Final Summary: Week 15

Final Summary: Week 15

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December 14, 2012

My final project was turning Obama into a Superhero. I personally feel as though to some women and men, he is almost their real life superhero (take the mother who couldn’t afford her child’s health insurance). I hope that … Continue reading →
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Final Project: Pulling it All Together

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December 12, 2012

Once upon a time, President Barack Obama happened to wander across a Cafepress super hero cape for sale. Recognizing his ability to destroy sexism, he decided to become America’s super hero in the fight against Rush Limbaugh and his cohorts. … Continue reading →
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Paying it Forward: To future DS106ers.

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December 11, 2012

DS106 can be difficult at times because it involves the internet and technology. Once you feel like you understand something and it works, this happens: And then sometimes you’ll forget to tag things or do the daily create and you’ll … Continue reading →
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Final Project: Jingle Jangle for Prez Obama

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December 10, 2012

For the Jingle Jangle assignment,I created a jingle for President Obama as a super hero. The lyrics are “He’s runnin’ round the White House, quiet as a mouse, Stoppin’ crime, in his extra time, Michelle doesn’t know about this, but … Continue reading →
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Final Project: Before and After

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December 8, 2012

make animated gifs like this at MakeAGif For this before and after assignment, I took one white house picture and one superhero picture of Obama. I used a website called makeagif.com to make the gif with two pictures. This gif is … Continue reading →
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Assignment idea: Post”Secret”

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December 7, 2012

Write on a “post-it” (haha, get it. “Post” secret.) your biggest dream in life. What are you going to school to accomplish? Who would you like to meet? What is your dream job? Whatever it is, it shouldn’t be a … Continue reading →
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Assignment idea: That’s What You Get When You Play a TV Show Intro Backwards.

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December 7, 2012

Have you ever wanted to know what happen to your favorite TV show characters before the TV show? For this assignment, download your favorite TV show intro and reverse it. 2/5 stars For this assignment, I downloaded my favorite TV … Continue reading →
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Daily Create Ideas

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December 4, 2012

My first daily create idea was to take a picture of something you do when you first wake up. Apparenly, this was a successful TDC idea because 40 some odd people did it. A lot of them are pictures of … Continue reading →
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Final Project: Obama Chipmunk’d

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December 4, 2012

For the Mainstream Chipmunk’d assignment, I decided to “chipmunk” a video from Obama’s youtube channel. This was is “Finish What We Started” video. I downloaded the video with PwnYoutube and stuck it into iMovie and speed it up by 175%. … Continue reading →
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Weekly Summary 13 & 14

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December 2, 2012

Link to your RemixThis blog post, in which you investigate the remix resources and examples provided above. A lovely link to my RemixThis blog. Links to blog posts for your seven points of Mashup assignments. Ellie Goulding Remix/Mashup [3/7] What Is … Continue reading →
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Final Project: Storytelling Within the Web Obama Style

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December 1, 2012

I decided to make Barack Obama president by day and super hero by night. For the Storytelling Within the Web assignment, I choose to make the site where Obama bought his super hero cape. Follow this link to view … Continue reading →
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Pretty Pink Missing Persons.

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November 30, 2012

Original: Remix: I decided to do a remix of the Missing Persons Poster with a Pretty in Pink remix card. For this, I downloaded an existing poster. I opened GIMP and played around with the hue and saturation. After it … Continue reading →
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What is the Color of My World? Puuurple.

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November 29, 2012

Honestly, I have so much more purple than this at home. But alas, I can’t show you a picture of my purple accent wall from home. Anways, these are purple things from school. Most of my school accesories are purple. … Continue reading →
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Recycle the Media

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November 29, 2012

For the Recycle the Media assignment, my story is of a typical UMW student. Most likely the student is female. So I choose a picture of a bookcase of heels (lucky duck). Then I choose the stair case because most … Continue reading →
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Mash up: Elle Goulding

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November 28, 2012

For 3 out of 7 stars of my mashup assignments, I decided to remix my three favorite Elle Goulding songs. In this remix is Starry Eyed, Lights, and Anything Could Happen. These songs are very similar in sound, … Continue reading →
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Mashup Remix Learning

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November 27, 2012

The way I understand a remix is that it is usually music that is created into something new, but it is now being converted into something else, like the first video suggests. I thought the base line from Good … Continue reading →
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Final Project Proposal

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November 25, 2012

Step One: I would like to tell the story of President Barack Obama. One, I feel as though I could use a lot of the assignments for him and be creative with it. Two, I just like him. He’s … Continue reading →
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Weeks 11 & 12 Summary!

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November 18, 2012

Return of the (Almost) Silent Mean Girls! 5 stars Tutorial for my Mother! 5 stars Product review! 1 star Pretty Little Liars Supercut! 5 stars Total of 16 stars. Creating stories with video is a lot easier than audio or visual ways. With … Continue reading →
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Pretty Little Liars Supercut!

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November 14, 2012

May or may not contain spoilers. This assignment is the SuperCut assignment. Essentialy, the idea was to take an overused dialouge, motif, theme, etc from a movie or TV show and mash them together. I’ve been watching way too much … Continue reading →
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Product Review – L’Oreal Voluminous Mascara Review

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November 11, 2012

This is my one star product review. Yes, its a make up review. Sorry to bore everyone out of their minds. Anywho, I used Quicktime to record this because I heard it was better quality and I wanted everyone … Continue reading →
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Tutorial for my Mother

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November 10, 2012

My mother still has no clue how to work anything Apple related. I’m not sure why, to me it is very intuitive. None the less, I’ve gotten many a call from her trying to figure out iTunes. Here is my … Continue reading →
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Return of the (Almost ) Silent Mean Girls!

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November 8, 2012

I decided to do the Return to the Silent Era assignment. This is worth five stars. The gist of the assignment is to turn a movie trailer (I did the Mean Girls trailer) into a silent movie. For instance, you … Continue reading →
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Weekly Summary Numba 10!

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November 4, 2012

My video editing tools! My 3 time review! Exploring the Movie Further! Pre-Production! Daily Creates! Enjoy this adorableness:
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Pre-Production!

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November 4, 2012

One of the assignments that sounded interesting to do would be the “Return to the Silent Era” one. My pre-production for this one is finding my trailer: I know. Big surprise. I plan on making the trailer black and white … Continue reading →
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Exploring the Movie Further!

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November 4, 2012

I choose to watch the “My Best Friend’s Girl” trailer. This was a whoopsie, but it was on the set playlist. Anywho, I looked into “My Best Friend’s Girl”. One of the interesting facts I learned from IMDB was that Dane … Continue reading →
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Daily Creates For week number 10

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November 1, 2012

Prompt: Forced perspective- make something small look big, or big look small. Work: I used the low angle and the light to make my lipgloss look huge like it was overtaking the camera. Work: Prompt: Make a photo … Continue reading →
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Looking, Listening and Analyzing

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November 1, 2012

I watched a trailer from “My Best Friend’s Girl”. The first thing I noticed is the zooming out and then the jumping back and forth behind the characters shoulders so the viewer can tell which one is talking. With it … Continue reading →
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The tools on my computer!

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November 1, 2012

I know I need to insert this in my weekly summary, but I just want to make sure I have it pre-written. The video editing tools on my Macbook is of course iMovie. I’ve worked a bit with it before … Continue reading →
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Weekly Summary for Week numab nine!

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October 27, 2012

Radio Show Evaluation/Review Storytelling within the Web Fiasco! Web Assignments! Three Stars! Two Stars! Daily Creates plus my story! Good gravy, this looks sparse. I’ve done all the work, but links just look terrible as a summary. So I’ll just … Continue reading →
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UMW Time Machine.

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October 27, 2012

For the “Way Back Time Machine” assignment, I decided to peek in and see exactly what UMW’s website looked before. The earliest date was 2004, however, it is important to remember that it used to be MWC. I just want … Continue reading →
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