Today I was doing a million things, so choosing a point in time for me to record the noise around me was hard. As I was relaxing on my down time listening to the waterfall in my backyard, I decided that would be a good noise to record. I wanted to represent a calming, peaceful […]

Becoming a Better Photographer Working with Contrast  I felt as if I used the lighting in the garage to my advantage in the shadow photo in the PhotoBlitz challenge. I created a scene where the lighting as just enough so you could make out the shadow, but not so bright that no shadow could be […]

           For the Apophenia assignment I thought of using something, well, unusual? This may be weird, nasty, and not normal, but I had been talking with my family about what I had to do for this assignment, and my grandmother had the idea of using her dentures. Well we all laughed for a good ten minutes, […]

This morning, and every morning for that matter, I always have my radio on 98.7 WMZQ and listen to the Bobby Bones Show. It is such an amazing radio show and if you haven’t heard of it, you should look into it!

I chose to do the PhotoBlitz Challenge in the garage. Now you may ask why? Well, at the time my boyfriend’s friends were over as well as one of my friends and I thought it would be interesting to see their reactions to all the pictures I chose to take. Also, in the garage there […]

For the second Visual Assignment, I chose to create an Acrostic Picture. To start the project I made a list of all of the things I liked that started with all of the letters in my name. I searched on Flickr for all of the pictures and narrowed it down to the pictures I liked […]

My Favorite Lyric For this assignment, I chose the song “The World” – by Brad Paisley because when my boyfriend, Chris, and I were in the car during the first weeks we started dating, three and a half years ago, this song came on. He started singing along, and being the person I am, I […]

I love airplanes and flying; it was something I did all the time growing up when I traveled with softball. So I decided to uncut the airplane road sign into a airplane air show!

Well before this week had even started, not knowing too much about Flickr, I had already created a set (album) with my softball pictures in it. So I retraced my steps on how I made that one, and created a new one that is called Pictures Worth a Second Look as my set of what […]

This is my all time favorite song by Brantley Gilbert, Kick it in the Sticks. I am a huge country girl, and this is the usual for a Friday/Saturday night for me, nothing but bonfires, family and friends.

1. Learning about Audio Storytelling In a nutshell, I learn in the videos of Ira Glass’ Part 1 and Part 2 to erase my memory of anything high school has taught me about storytelling. Storytelling needs to major parts: the events that build off each other and leads to a powerful ending as well as […]

When I started listening to the radio station, I was actually surprised at first because it was a young girl talking. I then caught onto what her and the radio host were talking about and it was her fascination with reading , her favorite books, and her not-so-favorite-never-wanting-to read type of books. The radio host […]

The second audio assignment I chose for this week was to Create a Story of Lyrics (3 Stars). I chose a rhyme from Dr. Seuss that I think is such an inspiration to everyone. I embedded the picture above of what the rhyme is and what the lyrics make. This was a little time consuming […]

I do just about everything with my dog, Zeke. I love taking pictures with him, these are only a few of hundreds I have and I hope everyone had a good time with this daily create as I did. I am sure everyone’s pets mean a lot to them!

Audacity? This was like a foreign language to me at first. I am a HUGE country music fan, but getting into the “behind the scenes” of music is not something that came to me right away. After playing around with Audacity for about 10 minutes I finally started to get the hang of it. I […]

Check out This American Life episode 477: ‘Getting Away With It.’.   I listen to some of the stories of people being bad or doing something bad and getting away with it. Now I am not here to run on about what they were about, but more so to talk about how they told the […]

For the feeling I wanted to portray, I decided to draw on paint on my tablet a picture of myself holding my pharmacy certification! I went and took my national pharmacy technician license today and passed! The feeling I got was immediate excitement that I accomplished my goal. Bow that means a higher pay for […]

Ira Glass’ Series                 First and foremost, I learned to erase my mind of everything I learned in high school about the way storytelling works. And in Glass’ words, that is exactly what they taught me; create a topic sentence and follow with supporting facts. WRONG. As I learned today, Glass presented me with two […]

I came across a guy walking around my neighborhood with his girlfriend this evening, and I asked if they wouldn’t mind being a part of an assignment. As she was a little standoff-ish, he was up for the challenge! He decided he wanted his picture to be of him in a handstand. He then explained he was a personal […]

Above I chose to write my poem about a softball player scoring from first all the way to home, winning the game for her team. I chose that because as a softball player, being the winning run was a great feeling to experience. As I am not a poet, sorry for the not so great poem, […]

 What is storytelling? http://ashleighengels.wordpress.com/2014/09/09/telling-you-my-story-of-storytelling/ Creating my own definition of storytelling was harder that I thought it would have been. I definitely could have gone more in depth with where I have heard stories from and how they shaped my definition of it. After I posted my blog, I went and looked up a variety of […]

I chose Newton’s law because I feel like gravitation surrounds us and is the center of everything in this world. Yes, a short, sweet and to the point type of Daily Create

Above is my story in 5 photos created in Flickr. I enjoyed this assignment because I was not allowed to use words to help with my storyline, so I decided to choose pictures with character and power to them. By far the most enjoyable assignment being able to choose anything and put it into our […]

Relating a past student’s work to what/how I think of digital storytelling: http://inspire.ds106.us/emojis/ Above is a link to an in[SPIRE] page that I found and it instantly became my favorite. The way Amy Clark told her story through her own facial expressions and relating to the emojis was definitely awesome. Personally, I am a huge emoji […]

My reaction to Vonnegut’s way of storytelling: The way Vonnegut looks at and analyzes storytelling is an amazing gift. As I watched this video a few times, the way he explains the stories through lines, curves, and short words makes the story come to life in a different sense other than watching it as a […]

I chose to create a storyline of shapes from the song “Bartender (Sittin’ at a Bar)”. Although I have only heard the song a handful of times, I felt as if this storyline is not like others might be. His high point started at the beginning when he felt as if escaping from jail being […]

I chose to use make-up to write about because in the morning, I will always apply at least primer, foundation and blush even if I only have 5 minutes to get ready. To me, this does not consider me high-maintenance. I just feel as if have just a little base coat to my skin makes […]

When I think of the word storytelling, I think of an array of ideas. The act of hand motions and gestures pop into my head when storytelling takes place. Storytelling means being in a calm place at one point, but then in a flash of a second, I could be in a horrific, humorous, scary […]

As the paint fills the cracks, the fumes fill the air and the rattle of the can echoes through the silence of the dark tunnel, suddenly he hears the dings of the railroad crossing sign alerting him a train is coming. He then takes a minute to look into the tunnel and noticed a train […]

For a tech confession, I feel as if everyone who has ever had a Facebook has done this. And I chose it to be my confession just because of that. Nowadays, to get someone to realize how mad you are or how upset you made them, people result in deleting, blocking or unfriending them from […]