Radio hosts use several techniques to bring their stories to life. Many were used in the Radiolab show Detective Stories and the TED audio hour episode posted in the week 4 instructions. Listening to the two sound clips, I was able to pick out several uses of audio techniques that brought the stories to life. The technique … Read More →

My daily create on September 20th. This is my fourth daily create of the week. I had to make a Five Card Flickr story. Five Card Flickr story for #tdc1351 @ds106dc http://t.co/rRIPUYxuoH — Ben Brady (@BBrady92) September 20, 2015   Five Card Story: Out of the Suburbs a Five Card Flickr story created by Bbrady1992 … Read More →

My daily create on September 15th. This is my second daily create of the week. I had to take an emophoto. Distraction emophoto for #tdc1346 @ds106dc pic.twitter.com/FrCofVmv3b — Ben Brady (@BBrady92) September 15, 2015

My daily create on September 14th. This is my first daily create of the week. I had to create the cover of a bad self-help book. A self-help book I think a lot of people could use. @ds106dc #tdc1345 pic.twitter.com/SQlFXevDCi — Ben Brady (@BBrady...

Only three hours left in week three, so it’s time for the weekly summary. Overall, I’m enjoying DS106 more than I thought I would. It’s actually turned out to be a lot of fun to mess around with different digital media. I think it will only get better as the course goes on because I’ll … Read More →

Five Card Story: Driving in to Spend the Day in Town a Five Card Flickr story created by Bbrady1992 flickr photo by Serenae flickr photo by shareski flickr photo by gshupe flickr photo by bionicteaching flickr photo by bionicteaching To explore the idea of telling stories with photos, I chose to do the Five Card … Read More →

There are a couple things I think of when I think about storytelling. Visually, the chart taught in English classes is what comes to mind. It’s very strict. Every story follows the set path of exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. This is the one I’m talking about: I think this does a … Read More →

My daily create for September 8th, 2015. I had to make something that would cheer up some random person named Kelsey Stanbro. I like dogs, so here’s a puppy playing with its dad. @ds106dc Dogs always cheer me up, so here's a puppy playing with its dad. #tdc1339 pic.twitter.com/okpjKrqazN — Ben Brady (@BBrady92) September 8, … Read More →

We’re finally at the end of week 2, so it’s time for the weekly summary! I’ll start off by going through everything I completed this week. Daily Creates I did four daily creates this week, tweeting each time I completed one. As I customized my website later in the week, it occurred to me that, for organizational … Read More →

In his lecture, Michael Wesch discusses the evolution that must take place in the classroom due to the availability of new communication mediums. The title of his talk says it all. How do students go from memorizing and regurgitating facts to being able to seek out and analyze information on their own? Wesch’s lecture can be watched in … Read More →

Gardner Campbell’s article, A Personal Cyberinfrastructure, discusses how teachers and students should fully utilize the new creative opportunities the internet is providing. Rather than a simple, do-exactly-what-the-teacher-asks approach, students and teachers should be using new technologies to learn in completely new ways. The article can be viewed with the following link: http://er.educause.edu/articles/2009/9/a-personal-cyberinfrastructure   Campbell is certainly on to … Read More →

I just joined the class today, so I’m getting a bit of a late start on things. Luckily, there’s not too much work this first week. I just registered on all the different social media sites we’ll be using and made my multimodal introductions. Here they are! First tweet for #ds106 — Ben Brady (@BBrady92) … Continue reading Multimodal Introductions!