for our radio show. This was tough in the sense that I didn’t … Continue reading Week 6 Breakdown

The first step this week was to create a group for the radio show. I’ve known Landon and Brian for a little while so Brian messaged both Landon and I on Facebook to see if we wanted to be in a group together. (Obviously, it was a yes). Then I brought my roommate, Shannon, into … Continue reading Week 1 Process/Progress

There’s been so much great work going on in this class! I definitely recommend checking out the stuff I have listed below. Here are some of the places that I’ve been commenting this week: 1. http://jcpdigitalstorytelling.com/assignments/slow-down-there/ 2. http://landonepp.com/daily-create/food-create/#comments 3. http://briannecomden34.com/assignments/lets-take-things-slow/#comment-94 4. http://www.phoenixtakesflight.com/thoughts-and-ideas/our-radio-poster-the-noir-buzz/#comment-6111 5. http://www.storytelling.abigaildunn.org/noirblog/ds/calebs-theme/#comment-32 6. http://thedarktimes.chelseairizarry.org/assignments/shadows-theme-song/#comment-76 7. http://ds106.steverechter.com/audio-assignments/scoring-800-percent/#comment-54 8. http://www.tylerdaig.com/Blog/assignments/audio/song-reversed/#comment-70 9. http://landonepp.com/assignments/corner-pockets-theme-song/#comment-126 10. http://kkeelee.com/assignment/your-theme-song/#comment-134

This assignment is titled “Can’t Get It Out Of My Head” and is worth 2 stars. Here’s the link to the assignment: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/cant-get-it-out-of-my-head/ This was a pretty easy assignment to complete. All I did was record myself whistling to a song that’s been in my head lately on my phone. Then I uploaded the clip … Continue reading Can’t Get It Out Of My Head

This assignment is titled “Dramatic Reading Remix” and is worth 3 and a half stars. Here’s the link to the assignment: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/dramatic-reading-remix/ I completed this assignment from the viewpoint of Lena. For this assignment I decided that it would be fun practicing dramatic readings since I am one of the least dramatic people I know. … Continue reading Dramatic Reading Remix

This assignment is titled “Sounds Of Your Day” and is worth 3 stars. The assignment can be found here. I wrote this post as my character, Lena. The first sound is of my alarm. Although it’s annoying, it gets me up and in the mindset that my day is about to start. The next sound … Continue reading What Did I Hear Today?

This assignment that I chose to complete is called “Favorite Song” and is worth 1 and half stars. Here’s the link to the assignment: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/favorite-song/ I completed this assignment by downloading the audio from a youtube video of my song’s instrumental version. I then imported it into Audacity and cut it to just the first … Continue reading Can you guess this tune?

This is a promotional poster I created for my groups radio show. I did this in photoshop and it was fairly simple. However, since we don’t know exactly what we’re doing our show on yet, it was difficult to generalize the poster.

Well this week has been a huge challenge. I didn’t really understand what “design” was. After learning more and more about it, I was wondering why we didn’t do design for the first week of this class. It just seems like everything we’ve done up to this point would have benefited from the knowledge I … Continue reading Goodbye Week 5

An assignment this week was to spend time thinking about copyright and the initiative of Creative Commons. Here are my thoughts: Something really interesting that I read about from all of the articles was the fair use act. I really liked how they discussed what exactly is “fair” and the ethical meaning behind it in … Continue reading Copyright & Creative Commons

This week we had to watch one of three possible movies. I decided to watch “Double Indemnity” by Billy Wilder. Here are the questions we were given to consider while watching: How does space help frame the design and style of noir in these films? What design elements of noir are not specific to a … Continue reading Double Indemnity

This assignment was to illustrate at least four of the ten concepts of design photos that were given to us. The ten concepts given were color, typography, metaphors/symbols, minimalism & use of space, form/function/message, balance, rhythm, proportion, dominance, unity. Here are my photos and my thoughts behind each one: 1. This photo was taken on … Continue reading Design Blitz

This daily create was to go to the website https://archive.org/details/internetarcade and make a video of myself playing one of the games. The game I chose to play was called “Cosmos.” I had never heard of it before but just scrolled through and picked a random game. I was absolutely terrible at this game!! And I … Continue reading Cosmos

This assignment was titled “Pokemon Card” and it’s worth 3 stars. I completed this assignment as my character, Lena. Here’s the link to the assignment: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/pokemon-card/ When I first saw this assignment, it made me laugh a little. I remember being an avid Pokemon card collector when I was younger. I had binders full of … Continue reading Lena The Pokemon

This assignment was titled “Motivational Poster!” and it’s worth 3 stars. I created this poster and narrated it as my character, Lena. This is the link to the assignment: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/motivational-poster/ “Today was one of those days when you get a glimpse of the light at the end of the tunnel in veterinarian school. I’ve loved … Continue reading Mid-semester Motivation

This assignment I decided to complete is titled “Cartoon You” and is worth 3 and a half stars. Here’s the link to the assignment: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/cartoon-you/ For this assignment, the task was basically to just make yourself into a cartoon. There were a lot of options given to us that I could use to cartoon myself. … Continue reading Cartoon Me