Create Your Radio Bumper I decided to start out with a gibberish sounding noise. I then added some static to start the sound. Next comes the two noises resembling the “d” and “s” in ds106. Then there is a computer voice saying “one” followed by the sound “oh yeah.” I related this sound with my […]

For the ds106 radio project, I think it would be really fun to explore the use of different technology in The Wire. What would the first season have looked like if the drug crew was using text messaging instead of pagers? What about if they didn’t have anything and were using human messengers? I think […]

For my ds106 radio bumper, I went with a techno feel. I used this sound from freesound.org  and a voice changing app on my phone to record the robot sounding “ds106 radio” and then used Audacity to put them together. I was really struggling with Audacity last night, so I hope that whatever I come up […]

Avon and the Bad Drugs “It ain’t about what happened. It’s about using what happened to our advantage. Play or get played.”–Avon Avon is incredibly intelligent to know how to orchestrate such a thing so as to work to his advantage. It’s very frightening how much power he maintains and … Continue reading

A photo of a stranger was today’s Daily Create and I of course had to go get my daily fix of couponing! Upon checkout my cashier, Michael was all too excited to scan my coupons with anticipation of just how low I could get my out of pocket; I guess you could say he was […]

Today I did the daily create of taking a photo of a stranger. This is my stranger that I found at the Maryland Renaissance Festival. I did actually have this photo from yesterday, but it was too perfect not to use. Every weekend the town cryer gets the crowd going with his lovely sign at […]

Its hard to imagine what different characters might do in their free time outside of the show. But as another part of the weekly assignments, there was an option to make a Pinterest board based on a character from season 2. Pinterest is addicting. So while thinking of a character to use for this assignment,…

Since this week seems to be focused on audio projects, I decided to work on a radio bumper for our own ds106 radio station! I’m excited to see how the station works out when it comes to live tweeting the episodes. It was quite easy to make, I used a text to speech program with […]

I know it’s a bit early in the week, okay really early to be making any statements like I understand how audio works, but I’m already sitting on an idea that might be able to turn into a cool thing for the radio show, so I thought, why not type … Continue reading

Daily Create: Monday So for today’s daily create, I snapped a pic of a rando. Yeah, that’s right. A RANDO. Let’s be honest here… When DON’T we snipe snap people? I do it all the time, which is wrong, I know. Anyways, how did i take this picture? Well… funny story. The assignment says to find […]

I enjoyed reading the mention of The War of the Worlds radio broadcast on this week’s syllabus. Surely though after such a newsworthy major “hoax”, this kind of incident could never happen again. However, one thing many people don’t seem to know is that it not only happened once, but multiple times around the world! […]

Random Thoughts About This Episode Nick is definitely the new D’Angelo. He even has a baby mama and kid to worry about. The scene with the terrier and the rat as well as how the terrier was in the bar felt slightly out of place to me. I assume it’s … Continue reading

Today’s Daily Create – A Photo of a Stranger Today I helped run a golf tournament to fundraise for a club, and I took a picture at the putting contest of some people that I don’t know that were supporting my club

I really liked Ien Harris’s “Rainbow Showcase” assignment, as well as the post he did to demonstrate how it works. That’s some awesome assignment work right there, and I love how it’s abstracted out to any movie or TV show … Continue reading →

Well hello again!  I hope everyone’s week three ended well.  This was a whirlwind week for me, with tons of assignments in all of my classes.  But I’m not here to talk about that.  I’m here to talk about The Wire and digital storytelling, so let’s get into it. I guess I should start with […]

This week was a very good week for this class. I enjoyed both the Daily Creates and the assignments from the assignment bank on the ds106 site. This week took

For one of my assignments, I decided to make an infograph narrating one of the episodes. I’ve seen a lot of inforgrahs before and they just look so cool! I’ve always wanted to make one. So I said why not! I put Season 2 Episode 1 “Ebb Tide” into an info graphic. It brings a…

            I had posted this in my weekly posts, but I wanted this to be filed separately in the assignments category, you know, so it’s easier to find and all.  

Here is another repost of an assignment so that I can file it away all nice and tidy.  If you would like to see the write up about this assignment, check it out right here.   This was my submission for the Visual Assignment “Triple Troll Quote”.  Enjoy!

This week was more hectic than usual for me (which is really hard to believe given the chaos that is my life) so I didn’t participate at the level I would have normally done but I still grew my ds106 … Continue reading →

Another week down and it was not much easier. The amount of time I am putting into this class is unbelievable. I think it is safe to say I am putting more time into this class than I am into other 4 classes combined (which are all 300 and above level). We were given the […]

Another week gone by way faster than I anticipated. I feel bad for cramming so many posts over these last two days. But i still feel like I got a lot done! I made 3 daily creates that I am quite proud of. From poetry to math, I put way more effort into these creative […]

I’ve decided to make a short mock trailer inspired by this video assignment to depict the death of Wallace, a tragic moment from season 1. I also decided to include the effects on D’Angelo and the immediate aftermath. They were both very similar, as they both had a sense of innocence and moral good that […]

For the second episode of the second season I was most interested in how the Barksdale gang handled everything they were going through. There was the common scheme of messing

The thing that was the most interesting to me about the first episode of season two was how the Barksdale gang continued to operate after many of them had been

Collateral Damage

I believe the “digital” in digital storytelling is a broad description of all possible forms of storytelling that is now available. There are constantly new apps and technology coming available for people to use. I think Bryan explains his viewpoint very well. His points are a little too long for my taste but they’re well […]

Week 3 was full of assignments that involved daily creates and design ideas. I had a fun time coming up with ideas to complete the assignments, but the trouble came from finding a assignment I would enjoy completing. Some of the design assignments are pretty harsh when it comes to ability to complete, but I […]

According to Alexander’s section on social images I would say that the tumblr page is definitely an example of digital storytelling. Alexander said that “images influence viewers, share moods, and