This week, we had to do three Daily Creates and then combine them into a story. I ended up doing four (mostly because I really like taking pictures of trees), but this turned out okay considering my first would have been much harder to work into a story. In the streets of Figueira, Portugal, a … Continue reading The Story of the Hour: Daily Create Week 13 →

For this assignment, in which we take a website and change its content into a story. I decided to make an “honest grades” page, since the semester is coming to a close and looking at this page is increasingly more vital to surviving. Those assignments on the right bar just know I’ve been putting things … Continue reading Honest Grades →

Assignment: Harness Relationships 4 Stars Assignment Description: Use the online organizational tool, Kumu, to create a web map of relationships. This can be anything: contacts, movies, your Ds106 assignments. Kumu offers a stellar way of organizing information and honing in on relationships between information. Maybe try converting a paper from another class into a Kumu map. Int […]

Assignment: Color Walk Time Lines 3 Stars Assignment Description: Choose a color and then take 20 minute walk in which you take a 5-8 pictures of the color as you encounter it. Then upload the photos to Flickr and create a time line using TimeLine JS. Spring Time: The color of the day was purple. This was mostly due to […]

Assignment: What they might have done in social media 3.5 stars Assignment Description: Too bad Facebook was not around for most of history! Use the Fakebook tool to make a Facebook profile for a historical figure and make a fake tweet for the same character using the Twister tool. See for Abaraham Lincoln the example of a fake facebook profile and what he might […]

This assignment called for a map of a journey that one might take, personal, historical, or ideal. I decided to make it into a personal history of my family (or, more specifically, my mom). Here’s the actual map, but I couldn’t really figure out how to share a whole road trip, so hopefully at least … Continue reading Are we there yet? →

For my next assignment, I chose to create my dream vacation in the form of a Pinterest board. I have a Pinterest obsession, so this was not hard to do. I have ALWAYS wanted to go to Europe and visit a few different countries. I’ve specifically always wanted to go to Italy, Ireland and Scotland, … Continue reading "Dream European Vacation"

This week was web week! I found a few of these assignments to be harder than previous assignment types. However, some of them were pretty fun to complete. The one that I thought was going to be very difficult was the assignment titled “Storytelling within the web” where I was required to intervene in an … Continue reading Week 13 Summary

This week we focused on web related assignments. As such, one of the required assignments to complete was the assignment titled “Storytelling within the web”. This assignment required me to alter an existing webpage and intervene in the html of the site. So, I had decided that this would be the last assignment I would … Continue reading Storytelling within the web: Talie’s Wild West Show!

This week was really different! When we started the assignments for this class, I never thought that essentially “hacking” into

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@ds106dc #tdc1558 I am sorry Deb, I don't love you the way that I used to… We can still be

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For the Storytelling within the Web assignment, I chose to re-do the UMW Advisory Alert Page. I chose to do

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At my first glance of this week, I was intimidated especially by the required web assignment and creating a story around my daily creates, but at the end of the week, it turns out the assignments were not to difficult, maybe other than the web assignment. Anyways, here they are. The required web assignment: My […]

This assignment looked confusing and difficult at first glance, but after reading the information provided and downloading the tools recommended, I got it… sort of. I first tried creating my resume on Amazon as shown in the example, but the page decided to refresh twice during my attempt at creating my resume. So after being […]

For this assignment, I had to create a relationship map of whatever I wanted. I chose to do my family and friends. I created different sections for myself and my friends. I created the UMW and Roomies loop to show the connection between my friends and I. I played around with the background color and … Continue reading "Relationship Map"

For the daily creates this week, we had to create a story around them. At first I was sort of intimidated about the assignment, because how am I suppose to create a story around three different daily creates, but thankfully, I got it. Here goes something… not nothing… because it’s something. There once was a […]

C ya later, while running, of course. Get it? I try my best to make creative titles. For this assignment, we were required to go on a run and record where we went, using a tracking app.  Well lucky for me I walk my dog daily, ChiChi, and today I decided to try to create […]

This week was all about web assignments and I had so.much.fun! But before I get into that, daily creates! This week was different though because we had to make a story and use our daily creates within that so they are all combined into one marvelous post! The required assignment of the week was to … Continue reading Weekly Summary 4/8/16 – 4/15/16

So every week we always have daily creates. This week we were required to do three and then post each of them in one blog post and make a story for them, so here’s my story about the day I, named Tara for the story, saved the DS106 world with the daily creates I did. … Continue reading How I saved the world…. (The DS106 world that is)

So for this week the required assignment was to find a web page and make it our own. Or the Storytelling Within the Web assignment. First I had to download the X Ray Goggles which was simple since I use Firefox on the regular. I then went and searched for a CraigsList Ad to mess … Continue reading Supernatural Sewing

For my web re-design I decided to use an Amazon page of a cookbook and change it to be opposite of what it should be. I used the cookbook Healthy Cookbook for Two and made it an unhealthy cookbook. I changed the name of the book to Unhealthy Cookbook For You and Your Significant Others, … Continue reading "Dabbling In Web Design"

DS106 assignment bank gave me another opportunity to use Pinterest, so naturally, I went for it! For this assignment, we

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I love the Onion, it’s fantastic satirical news. After downloading X-Ray Goggles, I found an article on their website regarding graduation. The article was already fantastic. I decided to change it up a bit to describe something that I’ve been struggling with this whole semester as a senior: post grad plans. It’s the dreaded question, … Continue reading "Story Telling Within the Web – The Onion and Post Grad"

For the daily creates this week we were tasked to link our tweets into a single story. I attempted this by creating a poem (and I tried to make it rhyme!) He has tried to navigate the maze to her heart. Am I doing this right? @ds106dc #tdc1555 #dailycreate pic.twitter.com/z2edP9aIth — Sophia (@stherria1) April 12, … Continue reading "Daily Create Week 13"

Sunday Funday! #ds106 #dailycreate #tdc1554 pic.twitter.com/F4ZJfjioW6 — Kelsey Dean (@kelsfords106) April 11, 2016 #tdc1556 #ds106 pic.twitter.com/mOs3vG4kam — Kelsey Dean (@kelsfords106)

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We were supposed to do a total of 3 daily creates. But this time around it was different because we are supposed to create a story line with it. Here are the three I decided to do. I mistakenly put the sugar on the wrong side and my wife was livid. Im sorry Martha, here … Continue reading "Daily Creates"

This week, we were required to do the assignment, Storytelling Within the Web. When I first read through this assignment I was so confused and lost at what I had to do so I put it off for the last thing to complete this week. I went ahead and downloaded the X-ray Goggles to my … Continue reading Rio Olympics Here I come