This week we were encouraged by the Professors to go back and go through some of the DS106 work and to figure out how we can become inspired. Inspire #1 The first inspirational piece of work that I recommended was Imran’s Dedication to His Mom mom.  I can’t emphasize enough on how important it is do …

Earlier this week we were instructed to check out our fellow classmates radio shows and live tweet along with them.  The radio show which I choose was The Wire Buyers radio show which aired on October 22.   This show for starters was pretty good for several reasons. TEAMS & THEMES: The Wire Buyer’s Radio was …

Today’s daily create required us to delve deep into our inner child (laugh) and create a winter picture.  I choose to Google a card template and to decorate it.   I drew a little snowman and added some winter song lyrics.   I think that this tdc was pretty creative because it required you to think …

Firstly,  it was important that I create an icon for my Business Wire segment:  By using a poster of the final season of the wire I found The Wire Poster and a Business Icon.   I wanted to overlap the two to create a wire Business Segment theme thus resulting in this.  This is also the …

The daily create writing assignment was refreshing for me.   I had some  energy so I channeled it into writing a prompt based off of this cool digital comic assignment What happened to Carl?   The daily create assignment asked that we use our imaginations and write a prompt based of what we saw in the …

So this week’s Radio Show assignment required us to work with our group mates to try to hash out our roles and the focal points of our radio shows. There are several lessons I learned in regards to this: Photo Courtesy of Google Image Search. COMMUNICATION:   I have learned that the process towards good communication …

Weekly Summary Week 6 Assignments (3)  Totaling 10 Stars For this weeks assignments I completed three audio assignments to total a little over 10 stars  in order to warm up for week 7’s radio show with my team mates. The assignments I completed were first a moment in Group Ideas & Thoughts  this week we …

Song Mash-Up Assignment Worth 3 1/2 stars For my last audio assignment I had to mash up two distinct songs.  I thought what better place to start then children’s nursery rhymes and songs.  So I picked the most up beat song which was London Bridge is Falling Down (original song) The song above war originally …

RUTHLESS The second audio assignment which I had to do was to recite an original poem through this audio assignment with 3 1/2 stars.  I decided to go raw on this one as I found that audio may detract from what my original statement intended to be during my audio recording.   This was my own …

Audio Assignment:  Feeling Inspired: The audio assignment which I choose to do was the Remix a Song with Some Speech worth 4 stars assignment where I choose to use Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream speech,”  whose audio  I got from Mp3Skull by doing a search for this, in conjunction with the rapper …

Applesauce anyone? Today’s daily create called for us to be creative on a whim and asked us to create a doodle which interacted with our environment.  I drew a picture of a doodle-dude eating some apple sauce. I made sure to draw the doodle-due close towards the edge of the page so it would appear …

So today’s week called for a collaboration of ideas.   I linked the ladies in my group @LKMahone and @malbrycht7 (and hopefully Desa saw because I don’t know her twitter i.d.)   In regards to my thoughts….I created a Google doc :   https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JT8d3oJRK7rP26GDOZbg-lMLLFfqQBn5zUrDCSKDg5g/edit   I am hoping that some collaboration can come through Skype and …

Today’s daily create involved writing a blurb about  The Wire and what we do here at ds106.  However, the objective of this assignment was to show it but by not describing it.  I pulled together this random piece via some photos I found via the internet courtesy of Google Images. I figured what better way …

All About the Wire:  Design Week 6 This design week was about reaching down and finding your inner artist.   I struggled with Photoshop but after a few days and reeducating myself through YouTube tutorials I managed to hash out  a few good assignments: Designs: First design that I did was the  Wire Human_Animal Hybrid Design …

The design blitz that I started out with had three items the first item was a light clip pen by ENERGIZER battery company when I look at this I see two things design construction and asethic as well as brand.  For me this was a double dipper.  To me this pen spoke volumes because number …

Vignelli Cannon Thoughts and Commentary In reading this weeks Vignelli Cannon the biggest aspect which was brought out was the fact that he states in his cannon that if you design something and no one understands it then the design is completely useless.  It is important in considering such occurrences because through my designs this …

Today’s daily create was to reflect on your emotions and I am actually happy that this was today’s daily create.  I had a ROUGH week and I spent the latter of my week completing school work and such. I know that I can get through it but sometimes it just feels like the world is …

The Wire Survey For my last design assignment I choose Create A Survey Design Assignment.   I thought that this assignment was a good way not only to reinforce the most recent episodes but it was a fun and creative way to take a sample of what the classes feelings were in regards to this weeks …

Can You Guess the Song? The assignment that I did earlier in the week was entitled Guess That Song from the Guess The Song assignment worth 3 1/2 stars.   The song which I did was based on The Wire’s Intro Theme Song for Season 2. For this particular assignment I used the opening scenes from …

Got Any I.D.? I entitled this assignment from the DS106 assignment bank Got Any I.D. based on the Let’s See Some I.D. assignment worth 2 stars.   I decided to use the following picture from Google-Frank Sobotka as well as a picture of  an i.d. template and a “revoked,” text sign also found on Google. DESIGN …

The next assignment which I completed was worth 3 1/2 stars.   The Wire Magazine Design Assignment called for us to investigate in the inside and outside of either ourselves or the mind of someone elsewhere.  The individual which I decided to investigate was McNulty.   The picture I choose was found on a Google Image Search it …

It’s All About the TDC’s Okay while my title sounds like a cheesy Captain Planet introduction….I am just filled with colloquial references.   I decided to do some of my fave TDC ‘s which also reflects a current picture feature 10 to the 10th power courtesy of legos.  Regardless it’s all about the zeros!

I’m on the Prowl…And I’m hungry like a Wolf Screen shots taken from Season 2 Episode 11 of The Wire No it’s not a bad 80’s song, it’s my The Wire Animal Human-Head Hybrid.  For this assignment I watched episode 11 of Season Two of The Wire to get a grasp on the character of …