Your mission, very possible. Your Final Project Your Final Project cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo shared by gak You can find all the details for the final project written up as a specification. To re-iterate Now is your chance...

creative commons licensed ( BY-NC-SA ) flickr photo shared by TempusVolat Now is your chance to put the storytelling and media skills you have practiced over the last 7...

Here is the topic most students find both the most challenging and/or rewarding portion of ds106: video. It presents challenges with file formats, creating more complex narratives, and working with more complicated software. But it is also one of the most engaging forms of media — hence the current...

You have worked on creating stories through images exploring the methods of photography and the way visual design works. This week, we jump media to look at telling stories in audio, which we first observed in week 2. This week, you get to make stories with just...

We’ve wrapped up our week on visual storytelling and continue looking at the visual form of media, but now with a perspective on visual design. It’s not always clear where the line is between design and visual, but ds106 design storytelling assignments generally involve more creating and modifying in...

Photo by Jennifer, UMW ds106 student, Spring 2013 There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.Ansel Adams The photo and quote above is from a previous ds106 student’s perspective on photography. For this week of DS106 Goes to Work, you will practice telling stories in...

Before you start making media, it’s worth practicing how “read” audio and video content, to get better at understanding the subtleties of great audio/video stories that are often so well integrated that we do not even notice them. This week we will introduce concepts of layering in media, and...

Once upon a time not so long ago… or this week, there is a new course in digital storytelling. You are now in it.

As a guide to these weekly assignments posts, they are meant to provide everything you need to do for this unit, especially important for registered students. …

Welcome to the world of digital storytelling. For students in the Instructional Design and Technology (IDT) Program at George Mason University (GMU), this is going to likely be a very different experience from the rest of your programs. Very different. If you feel dis-oriented, then you are right...