I’d first like to say that while writing this weekly summary, I’m feeling very sick with flu-like symptoms, so please don’t expect a great performance!  Curling up in my bed and falling asleep sounds like the best idea to me in the world.  Alas, ds106 calls to me and I cannot refuse her song.

This week, we started a brand new topic: web storytelling.  I wasn’t sure what to think about this at first, but after a week’s worth of practice with it, I have an answer: I’m not too keen on it!  It was kind of boring to me and not very challenging.  There were certain aspects of it that I liked, such as learning how to tamper with another website to make it silly or funny.  But as for the other web assignments we had to do from the ds106 assignment bank, there wasn’t much to choose from and creating my own assignment on a topic I wasn’t familiar with made me feel uncomfortable.

Our first topic was to create a story from within the web.  I chose to use Hackasaurus to edit a Craigslist post.  This assignment was fun, but it was frustrating that I couldn’t make the page in my own site.  I also completed 3 other web assignments to complete my 5 stars worth of activities.  My first, Lost in Translation, was worth 1 star.  I translated a summary of an article from a french newspaper and discussed the mistranslations made by Google.   Next, I told the story of my trip to my game using Google maps.  This assignment was worth 2 stars and got me nearly to the end of my 5 star trip.  I actually ended up doing 6 stars worth of assignments.  Teddy Roosevelt, worth 3 stars, put me over the 5 star mark, where I created a Twitter and Facebook for this historical figure.

My alter ego‘s name was Sydney Owens and she commented on 5 blog posts in ds106.  She wasn’t too keen on it, because she just wanted to go outside and play in the snow, so she made her comments short and sweet, like her.

To end our web storytelling week, I linked my daily creates to tell a story of Phil’s anger management issues, and how he copes with being insulted.  I did 3 daily creates: Take/create a photo of a license plate that makes you look twice, draw a picture of how waiting for something or someone make you feel, and craft something out of ordinary materials and then take a photo of you with it.