Please click here for assignment page (The assignment I completed is similar to it, not exactly the same) I must say that it is really an easy task to make a GIF animation because there are many. I used GIF Maker website to make my animation. In my story I had three characters. I wanted them … Continue reading How to make a GIF animation from different images

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For this Video Assignment, you have to choose a video, then pick a piece of the video to slow down. This creates an Instant Replay effect! The assignment is worth 4 stars. To start, I found the video I wanted to use on Youtube.  I then uploaded the video to this video converter website and uploaded it to my computer as […]

Please click here for assignment page Assignment Stars: 4 I had to record two pieces of audios in my own voice. The first piece of the audio was about the letting the audience know which radio they were listening to and the second piece was about the advertisement announcement. I also had to download two … Continue reading How to make a radio announcement or advertisement with Audacity

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For this Audio Assignment, the goal is to take a song and slow it way down to create a different type of musical sound. This assignment is worth 4 stars. I used the music editing program Audacity to create this masterpiece! To start off, I found the song I wanted to use on Youtube. Here is the original: I then took the […]

Please click here for the assignment page Assignment Stars: 4 This seemed a challenging task to me as what I needed for my story was a telephone conversation between a male and a female person. I wrote the script that I wanted to implement during the telephone conversation and then followed the following steps in … Continue reading How to record a telephone conversation with two different voices when both voices are your’s

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For this animated GIF assignment, you have to take a video of an animal doing something funny and turn it into a GIF! This assignment is worth 1.5 stars.  The best site I found for creating a GIF is GIPHY. First, find the video you want to use. I found this one on Youtube: Upload this video to the […]

For this Design Assignment, the goal is to create a detailed travel schedule! This assignment is worth  4.5 stars.  The best site I used for creating my travel schedule is Travefy. Seriously, whether you plan to do this assignment or not, I highly recommend this site for planning your next vacation! Super helpful and organized. Once you get […]

For this visual assignment,the goal is to create a bucket list of the places or things you want to do. This assignment is worth 3.5 stars. The best site to use for this assignment is Be Funky, a site designed for creating collages with pictures. Here is a step-by-step tutorial of how I created this collage Once you […]

We have been listening to the story of the Thirsty Crow since we were kids. The moral conclusion of the story is really great that emphasizes on thinking out of the box and finding new solutions. In my story that stars a Dino Mummy and her two kids is about a Dino family that had … Continue reading The Thirsty Baby Dinos

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The Life and Times of Joe McSleazy: What Kind of Character is He? American Hero, Visionary, or Just a Huckster? You all know the type. Wicked smart and clever, sometimes too clever for his own good. He always has an angle on everything – how to get ahead in life, how to make tons of … Continue reading Final Project

    Samena Patel was born in New Delhi, India on June 14, 1990. When she was only two years old, her family decided to move to New York City and start a new life. She had a great childhood, filled with love and adventure. Since she was raised Hindi, her parents were firm believers in […]

Links to tutorials and final story Visual, 4 1/2 stars Video, 4 1/2 stars Video 4 stars Design 4 stars

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Hi everyone, my name is Yub. I am an Ewok that has starred in numerous Whackbag Films projects and a little movie called Return of the Jedi! I love two things in life, sandwiches and Mr. Arnold Schwarzenegger. I decided it was time to pursue my dream and see if Mr. Schwarzenegger would let me […]

As I have gotten to reflect over the course of this class, I’ve realized just how much I have grown and my skills have improved. My video editing ability alone has gotten so much better than it was when I started. I feel like I’ve become so much more open to sharing parts of myself … Continue reading *Grand Finale*

Once upon a time, there was a girl named Natalie. Her mother was born in Panama and her father was born in America, as she had been as well. When she grew older, Natalie learned about her mother’s heritage and that it meant that she was half Panamanian and half American. However, it always bothered … Continue reading Viva La Panama!

Though I didn’t follow the exact constraints of this assignment, I was definitely inspired by it! I knew I wanted to sing a song in Spanish (even though I shouldn’t torture anyone with that) for my story because my mother always sang and I thought it was a great way to tie our stories together. … Continue reading Do-Re-Mi-Fa-So-La-Ti-Dooooo

I  guess this is it the last post for ds106 I feel that I have tremendous bless to have taken this class and blessed with such knowledge for the future.   This week to the “Gif” were pretty challenging because I had forgotten most of the steps that it takes. I had assistance from the […]

Dear New York Times, Hey there, my name is Paige and for a long time I believed I was just

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I did the Moving Object assignment again just because I wanted another reason to use Vine and because I like

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I picked this assignment from the Design bank because I thought it weaved into my Final Project narrative nicely. I think if I had anything to suggest or provide a “how-to” it would be for discovering or even reclaiming culture or identity that has been lost because you were born and raised somewhere else. I’ve … Continue reading More Than Just A “Gringa”

If you have never seen a pollera, I suggest you do because they are such a beautiful cultural item for Panama. They primarily consist of a white dress adorned with gold jewelry and an accent of a color of the woman’s choice. Two polleras are never the same, as each woman decorates hers differently. Typically, … Continue reading All The Lovely Ladies

I have loved all the Bring It On movies since I was young. I was a cheerleader once, believe it or not, so these movies really spoke to my peppy soul at the time. I remember them fondly, so even when the new ones came out, I would still watch them for solidarity towards the … Continue reading You Gotta Bring It On

Buddy the dolphin was a lovable and dependable dolphin who lived off the coast of California. He was loved by many and at one point he was at the top of the food chain (if you know what I mean).  He was more intelligent then any other dolphin in his pod. He spent his days reading and […]

This is not a trick or a treat its just font Last Visual Assignment for the semester. It one of my favorite Assignments its “What A Crappy Font Will Do” (4 stars). I really like this idea what fonts can do to the meaning of a sign or even a label. For this exercise I used […]

I knew what I wanted my plot twist to be for my final project and I thought I was going

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(Heads up: apparently I have ugly hands and can’t make a bed.) Anyways, this isn’t about me, this is about

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For the visual segment of my final project, I was inspired by this assignment to remix President Obama’s famous campaign photo. His says “Hope” and mine says “Identity” because my story deals heavily with issues of identity. I also wanted to do a mixture of the American and Panamanian flag as my background, as those … Continue reading To Inspire Some Hope

I definitely feel like I am  wanted …not in a good way either I am so glad this is my next to last assignment. It is from the Design Assignments, Missing Person assignment (4 stars). This took more time then I thought it would my biggest hold up was trying to find how to convert a “pdf” to […]

The full assignment is linked and listed in its entirety below: Create a poster for an up coming event. This assignment is worth 4 stars. I wanted to choose a broad assignment to be able to create whatever I needed to for this assignment. This open-ended advertisement let me do this. The first step in this assignment […]

Signing Words was a pretty straightforward assignment. I myself tried so desperately to learn how to sign these words but

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