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This is 2 star web assignment #115, “Way Back Time Machine.” The assignment was: “Using the Way Back Time Machine website on Internet Archive, take screen shots of a favorite website overtime. Then, look at how the website has changed for better and worse. Blog about what makes a website effective and how that changes. ...

This is 3 star web assignment #712, “What They Might Have Done in Social Media.” The assignment read: “Too bad Facebook was not around for most of history! 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. See ...

1O STARS AUDIO This assignment is called “Seuss it.” It is audio assignment 562 and it is worth 3 stars.(View original post) The assignment read: “Take a Dr. Seuss book, or perhaps the Berenstain Bears, or one of your own favorites, and read it to us. Give me your best Yertle the Turtle, or Lorax, ...

This is 4 star audio assignment,”The One-Man Play.” It is audio assignment 567. The instructions were: “Act out a scene from a play by yourself, using different voices for different characters. Have fun with this!” I loved this assignment! The hardest part was choosing which scene to actually do. After lots of time looking at ...

  October 8, 2012: Extreme Edit! “Take a photo, then edit that photo to the eXtreme, making the photo eXtraordinary…” I took this photo of the link between Mason and Randolph because I really like this new building. It was definitely a pleasant edition to campus. I edited it in GIMP. I inverted the colors, ...

This assignment is called “Seuss it.” It is audio assignment 562 and it is worth 3 stars. The assignment read:  ”Take a Dr. Seuss book, or perhaps the Berenstain Bears, or one of your own favorites, and read it to us. Give me your best Yertle the Turtle, or Lorax, or Mama Bear and have ...

Design Safari This week our main assignment was the Design Safari! We were asked to take photos of anything that demonstrated one of the design concepts. (color, typography, metaphors/symbols, balance, unity, etc.) I decided to take photos of shop signs downtown and apply the design concepts to them. The sign for Goolrick’s Pharmacy is extremely ...

Our radio show will have a road-trip theme! We will be playing a family (Dad, mom, and 3 daughters) who breakdown in the middle of nowhere. I will be the control freak mother who plans out every aspect of the family’s trip. I will plan all the places we will go, everything we will eat, ...

This assignment is worth one star. It is design assignment 677, it is called “make a normal photo of a friend imagery of Horror.” The summary/instructions for this assignment were:  “This assignment is easy and fun to do, there are many online programs that will help one to do this such as http://www.photofunia.com/. Make your ...

Welcome to my daily creates! Monday was World Vegetarian Day! The daily create was to create a photo celebrating this holiday. I drew a picture of a bunch of cucumbers! They are my favorite summertime snack, they are so refreshing.  We have a huge garden that loves to overproduce cucumbers. http://www.flickr.com/photos/kpyrtle/8045679904/ Tuesday’s daily create asked ...

This is 3 star design assignment 367,  “DS106 Propaganda Posters.” The instructions were “Create a propaganda poster for ds106. Use your photo editing software of choice and write a message to inspire your fellow ds106ers.” I edited a Rosie the Riveter poster! I’ve always been a fan of Rosie the Riveter. She is a cultural ...

This assignment is called “The Big Hip Hop,” this is Design Assignment 12 worth 2 stars. These are the instructions: “Take any photo from The Big Picture and overlay it with lyrics from a Top 100 song. Similar to The Big Caption project. “   I chose this photo of South Korea getting hit by ...

This is 3 star design assignment 57, “Minimalist Travel Posters Based in Movies.” The instructions were “Create a minimalistic travel poster for a location in film, TV series, etc.” I decided to create one for the North Pole. I love watching Christmas movies in the winter! Elf was my inspiration for this project. It was ...

This is 4 star design assignment 448, “Movie Trading Cards.” This assignment was to create a trading card for our favorite movie! I chose Bridesmaids, shocker I know. I used PicMonkey to create my trading card. I added a cute border and a few text bubbles/rectangles to make it resemble a trading card. I chose ...

This week our main assignment was the Design Safari! We were asked to take photos of anything that demonstrated one of the design concepts. (color, typography, metaphors/symbols, balance, unity, etc.) I decided to take photos of shop signs downtown and apply the design concepts to them. The sign for Goolrick’s Pharmacy is extremely simple. It ...

This week we were required to do Design Assignment 50 worth 2 stars, we were suppose to come up with a bumper sticker, poster, or t-shirt to advertise our shows! This must be theme specific.  I decided to create a poster!   We decided on a road-trip theme! Once you listen to our show other ...

This assignment is called “Where I come from.” It is design assignment 375 and it is worth 3 stars. The instructions were “Design an animated poster for your hometown. Make sure to include the text for the name and state of your hometown.” Have you ever eaten a Smithfield Ham? I bet you have! They ...

PHOTOBLITZ! I had so much fun on my photoblitz journey! It almost felt like a scavenger hunt, trying to find photos that fit into the proper categories. I decided to take a journey around campus to see what I could capture. My favorite place to take pictures was the amphitheater. Check out my full post! ...

For our ds106 radio show we decided on a radio drama about a family road trip. The family will play road games and have singalongs, the whole nine yards! They will have so much fun, and it will be a bonding experience. The fun will end when the family breaks down in the middle of ...

It was interesting organizing some of my photos into a Best set. Basically I chose my favorites. Most of them are scenery from Natural Bridge, North Carolina mountains,  or campus. I added a few in of photos I edited for class assignments and was proud of! The photo of my horses and the photo of ...

This week’s major assignment was to go on a 20 minute photo-blitz somewhere with lots of interesting subjects. The assignment was to take a photo of your start time and end time and then take as many photos as possible in between. The goal was to take photos that fit into certain categories. (Such as ...

This assignment was called Splash the color. It is visual assignment 340. “Color splash is a technique to emphasize details- you remove all color from a photo, and then restore original color to a single object” I chose a picture of my cousin playing in the leaves last fall. It is one of my favorite ...

Wednesday’s Daily Create assignment was “Bald is beautiful! Photograph the egghead in your life!” I chose a photo of my dad! He is ALWAYS wearing a hat, so it is somewhat rare to see his bald head, but he’s bald! I promise. He says that’s what happens when you live in a house with three ...

“Is that a… GHOST?!” …No its just me! This is visual assignment 426 (3 stars). The instructions were as follows: “Take a photo in which there is a ghost like subject by either using a long exposure or 2 different pictures in a photo editing software.” I chose to use two separate photos. And for ...

This is visual assignment 615. The directions were “Make an alphabetically themed collage. Compile images to represent each letter of the alphabet within a chosen subject area or theme. Create a collage. ” My theme is green! To make this collage I used GIMP. First, I found all of the photos I was going to ...

This is my assignment and tutorial (using GIMP) for the 2 star Visual Assignment, Draw it. I hope you find it helpful! I used GIMP to transform a photo of my horses into a sketch! First, open gimp and drag the photo you wish to use into the GIMP screen. Now click “duplicate layer” under ...

Ira and Jad on audio storytelling: Ira and Jad had very interesting things to say about radio storytelling. Ira talks about the building blocks of stories- anecdotes and moments of reflection. He talks about how finding an interesting story can be the hardest part. Most importantly Ira says that to succeed you must first fail. ...

TUNED IN listening to #ds106radio — Kiersten Pyrtle (@KierstenPyrtle) September 20, 2012 Unfortunately whenever I tuned into ds106 radio this week, there were no live broadcasts. I hope I will have better timing in the future. I really like how every time you begin listening to d106 radio, the first thing you hear is the ...