ds106 – Letters in your surroundings
So Today I decided to try out a design assignment calle […]
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Four Possible Futures: Renaissance
After watching the video, The Visible College: Four Futures for Higher Education by Bryan Alexander, I decided to write about what life would be like in 2022 if society followed the Renaissance scenario discussed in the video. In the video, Alexander discusses that in the future, games will have a huge impact on society and ...
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XXI-Renaissance
by Sean Clancy April 7, 2012Once upon a time there was a crazy guy who painted the ceiling of a building somewhere in Europe. Also, some other stuff was happening. Historians refer to this period as “The Renaissance”, which is a word they made up. Bryan Alexander liked this made-up word so much he used it to describe his 4th ...
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XXI-Renaissance
by Sean Clancy April 7, 2012Once upon a time there was a crazy guy who painted the ceiling of a building somewhere in Europe. Also, some other stuff was happening. Historians refer to this period as “The Renaissance”, which is a word they made up. Bryan Alexander liked this made-up word so much he used it to describe his 4th ... -
Being poetic.
Haiku – A Japanese 3-Line Poem. “Haiku it up!” is a writing assignment that asks you to compose a haiku using a random dailyshoot photo. I was born and raised in Japan, however, I never really had the chance to … Continue reading →
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Tweetz
Feeling a little twittery, I’ve decided to go ahead and do the Phun with Phake Tweets DS106 assignment. It involves a couple simple steps. Coming straight from the DS106 assignment page, all you have to do is “Use the Twister tool from ClassTools to generate a series of images representing the voices of past figures […]
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Being poetic.
Haiku – A Japanese 3-Line Poem. “Haiku it up!” is a writing assignment that asks you to compose a haiku using a random dailyshoot photo. I was born and raised in Japan, however, I never really had the chance to … Continue reading → -
Iconoclast.
Let’s Remix an Album Cover! “Remix an Album Cover” is a Mashup assignment which you will find an album cover and remix it to represent something else. What you alter can be anything – it can be a play on … Continue reading →
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Iconoclast.
Let’s Remix an Album Cover! “Remix an Album Cover” is a Mashup assignment which you will find an album cover and remix it to represent something else. What you alter can be anything – it can be a play on … Continue reading → -
The Way It Should Have Been: Blow
Hello people, I have decided to do my first FanFic assignment from Ds106 called “The way it should have been” and the instructions are clear and can be found here. This assignment seemed like something I could handle on this lonely Friday night with nothing to do but type. For this assignment I decided I would change ...
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Watching boxing tonight
by Nick Rivers April 6, 2012Sitting at home with a few cans of beer remaining from my limited stock and Im actually writing essays and being productive. I was sick the last few days so I wasnt very productive then but today was good and I can finish up some of my other classes including this one by tomorrow. Boxing ...
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The Way It Should Have Been: Blow
Hello people, I have decided to do my first FanFic assignment from Ds106 called “The way it should have been” and the instructions are clear and can be found here. This assignment seemed like something I could handle on this lonely Friday night with nothing to do but type. For this assignment I decided I would change […] -
Watching boxing tonight
Sitting at home with a few cans of beer remaining from my limited stock and Im actually writing essays and being productive. I was sick the last few days so I wasnt very productive then but today was good and I can finish up some of my other classes including this one by tomorrow. Boxing […] -
TUJ Student Film Festival: Design Festa Gallery Exhibition
This weekend, a special 3-day exhibition at Design Festa Gallery in Harajuku will feature TUJ student-made films. This is the …
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TUJ Student Film Festival: Design Festa Gallery Exhibition
This weekend, a special 3-day exhibition at Design Festa Gallery in Harajuku will feature TUJ student-made films. This is the … -
My Name in Tokyo
The Assignment: was looking through the ds106 assignments to find one I could do when I discovered this one. Its instructions are: Find your name in the environment around you. Look for your first name, parts of your first name, or even the individual letters that make up your name in the environment around you. […]
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Whatever humans can do…
…computers can do it better! Right? 産業界では２年後に第１弾を迎える消費税増税に戦々恐々としている。 ＝That we fear in the industry and we welcome war to the consumption tax hike in two years after the first bullet. Eh…maybe not. For this DS106 assignment, “Google Translate Fail”, one must “find something in a foreign language and use Google Translate and laugh about how awful […]
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A accent with making an order
This Ds106 assignment was to record an odd voice to make a sound clip of ordering some food at a restaurant. I can make many different types of voices but Southern just felt fitting for the assignment. Laughter is what keeps people happy and it is also the gateway to a woman’s heart lol. Anyway […]
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Name that Tune – Music Mashup
The Assignment: I found this assignment, and always appreciate a chance to share good music with others, so I did it. The instructions were as follows: For this assignment, I got short pieces from 6 different songs and put them into once piece. I tried creating the effect of tuning through the radio for this […]
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Mashin up Album covers
In This mashup assignment you were supposed to remix an iconic Album cover to mean something else. Instead I sort of went in a different direction and combined two album covers from 2 of my favorite bands Mogwai and Boards of Canada. I used Mogwai’s EP+6 cover and BOC’s (Boards Of Canada’s) Music has the […]
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Bryan Alexander. the future of education and my take on future learning
A Phd in English Lit, from U of Michigan.Bryan Alexanders video researches about emerging trends in technology and education. He talks about how he works non profit, and travels and learns from many students and faculty. Making him aextreemly reliable source for information with regard to this. Power point and how it is the lingua franc […]
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Personal Cyber Infrastructure thoughts
This article gives light of personal cyber infrastructure. Every student getting their own cyber world just diving into all aspects of cyberspace. This idea is actually great, I am not that good with computers, these blogs, let alone these assignments. Partly because of interest although there would be much more interest in it if I was […]
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My Impression of a Personal Cyberinfrastructure
by Ken Hayashi April 3, 2012Gardner Campbell’s article of A Personal Cyberinfrastructure was quite an interesting read for how students have the potential for their college careers, as well as for the future. Personally, I am quite proud of being a universtity student in the digital age for more than a year and a half, and I feel as if ...
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My Impression of a Personal Cyberinfrastructure
by Ken Hayashi April 3, 2012Gardner Campbell’s article of A Personal Cyberinfrastructure was quite an interesting read for how students have the potential for their college careers, as well as for the future. Personally, I am quite proud of being a universtity student in the digital age for more than a year and a half, and I feel as if ... -
Evolution
The Assignment In the Visual Assignments, I found an assignment that I could relate to the cyberspace topic. The assignment is called Evolution created by Isaac Thesatus. The directions read: Alot can happen from birth to death. Be creative; show how things, animals, objects, technology, evolve throughout time. This assignment doesn’t have to be precise, ...
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Jays presentation on open source
Today my classmate Jay talked about Open source Software and some of the debates surrounding it. He gave a few good examples of big projects that are open source such as Firefox and Gimp. I was wondering how big companies like this can function if all their work is given away for free. Apparently groups […]
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The secret alliance of guys who do challenging things.
In this world there are things that need to be done. These guys are the guys you may consider hiring when combing the yellow pages for “people who do things good” because they are the only group that do things good. The leader of the group is a man whom dresses in a penguin costume […]
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Is Social Networking a Different Language? DS106!!
Instructions: Write a short paper on this topic. Be sure to include some of the saying we use, which one’s you understand and don’t understand, and most of all discuss if social networking language is in fact different from our every day language. The Process: Before starting this short essay assignment for DS106 I searched for as ...
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Is Social Networking a Different Language? DS106!!
Instructions: Write a short paper on this topic. Be sure to include some of the saying we use, which one’s you understand and don’t understand, and most of all discuss if social networking language is in fact different from our every day language. The Process: Before starting this short essay assignment for DS106 I searched for as […] -
Is Social Networking A Different Language?
The Assignment This is my first time doing a Writing Assignment and it’s called Is Social Networking A Different Language? by Colin Schulz. The directions read: Some professionals believe the language we use on social networking sites is different from everyday language. They say this because of the words like g2g, ttul that we use ...
