I did a lot of individual posting this week with the hopes of making my weekly summary for week 3 a little less bulky. ~ +Shapes of Stories & Web 2.0 Refection +Watched 3 of The Wire episodes +4 Daily Creates–>… Continue Reading →

“A picture is worth a thousand words.” I wanted to do this Visual Asssignment, because it’s a fun and funny...

Reflection on “Web 2.0 Storytelling” and “Shapes of Stories” Bryan Alexander’s chapter on Web 2.0 Storytelling brought to light something I never knew blogging and other social media was used for. The Internet tends to become overloaded with news about the world, politics, celebrities, and more. It’s refreshing to see…

One of the tasks we were given for this week was reading and reflecting on Bryan Alexander’s chapter on Web 2.0 Storytelling. I’ve been reading this chapter on and off for the past few days, which honestly I think has… Continue Reading →

Ladies, and Gentleman, we have made it through another week! I’m not gonna lie, last weekend’s post sucked @$$, and now it is time to make up for that. This has been a busy week for all of us, but hopefully you’ll get maybe a couple of chuckles (or something else, I don’t know) from […]

After reading the chapter “Web 2.0 Storytelling” from Bryan Alexander‘s book The New Digital Storytelling, I was opened up to a world where various social media platforms still used today (Twitter, blogs, etc.) are used to tell actual stories, both fictional and non-fictional. From my understanding, what makes Digital Storytelling…

This is for the Renegade Teacher writing assignment. Okay, this one pretty much wrote itself. I remember seeing this yesterday and thought this would be a good picture! I wanted to do something a bit more vulgar for the writing, but I figured I should keep it clean. This scene stuck out to me as […]

So I wanted to do this Design Assignment again, it’s a fun assignment but instead of making a Youtube video I...

Well, here we are at the end of week 3. I feel a lot more proficient in a lot of things than I did at the beginning of this week. I figured out how to easily screen shot and save things as pictures, something that I figured out this week. I also figured out that […]

  Well this was interesting to do! This is a picture for the Creative Mashup. The Wire picture comes from S2E01, and the painting is Getrude Stein by Pablo Picasso. Truth be told, I’m not even certain why I chose this picture from the wire. I was looking for anything having to do with McNulty […]

For my last DS106 assignment this week I decided to do the Visual assignment called The Wire Everywhere, in which we’d have to capture a prevalent image from The Wire and show a real world example. In Week 1, I recall taking a screenshot of the beginning scene of the…

For my second DS106 assignment this week, I decided to choose the Web assignment “You’re a Pinteresting Character” and portray The Wire character, D’Angelo Barksdale, using Pinterest. Although I’m currently not active on Pinterest, I do have an account and am familiar with the process of “pinning” images, links, quotes,…

Zero things come to mind. Since thinking in z’s is not in mind. Zebra’s dancing is what I think. Since zebra starts with “z” I think. Zero things come to mind. Since thinking comes from the strangest mind. I am not a poet, for that matter, I can’t even rhyme! When I saw today’s daily […]

I decided to do this Design Assignment, I wanted to do this because Wallace was one of my favorite characters...

Well….. Well! That’s just it! Week 3 is hard to describe. I don’t feel like there was MORE work but then again, I don’t feel like there was LESS? I don’t even think it was the same amount…. what DO I think? Who knows. The Assignments were pretty simple, 3 daily creates, 3 assignment bank […]

I decided to do this Animated GIF Assignment, I liked this one because I could take any moment like an expression,...

The third assignment I did was a design assignment. The assignment was to create a business card for a bad guy. I decided to create a business card for the Barksdale Crew. The number that I put on the card is coded like in the first season. Since this card would only be given to select individuals […]

So I stand here up high, watching the throngs of people Zigzagging down cobbled streets , amassing below my palace Zealots and fanatics, all of them. Do they dare defy their king? Silently I give the command, and the guards empty from the barracks Zoning in on their targets, they open fire Zipping through the […]

For my last project from the assignment bank, I decided to create a logo for my blog. I was already on a role with changing menus/categories for my blog (more on that later), so this assignment felt perfect. As you… Continue Reading →

For this discussion of the first two episodes of Season 2 Paul and I were joined by wire106ers Kris Hooks and Maggie Stough. We discussed the first two episodes of Season 2 of theThe Wire, “Edd Tide” and “Collateral Damage.” … Continue reading →

DAILY CREATE: Write a poem in which the first words in each line begin with z or s. You can find the my response here, or you can read it below! Students, what do you think? Zillions of places to Study… Continue Reading →

Zzzzzz, hisssss, ssss….. Sound like a snake… Ziggy, you move like a snake, Sneaking looking for a quick cash deal Selling stolen goods, moving like a sneaky snake… Ssss, zzzzz, hissssss……

Don’t ever, ever take upper level Economics classes unless you are an economics major. It is a bad idea. And that was the topic of my daily create today. You can listen to the whole thing here: This was easy to put together. All I did was record it via SoundCloud and that was it. […]

For this assignment, I changed it a little and did a lesson in general rather than to a child. I picked the scene where Valcheck learned who is in charge. This is when Carver reveals how Baltimore is ran by...
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It was all too tempting to do the Visual assignment of Me and Bae! Ha classic! I thought I’d utilize a scene from The Wire, again I utilized FACEinHOLE to upload a scene portraying D’Angelo and Shardene. Then I chose a pic from My bae and I during our anniversary and Wallah its Me and […]

This assignment was a little challenging for me, due to the fact I had to paste a face onto an animal. I picked to do Stringer Bell based off of how he was in Season 2, Episode 1. Since Avon...
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The Facebook site “The Wire” at the time I viewed it appeared little more than a few scraps of advertising and contest entry invitations. The only impression I picked up here was one of stale yesteryears.  Merchants selling mugs and DvDs, no story here for me. Facebook can be an excellent platform for storytelling, blogging, […]

Ray Lewis and the Baltimore Ravens would most certainly make a fine choice!

D’Angelo escaped prison after Season 1 ended. Felt abandoned by his family, D’Angelo Barksdale knew there was no one he could trust and that he wouldn’t survive in jail. His only course of action was to break out of prison and try to ...

I normally approach reading assignments with some dread. It’s not that I dislike reading, I actually quite like it. But when it becomes an assignment with a due date attached to it, it suddenly goes from a fun way to pass time to a job with a deadline. So it was a pleasant surprise while […]