The next assignment I decided to do was One Story/Four Icons. This assignment was to “reduce a movie, story, or event into its basic elements, then take those visuals and reduce them further to simple icons, four of them.” Another part … Continue reading →

I had planned to stop working on my ds106 stuff about an hour ago but I decided I wanted to “try out” one more before calling it a night.  Turns out “try out” means play with gimp continuously until I make … Continue reading →

Let me start off this post by saying that I totally wish I was British.  If the accents weren’t enough some of the most adorable people ever are from there (think Sophia Grace and Rosie and One Direction).  So when … Continue reading →

This week we had to do three daily creates again.  Here are my three.. 1. Take a photo of someone that is nice and cozy in a blanket I guess he isn’t exactly in a blanket but this is my dog Bailey.  My … Continue reading →

So we have officially made it to design week.  For this week we have to get fifteen stars (and I’m kind of freaking out a little bit).  I decided to get an early start of this week since I have awful at … Continue reading →

Radio Show Groups- I officially grouped up with Kaitlyn, Kelsie, Brooke, and Sarah for our radio show group. We officially named ourselves the Fab Five. https://twitter.com/kncrotty/status/302076587858354176 Kelsie made an awesome A-Z photo collage that I absolutely loved, Katilyn did a really a ton of really awesome color … Continue reading →

Get Pickier: Instead of using your camera like a rapid fire machine gun, spend more time pre-composing in your mind. As you get more practice, you can be more selective, and more deliberate. This was a good one for me to … Continue reading →

For my last star I am doing Winterize It.  In this assignment you had to take a picture from the summer and make it look like it is from the winter by lightening the color to make the temperature appear cooler, … Continue reading →

Another Visual Assignment that I did this week was the Valentines Day Caption Challenge.  This was worth two stars and everyone in our class had to do it. For this I had to download a blank card from this flickr set and … Continue reading →

So Photo blitzing ended up being a ton more fun than I thought it would be.  I ended up taking a ton of pictures around my room of all of the different photos that were suggested.  Here are some of the best … Continue reading →

The next assignment I did was the A-Z photo collage.  This assignment was worth three stars (which put my total count up to seven at this point). The first part of this assignment was to pick a theme.  I decided … Continue reading →

The next visual assignment that I choose this week was Pick A Bad Photo, Apply A Vintage Effect And Write Something In Helvetica which was worth two stars. I choose a picture that I had taken of a play set last weekend when I … Continue reading →

This week for ds106 we had to do ten stars worth of visual assignments.  I decided to do cropped signs for two of my ten stars. In this assignment you had to “change, alter, enhance the meaning of a sign by cropping out … Continue reading →

This week we had to do three daily creates! In honor of visual week I did all of my daily creates as photography! For my three I choose: 1. Take a picture of something you made, be it food, art, or … Continue reading →

Best of…, a set on Flickr. One of our assignments this week was to make a set on Flickr of our best work so far in ds106 and link it to our blog.  I used Kelsie’s tutorial to help link by Flickr … Continue reading →

So let me start off by saying somehow this post got saved as a draft instead of posting.  So if it seems confusing that this got posted after my summary that is why. But anyways… I sadly had a hard … Continue reading →

Key Points from Ira Glass and Jad Abumrad- I found both of these talks incredibly interesting.  Some of the key points that I pulled out of Ira Glass’s series were where do you start with a story, the importance of … Continue reading →

I started listened to ds106 Radio starting at about 8:00 on Sunday.  When I tuned in Freeform was on live. Listening to freeform on #ds106radio — Brittany Dray (@hellobrittanyy) February 11, 2013 At first I was a bit taken aback … Continue reading →

Another one of out assignments this week was to listen to an audio story. I already discussed a little bit about what an audio story is this week so I was excited to apply what I thought to a real story.   For my … Continue reading →

Last week we were asked to think about the question what is storytelling? This week we were asked to expand a bit about what what exactly is audio storytelling.  To help us get some basic ideas about this we were given Ira Glass’ … Continue reading →

Weirdly enough I found that telling a story in five sounds was much easier than making a radio bumper.  I found it easier to come up with an idea and follow it out to the end. I started off this … Continue reading →

This week we had three daily creates to do.  Here are my three… 1. Draw/create an image with a boring picture on an interesting surface. For this one I decided to use the sand and my interesting surface and my names as … Continue reading →

What is Storytelling- This week we were asked to blog about “What is Storytelling?”  I thought this was going to be an easy thing to talk about but as I got going I realized that storytelling is a lot more … Continue reading →

One assignment we had this week on canvas was to create 2 daily creates.  After coming up with two ideas we then has to submit them for future assignments. As you may have noticed by now, my favorite daily creates are the picture … Continue reading →

This week we had an assignment to tell a story in five frames. For mine I decided to tell the story of my countdown to my trip to Disney World.  

Here is a look back on my daily creates for this week: 1. Make a picture of something broken. Literally or figuratively. One of my swim teams favorite things to do in the summer time is to tie dye.  Unfortunately we never … Continue reading →

This week part of our assignment was to take a look back at past digital storytellers.  I was a little overwhelmed with this idea because I wasn’t really sure what I was looking. After spending just a few minutes looking back at … Continue reading →

When I first read the question “what is storytelling” I thought that this would be an easy no brainer to explain.  But as I have tried to put storytelling into words, I have found it much harder than I would … Continue reading →

Okay so here we go! I have officially made it through week two of ds106 bootcamp (get excited)!  Here is a quick recap of everything that I did this week…. Forwarding Address- I was able to set up an email forwarding address … Continue reading →