This assignment was difficult. It took me several tries and lots of time messing with the website to get it to come out even close to readable. I used Hack Saurauses x-ray goggles on the Market Watch website to tell … Continue reading →

 Evaluation of the Road Trip radio and ADAAM’s radio show Road Trip radio In my opinion the show was very well organized and the hard work of the participants was shown. therefore, the quality of the audio was good as the volume level was normal and the sounds were clear. on the other hand, there ...

I’m a history major—so I did a fakebook and a twister for Thomas Jefferson (@TJeff). I really like to think of historical figures in our terms, and that they maybe spoke a little similar to us today. here’s the result: … Continue Reading →

After Taliban’s invasion of Afghanistan in 1996, women were legally banned from attending any kind of schooling. Therefore, all women schools and colleges were closed down and changed into all men’s institutes. But Afghan women did not give up despite the harsh punishments of the government, secrets schools for girls started operating. After Taliban were ...

  The Huge Hit     The purpose of this assignment was to use the affordances of other web sites to change their intent, meaning, or purpose to tell a story in those spaces; this assignment was considered as a five star task. To achieve this task I install the X-Ray Googles tool in mybrowser  from ...

The purpose of this assignment was to use the Fakebook tool to make a Facebook profile for a historical figure and make a fake tweet for the same character using the Twister tool. Thus, I chose Mahatma Gandhi, because I believe he is a great symbol of peace and unity. I used Wikipedia and some ...

    People <a target=”_blank” href=”http://ad.doubleclick.net/click%3Bh%3Dv8/3d1b/3/0/%2a/x%3B264111745%3B1-0%3B0%3B89710612%3B3454-728/90%3B50965628/50936041/1%3B%3B%7Eokv%3D%3Bpc%3DDFP264299045%3B%3B%7Eaopt%3D0/ff/40/ff%3B%7Efdr%3D264299045%3B0-0%3B0%3B59873831%3B3454-728/90%3B50993066/50963434/1%3B%3B%7Eokv%3D%3Brsseg%3D10039%3Brsseg%3D10076%3Brsseg%3D11158%3Brsseg%3D11159%3Brsseg%3D11160%3Brsseg%3D71156%3Brsseg%3D73515%3Brsseg%3D73517%3Brsseg%3D70045%3Brsseg%3D70081%3B%7Eaopt%3D2/1/40/0%3B%7Esscs%3D%3fhttps://www.facebook.com/ChapStick/app_158985587490303?src=cid99″><img src=”http://s0.2mdn.net/1120839/Flavor_GreenApple_728x90.gif” width=”728″ height=”90″ border=”0″ alt=”Advertisement” galleryimg=”no”></a> Home News Photos Style Red Carpet Royals TV Watch Babies Pets Games Celebs Video Magazine The Royals Celebrating Queen Elizabeth’s 60-Year Reign See Photos Stars Hail to the … Continue Reading →

1. October 23, 2012: Take a picture of rocks For this picture I decided to take a picture of the spirit rock at UMW.  The spirit rock is a story itself that is always changing it’s story.  Mostly the UMW spirit rock is for advertising events and sometimes an occasional birthday. I think this rock will be ...

Storytelling Within the Web From the Spring 2011 ds106 class came the idea of changing up an existing web page to tell a new story ” you will be intervening in the code and design of a website of your choice to tell a story. You are not to photoshop the design of the site, ...

Week 9 Daily Create #1 This sound is my text tone!  All of my friends have iPhones so I had to have a text sound that was completely different from them.  Some of you may recognize it because it’s the Tweet sound for when you are on Twitter.  I really like the whistle though, so ...

Evaluating my own radio show is going to be a bit difficult because I really do think that we created something that is really awesome.  Here it goes anyways! Quality of audio -e.g. is the volume appropriate? are the levels even? Is the sound clear?  – After listening live to the radio show, I really ...

DS106a Okay, this was SO much fun.  When I looked at this assignment, I was freaking out.  It looked like it was going to be a pain in the butt and I was so freaked out when we were supposed to edit code.  CODE? WHAT?  I was sweating bullets.  After some careful reading and amazing ...

What They Might Have Done in Social Media Okay, so I was a little skeptical about which to make my 3rd Web Assignment.  I wanted to do a 2 star to make it to 5, but I figured that this one seemed like a fun one, regardless of it going over the 5 star limit. ...

Google Translate Fail Okay, I laughed really hard when I saw this.  Under the green iPod, it says “Apple iPod family massage your hearing.”  Instantly, I realized that I had to keep this website just for that reason alone.  All of the other stuff didn’t even translate that poorly, but that was just hilarious!  Some ...

Way Back Time Machine Although Amazon has only been around for a little while, it’s obvious how drastic their website has changed over time.  Now, it just looks clean.  The ability for a site to find related things based on your browsing history is absolutely incredible.  Essentially, Amazon can detect what it thinks you will ...

Way Back Time Machine Using the Way Back Time Machine website on Internet Archive, take screen shots of a favorite website overtime.  Then, look at how the website has changed for better and worse.  Blog about what makes a website effective and how that changes. See some examples of sites like McDonald’s and Best Buy ...

What They Might Have Done In Social Media Too bad Facebook was not around for most of history! Use the Fakebook tool to make a Facebook profile for a historical figure and make a fake tweet for the same character using the Twister tool.  See for Abraham Lincoln the example of a fake facebook profile ...

This is a radio show review of Road Trip Radio by a member of the ADAAM Radio Show: I unfortunately could not listen to RoadTrip radio live because had to meet for a different group project.  But I was able to listen to it in after it was posted on the ds106 website.  RoadTrip Radio ...

Close Helpful Links Feedback Academics Cultural Centers Student Services Campus Services Employee Services College of Arts and Sciences College of Business College of Education Center for Economic Development Academic Calendar Undergraduate Academic Catalog Graduate Academic Catalog Center for International Education Commencement Faculty A to Z National Testing Services Office of the Provost Office of the ...