Final assignment, make three movie posters for DS106. We had three people in our group so we each did one.  Makes sense. First one is Stacy’s: Ashley’s: And mine: The idea was to tell a story of taking the class, beginning to end.  First, utter confusion of what this class was.  Second, extreme frustration from ...

Final thoughts on this class… Going into this class, I had little clue what it was about. I figured something like vlogging or making videos would be what it was most about.  I was mostly wrong.  Honestly, I took this class because I wanted something that wouldn’t be too challenging in my last semester here ...

Second goodwill haul. Thought I would class it up with some background music.

For the fanfiction assignment, I made a fanvid/songvid of my favorite character from one of my favorite tv shows, Charlie from “It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia.” Charlie fanvid

http://ds106.us/2011/01/10/averaging-concepts-using-flickr/ For this visual assignment, you were to take 50 images from a flickr search and average them all together.  There were step by step instructions for this but not for the version of photoshop I have.  So instead of an easy couple of clicks, it turned into me adjusting the opacity for each individual ...

http://bavatuesdays.com/week-12-13-assignment-el-mashup/ This took longer than I had expected it to but here is the end result.  It’s pretty obvious it’s hand drawn (especially with the text) but it’s the best I could do with my limited knowledge on graphics. I debated on whether using the whole cast or just three characters like on the actual ...

So, my plan for the mashup. I really like one of the submitted assignments on Jim’s course website It’s where you take a children’s book and mash it with some cultural aspect. I choose Jersey Shore. It has to be Jersey Shore. The first idea I had was to use “If You Give A Mouse ...

Just because I want people to know, before this video I made a mozzarella stick sandwich in the toaster over.  Delicious.

After playing around with the html and learning by trial and error (a lot of error, actually), I put together what it might look like if Dexter Morgan from Shotime’s “Dexter” reached out to the internet community for some advise. Mostly I altered the text, but I also changed the avatars for the commenters and ...

So I attempted my first hauling video with my digital camera.  Foiled. I tried to make a makeshift stand to it would be at my level to record me but it was still off and I ended up moving around a bit and overall it was awks.  I didn’t like it.  I’m not posting it.  ...

My YoungMe/NowMe picture as inspired by Ze Frank http://www.zefrank.com/youngmenowme/ Young soccer me and now rugby me.

So I picked to listen to “Famous Angstas” mostly because I knew the three who made it and wanted to make fun of it to them later. The gist of the show was taking historical and fictional characters and having them rant as if they were teens.  This was an assignment idea for an audio ...

zombie politics My piece for the radio show. Credit to

This week, we had to watch Ira Glass talk about storytelling. It was broken up into 4 parts, each focusing on a different point. Part one went over the two building blocks for stories on the radio; anecdotes and a moment of reflection. An anecdote is simply a sequence of actions. Glass emphasizes that action ...

I may not be too good with computers, but I do love the interweb.  I’m not sure what is really realistic for a project (considering resources needed ie. the tech) but I do find things on the internet amusing.  For example: Autotune – I believe you can do this with Audacity.  I love “Auto-tune the ...

I took a stab at the “Stories written in Windows Media assignment.” http://ds106.us/2011/02/03/stories-written-in-windows-media-player/ I don’t have that much music on my computer but as I was scrolling through, I picked up on a theme...

I picked customer service reading (How Ritz-Carlton Maintains its Mystique http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/feb2007/sb20070213_171606.htm?chan=smallbiz_smallbiz+index+page_today)  since I actually work in customer service for some large, terrible chain that shall not be named and wondered how storytelling would be used in this setting. The storytelling is used to inspire its staff to go above and beyond to serve guests at ...

To retell the first story, I used xtranormal.com to make a video. Here is the finished product: My intention was it to look like there was a narrator and an extra character to act out some of the story, but both playing myself (if that makes sense). Making it was not too difficult. The voice ...

The part of the Web 2.0 reading that most caught my attention was when the authors said that the outcome of web 2.0 and micropublishing could drastically lower the bar for “participation and publishing” (http://digitalstorytelling.umwblogs.org/files/2010/01/web2.0_storytelling.pdf pg. 42) because there is some really unintelligent content out on the internet that one would possibly never see published ...