1. @KendallResnick

    Mia’s DS106 Thoughts

    by
    Hey everyone! Mia Holmes here. Way back in the day, before I was a secret agent, I was a student. As a student, I took a class called Digital Storytelling, or DS106. This class taught me many valuable lessons that improved my digital skills. When I first joined the class, I had limited technology skills. […]
  2. @caholt2000

    The Search for Answers

    by
    After a long search through Google. . . Sammy finally found something useful related to the Directorate: a propaganda poster promoting squirrels to join the Directorate and stop secret agents. This could explain why agents have been disappearing. How can I stop them? Sammy knew what to do. He was wary of going back to

    Read More

  3. @caholt2000

    A New Identity

    by
    With some careful research, Sammy put together a new identity. . . There were so many different options for the agent to choose when trying to find an occupation for his new secret identity. He read about other agents being photographers, billionaires, police officers, forensic scientists, nuclear physicists, lawyers, etc. He decided that he should

    Read More

  4. @caholt2000

    Mystery Caller

    by
    Just as Sammy was about to start doing research to find a new cover story, his phone started to ring. He had caller ID on his work phone, so he could see that it was a blocked caller. Sammy was wary about answering the phone, but he decided that he should answer it. There were

    Read More

  5. @bfrullads106

    Police Radio Call

    by
    Hello everyone, here’s one of the components of my final project- an audio piece that I created that is a component of my overall show. It might seem obvious to some how this could play into my movie, but not so much to others. When I created this, I intended for it to be a […]
  6. @CommTweetWithMe

    Coming soon…

    by
    Your identity has been compromised… You’ve been framed for a crime you didn’t commit… And the same person who framed you has hatched a plan to destroy the world. You’ve never undergone on a mission like this… It’s up to you to clear your name and save the world! Coming this Friday to a computer […]
  7. @bfrullads106

    Forum post

    by
    To build up some meta-fiction around my up and coming final project, I have taken to a reddit post on r/tvshow to try to illustrate what our fans think of the show. As you can see, we have some dedicated fans for sure. They’re posting calls to action on forums all over the internet! I […]
  8. @LaurenMacwha

    DGST395 FINAL PROJECT

    by
    This semester I was assigned to complete a digital project in my digital studies course here at the University of Mary Washington. For my final project, I decided to create an infographic. This was my first time attempting to create an infographic. I used Canva for a short time and decided that I felt using […]
  9. @tiffmooree

    Final Project

    by
    We have come to the end, my friends. Now I swear something always has to happen to where I can not finish my assignments in time. After a few days of working on the final, I was doing some finishing touches, and my sister called me. She had severe dehydration and needed to go to the hospital. I went into a different kind of speed, and rushed to bring her. She got hooked up to I.V.’s, and after 4 hours, I finally was able to finish up my project. After a few more editing hours, it is safe to say that I have completed my final project. So, for one last time, let’s get started… shall we? Check out my outline for my final project: First up, my visual assignment. For my visual assignment I wanted to create 3 missing posters for our secret agents. These were easier said than done. I wanted to use a new app to differentiate my posters from my past ones. I looked and experimented around with different apps for about an hour before I came to an app called Pinso. While this app was great, I always run into the same problems with these kinds of apps. You have to buy certain features to make the best of the app. I worked with what I got, and after experimenting around for another hour, decided I liked the simple look the best. I didn’t want to overcrowd the image, and I wanted the meaning to be clear. Once I found all of the images our secret agents used, I saved them and edited them into the posters. Then I sent them to my laptop and the visual assignment was complete. I opted to make the pictures have a hue of red, simple text, and blurred the photos just a tad. I thought this really made it so that the photos looked like these were missing people. Next up: Video My video assignment also ended up being one of the easiest, surprisingly. The only problem was adding audio. I found a resolution by recording everything from my laptop, and playing it off of my phone. I would find my sounds on youtube, which allowed for a lot more variety than something like free sound. Then I uploaded the videos of my speaking from my web cam. I also had a sheet of paper where I wrote everything about the secret agents, and had their dossier’s pulled up on my laptop. This helped quite a lot with a script. I also opted to edit the picture to be black and white, as I felt this fit with the theme better than having bright orange sunglasses. First I added all of my talking pieces, then I added the music and ending title. I chose to keep the beginning screen black without a title because I feel like that it fit the idea of a broadcast the best. I also made sure that the music was quite than me talking, or else it would’ve clashed and been hard to hear. I wanted the background music to be there, but the message was the most important. Once I had it all completed I uploaded it to YouTube. Next up: Audio Now audio was honestly the hardest. I did my voice recordings, but couldn’t figure out how to put the voice recordings into audacity. I knew you had to convert it to an MP3, but this was not working out for me. So I ended up using iMovie instead. I used the web cam to record my voice memos, and used it as well to add in the broadcast sounds. Then, I recorded the entire iMovie on my phone using voice memos, and uploaded that to Soundcloud. It was a very repetitive and unnecessary process, but nothing ever works out for me, does it? I debated on putting music in the background of the audio assignment as well, but I ultimately decided not to. I feel like podcasts, radio shows, and broadcasts only have music at the beginning and end, and not during them, so I wanted to keep it as real as possible. Recording the sounds also gave me more freedom. I feel like free sound has a very small amount of sounds that I am looking for. By recording them from YouTube, I was able to find whatever that I needed. I know most of my assignments sound the same, but I used the same script AND there isn’t much of a way to make the facts sound different. I felt like if I changed it up too much, then it wouldn’t sound as real. Actual emergency messages all sound the same, so I opted to keep the same script. However, I did do every single assignment from scratch. I chose for writing to be this almost weekly summary post, and my other post that acts as my final project post. I originally wrote up the post to be just a writing assignment, but in order to jazz it up I thought to add all of my elements in there. After all, what’s DS106 without one last weekly summary? Here is my final project post WITH the second writing assignment included: I feel like my project undoubtedly ties the course together. This is because I brought different students characters into my story, and created a mission to go with it. Our theme was secret agents, and my final project is completely about secret agents. And with that, I can’t believe I’m saying that I have completed my mission. I had quite a lot of fun with this class, and I will miss it and Professor Bond’s creativity. Thank you for joining me, Secret Agent Moore signing off.
  10. @madeleine_ds106

    Week 14 Summary

    by
    This semester in DS 106 has come to an end. For my final project, I decided to create a recruitment style project in an attempt to get new secret agents for DS 106 in the Fall of 2019. My idea for my project came from emails with Professor Bond an...
  11. @madeleine_ds106

    Spy Recruitment

    by
    TOP SECRET. DS106 AGENCY, HEADQUARTERS: RECRUITMENT MEMO Good morning. DS106 Recruitment Agency’s Fall 2019 Agenda is below as detailed… Desired Recruits: ****** ***************** *************** ******************* *********...

UMW Spring 2024 (Bond & Groom)

Welcome to Paul Bond and Jim Groom’s Spring 2024 ds106

Student Blogs

(9 posts)

[feedroll tag=”spring24bond”]

Spread some comment love! Find a random post from this section