For this assignment, i listened to several of the different stories. One of the stories i listened is called “It’s going to change your life” directed and produced by Jonathan Mitchell. The story was about the character name Karen Miller who was promoted to a division chief position, but she...

Week 3 Daily Create #2 (7/08) Hand and Paper Drawing!: The Daily Create 1277 (7/08) Twitter Tweet Shark Bait This drawing is in honor of shark week. I drew this while watching stories of people being attack by sharks. Can this guy out run a shark in the ocean or does he become shark bait.

As far as what I have learned and gained from others peoples comments I think that I have gotten some useful feedback as far as how I have been doing my blog posts. It seems that I have being doing … Continue reading →

For this assignment, we were prompted to “Try to convey a certain emotion, such as fear, stress, sadness, etc. by combing sound effects. They can be human sounds, such as crying with laughter in the background, to maybe express someone’s … Continue reading →

For todays Daily Create, the prompt was to draw on your hand and paper and mesh the two together. Now I am not a very good drawer so I decided on something simple and that happened to be a pizza.

I would say that I’m definitely more of a television person.  But for people my age, who isn’t these days?  There were some really interesting points made in these videos though.  Both of the experts talked so passionately about radio. … Continue reading →

Today’s Daily Create was to make a hand and paper drawing! I chose to do a flower because I love

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Hand and paper drawing, daily create!

“Tell a story using nothing but sound effects. There can be no verbal communication, only sound effects. Use at least five different sounds that you find online. The story can be no longer than 90 seconds. Another example (by a UMW student): http://ds106.us/wp-content/audio/audio_story.mp3″ For the sound effects assignment, i created...

Do You Hear What I Hear? Description of Assignment: Record glimpses of the different sounds you hear throughout the day,

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My Created Assignment #2: Celebrating Too Early (2 Stars) Description of Assignment: “Make a GIF when someone celebrates too early. You can use Make A GIF or any software to help you trim the video that you find into a five second or less GIF. Make sure you embed your GIF into your blog post.” The Story The Laker’s Nick […]

Boundaries exist everywhere we look. For this assignment we are supposed to  find two spaces that share a boundary. In this case, I picked the United Stated and Canada. They share a boarder, or international boundary as seen in the pictures below. For the second part of the assignment we were supposed to “highlight” the boundary.  Which … Continue reading Two Spaces That Share A Boundary →

Honestly, I don’t know how this could get any cornier/cheesier.  This is the cheesiest thing I have ever done.  I love UMW but it is so easy to mess with the saying, “Where Great Minds Get to Work.”  So I … Continue reading →

This is a typical morning for me.  Wake up from my alarm, stretch, put my glasses on and sit there for a little while more.  I’m sorry but I don’t know who gets right out of bed after their alarm … Continue reading →

I decided to do a little comparison between the handwriting of my left hand vs the hand writing of my dominate right hand…there is clearly a difference.

Everyone’s making a big deal out of people writing less by hand, but the world does move on. People don’t carve stone tablets anymore, some things just become obsolete. Although, […]

Customize a pair of shoes (3 Stars) Description of Assignment: “Everyone likes to have a pair of shoes that are one of a kind. Customize a pair of shoes of your choosing. You can use photoshop or any website to edit shoes. To help me customize my Nike shoes I used NikeID.com but you can use any site you […]

In this audio story, an unemployed man decides to walk across the country, from Philadelphia to New Orleans and then to California. He embarks on a 4,000 mile trip across the country, and has some very interesting experiences along the … Continue reading →

This assignment is not particularly difficult, but in case you need some help here is a tutorial to get you through it! if you have any questions feel free to comment! Before you can do this assignment you must have … Continue reading →

This audio assignment is called “Character Bird Calls” the description for this assignment is to “Like some people use special whistles to attract birds, your task is to create an 30 second or less audio file that might be used … Continue reading →

Goodmorning Message For the Village (Directions) Description of Assignment: It is always a wonderful thing to hear a bright cheery voice

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After watching Part One of Ira Glass’ talk on storytelling, I have an entirely new way of thinking about audio storytelling. To begin, Glass says to throw out everything you learned in High School about how to tell a story … Continue reading →

my daily create #PenATweet

Week s Daily Create #1 (7/06) Pen A Tweet: The Daily Create 1275 (7/06) Twitter Tweet Handwriting Does your handwriting get worse with stress?

For this assignment, there were a couple audio techniques that the producers used while telling the story. Below I am

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While watching part one of Ira Glass’s video on storytelling, I learned that even when you’re telling a story, if

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We missed #PenATweet Day! For this daily create you had to write something along the lines of teaching, handwriting, education,

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Todays daily create prompt was to take part in Pen A Tweet Day. My Pen A Tweet was in honor of the U.S. Womens National Soccer Team winning the World Cup last night. #dailycreate #ds106 #tdc1275 pic.twitter.com/XAWIziDNBm — Alexander Hollyer … Continue reading →

So, below are my thoughts for project ideas for ds106, as we each need to complete/create two projects for the Assignment Bank. I actually thought of the first idea last night as we all eating cereal for dinner, since I had so much homework to do there was no time to make dinner……… Let alone even think … Continue reading My Project Ideas for ds106 →