So in addition to the twelve audio stars, daily creates, and participation, I also had to do five stars of design work, just to keep my skills sharp. I chose the Favorite Movie Quotes for two and a half stars and I used my favorite quote ever from Poohs Grand Adventure The Search For Christopher …

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Part One of this weeks assignments is to complete 12 stars of audio assignments, two of which have been chosen for us. I chose to do the sound effects story first and decided my story would be about going to the movies. I used audacity and freesounds.com to do so then posted it on soundcloud. …

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So once again the daily creates this half of the week require a fair amount of creativity. Friday, June Eighth I chose to do Fridays daily create which was to write out your name in tifnagh characters. At first I read the assignment and completely skipped over the part where it said write in tifnagh and …

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Overview: So throughout the week, besides the daily creates, I had to do a crash course in using audio in digital storytelling. I downloaded the Audacity Program and spent some time confusing myself about whether or not the LAME plugin for Audacity was downloaded and installed correctly. Then of course came the lesson and the …

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So first things first, I had absolutely no idea how to arrange audio or use any type of audio program before this week. I have some friends that do digital music creation and my boyfriend likes to play around on a production program similar to Audacity, just to see what he can do, but I …

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The daily creates for this week so far have been actually pretty cool. They have been fun to look at other peoples as well as fun to create. Monday, June 3rd This daily create was to take a piece of art and make a GIF out of it. I used the  website linked to the …

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Okay so I actually did this weeks second half assignments a little bit backwards, by that I mean I did the Participation part first, then the assignment from the bank, then the alternate history, followed by the book cover, with the two required daily creates mixed in. Although I believe I did do the first …

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Napoleon Bonaparte was one of the greatest conquerors in history, known for all of his achievements but also for his greatest defeat, the battle of Waterloo. What would have happened if the great general had not been defeated? What if he could have continued on his war path and conquered the rest of Europe? Or …

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What would have happened if Napoleon and his army had won the Battle of Waterloo and continued to fight and conquer Europe? In doing research about Napoleon and his goals and the different areas he was planning on fighting for next, it is easy to see that Napoleon would have kept going if he had …

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This week I watched a couple TED Talk videos discussing best practices for design.  The two presenters, David Carson and Paula Scher, did a wonderful job with their speeches.  I also took the time to complete some Canva.com tutorials related to design patterns.   David started off his presentation by showing two garage doors with…