Daily Creates for week numba 5

Daily Creates for week numba 5

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September 25, 2012

Daily Create #1: Prompt: “Love See No Color.” Make a short video expressing that idea. Work: Oh lord this is embarrassing. I didn’t prewatch it before I uploaded it so bear with me. Daily Create #2: Prompt: “Bald is beautiful. … Continue reading →
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Photoblitz pictures/experience.

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September 24, 2012

Phew! This photoblitz was stressful. When I started: Take a photo of two things that do not belong together: Take a photo of an interesting shadow: Take a photo dominated by a single color: Make an ordinary object look more … Continue reading →
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Week numba 4 summary

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September 23, 2012

Having kept up with the class this week, I pretty much already did everything I needed to include in my summary. So instead of being like, “hey I already did this, here is the link” I’m going to copy and … Continue reading →
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DS106 Radio Bumper!

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September 22, 2012

Oh dear. This assignment has been worrying me since I saw it this week. I’m not sure why, I was just worried I would make a geeky bumper. I think it kinda sounds like a “real” radio bumper, almost, so … Continue reading →
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My short story with audio clips!

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September 22, 2012

I’m honestly not sure how this turned out at all. The prompt seemed pretty simple, kinda. I’m just not sure my evil witch/female Voldemort story came through very well. In fact, I’m not sure mine is a good story at … Continue reading →
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My first experience with ds106radio!

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September 21, 2012

When I first started listening I was shocked by the loud guitar (a mix of headphones being in and my coffee wearing off). From what I can tell it is/was live. Here is my tweet from when I started: just … Continue reading →
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Listening to Stories: Techniques

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September 20, 2012

I listened to “Two Steps Back” a radio story by Ira Glass about Chicago school reforms and one teacher’s story about how she almost quit. I think it was very effective in telling the story. I think, however, that a … Continue reading →
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Ira Glass and The Other Guy on Radio

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September 20, 2012

Ira Glass On Storytelling: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 One of Ira Glass’ main points was that there are not real “topic” sentences. This happens and then that happens and they all “flow”, but they do not … Continue reading →
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Daily Creates for week numba 4

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September 17, 2012

Daily Create #1: Prompt: “Tune that name.” Part of a clip in reverse, a three second silence gap, then the original clip. Work: This was seriously the hardest daily create. I made myself work through it though because I … Continue reading →
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Ahhh Week Numba 3 Summmaryyyy

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September 16, 2012

“First, What is Digital Storytelling”? After I wrote my blog entry, I was pretty satified with my definition. It has changed a slight bit. After I did the Five picture challange I realized that digital storytelling is anything digital, even … Continue reading →
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Kitties Don’t Understand Traveling/Five Card Flickr

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September 16, 2012

I did the Five Card Flickr Stories. Five Card Story: Kitties Don’t Get Traveling a Five Card Flickr story created by areeves flickr photo by Serenae flickr photo by krutscjo flickr photo by Intrepid Flame flickr photo by bionicteaching flickr … Continue reading →
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Past DS106 Stories

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September 13, 2012

I choose to look at the story “If Movie Posters Told the Truth” (http://blog.mysight.me/if-movie-posters-told-the-truth/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=if-movie-posters-told-the-truth). I like it because it tells the truth and it is pretty funny. I love romcoms and romance movies so I’ve seen her reject Ryan Gosling … Continue reading →
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Shaping a Story

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September 12, 2012

I decided, again, to do a “Mean Girls” related thing, since almost everyone has seen that movie. And if you haven’t, you need to. First, the movie portrays Cady as moving to Africa and being friendless. While this isn’t the … Continue reading →
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What does storytelling mean to me?

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September 10, 2012

To me, storytelling is telling some one, indeed, a story. However, I think it is different than just talking because you have to add in stuff like “oh it was a foggy fall day and I was wearing my favorite … Continue reading →
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Daily Creates for week numba 3

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September 10, 2012

Daily Create #1: Prompt: http://tdc.ds106.us Work: I’m not sure about you, but when I thought “hey, what makes me angry?” my first thought was, indeed, sexism and cold coffee. My coffee mug says “equal rights for snow women” and on … Continue reading →
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Weekly Summary #2/Having Fun Storytellin’.

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September 8, 2012

Here are all of my daily creates!: Daily Create: The Great Outdoors Prompt: http://tdc.ds106.us/tdc241/ Work: Honestly, I wasn’t sure what to do for this one at all at first. But then I rememebred my University has this huge open “circle” … Continue reading →
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Mean girls make GIFs…

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September 7, 2012

Voila! This is my GIF from the lovely movie “Mean Girls”. It is when Regina George gets hit by the bus. I choose this movie because it is honestly one of those movies that you can just quote and … Continue reading →
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Thoughts on Creative Commons

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September 6, 2012

I;m supposed to be researching Creative Commons on my own. This is odd, because in every class I’ve ever been in, it has been ”hey, read THIS and then write about it”. I kind of like the change and the … Continue reading →
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Testing Twitter Tools.

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September 6, 2012

Pleeease wooork.
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Weekly Summary #1/A very stressful week!

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September 1, 2012

Reflection on the Media: Robert Hughes: While, I did not grow up in the ’60 or ’70s, I understand what he means by having to view a row of bricks as “art”. I took one step into the Museum of Modern … Continue reading →
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About me and Daily Create #1

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August 29, 2012

Here is my video about my keychain! My name is Amber, like the “jewel” and the Bath and Body Works soap. I love the color purple, corgis, good coffee, okay coffee, chai tea, the classy Kate Middleton, and Pinterest.
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Promoting yourself & your research

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August 27, 2012

Dr. Jeff McClurken (who is currently running his freshman seminar on American Veterans through the Domain of One’s Own pilot) pointed us to this excellent article as a good introduction for students to why a domain and an online portfolio is essential to the promotion of their work as a scholar both during their studies ...
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Featured Site: Murderinc.biz

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August 25, 2012

Professor Jim Groom is using his new domain murderinc.biz as a coursesite for his freshman seminar on Hardboiled Fiction. In addition to mapping the domain to UMW Blogs for the WordPress install, he is also experimenting with a mapped subdomain tumblr.murderinc.biz to publish photos, videos, and resources for the course. These are great examples of ...
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Featured Site: Fashion Central

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August 13, 2012

As a student in Zach Whalen’s Writing through Media course this summer, Shannon Coleman decided to write about fashion and has put together a beautiful WordPress blog with images to reflect her style. Not only that, but she also has used her domain space to publish a short essay titled “Why Eating Healthy Is Important” ...
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