1. Abigail Andrews

    Visual Assignment: Newspaper Blackout Poetry

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    Newspaper Blackout Poetry Grab a marker and today’s morning edition and start blacking out sections to create a new story. It could be a poem, a picture, or a novella, all drawn from the words of the latest news. This is a 3 star assignment. Instead of a national newspaper I decided to choose the ...
  2. afghanwoman

    The Buddhas of Bamiyan & Ignorance

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    Nothing in the entire world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity, said Martin Luther King. It is true that Ignorance is a part of almost every culture, but it has stronger roots in countries most threatened by poverty and illiteracy. Ignorance is not dangerous on its own but what it can cause ...
  3. Abigail Andrews

    Visual Assignment: Splash The Color

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    To start off my visual assignments for the week I started out with this on- Splash the Color (also the first of the reccommended assignments listed in the week 5 post): Color splash is a technique to emphasize details- you remove all color from a photo, and then restore original color to a single object, e.g. ...
  4. Abigail Andrews

    Best of Set Flickr

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    Today I have been working on updating my flickr account.  I now have a more customized flickr URL: http://www.flickr.com/photos/amandrews93/  and I have  figured out how to email photos to my flickr email account and they will automatically upload to my flickr photo stream.  I just uploaded a picture I took on the UMW campus a few days ago as a test ...
  5. Alex Spangler

    Visual Assignment #1 – 2 Stars

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    Alright, here is my first attempt at a visual assignment.  For my first visual assignment, I’m choosing to do this one.  We are to pick a photo, apply a vintage effect and then add some Helvetica font to the photo.  This one actually took me a little bit of time because I wanted to find ...
  6. Alex Spangler

    Flickr Set

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    Well, I figured out how to embed the set into my blog.  It actually wasn’t that hard..  I hope that you all enjoy the photos that I’ve added to my Flickr Set! The first couple of photos that I added are from the Photoblitzing assignment that I just did.  I chose those photos because I ...
  7. Alex Spangler

    Photoblitzing

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    Okay, this exercise was a lot of fun.  The creativity from the assignments that we are doing is just mind-blowing in my opinion.  I haven’t run across another course where the assignments have been this refreshingly fun. Let’s start off with my Flickr photos.  Rather than embed them and take up a ton of space, ...
  8. Martha Burtis

    Oh Noes! The #ds106 site is down!

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    Doesn’t it just suck when technology doesn’t work — particularly when it’s the Web site for your online class the night that all your work is due? Luckily, you have an awesome instructor who will just give you a couple days of extension, right? WRONG! If you’re waiting until the last minute to do your work […]
  9. crystalrose0784

    If a Tree Falls in a Forest…

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    Having completed the audio assignment to create an audio bumper for ds106 radio, the idea of trying to create a 5-sound story was no longer nearly so daunting.   The hardest part, really, was trying to decide what kind of story I wanted to tell. I decided to tell a story about  nature, and ultimately ...
  10. crystalrose0784

    Of Babies and Creepy Things

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    This week, I took a dive into the big, fat, hairy, scary world of DIGITAAAAAAL AUDIO-DIO-DIO-dio-dio. Seriously, having completed the assignments from this week, I’m starting to feel like there’s nothing I can’t do anymore. This was my Everest. This was my frozen-with-fear, never-gonna-make-it-over-this mountain. But I totally did it. And believe it or not, ...
  11. crystalrose0784

    Didn’t Know I Was That Creepy…

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    So, you want me to make noises?  With a computer? Scary, scary stuffs.  But okay. Actually, in all honesty, this was pretty fun.  I don’t know how my bumper ended up creepy, but that was the vibe I was getting, so I went with it. In my class this week, as we focus on digital ...
  12. crystalrose0784

    Not-so-daily Creations

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    Say it isn’t so!! Tell me I didn’t miss some assignments from the Daily Create this week! *sigh* It’s a sad, sad week.  When I heard the professors mention, I think during Week 1 or 2, that usually some history paper or other will come along and take their students’ attention away from ds106 a ...
  13. Clemon Yueh

    Summary 4

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    Having finally recovered from my Shingles (mostly) by this Sunday, and the DS106 website being down for a portion of Sunday night, I wasn’t able to do all the work for this week again, but I have posted here what … Continue reading
  14. beauty_b_

    All about Audio and Sounds…Weekly Summary Four

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    Here are all my of Daily Creates for this week: Daily Create Week 4 Here is my post on Audio Storytelling: Audio Storytelling Here is my post on listening to DS106 Radio: Radio Listening Here is my Bumper: Bumper Here is my post on listening to stories: Listening to Stories Here is the link to ...
  15. beauty_b_

    Audio Techniques and Listening to Stories

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    I decided to listen to The Ghost of Bobby Dunbar and I have to say it was a pretty cool story! I felt that using audio to tell the story was so effective! (I read it in print and lets just say the music and voice dynamics definitely helped it out) Like Jad Abumrad said ...
  16. Chris

    Weekly Summary 4

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    This week’s assignments: The summary of what Glass and Abumrad talked about of audio storytelling is posted here. I listened to the Dagnet radio show, episode 2, Homicide. Here’s my summary of the radio story techniques I heard. And here’s my DS106 radio listening experience. My DS106 radio bumper. And Five Sound Story.   My Daily Creates: http://thechriskim.org/2012/09/19/daily-create/ http://thechriskim.org/2012/09/19/another-daily-create/ http://thechriskim.org/2012/09/19/last-daily-create-of-the-week/   Weekly Summary: The most difficult assignment was trying to figure out how to work Audacity for the radio bumper and the sound effect story. What was also kind of difficult to complete was the DS106 Radio listening assignment, as I didn’t happen to listen to any live broadcast, only ...
  17. mis-tery

    Sound effect + No visual = Sound effect storytelling

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    My story was supposed to be about those rainy days where you wake up on a sunday afternoon and all you hear are those rain drops on your celling and all you want to do is stay in bed. BUT NOO you have class the next day and assignments to finish, so you pour yourself ...
  18. mis-tery

    Radio Bumper

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    Urghhh!!! At first I thought this would be such an awful idea because Technology + Me = Epic Fails…but after downloading Audacity, I thought this assignment was too much fun….UNTIL…my audacity software started acting up. I didn’t know how to save the file so I had to directly record my sound effect from audacity to ...

UMW Spring 2024 (Bond & Groom)

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