Wow. What a ride the past 8 weeks have been. And all that hard work has culminated here, in the DS 106 Final Project. It took me a long time to decide on my project idea. It’s funny – each idea I had I tried to frame it in …
Nawwwww, I’m not going to steal anyone’s work. However, I hope that my perusal of other student’s work will help me to zero in on my final project idea. We are an ambitious bunch! A lot of our ideas are over the top – tackling large, complex topics. I suppose …
When I started this week’s content and assignments for DS106, while I really enjoyed the content, it was overshadowed by the fact that I was really nervous about having to edit video. It seems like such a daunting, overwhelming task that requires a high attention to detail – not always …
This week I chose to do the video assignment called the Music-less Music video. The goal: to remove the music in a music video and replace it with other sounds. I’m totally obsessed with the movie Pitch Perfect so I decided to take the finale scene from the film …
You have to crawl. My daughter is learning to crawl and her daddy is away on military leave so I’ve been trying my best to capture the moment when she really gets it. I’ve got tons of film of her almost crawling so I decided to put a little bit …
So this week’s assignment was a doozey! Good thing I had a Saturday night free and a good glass of wine! I won’t belabor the technical/computer issues I encountered because they are completely my own fault but I will give you the high-level overview of how this all went down …
This week, my fellow DS 106er’s and I are delving into film.
Our assignment was to watch two clips from a set list and analyze them against Roger Ebert’s “How to Read a Movie.” About the article – I really wish I could have attended one of …
Remember that scene in Pretty Woman where Vivian (Julia Roberts) really sticks it to the shop girls that had previously snubbed her? After getting her makeover and shopping her tail off she walks into the mean-girl shop with her hands full of bags and says “Hey remember me? You wouldn’t …
A little late to the summary party this week but here it is!
This week’s GMU DS106 class dove into the use of audio in storytelling and allowed us to get our hands dirty with some practical experience editing our own audio. This week’s multimedia and assignments really reminded me …
For :30 this week, I had the distinct privilege of being a Foley Artist. As part of my DS106 assignment, I had to create :30 worth of Foley audio to go along with this Charlie Chaplin clip:
I was responsible for creating accompanying audio for the time frame of 1:31 …
Last week I was on a call about a tool that some colleagues and I are developing. Basically, it’s something that we want everyone in our organization to be able to use to identify client problems and match them to solutions. We’ve gone ’round and ’round with different ways that …
In one of my many first jobs out of college, I worked in a local jewelry store in a resort town. During the off-season, the days were painfully slow and I often kept myself entertained by checking out the missed connections section of Craigslist. It’s a pretty interesting little …
DS106 has kicked off some adventures in audio this week. I don’t have a lot of experience with audio editing so this should be interesting. I’ve got my SoundCloud account set-up and I’m starting my first assignment on Tuesday evening so I’m already feeling like I can’t lose. I’ve …
When the announcement came out for this week’s content, I was pretty jazzed. I got a digital SLR camera for Christmas this year and I love playing with it and trying to learn how to make great photos. in fact, I struggled with some of the assignments because my “startup …
Here’s another idea of something that would benefit from a little storification; information about running trails in Arlington. My husband and I are big runners and when we first moved to the area we had trouble finding a single resource for trail information or one good map. There are a …
I really enjoyed this assignment, to color splash a photo. It was super simple in execution, so it made me think a little harder about the message I wanted to share through the use of the technique. I used a website called Fotor to edit my image. Before selecting …
I felt really intimidated by this assignment at first. I’m not so good at photo or video editing software so while I was glad to get a little practice I was worried this assignment would take me a long time. I used the Pixlr editor and after a few YouTube …
This week was brutal at work but I finally made the time to do a little photo-blitzing on Friday afternoon. The photos were taken at home during the precious 1 hour and 30 min. I get to spend with my daughter on weekdays between work and her bedtime. You’ll see …
So I played the five card flicker game. You can read my story here. I have to say, I was not a huge fan of the game. I guess it’s cheating a little but I had to start over 5-6 times before I got images that I liked. It …
This was a great week! Although it was challenging, I appreciated the task of finding time to sit, watch, and listen to this week’s DS106 content. It’s not often we take time to really reflect on what it means to practice listening and to think about how we listen. Evelyn …
I think I found something else in need of storification.
My husband and I have an appointment to do our taxes tomorrow. Ugh. It seems like every year there is more ‘stuff’ to add to the list of documents we have to sift through. Buying a house and having …
For this week’s assignment, I chose to look at the Kia Soul Hamster commercial.
(A natural pick. I love this commercial!)
This commercial plays off of the Kia Soul’s first marketing campaign which featured ‘super cool’ hamsters driving around being cool in their ‘super cool’ Kia Soul. Well, the …
I’ve already shared my affinity for radio programs such as the moth, and I also enjoy the occasional This American Life episode, also on NPR. For this week’s assignment, I listened to the This American Life episode, There’s No Place Like Home. Although they were disjointed, I was …
This was an interesting week in DS106! It was a little overwhelming at first but once I organized my tasks into a nerdy little spreadsheet/checklist I was good to go.
I enjoyed think about the elements of stories this week and having the opportunity to share my thoughts on the …
The first thing that came to mind when thinking about something that simply didn’t work for me, I thought of this one piece of paper that I keep in a basket in the kitchen. I got the paper from my daughter’s pediatrician at her 4 month appointment. It’s a “Guide …
It’s safe to say that I am slightly obsessed with NPR’s radio broadcast, The Moth. My husband and I like to listen to it via podcast while we get ready in the morning (when we’re not playing Disney tunes to entertain our daughter) and it makes for an interesting start …
Did you ever read the story of the star bellied sneetches by Dr. Seuss? It’s a lively, tongue-twisting tale about the sneetches with stars and the sneetches with “none upon thars”. The story begins where the Sneetches with “none upon thars” are being ill treated by the sneetches with stars. …
