Advice for Future Students
by Matt Meyer
December 13, 2012
I dont think I say anything truly insightful, but here is my 2 cents!
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Review: What is Storytelling?
by Matt Meyer December 13, 2012So now that we are at the end of the course it is time to go back and review my WAY early post about What is Storytelling! In my initial post, I commented that to me, storytelling meant Homer and … Continue reading → -
“How To ______” Tutorial
This is rather redundant. I’m going to do a How to complete “How to ______.” Here goes. To complete this assignment: THE FIRST STEP is to brainstorm a character from one of your favorite TV shows, or just a character in general that displays a particular personality trait more often than not. This is something ... -
A Highlight Reel of Sorts
In continuation of my final project, I have put together a few of my favorite scenes (some of the best scenes) from the first half of the first season of Archer. I think this will be a really effective way of recruiting a trainer for the ISIS space voyage, especially in combination with the posters ... -
Assignment Ideas
FIRST: “How To ________” For this design assignment, you will first need to pick one of your favorite persons from a tv show or movie–make sure it is someone with LOTS of character that displays their characteristics frequently. This is important; it should be something that defines them (i.e. Sterling Archer, from Archer). Next, create either ... -
Destination: Danger Zone
In order to help recruit a new trainer for ISIS (and the on-going space mission), I have created a series of design media. 1. Propaganda Poster This poster corresponds with the Propaganda Poster Assignment in the design assignment repository. I created it by taking a screenshot of this picture of Archer. In Photoshop, I carefully edited ... -
Welcome to the DANGER ZONE
Final Project Outline Archer and the gang from ISIS are planning a voyage to outer space in an effort to prevent a catastrophe on the International Space Station. Problem is, none of them have ever had the proper training. Thus, they are recruiting… in a rather obtuse manner for an International SECRET Intelligence Service. Regardless, they ... -
Tutorials Summary
Also to make it easier for my professor to access my work here, I’m posting a quick summary blog entry connecting the tutorials I’ve created this year. I did my tutorials for the two assignments I created, When Unicorns Explode and Inanimate Motion. I pretty much just felt that if I was going to ask […] -
Assignment Summary
To help make it easier to find my assignments for my professor, I’ll go ahead and collect the two assignments I created this year into this one post (via link). Earlier in the semester, I submitted a Visual Assignment, When Unicorns Explode. Honestly, I didn’t really know what I was doing when I created this […] -
My Final Project-Sophie’s Journey
For my final project I decided to focus on my dog Sophie. This story is about her journey getting lost outside and being able to find her way home. For this project I then decided that to do 3 different kinds of assignments and put them into one video. Before the story begins I want ... -
Final Project: How is Remy doing now?
Here is my final project on Remy the rat from Ratatouille. We were left off with the opening of the new restaurant Linguini’s Bistro. Customers loved it and they even had a section for rats to come and dine in, … Continue reading → -
Final Weekly Summary-Week 15
Final Project and reflection: I am very pleased with my final project. This final project took a lot of time and work, but I’m happy with how it turned out. I focused on my dog Sophie. The story is simple, Sophie goes on a walk by herself and gets lost, in the end though she finds ... -
LAST Weekly Summary
Final Project: For my final project I told a story about Winnie the Pooh’s journey in finding different types of Honey from around the world. He went to New Zealand, Norway, Greece, and Saudi Arabia. He found the most expensive honey in … Continue reading → -
Assignment Ideas
Here are my assignment ideas: One-Swap Shop! This was inspired by an actual radio show that occurs where I grew up on the Eastern Shore. I mixed it up a little to make it funnier, but it often is pretty … Continue Reading → -
Tutorials
Here are my two tutorials One-This was from the redub the audio assignment. I really liked the redub and enjoyed planning it out! Two-NBC really sucks, and I think they’re blocking my content right now. But, this assignment is still … Continue Reading → -
Having fun and doing work
For ds106 we had to create 2 new assignments. I really wanted my assignments to be fun, and allow people to be creative. The way each person does an assignment I created can go so many different way, and that’s … Continue reading → -
Assignment Idea #3
Make a vlog or a flog [fake vlog]! I did this as part of my final project. The idea behind it is that it’s something relatively fun to do and gives the person freedom to explore accents and voices and … Continue Reading → -
Assignment Idea #2
DIGITAL SHORT MASH UP!-Make your own Digital Short-the crazier the better; can be from existing digital shorts or your own! For this assignment, I took four different digital shorts from SNL. [There are over 100 to choose from]. The ones … Continue Reading → -
The many faces of Anapaula
The new assignment I created is called, I am me. I wanted to do a video assignment that shows a bit of our personality and who we are. With ds106 being mostly an online course, sometimes it’s nice to know … Continue reading → -
How do I do that?
I decided to do two tutorials for ds106 a long time ago. Now that it’s time to submit them, I realized that I was only really content with one of them. One of my tutorials was very descriptive and the … Continue reading → -
Inanimate Motion Tutorial
For this assignment, it helps to begin with an overarching story in mind. I chose to do this assignment in a way that it would contribute to the story I’m telling in my Final Project for ds106 – Spongebob’s Best Day Ever. So, I went digging through my kids’ toys for inspiration.  What kind ... -
Don’t Mess With the Squarepants
For my final project, I’m working on a media mess of projects all about Spongebob’s Best Day Ever. I decided to create my own assignment for this to kick it off. I’m going for incredibly cheesy and over-the-top, so I settled on this idea as a perfect fit. Picture this: Spongebob’s dancing along, whistling to ... -
When Unicorns Explode Tutorial
In order to complete this assignment and earn the star it says it’s worth, there are three options. 1) Make or take a picture that is a part of a story of something meaningful to you. Write up the full story, in the manner that I have done on this post, and include your photo ... -
Final Week Summary
Final Project: This project was special as I morphed it into something that really brought back many great memories. I morphed my project into a story about a certain rednosed reindeer. There were really no surmountable tasks in this project as … Continue reading → -
Advice For Future DS106ers
First of ALL,This class is not a slide by and get an easy A elective. If you want to have alot of fun, do alot of work, and learn tons that will help you along the road then this is … Continue reading → -
Oh Rudolph! Final Project.
To start my project has kind of morphed as I went along and I built ideas. Follow along. Oh Rudolph with your nose so bright. (Play Sound-effect story first then begin reading) Where could Rudolph be, Santa wondered as he … Continue reading → -
Assignment Ideas For DS106
Here are the links to both of the blog post on my assignment ideas: Hit It YoutubeItYourWay Overall, I tried to make these assignment fun for future students and not to tedious. I wanted them to create something that could end up potentially being something that they enjoy. I tried to relate these assignment to […] -
Youtube It Your Way! Assignment Idea # 2
Here is the link to the assignment: YoutubeItYourWay (Details about he assignment are on this page) Inspiration: For this assignment I was just simply inspired by the week when we learned how to use X-ray Goggles and learned all about Web Designing. I thought this would be a cool fun way for students to play […] -
Hit It! My First Assignment Idea for DS106
Here is the link to the first assignment that I created for the class. Hit It (The details about this assignment are on this page) Inspiration: During the past few months I’ve noticed that funny pictures have become really popular on social networks, especially Facebook, Tumblr, and Instagram. Inspired by this, I thought it would […] -
Minimalist Movie Poster Walk Tutorial and Poster
I decided to make a better more improved minimalist movie poster and let you all know how I did it. Here is ma poster: Well to accomplish this assignment you either have to have some way of making all those … Continue reading →
