The movie Shrek is one of my favorite stories because though it has the traditional princess and bad guys, this princess has a different happy fate. This story starts out with an ogre named Shrek who lives in a swampy … Continue reading →

WARNING!!  Boring administrative post incoming!!  I was one of those who fell for that annoying little trick and accepted the /wordpress subdomain WordPress automatically offered us during initial setup.  Man, did I ever pay for that.  Justin and I both pulled our hair out for a while trying to figure out how to fix this ...

For my shape of stories I chose Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by JK Rowling.  According to Vonnegut Harry Potter would probably be considered a Cinderella kind of story.  I think most people have heard of the Harry Potter series but if you haven’t I’ll give you a brief summary of the first book.  Harry Potter is an 11-year-old boy who lives with ...

For week 3 of ds106  we had to watch a video about Vonnegut and the Shape of Stories, the video was fascinating.  I love how he made stories so simple  by simply using shapes, and humor.  It gave me a new perspective … Continue reading →

J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, introduced to me by my dad, is one of my favorite books of all time. When we apply Kurt Vonnegut’s theory of the Shape of Stories, this book has a particularly peculiar shape. I don’t know how many people have read Catcher, but if you have, you probably know that ...

Every day, for thousands of years, people everywhere have laughed.  They’ve laughed for endless amounts of reasons – at everyday ironies, at idiosyncrasies, at stupidity, at each others’ sense of humor, at others’ misfortune, and even at their own misfortunes. I couldn’t resist using my friend Walter at least one more time. As I’ve expressed ...

The story that I chose is based on one of the shapes that Vonnegut explained.   This shape which represents the story of a girl being sad about her life since nothing goes well for her. But still her wish for a prince gives her a hope for a better tomorrow. But suddenly everything goes worse ...

So today I played Five Card Flickr Stories  and this is a link to the story I created: Five Card Story: A Frog in the Nature a Five Card Flickr story created by Abbey Andrews flickr photo by bionicteaching flickr photo by bionicteaching flickr photo by bionicteaching flickr photo by Serenae flickr photo by bionicteaching ...

No need for 13 pages, just saying.

Story telling is the act of entertaining, educating a particular group of audience. Story telling is something that has always been around. It was used for different purposes such us giving knowledge about something or sharing thoughts and opinions or more likely to entertain one. We heard our parents tell us stories and our teachers ...

  This photo shows how hard it can be when you wish to have something that is yours and you have a complete right over it but you can not have it because of the specific culture that you share or becuase of the place you live in. therefore when something like that happens to me I get so angry.

Tell a story in five frames is a really cool idea.  I bounced around with a couple of ideas, but thought that I would go with something a bit more me. I uploaded my photos to Flickr, but they haven’t shown up yet.  Hopefully that will change later!  I was going to take some pictures ...

Four Daily Creates this week!  Luckily for me, I’ve got the perfect one for my first Daily Create…  We’ll start this off with some venting! Week 3 Daily Create #1 So, 9/10/12′s DC was to take a picture of anger, or something that makes you angry.  I decided to upload a picture of my wheel ...

After reviewing some of the submissions on in[SPIRE], I found Hugo Meets Inception to be the most compelling to me for many different reasons.  There is one reason why and that reason is that I absolutely LOVE mashup videos.  I go to YouTube sometimes and just view related mashup videos because they are that fun ...

So when we were studying abroad in England, the Wilde Bunch (we were in an Oscar Wilde seminar, clever?) posed for a lot of pictures…at times we got grumpy! This is atop Prior Park in Bath, England. A gorgeous place, truly amazing.

Okay guys, it’s BREAKING BAD time!!! Before I start, I just want to say that this is my absolutely FAVORITE show of all time.  Here is a YouTube clip of the Breaking Bad trailer that someone made, just so you can get an idea of the show. If you haven’t seen it, I highly suggest ...

I think my title is pretty creative huh?  I used all four assignments we had to do during week two of ds106 bootcamp! This week was by far a lot more challenging than last week.  We had to do 3 daily … Continue reading →