@ds106dc Concrete poem for today's daily create! #tdc1350 pic.twitter.com/Uxo1Z30BFY — Adam Hoff (@swimmerdude79) September 20, 2015

Ira Glass said that storytelling has two building blocks, one being the anecdote  which is just a sequence of events, and a moment of reflection, which gives the audience the whole point to the story and the reason they are listening to it in the first place. Jad Abumrad said in his interview on “How … Continue reading →

@ds106dc For #tdc1345 my emotion in this picture is excitement! pic.twitter.com/rNl64tzOim — Adam Hoff (@swimmerdude79) September 15, 2015

My own self-help book! @ds106dc #tdc1345 pic.twitter.com/jLUphTtOrq — Adam Hoff (@swimmerdude79) September 15, 2015

This week, I learned all about storytelling. To me, storytelling is a way to express someones creativity in a way that everyone can enjoy and pass on. It could be about anything ranging from a personal experience, to something completely made up within your imagination. Since I am going into the field of computer science … Continue reading →

Telling Stories with Pictures I chose to do the Five Card Flickr Story because it seemed like the most fun. Using five random photos also seemed like more of a challenge on my imagination, and a challenge is always fun. In this Five Card Flickr Story, a man is coming home from work on a … Continue reading →

Five Card Story: Zombie Fish a Five Card Flickr story created by Adam Hoff flickr photo by bionicteaching flickr photo by bionicteaching flickr photo by bionicteaching flickr photo by bionicteaching flickr photo by bionicteaching In this Five Card Flickr Story, someone is coming home from work on a normal day, but when he gets to … Continue reading →

To appreciate past DS106 stories, I took a look at the final project titled “A Television Life.” A Television Life This final project is a digital story because it is a story being told with images, sounds, and videos. This project gave a humorous, yet slightly sad, view of a television’s life. I thought that … Continue reading →

Author Kurt Vonnegut gave a presentation on how stories can be described with curves on a graph. One curve he called “man in hole.” For this curve, the main character gets in trouble, then gets out of it again and ends off better for the experience. The movie that comes to mind when I think of … Continue reading →

To me, the word storytelling is a way to bring people’s imagination, comprising of their own thoughts and feelings, and maybe aspects from other stories they liked, to life. A story could be fact or fiction. It brings the image of a campfire to mind with all of my friends and family around it. My grandpa … Continue reading →

@KelseyStanbro @ds106dc #tdc1339 Even though this happened last week, I hope everything's all good! pic.twitter.com/TFbwEzDkkH — Adam Hoff (@swimmerdude79) September 8, 2015

Today’s Daily Create was simple, yet oddly fun. It was to give a caption for this picture:   And the caption: @ds106dc #tdc1338 "Hey crabby, how am I swimming on land?" — Adam Hoff (@swimmerdude79) September 7, 2015

The second week of Digital Storytelling 106 is coming to a close and I am starting to feel a lot better about this class. We were assigned a lot of work to do this week and some of it felt a little tedious. We had to install a couple of plugins for our domain, do … Continue reading Weekly Summary Week 2! →

Michael Wesch said “it is ridiculously easy to connect, organize, share, collect, collaborate, and publish with anybody and to anybody in the world.” This is true because the online world gives us the tools and opportunities to collaborate with people from all over the world. We just have to find and use them. Through my … Continue reading Reflection of Michael Wesch: Knowledgeable to Knowledge-able →

As Gardner Campbell once said;  “progress means looping back to earlier ideas whose vitality and importance were unrecognized or under-explored at the time, and bringing those ideas back into play in a new context. This is the type of progress needed in higher education today, as students, faculty, and staff inhabit and co-create their online … Continue reading Reflection of Gardner Campbell: Personal CyberInfrastructure →

For today’s daily create, we had to find a way to illustrate this saying: “Resistance throws you into time. Acceptance discloses the timeless.” @ds106dc “Resistance throws you into time. Acceptance discloses the timeless.” #tdc1337 pic.twitter.com/Fxmzm8ReN1 — Adam Hoff (@swimmerdude79) September 6, 2015

For my first digital storytelling assignment we were assigned to create an animated gif of a clip from our favorite, or least favorite movie so I chose to create a gif from the movie Jurassic World. When I first read that I had to make a gif, I was very worried that it would be … Continue reading Say it Like the Indominus Rex! →

Todays was to upload a photo of a “neat place.” One of the things I loved most about Hawaii when I visited was that the sand of the beach was black where my hotel was. 

Today the daily create assignment was to edit something into a piece of toast and upload it! This is my piece of toast and I call it Breakfast In Bed.  

To get into the spirit of daily create’s, we were assigned to just upload a picture of us to introduce oursevles. Here is a picture of me and my mother at a wedding for a friend of ours!].

The first and only video I have ever done on YouTube was for an English project in 8th grade. We had to take a scene from the book called “The Outsiders” and act it out ourselves. So me and two of my friends acted out the scene in which one of he characters, Dally, dies. You … Continue reading Multimodel Introduction! →