Week 6: “Design is how it works”
Week 6 of ds106 is all about design! To better appreciate and understand the concepts of design I was tasked with finding examples in real life. The design blitz assignment can be found under Complete a DesignBlitz on the week 6 assignments …
For my last Design Assignment I chose to complete Cartoon Me. I actually almost did this assignment during week 2, but decided to save it for another time! Summary: Remake you (or someone you know and love) into a cartoon character. Draw you on a piece of …
My third assignment for week 6 is not in the #ds106 Design Assignments. Under Complete 4-5 design assignments on the week 6 assignments post there is an option to create a poster in place of one of the design assignments. I chose to complete this task and relate it …
I decided on the Website Logo assignment for my second Design Assignment of week 6. Summary: Use an image editing software to create a logo for your webpage. The logo should have some type of text involving the name of your website. Try to remember how things …
For my first Design Assignment of #ds106 week 6, I chose Contradiction Creation. Summary: Create some sort of graphic. Design the overall graphic to convey some sort of feeling or theme, but then have text saying something completely contradictory to the theme or feeling. Sort of …
Make Noise from a Normal Sample
For my last Audio Assignment of week 5, I decided on Make Noise from a Normal sample.
Summary: Make Noise!! The title is pretty self explanitory. Take a recognizable song or sound, and then turn it into a completely unrecognizable sound. For …
For my second Audio Assignment of #ds106 week 5 I chose to complete the Create a Place Assignment. I liked this assignment because it seemed like a challenge to accomplish!
Summary: For this assignment create a place by just using sound. For example, make the …
Okay so… I have no idea what to do for a radio show. Hence, the title. Below I included the entirety of my brainstorming ideas. I kept all ideas included because sometimes any idea is better than no idea. After brainstorming, I then googled videos to help me become a …
Summertime Magic by Childish Gambino/Donald Glover is, to me, perfect audio storytelling. I looked into the lyrics of the song, to help me better understand the story as a whole. Here is what Genius tells …
The #ds106 radio bumper assignment is required for week 5. Summary: Now that we have a #ds106 radio up and running creating a 15 to 30 second bumper for the station. What is a bumper? It is a short recording that identifies the radio …
The Sound Effects Story is a required audio assignment for week 5 of #ds106. Summary: Tell a story using nothing but sound effects. There can be no verbal communication, only sound effects. Use at least five different sounds that you find online. The story can be …
I participated in the #ds106 “tweet-along” on Wednesday from 8:00 – 9:00 PM. The #ds106radio was playing From Tree to Shining Tree by Radiolab: A forest can feel like a place of great stillness and quiet. But if you dig a little deeper, there’s a hidden world beneath your feet …
Recently I have found that people only reply to me if I comment on their tweets, rather than their blog posts. At first this really discouraged me as I’ve really been reading and enjoying other’s assignments, but then I decided to start incorporating questions into my comments so they …
Growing up I thought I knew everything there was to know about photography; I was basically convinced I WAS a photographer. My dad purchased a camera for me when I was in 7th or 8th grade. I would just kind of “point and shoot” and be like,” Yep, this is …
2.5 stars
For my last visual assignment of week 4 I chose, Word Cloud. I decided on this assignment because I really liked the daily create where we used wordart.com. So I decided to use this opportunity to make a literal word cloud all about …
Your love for your pet (or any other animal that you love)
3 stars
I’m not afraid to admit that my best friend is my cat, Narancia AKA Nara. I take way too many pictures of her, so what better way to put them to use than by doing …
3.5 stars
For my second visual assignment this week I chose Splash The Color: “Color splash is a technique to emphasize details- you remove all color from a photo, and then restore original color to a single object, e.g. a green apple on a table. …
2 stars
Growing up I was a S-T-U-N-N-E-R, period. Wherever I was, there was a camera and sass. So when I saw Then-Now-Together, I knew I had plenty of throwback pictures to choose from to complete the assignment.
Behind the WorkWhen I was really little my …
This week in ds106 the main focus is on photography. Due to the pandemic, I have been taking little to no pictures, so to practice my photography skills I decided to complete the ds106 Photoblitz first. I was tasked to complete …
Every day this week I checked the main ds106 class site and twitter to stay up to date on other’s work. After last week, I decided to stick with making at least 12 comments per week. I chose 12 because it was the number I accomplished last week and …
3 stars
For my final week 3 assignment I chose a random page number and selected the first 3 star assignment I saw: “A Story In Alphabet“.
Behind the WorkOkay to start off, I am really proud of the title I came …
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
3 stars
I wasn’t sure what Writing Assignment to attempt for my 3rd week 3 writing assignment as I completed my 2 favorites: “A Game of Reviews” and “Emotional Lyrics” in the beginning of the week. After some …
Anyone who has seen It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia knows the infamous Charlie Mail Room Scene from the episode “Sweet Dee Has A Heart Attack.” If you haven’t seen the show… please watch it, it’ll make your life 10x better. Okay maybe not, but it’s great.
The use …
3 stars
Choosing a Writing Assignment was easy when I saw “A Game of Reviews”. I am always playing my switch lite and have about 6 games (that’s a lot to me, lol)! I decided this would be a perfect opportunity to relate …
3 stars
I chose “Emotional Lyrics“ from the Writing Assignments section for my first week 3 assignment. It really grabbed me because I’ve been listening to music a lot during the pandemic and already have my playlists sorted by emotion!
Behind the WorkI immediately …
This week I realized that I really struggle with commenting. It’s not that I don’t like looking at other people’s work, I’ve really enjoyed getting to explore everyone’s blogs and read/view/listen to the content they have created! It’s just that sometimes I really just don’t know how to communicate …
I decided to start of this week by diving headfirst into the theme. I found quotes, lyrics, pictures, etc. that relate to different aspects of my story. The purpose of this was to see the smaller parts of my life and how they relate to each other.
I put some …
How does a song make you feel?
For my last weekly assignment I selected the “How does a song make you feel?” assignment from the Writing Assignments section. I chose this assignment because I sometimes listen to music all day (I really cannot stand silence lol).
Behind the Work…
For this ds106 weekly assignment I decided browse the last page of each category in the assignment bank. This gem was found on the last page of the visual assignments.
Behind the Work
Growing up, the Wizard of Oz was my favorite movie. I was obsessed …
