DesignBlitz

DesignBlitz

by @KellyPratt27125

| Assignments, designassignments, designblitz, ds106, Syndicated
May 28, 2023

Dominance Every image has dominance, I think. It’s the first thing in an image that draws your eye. For this image, I chose a picture that also metaphorically showed dominance, having bush in it that was larger than nearly everything else in the photo. I think I could have enhanced that photo by changing the […]
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DesignBlitz

by @BalladofE11442

| Assignments, Blog, Syndicated
May 28, 2023

Color- The use of color in the Bogo buy one get one free sign is shown by the orange that fades into yellow. These are warm colors that are a symbol of impulsiveness and energy. What I think this advertisement is trying to do with these colors is to gr...
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Vignelli Canon

by @BalladofE11442

| Assignments, Blog, Syndicated, Thoughts and Ideas
May 28, 2023

The Vignelli Canon by Massimo Vignelli is an important work that explores the fundamental principles of design. Vignelli, an influential Italian designer, presents several important concepts for designers across various disciplines. One of his key conc...
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part II Chapter II Exploring the City

by natalie

| audiobooks, books, ebooks, fiction, Latest, lisbon, lisbondream, lovestory, Reading, short stories, short story, sunday, sundayvibes, Syndicated, womanfiction
May 28, 2023

from the book THE WEEKEND: Love, Ambition & the Lisbon Dream Welcome to Part II of our audio Sunday listening adventure in “The Weekend: Love, Ambition and the Lisbon Dream”! In this chapter, we join Paige as she discovers a hidden gem, the Gin Lovers Bar & Restaurant at the beautiful Embaixada, located in the… Continue reading part II Chapter II Exploring the City
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Reclaim Karaoke at the Rockaway Club

by Reverend

| digital storytelling, ds106, ds106radio, ds106tv, edupunk, fun, karaoke, OBS, OER21, OERxDomains, OERxDomains21, oerxdomains21youtube, owncast, PeerTube, reclaim, Reclaim Edtech, Reclaim Open, Reclaim Video, streaming, Streamyard, Syndicated, youtube
May 27, 2023

It’s been a little while since I blogged, and that’s due to a combination of factors, including visitors, conference preparation, and a little bit of karaoke experimentation. The last of those will be the focus of this post, cause I’d … Continue reading ?
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Face The Odds

by @KellyPratt27125

| Assignments, designassignments, DesignAssignments2817, ds106, Syndicated
May 25, 2023

This design assignments resonated with me. As a Black woman, I am often a double minority in my chosen field of work: cemetery preservation. Many times, the caretakers and groundskeepers for historic cemeteries are white men. It is rare to see a woman, and rarer still, a Black woman. I have learned to carry myself […]
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Thoughts On The Vignelli Canon By Massimo Vignelli

by @KellyPratt27125

| ds106, Syndicated, Thoughts & Ideas
May 25, 2023

This short booklet, the Vignelli Canon, speaks to some of the aspects of good graphic design. As a past multimedia major, my classes often focused on graphic design for websites, logo design, video game design, video creation, etc. But, in all my classes, I don’t recall ever going into the specifics of design as Vignelli […]
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Twitter Sez DS106 Daily Create Get Off My Lawn!

by cogdog

| dailycreate, ds106, Rants, Syndicated, twitter, twitterisdumb
May 24, 2023

The Musky Dark Lord of Twitter has finally cast the fun loving, roll-in-the-grass-like-a-happy-dog DS106 Daily Create off of the tweeting lawn. This marks the end of 3811 successive never missed a single day of tweeting fun creative challenges openly and the last 2813 of them had, until today, been able to have their responses collected […]
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Educational Technology Conferences 2023 & 2024

by plowenthal

| Syndicated
May 24, 2023

The following list was adapted from Clayton R. Wright’s Educational Technology and Education Conferences List #48. Please refer to Wright’s complete list for other conferences as well as each conference website for more details. Each year I attend AECT...
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Larose Forest

by Downes

| 2023365, bicycle, bike, bikepacking, Syndicated, touring
May 23, 2023

May 22, 2023. This is my bicycle on day three. I made my way home along the Prescott Russell trail and then south through Larose Forest.It was tough because I had to ration water until I got to Bourget. I thought I might have lunch there but all three...
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Cobbs Lake Creek

by Downes

| 2023365, Syndicated
May 23, 2023

May 21, 2023. This was the view from the old rail bridge along the Prescott Russell trail. I rode it for a short distance along my endurance-level 70 km ride mostly into a stiff breeze on a sunny but cool day. I was completely wiped out by the end of ...
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Domaine du Sapin

by Downes

| 2023365, Syndicated
May 23, 2023

May 20, 2023. This is my campsite for the first night of my weekend trip, at Domaine du Sapin near Greenfield (just soiutheast of Maxville). Though it rained most of the day (and most of the night) it held off just long enough to enjoy a campfile and ...
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The Joy of Web Improbability: The Buggles on/in front of #DS106 TV

by cogdog

| ds106, nostalgia, On Sharing, Syndicated, webserendipity, Weird Web
May 22, 2023

Keep the internet weird and un-expected, not managed by machine languages and corporatized algorithms, but by the small human acts of sharing. Ok? This has happened to me countless times yet never gets old. So via Mastodon, all the way from New Zealand, my colleague Stephen Harlow thinks to share this: Indeed, in a YouTube […]
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Settling past beards

by Andrew Carle

| Culture, ds106, makers, Syndicated
May 22, 2023

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Visual Assignment Pt. 4: Summary

by @KellyPratt27125

| ds106, Summaries, Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments2152, VisualAssignments2167, VisualAssignments2815, VisualAssignments504
May 21, 2023

This week, I completed several assignments. For a quick reference, see the links below. Visual Assignment Part 1: Reflection Visual Assignment Part 2: Photo Safari Visual Assignment Part 3A: Five Frame Story Visual Assignment Part 3B: Your Favorite Photo Visual Assignment Part 3C: Mixing 2 Worlds Visual Assignment Part 3D: Draw It Visual Assignment Part […]
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Visual Assignment Pt. 3D: Draw It

by @KellyPratt27125

| Assignments, ds106, Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments504
May 21, 2023

Prompt: Take a photograph of something (If you take a picture from the internet, make sure to be nice and cite the original) and transform it through GIMP, Photoshop, etc, into a drawing. This is a 2 star prompt. Last week, I started my archaeology field school. My class of six people is working on […]
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Visual Assignment Pt. 3C: Mixing 2 Worlds

by @KellyPratt27125

| Assignments, ds106, Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments2815
May 21, 2023

Prompt: Using an editing software, edit a photo and crop to an 11×17. Then add text for the location or something fun. This is a 3 star prompt. For this assignment, I wanted to do something slightly fun. Being a lover of architecture, I decided to use this image of the Hearst Castle pool. This […]
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Visual Assignment Pt. 3B: Your Favorite Photo

by @KellyPratt27125

| Assignments, ds106, Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments2152
May 21, 2023

Prompt: It’s simple. Choose your favorite photo you’ve taken and tell everyone why you love it so much. This is a 1.5 star prompt. This is my favorite photo. Yes, it’s a photo of myself. Usually my favorite photos are nature pictures. Rarely do I have a favorite photo of myself. in fact, I don’t […]
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Visual Assignment Pt. 3A: Five Frame Story

by @KellyPratt27125

| Assignments, ds106, Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments2167
May 21, 2023

Prompt: Tell a story using five photos. Basically, that’s it. Figure out the story you want to tell and then take five photos to tell it. If you need to edit, add filters, etc. in order to get the effect you want, go for it. This is a 3.5 star prompt. I chose a different […]
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Visual Assignment Pt. 2: Photo Safari

by @KellyPratt27125

| Assignments, ds106, Syndicated, Thoughts & Ideas
May 21, 2023

I decided to do the photo safari at my house. It seemed to be the easiest place to manipulate items and get the desired photos. Additionally, I thought it might show more about me. This wasn’t exactly the case. My home, while full or random stuff, has very poor lighting. Even with bright lights on, […]
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Summarizing my Past Posts

by @BalladofE11442

| Assignments, Blog, Summaries, Syndicated
May 21, 2023

What I learned from doing these past posts was how to take a better photo and be patient with that process. I also learned what the Draw It was and how to make photoshopped images for that assignment. What was harder than I thought was the scavenger hu...
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Website Band Creation

by @BalladofE11442

| Assignments, Blog, Syndicated, Thoughts and Ideas, visualassignments, VisualAssignments44
May 21, 2023

Another day just me being bored. So I thought why not create a random album for a band that does not exist? Going through websites to give me the words and what I need to make it weird and not make sense. To create something to laugh at or regret later...
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Diglet Ghost

by @BalladofE11442

| Assignments, Blog, Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments426
May 21, 2023

I walked past the painting that sits in the basement like normal, but unlike most days this wasn’t normal. This time when I walked passed the painting it has a small silhouette. From what it looked like to be was a, diglet? Like as in the Pokemon...
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Yiga With Banana

by @BalladofE11442

| Assignments, Blog, Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments2741
May 21, 2023

In Breath of the Wild, the lore states that the Yiga clan love bananas. What if they used bananas for their weapons too? It would lead to the game dropping a banana knife. Just having Link walk around and a Yiga clan member pos out to hit you with a ba...
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Chapter II – Exploring the city

by natalie

| audio, books, ebooks, fiction, Latest, lazy sundays, Lisbon stories, lovestories, novels, Reading, romance novel, romance reads, short stories, sunday reads, Syndicated, woman fiction
May 21, 2023

from the book The Weekend: Love, Ambition & the Lisbon Drea Saturday morning, Paige walked towards Oeiras station and took the local train for a 20-minute ride with a sea view towards Cais de Sodre Lisbon station. She passed by little towns such as Praia de Caxias, Alges, and Alcantar Mar, looking out the window… Continue reading Chapter II – Exploring the city
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Everything Is the Same as It Ever Was

by paul bond

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments2478, David Lee Roth, ds106, Mashup, Syndicated, talking heads
May 21, 2023

I’ve always wanted to do the David Lee Roth audio remix assignment but never came up with a good use for it. Maybe I still haven’t, but I made this thing: The other day I saw a tweet from Open … Continue reading ?
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Visual Assignment Pt. 1

by @KellyPratt27125

| Assignments, ds106, Syndicated, Thoughts & Ideas
May 20, 2023

The information about taking pictures was interesting. Having taken multiple architecture research classes, I’ve already taken part in several lessons about taking photos using a camera. Most of the information presented in my digital studies course reiterated what I already knew. One suggestion that I would like to consider for future photos is to take […]
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Dog Haircut

by @BalladofE11442

| Assignments, Blog, Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments418
May 20, 2023

My dog is a poodle mix. So, her fur gets long all on its own. Now comes the dreaded day as she puts it if my dog could talk. A haircut. Her being left alone for a few hours is terrible to her. Not to mention they are taking away her fluff. In the end, ...
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15-Minute Photo Scavenger Hunt

by @BalladofE11442

| Assignments, Blog, Syndicated, Thoughts and Ideas
May 20, 2023

When I started the 15 minutes I was just running around my house trying to find objects or anything that could be of use. When it came to finding something futuristic I had no idea what to do about it. I eventually just found my lightsaber and used tha...
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How to Take a Photo Reflection

by @BalladofE11442

| Assignments, Blog, Syndicated, Thoughts and Ideas
May 20, 2023

To get a good photo that seems highly detailed even if it is just your phone it is best to use a photo app that is not already downloaded on the device. Piklr is an excellent app to start off with because it gives the user a more precise image than the...
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