Week three turned out to be pretty killer… in the sense that it almost killed me. I absolutely love having my own blog and my own spaces to share my creations. I never thought I would have accounts to websites like youtube and flickr but lo and behold I do and using various sites has become much easier. The only thing I couldn’t figure out this week was how to redirect my subdomain to my actual domain. I googled and youtubed and twitter searched but I couldn’t find a tutorial or directions (at least something that I understood).

One of the very cool things we did this week was explaining a story based on Kurt Vonnegut’s “Shape of Stories.” I chose to graph The Hobbit. Check it out here:

http://blog.corrigancompositions.com/what-is-the-hobbit-shaped-like/

We had to complete a grand total of four Daily Creates this week. I completed two in one day but what can I say, life gave me lemons. I am thankful for the Daily Creates only after I complete them. Once they are finished, I can look back at each one and enjoy the stuff I created. If you want to read about the process and my intentions for each Daily Create, check out the Daily Create menu tab up top! Here is a peek at this week’s:

My favorite project for the week was telling a story in five photos. I thought this would be easy but I found myself really thinking about how stories work and how you have to tell them. If you want to check out my five frame fiction, check out the link below:

http://blog.corrigancompositions.com/joe/

This whole week has been about telling stories and learning how to tell them with new technology. I stand by my original thoughts about storytelling insofar as storytelling is about transferring an experience to an audience. The way I traditionally tell stories will be stomped on this semester as I learn to convey messages and experiences through different means. I am very much looking forward to it.

I was also supposed to comment on about 10 other DS106 blogs this week. Although I fell a bit short on the number, I was able to check out some really cool stuff on other 6′ers blogs. I now know how to view other’s submissions and how to provide positive feedback and encouragement with comments. I also found that looking at other people’s work gets my mind moving in the right direction. Pretty great stuff going on in DS106 so far.