Your assignment for today: Giraffes are brilliant. Show us what it would be like if they lived in human society. tdc.ds106.us/tdc252/ — The Daily Create (@DS106TDC) September 16, 2012
I really enjoyed listening to the videos of Ira Glass and Jad Abumrad. While listening to their videos I took notes so I could remember what they talked about. Ira Glass: Ira Glass’s video was in four parts and each part talked about something different. In this post I have embedded all four of his videos. At the bottom of each ...
The amazing daily create of today! It was to take a picture of something that features the number 3 or represents 3 items. Here’s Mooly, Herbert, and Quackers :] Am I too old for this? No need to answer that … Continue reading →
What does word do for us? The story that I picked was about the importance of a language and the role that words play in our life. This story talked about people who did not have any language. As Susan was very surprised seeing a 27 year old man without having any language, since he ...
I am learning how to tell a good story. I didn’t think this was something that I was ever really going to learn how to do. I didn’t know it was an art form that could be learned. You always hear about how art isn’t something that can be learned; you’re an artist or you’re not. ...
1. September 18, 2012: Today’s theme is “3″ Make a photograph that features the number itself or otherwise represents 3 items These three items are my biology notebook, my biology textbook, and my biology folder. I am currently using these three items to study for my biology test for tomorrow (Wednesday). 2. September 20, 2012: Can graffiti be beautiful? ...
This is my daily create for 9/17/12 where I had to take a sound clip from a song, put it in reverse, and then play the original. I chose a song called “Faster” by Matt Nathanson. I used a free downloadable program called audacity to remix the … Continue reading →
This week, due to illness, there was less work done, but here it all is: What is storytelling? My definition was fairly vague and technical, so it hasn’t changed much in my mind over this week. Here it is. http://ClemBot.net/wordpress/?p=16 … Continue reading →
If one looks at the shape of the story of the popular movie Zombieland, one can clearly see that it is directly proportional to the presence or absence of twinkies, as Tallahassee speculates. As one can see in the graph … Continue reading →
Ira Glass described four important key points about creating story for radio or for TV. His first point was to know the basic of the story which is the two important parts to the story. First is the anecdote which is a story in its purest form, which follows one after another; this form gives ...
This is my daily create for 9/17/12 where I had to take a sound clip from a song, put it in reverse, and then play the original. I chose a song called “Faster” by Matt Nathanson. I used a free downloadable … Continue reading →
This week we were asked to look on the in[SPIRE] page and pick one of the past works done by a student who has taken this course and blog about it. When viewing the page this work stuck out to me the most and I immediately feel in love with it! The fact that it ...
http://l-mccoon.org/wordpress/what-is-storytelling
Hasn’t really changed.
http://l-mccoon.org/wordpress/shape-of-a-story
I think it is a very interesting way of analyzing stories, that i may use in the future!
http://l-mccoon.org/wordpress/daily...
Here is the link to my Animated GIF from last week: Animated GIF Here is the link to my thoughts on Storytelling: blog page Here is the link to my Daily Creates for this week: Daily Creates Here is the link to Tell A Story in 5 Frames Post: Tell Story in 5 Frames Here ...
After watching the video on Kurt Vonnegut the model that I decided to imitate was the last model that he described. I’m going to name that model the “Cinderella Model”. At first I really couldn’t think of any stories other than the ones all based off the same storyline about Cinderella. Then after pondering the ...
http://inspire.ds106.us/yam-trek-star-yam/
As a Trekkie, this one was very interesting. I’m not sure if it is a ‘story’ it is a single still image, but it does convey a message. It might be part a larger story.
Wow, what a week. It’s been a rollercoaster for sure, and I’m starting to find I’m grateful to have had my blog along for the ride to help me document, evaluate, and share the ups and downs. I got to talk about stories, put a shape to an old favorite I’ve begun to be able ...
Here are all my Daily Creates for this week! Here is something that makes me angry! : Here is something with a weird texture. Can you guess what it is?: Here is a photo of a sidewalk scene: Here is something that I miss: The Daily Creates are by far the easiets assignments to do ...
Week 3 has been a busy week! We had to talk about what storytelling meant to us, do an interpretation of Vonnegut’s Shape of Stories, appreciate past ds106 work, do 4 daily creates, tell stories with photos, learn to track … Continue reading →
Today’s daily create was to take a picture of a giraffe to show what they would be like if they lived in a human society. This is Herbert the Giraffe. He enjoys chamomile tea, and long walks on the beach. … Continue reading →
Five Card Story: Nature Walk a Five Card Flickr story created by l-mccoon flickr photo by lesliemb flickr photo by bionicteaching flickr photo by bionicteaching flickr photo by bionicteaching flickr photo by Intrepidteacher We went on a nature walk. We saw plenty of wildlife including a turtle, a frog, and a snake, then we went ...
tdc246 9/10 Something that makes me angry Blue books mean exams and studying and are a pain. tdc248 9/12 Sidewalk scene Not much to say here… tdc249 9/13(My birthday) Something I miss My cat Luna <3 we’ve had her for almost a year now and she adorable and so small (compared to our other ...
Week three turned out to be pretty killer… in the sense that it almost killed me. I absolutely love having my own blog and my own spaces to share my creations. I never thought I would have accounts to websites Continue reading →
I’ll be describing the shape of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s/Sorcerer’s Stone. Alright so, at first Harry’s life is terrible, his parents are dead, his aunt and uncle treat him like crap and his cousin bullies him. Then he finds out he’s a wizard, and really famous. He goes to Hogwarts makes friends, joins ...
Initially when I decided to make this I didn’t know which movie I wanted to do this on. After a while of debating I found some inspiration from my roommates watching a movie that was playing on ABC Family. I decided to my animated gif on MEAN GIRLS! I chose a very popular scene when ...
Summary Report 1. Perception of Storytelling Now that we have defined our thoughts on what storytelling is to us and what digital storytelling is to us my perception of it has just been more informed on the two terms. This … Continue reading →
Weekly Summary Perception of Storytelling: At the beginning of the week we were asked to summarize our definition of storytelling and digitalstorytelling. Here I described what I thought storytelling was. Now that I have finished this week and have worked … Continue reading →
When I think of storytelling the first few things that pop up in my mind are usually a group of people gathered around in a circle, someone in the middle of that group (the storyteller), and the nighttime, beds, and flashlights. These things pop up in my mind because when I was younger and was ...