You always thought that the Fair Folk were just a myth: Leprechauns aren’t real, there’s no gold at the end of the rainbow, and there’s nothing inside those heather-covered hills but heaps of dirt. But when your brother vanishes into thin air on Samhain night, you start to have your doubts. All signs point to […]

The evil spirits that haunt the narrow trails of a mountain have been trapping travelers, and have captured your family! Trapped in a labyrinth of caves, it’s up to you to go spelunking and save the people from certain doom! Unravel the mystery of the Ghost King and save your family in Cave Quest, a […]

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The semester has finally come to an end and so has the end of this Digital Storytelling class.This class has really showed me what I am made of  I never thought that I could make half of the things I did such as a animated GIF, making videos, mashing up sounds amongst other things.  This ...

Transmedia storytelling is a way of telling a story using multiple platforms.   For my final project in my digital storytelling class we were asked to to produce a transmedia project using 2-3 transmedia elements.  I chose to do my transmedia project off of one of my childhood favorites Winnie The Pooh. I chose Winnie The Pooh ...

Last week in my digital storytelling class we learned about fair use and copyright laws. Copyright is the exclusive legal right, given to an originator or an assignee to print, publish perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material and to authorize others to do the same.  Fair use is a doctrine that brief ...

My favorite type of digital storytelling activity has to be the animated GIF assignment in week three for the Say it like the Peanut Butter ds106 assignment bank.  When I did this assignment I used the movie Kick ass and used the scene of Big Daddy shooting his daughter, Hit girl. Although I could expound ...

For this weeks assignment I was asked to use Popcorn maker, a free video making software in which it makes it easy to enhance, remix and share web video. With this software I was asked to take a serious issue that is going on around around the world and mash it up with something else. I ...

This week in CT101 we were put into groups to make a Mockumentary, which is a type of film in which fictional events are presented in documentary style.  In my group which consisted of Carlotta, Jayson, Frank, and Omar all decided to make a mockumentary of the viral video of  the bus driver who hit ...

In the Ds106 Assignment bank I did a 5 star video assignment which said I must make a Public service announcement on any current issue in our society so I chose obesity in children here is what I came up with:

On November 29, 2011 the rapper, Drake  released  the song called the Motto.In the song he says “Now she want a photo you already know though You only live once- that’s the motto nigga YOLO” since then, many people have been walking around saying YOLO  some hate the word and some love it .  For ...

I was searching through the ds106 video bin to see which assignment I wanted to do and I stumbled across a four star assignment called I am me for this assignment you had to make a video that represents who you are that allows my fellow ds106ers know about me here is what I came ...

For this week the class was asked to do a mash up based off of one archetype I chose to do the archetype of the toughest coaches by showing coaches from different films and how tough they are . I chose the Karate kid, Coach Carter, Gridiron gang, Remember the Titans, and Miracle. Here is ...

I know I have not been updating my website this past week ,but it’s because spring break is in session I’ve been doing my other classes homework assignments and still try to have fun at the same time. I took a trip to the Pennsylvania  and went out with friends, but now I am back!! ...

Based off the HBO hit show Taxi Cab Confessions, my group and I decided to do an audio of random people entering a taxi cab explaining their  problems going on at York College my fellow group members and I ( Brittney Harley and Joseph came up with many different characters and then edited the clips ...

For the Ds106 audio assignment I was asked to make a music mashup which means to take two distinct songs and mix them together. I attempted to do this mash up using the Space Jam Theme song and Funk Master Flex’s C’mon Baby, which were both my favorite songs during the time I was growing ...

For the next Ds106 assignment  I was asked to compose a sound piece using only found sound. Here is what I came up with:   I found these sounds using freesound.org I downloaded the Forest birds and African drums sound and edited and mixed these two sounds using Audacity which is a free open source where ...

So today I took part in the Daily Create TDC420 and I was asked to write one line of a song that predicts how my day will go and another line from a song how it actually went. Check it out its’s called Lazy day

I participated in the daily create  TDC 419 over the weekend and I was given the assignment to take a picture of the best day dreaming window and here is what I came up with:   This picture was taken in the kitchen. Every time I wash the dishes i always look out this window ...

I took a vintage ad of a baby drinking a 7up soda this is what it looked like: After watching a Vimeo video on how to make a Gift using photoshop Cs6 this is what I came up with:   no babies were harm in creating this

After watching Taren Stinebrickerner -Kauffman memorial for her partner Aaron Schwartz it was clear that Mr. Schwartz was a great man. It is very unfortunate that he took his own life during this stressful lawsuit all because of his need to share academic journals.  I feel he should not have been penalized because all he ...

Today I took part in the daily create- TDC 406 and today I was asked to take a picture of something I made so I took a picture of my bowl of Frosted Flakes and uploaded it to Flickr.

  Big Daddy and Hit Girl are father and daughter  super heroes from the movie Kickass.  In this scene Big Daddy played by Nicholas Cage  teaches his daughter, Hit Girl played by Chloe Grace Moretz the power of guns. This nine frame GIF was made using GIMP- the image manipulation program. The frames were looped after ...

Today I received  my  Valentine’s Day gift from my sister and this was the perfect picture  to share for the daily create that asked to take a picture of something shiny and new. Take a look:     Isn’t it pretty ?

Today the daily create asked me to draw a picture of a place I been to but never want to go back to and this is what I came up with   I  think this place is great place to receive an education but I feel like I been in this school forever and I ...