My first posting is to inform you that the best has yet to come in The Wire.  I won’t be a spoiler throughout the semester but it will only get better.  It is hard to beat the first season but Omar is the most exciting character.  He and his boyfriends get to work in the hustling, slinging, and […]

Setting Up So, as we all know, this week was about setting up and getting ready for the adventure that is DS106. Who knew this would be such work, considering we all use the common social media sites? It all started with actually creating the blog on WordPress. The installation …

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By far the easiest task and the one I thoroughly enjoyed was watching the 9 episodes of ‘The Wire’ though not realizing just how much work I had in store, I found myself struggling with time management completing all assigned tasks for the week. I’ve been anxious to view The Wire and hearing that it […]

……. I have finally finished the first 9 episodes of The Wire. Although I’m quickly realizing that the work for ds106 will be time consuming, I would have to say I am pretty privileged to be watching TV for homework. As an avid Netflix watcher, I tend to binge on shows and I’m always looking… Read More

And so we come to the end of the first week of ds106, and the beginning of many more. Over the course of the week I created some new social media accounts, included below for convenience: Twitter Flickr Vimeo Soundcloud Some links can also be accessed via the icons on the top of the blog. […]

Introduction for the Blog | Monday, August 25 Hey everyone! Although the title of this post suggests that I will be summarizing the work I’ve done for ds106 over the past week, I also wanted to take a moment to introduce… Continue Reading →

Nicholas did an audio summary which wasn’t something I expected, but why not do it that way? Going forward, it will probably take more than just audio, because we will also want to embed and connect the things we make as … Continue reading →

My name is Jeff Paddock and I am also a senior at UMW. I am a double major in IA & Philosophy and am excited to facilitate my other travel blogs with the skills I learn from ds106!

Alright, so let’s start off with the basics. My name is Carmela Mitchell and i’m a sophomore here at UMW. As of now, i’m a solid poly sci major (just haven’t declared yet).  I love running blogs, especially my Tumblr blog. Anywho, let me embed some media for you. So …

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I have finished setting up all my social media accounts. All of these accounts are brand new to me since I was never a social media type of person. I have finished watching the first 9 episodes of the wire again since I’ve already watched the first 4 seasons before. I have to say that […]

I am now part of the twitter community thanks to #ds106 — jeremy hillberry (@chronicfob) August 31, 2014 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2xV2UixXHJviG3e_dOnxfg

This is our discussion about the 9th episode of Season 1 of The Wire: “Game Day.” And that’s nine episodes of The Wire by the first week of class—that’s pretty awesome. And if you have kept up with them so … Continue reading →

This week was a very interesting start to the ds106 class. I have used many of the social media sites before, but had to set up new ones for official school purposes. I did not, however, have any previous experience with WordPress so I spent some time doing some of the daily creates to become […]

Here it is folks, a three minute rant by your host, enjoy!

First: Glad to be in #ds106! — nick (@Nrandall13) August 31, 2014 Now that I’ve shown my excitement a bit (trust me you haven’t seen me excited yet), Time for me to explain a little bit about myself: Don’t trust me on that LEGO part do you? While this might not be Flikr, here is […]

This is our discussion about the 8th episode of Season 1 of The Wire: “Lessons.” As I mentioned in the last discussion post, in the coming weeks we will be live streaming these discussions for anyone to join from the wire106 … Continue reading →

I look forward to working on ds106 and talking with all of you about the wire.

So the first show “The Target” I definitely agree with Paul I wouldn’t consider it as a cop show. Yes it has cops in the show 24/7 but the “Cop show is being used as a theme to tell a larger story”.  I wonder what the class thinks is this TV show consider a “Cop Show”. […]

This week was very interesting for me, I am not very technologically savvy, so there were some difficulties. Social media is not my favorite thing, therefore I tend to stay away from it. Before this course, I have never had a twitter, soundcloud, flickr, or vimeo. It was very interesting learning how to use them, but I finally […]

    Actually have a reason to post on this account now. Hello! #ds106 — Ien (@vdalson) August 28, 2014             Oh dear god a vertical video. I apologize for my war crimes.

This is our discussion about the 7th episode of Season 1 of The Wire: “One Arrest.” In the coming weeks we will be live streaming these discussions for anyone to join from the wire106 course and beyond. Also, we will … Continue reading →

My first ds106 blog post! This is awesome! This past week has been somewhat not bad. It was tons of work but fun I would say. I got all of my social media accounts up and running well. Youtube: This video I talk about what I like a bit. Twitter: Can't wait to work with […]

There was a lot to do this week, so I’m glad I got started early. The first thing we were supposed to do was create our domain and install WordPress on it. I had already done this before school started, so I could already check it off the list. I then registered myself and my […]

Boy has it been a looong week but I have accomplished a lot (mostly because we were assigned a lot of things haha). I started off by making my own website. It was a laborious process trying to choose a domain name and since I couldn’t come up with one I thought suited me and […]

Hello everyone! My name is Kelly McDaniel and this is the blog I created for ds106 at UMW. I am currently a sophomore and am majoring in chemistry and math (if you think I’m crazy, you’re not alone). I will also be using Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and SoundCloud for my ds106 work, so feel free […]

So, this week was all about getting WIRED. We had to get connected so we can communicate like  kids hooking up two soup cans with a taut string or wire to talk to each other. When I was a kid, it looked like this: Now that I am a computer science major, I think of […]

Getting Things Set Up This week, I got all my social media accounts in order. As a digital studies minor and avid user of the internet, I had many of the required platforms set up. My domain was already up and running and with WordPress installed (and a whole slew … Continue reading

Greetings…

#ds106 not sure if I've done all that I need to as a student in this group???? — La kisha Mahone (@LKMahone) August 26, 2014