This is my submission for the Animated Classic Reading assignment, a 3-star assignment for DS106. This is the third of the five required video assignments for the two-week period, bringing my total to 13 stars. Here are the instructions for the assignment: Take a classic piece of literature – something that begs to be read aloud – … Read More →

This is the required assignment for weeks 11 & 12 of DS106. I needed to have a conversation with myself. This is a link to the assignment page. First, the video.   The reason I chose to do bad jokes is because they’re something that my family loves. I have three siblings and every time we get … Read More →

My daily create on November 10th. This is my second daily create of the two-week period. I had to create a picture for the song “Bridge Over Troubled Water.” @ds106dc Bridge Over Troubled Water. #tdc1402 pic.twitter.com/xTSQSoXV3h — Ben Brady (@BBrady92) November 10, 2015  

This is my daily create on November 9th. This is my first of the two-week period. @ds106dc Remixing my world for #tdc1401 pic.twitter.com/XBeb2IMCKk — Ben Brady (@BBrady92) November 10, 2015

It’s the first day of November, which also happens to be the last day of Week 10. Time for the summary! The first assignment I completed this week was reading Roger Ebert’s article “How to Read a Movie” and watching two short videos about cinema techniques. I wrote up a blog post about my thoughts … Read More →

For my second video assignment of the week, I chose to do the Signing Words assignment. It’s a four-star assignment, bringing my total for the week to eight stars. Here are the directions: This assignment requires you to take a video of yourself or someone else and finger spell a word or a phrase in Sign Language … Read More →

Roger Ebert certainly had a lot to say about how to read a film. When I read it through the first time, I was surprised to see that much of what he was writing sounded almost scientific. He broke down how position, lighting, and several other  components of a film shot affect the viewer’s perception of … Read More →

Week 9 is at an end, so it’s time for the weekly summary. After having to do so much work for the radio show, I was glad to find that there wasn’t a ton of work this week. I’ll start off with the radio show review.   Radio Show I was assigned to review the … Read More →

I was assigned to review the Grumpy Desperados radio show. I liked the choice of topic. It had plenty of information to keep the show interesting and it was relevant to the time of year. The way it was split up was clever. Doing the history of Halloween, scary stories, and events around town kept … Read More →

I think it’s safe to say that every DS106 student was fairly relieved when the radio show assignment finally came to a close last week. It was tough work coordinating the work of 6 people over the web to make one cohesive radio show. So when I went to the DS106 web page to check … Read More →

We’re at the end of the eighth week, so it’s time for a summary of the work I’ve done over the last two weeks. Let me first say that I’m extremely glad that we’re halfway through this semester. I graduate in December (provided I pass all my classes) and I’m excited to be done!   … Read More →

This audio assignment is worth 3 stars, bringing my total for audio assignments to 7 stars. The assignment page is here, but I’ll include the directions below as well. Hey guys this assignment is pretty simple, if you can figure out the answer. Find an audio file and reverse the music. Once you have reversed the … Read More →

I completed six daily create assignments over the last two weeks. I was glad to see that we had two weeks to do six. I had a huge project in my Partial Differential Equations course that had me absolutely worn out, so this schedule offered a much needed respite. There were a couple of assignments … Read More →

My daily create on October 18th. This is my sixth daily create of the two week period. I had to create a flyer and post it somewhere. I would like to be paid a lot of money to play with puppies all day. #tdc1379 @ds106dc pic.twitter.com/IUDRGbphs6 &mda...

My daily create on October 16th. This is my fourth daily create of the two week period. I had to find an image of an item from my favorite era in history and make a short video telling its backstory. @ds106dc Backstory of this sphinx statue #tdc1377 pi...

My daily create on October 4th. This is my fourth daily create of the week. I had to create the packaging I had if I were sold in a toy store. My toy store packaging for #tdc1365 @ds106dc pic.twitter.com/Bo9pZ01pqv — Ben Brady (@BBrady92) October...

My daily create on October 2nd. This is my third daily create of the week. I had to create an image of what’s through my window. I don’t know why the photo is rotated like this in the tweet, I’ve tried and can’t fix it. The view from my window for #tdc1363 @ds106dc pic.twitter.com/7XUTZlE3Xh — … Read More →

My daily create on September 30th. This is my first daily create of the week. Don't spill your beverage. #tdc1361 @ds106dc pic.twitter.com/WJg0giGWHz — Ben Brady (@BBrady92) September 30, 2015

I’m finally done with all of the work for this week. Thank God. I’ve been way too busy this week and I’m looking forward to taking the rest of the night to relax. I learned a lot about editing images this week. I couldn’t do much with GIMP before this week’s assignments, but I feel … Read More →

I completed four daily creates this week. I used GIMP for all except for all of them except the first one. I’m starting to get more comfortable with GIMP after doing these daily creates and the visual assignments.   For the first daily create of the week, I had to make latte art. On that … Read More →

The second visual assignment I chose to complete this week was “Splash The Color.” This is a 3 star assignment. The assignment instructions were 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. … Read More →

One of the visual assignments I chose to complete this week was the album cover assignment. The assignment is worth 3 stars. Here are the instructions for the assignment: So here’s something fun for everyone to do, should be quick and easy, but try to make it pretty. First, go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random The title of … Read More →

My daily create on September 27th. This is my fourth daily create of the week. I had to create a new road sign. I snagged a couple of pictures off of Google and used GIMP to create this image. A new road sign for #tdc1358 @ds106dc pic.twitter.com/SHYYq...

I’ve done a couple of things to pimp out my Flickr. The first thing I did was create a custom URL. I thought about making it more complex, but that would make it harder to remember, so I went with a simple name that I also use on other sites. https://www.flickr.com/photos/bbrady92/ Then I took a … Read More →

I just took all of the pictures for this week’s photoblitz assignment. First, the pictures themselves.     Start time:   Photo dominated by a single color:   Two things that don’t belong together:   Unusual angle:   Abstract:   Somebody else’s hand:   Interesting shadow:   End time:   Alright, now to discuss the … Read More →

I joined the third group for the upcoming radio show assignment. I ended up in a group with Rachel Stanford, Tori Lear, and Mitchell Eubank. We have a group discussion going on Canvas to figure out what to name the show and what we would like to make the show about. Since we don’t have the group name … Read More →

  Unfortunately, I was extremely busy this week with work and assignments for other classes, so I didn’t get a chance to finish all the DS106 work. I did still learn a lot about storytelling, though. Ira Glass and Jad Abumrad taught me the building blocks of oral storytelling and why it’s still so important. … Read More →

This post is for the Radio Bumper assignment. I had to create a short radio bumper for DS106 radio. Here’s a link to the assignment page: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/creat-a-ds106-radio-bumper/ First, the work itself. Here’s the short radio bumper I created.   I used Audacity to create this audio clip. I uploaded the song “You’ve Got a Killer … Read More →

Jad Abumrad discusses why he believes radio creates empathy. Having listened to a number of Radiolab podcasts, I was curious to hear what Jad Abumrad would say about storytelling. It was surprising to hear him first say that he was a TV junkie. For some reason, I had it in my head that somebody who … Read More →

In these short videos, Ira Glass describes what he thinks storytelling is. He identifies the two building blocks of storytelling and the “importance of abandoning crap.” Ira Glass starts off by telling us that storytelling is very different from what we’ve been taught in school. In storytelling, you don’t need to come out of the … Read More →