Wow. We are finally done. My final project consisted of a really long evidence blog post where my agent mac took over the blog. She explains the situation that she was in, how it all started, and how it ended. This was really fun to do cause I got to be really creative. I used … Continue reading "Week 14"

Hi Newcomers, Welcome to DS106, its one hell of a ride. My one advice to you is to be creative. The class became enjoyable once I started making all my posts funny. You dont need experience in photoshop, or any software really, but google will become your best friend. I highly recommend using canva.com, it … Continue reading "Advise to the newbies"

Agent Mac here.. Maria normally does these posts but this is a special occasion. The Russians and the Canadians are going to attack the United States and the Directorite has put me in charge of the mission to stop it. I don’t know why they chose me. I don’t even know if I can do … Continue reading "Agent Mac Fixing it all"

For my final mission, I have decided to do Item number 2. “We have unconfirmed reports that Canada is up to something, so we are looking to defuse the potential situation. Are they conspiring with the Russians? It may seem preposterous, but consider the facts: They’re both vast and brutally cold, they’re both into that … Continue reading "Final Mission"

For my second assignment, I decided to do The contest Nobody Could Win. This assignment was rated 4 stars. I decided to mash up different Melissa Mccarthy movies because I really like them, so why not. I started out with wanting to do spy movies but then I started watching all the Melissa Mccarthy trailers and … Continue reading "Mash Up VIdeos"

Man, Tutorials are cool. Close ups are not. This assignment, while may seem difficult, its really not. I am going to write this tutorial in steps. Step 1: Find your inspiration. Since our class is spy themed, I decided to do mine on my agent, who is on her mission. My background is going to … Continue reading "Close up Tutorial"

I decided to remix the assignment that I just did because why not, why make something new when you can just add on to it. My task was to make the assignment, prettier. Prettier in pink that is.  So I set off on the hardest task. Finding a pink spaceship. Its not easy you know. … Continue reading "Pretty in Pink"

For one of the mash up assignment, I decided to the Im Ready for my closeup, which is rated 4 stars. I had a lot of inspiration for this one, I knew I wanted to incorporate my spy, mac into it but I didn’t know how. At first, I blew up her face and put … Continue reading "Mac, Where are you?"

My first Remix assignment. How exciting. I decided to remix the assignment I had already done, Photo Mash. When I clicked the remix button, it told me to “Use the worst, over the top design elements in an assignment. Use Arial or Papyrus fonts, green and pink colors, sappy music to make an assignment be the … Continue reading "Remixed PhotoMash"

For my first mash-up assignment, I took James Bond and…. James Bond and mashed them up in one photo for the Photo Mash Assignment. I changed it up in this assignment though, and instead of using canva, I used pixlr. I know truly a shock. This was my first time using pixlr so it was kind … Continue reading "James Bond x2"

Another week, another summery. This week I did 13 stars of video assingments. I started out with 4 1/2 stars by making the Kingsman Silent. I related this assignment back to our theme by using a spy film (my agent’s personal favorite film) The next assignment was another 4 1/2 stars about my daily routine. … Continue reading "Week 11 Summery"

For my last assignment, I decided to do Spoil a Movie! This assignment was rated 4 stars, and the task was to create a compilation of the most important scenes from a movie and try to do it in 30 seconds or less. If this was a mission, I would have failed. I could not get … Continue reading "Spoil a Movie"

For my second assignment this week, I decided to do the What do You do? from the assignment bank. This assignment was rated 4 1/2 stars but I think it was a lot easier than most assignments. I decided to record myself doing a task that I do every single day, the most tedious task, something … Continue reading "Daily Routine"

The DKC has figured out where all our agents are, and our new mission is to throw them off track. Make all blog post titles outrages, so they can’t figure out what we are writing about. We have to leave hidden messages all over the blog posts to really throw them off.

For my first assignment this week, I decided to Return to the Silent Era. I kept this up with the class theme by having my movie scene be from the Spy Movie Kingsman… Do you sense the trend I am going on here? literally, everything I do is on Kingsman. I’ll eventually stop but today’s … Continue reading "Silent Kingsman"

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This week, we had to do a video assignment and answer a series of questions. Obviously, my agent mac is somewhere DEEP undercover at a currently undisclosed location and could not answer the questions posed, so I answered them on her behalf, using a script she provided me. I did this assignment using final cut … Continue reading "Interview with the Agent"

For my second assignment, I did a 4 1/2 star assignment called 60 Second Day – A Video Narrative. The assignment was to show your day in 60 seconds, using one-second clips. My week has been rather hectic, and for some reason, I decided to try and do this assignment during my busiest day and … Continue reading "60 seconds? More like 20!"

For my first web assignment, I decided to tackle a 5 start assignment. The assignment is “That Bleeping censor” and the task is to take a 2-minute movie scene and sensor out a recurring phrase. I decided to take the basic approach and find a movie with some curse words and sensor those out. I googled … Continue reading "Censoring 22 Jump Street"

Man, I feel like if it wasnt for this class, I would not realize how much time has past since the beginning of the semester. Now to the good stuff. This week I started out by doing a stepworks story because it seemed like a cool idea. I took the first couple of lines of … Continue reading "Week 9 Summery"

This week, we had to go look through past assignments people have done and try and find the best of ds106. “best” is pretty subjective so I am going to have a few criteria for what I will categorize as being best. This is a criteria created just for this class though. So for an … Continue reading "Best of ds106"

This is a story about a girl who tried. Who tried to be a contender She Coulda been a contender #tdc1901 @ds106dc #ds106 pic.twitter.com/WmL9BIxw7G — Maria Ingea (@mingea8) March 24, 2017 on the AFC Ajax football team DS106 at the the 1900 AFC Ajax football picture. I bet they were awful texters @ds106dc #tdc1900 pic.twitter.com/62e0oWc9an — Maria … Continue reading "Connected Daily Creates"

For my second web assignment, I decided to do a personal search engine. To start off, I got x-ray goggles and did a mini tutorial with it. I just want to note that the tutorial is not helpful at all. I decided I wanted to do a spy-themed search engine and went off to google and … Continue reading ""

For my the listening portion of the assignment, I decided to write about Agents on Air because it had the coolest name. Unfortunately, due to my work schedule, I could not listen to the shows live, but I caught up with a few after. I really liked how the first agent introduced herself, and the … Continue reading "Radio Listen"

For my first web assignment, I decided to do the Find a Digital Tool assignment. The assignment is to Find a cool, easy to use  digital tool online and to write up a brief tutorial on how to use it, and what it can be used for. The tool that I will be writing a tutorial … Continue reading "Canva Tutorial"

I decided to do the step work story as an alternative to doing web story telling because I had already started watching the 18-minute tutorial and I became committed. Right away, I knew I wanted the text I wanted to use was the bee movie script. I thought it would be a hilarious to see that. I … Continue reading "Stepwork story"

Radio show week is finally done! Not that I didn’t have fun, it was just really tedious. I also now hate audacity. I started out the week meeting with my group and then meeting some more with my group. You can read all about that in my update post! I had a little bit of … Continue reading "Week 8"

So our radio show group (minus ahmed cause of his commute) met up twice this week. The first time we met, we decided what we were going to do. We talked about a few ideas but in the end decided we are going to do a very conversational styled show, where we played theme songs … Continue reading "2nd Radio Show update"