Where the story begins, Lincoln, NE.   Home base since 2002. After winning the state title, November 15, 2009 Region champion 2013. NCAA Regionals Fall 2013 Fun run with friends.   Well that is a wrap! My project did not turn out exactly how I intended to due to the sheer volume of work … Continue reading "THE FINAL PROJECT"

After what seems like a killer week with other classes and having the flu, I am making some progress on my project. I have finalized my plans and brain storming. I am going to stick with the idea of telling my life story but I have found ways to connect events at different points in … Continue reading "Final Project Update"

Since I am not a super creative person, I am thinking that I may just do my life story. I have done several assignments in the past about things I have done and places I have gone but I have not gotten into any of my childhood or experiences. I could incorporate the following media … Continue reading "Final Project Brainstorm"

This week was much better after two weeks of video editing! Here is the rundown for what I did this week: Daily Create 1: Daily Create 1: Memorabilia Daily Create 2: Daily Create 2: Beauty Assignment 1: Two Movies, One Line Assignment 2: This doesn’t belong here, with a remix Assignment 3: Emoji Remixxx Gimp … Continue reading "Weekly Summary"

The third and final assignment I did for the week was mashing emojis and friends! Regularly you would take an emoji and have a friend mimic that emoji, but with the remix I am supposed to introduce Dr. Seu ss into the assignment. So my idea was to take the iconic grinch from Dr. Seuss … Continue reading "Emoji Remixxx"

In response to Fridays Daily Create: @ds106dc #tdc1769 Colorado Beauty pic.twitter.com/V66Vxj41CY — Ben Sorensen (@bensorense) November 11, 2016 A little Colorado beauty I captured a few years back  

In response to Thursdays Daily Create topic: A young boys keep after a morning walk on the beach @ds106dc #tdc1768 — Ben Sorensen (@bensorense) November 10, 2016 There was an image of many things that would not ordinarily come together as memorabilia. However, it did look as if they could all be things that washed … Continue reading "Daily Create 1: Memorabilia"

This assignment took me back to the Graphic Design week where I got a crash course in GIMP. If you are not familiar with GIMP, it is an open source software. The link to the download is available on our DS106 website. When I first downloaded it, it was all in english… Then when I … Continue reading "This Doesn’t Belong Here GIMP Cutout Tutorial"

The second assignment I did for the week was remixing an image with another image inserted in there. Well the original assignment called for the second object to be as small and discrete as possible. Well in the Remix that it came up with, it says do the complete opposite! So to do that I … Continue reading "This doesn’t belong here, with a remix"

The first assignment that I did for the week was to mashup two movie lines into one. The assignment can be found here: Two Movies, One Line When I started this assignment, I could not think of two one liners that could be mashed together successfully. Well thanks to the internet, and a search of … Continue reading "Two Movies, One Line"

While I have made it though these last two weeks, they have been my least favorite weeks of the class to be honest. I like audio and other things but this video is killer. Here is what I have done for the week! Assignment 1: Classical-Modern Mashup Assignment 2: College Memories Assignment 3: Morse Code … Continue reading "Weekly Summary"

The second daily create I did this week was all about pumpkin! I thought of every common food that we eat and there were recipes for almost everything! When I googles lasagna I was thinking that there would be no way but sure enough….. https://t.co/nyT1IC8zBU Pumpkin lasagna is a real thing…. @ds106dc #tdc1761 — Ben … Continue reading "Daily Create 2: Pumpkin Madness"

The first daily create that I did this week was create your own superhero. The creation of this was really simple as the link to make your superhero was provided. As for my choices…. I really have no idea. I just went until I l liked what I had! I am not much of one … Continue reading "Daily Create 1: Badass Hulk"

My third assignment for the week was a morse code challenge worth 5 stars. The assignment can be found here: Morse Code Challenge After looking at a few other submissions for this assignment I decided that I could take this on. I came up with what I wanted to say in morse code and then … Continue reading "Morse Code Challenge"

For my second assignment of the week I created my first assignment! I came up with the idea as I went through photos from the last few years and realized I have done some pretty cool things. There is an assignment for high school memories but I have not seen anything for college memories. It … Continue reading "College Memories"

For the first assignment this week I did a a mashup between the 24k music video and the classical song Hoe-down. The assignment is worth 4.5 stars and can be found here: Classical-Modern Mashup To make this mashup, I went to Youtube and found a popular dance music video from right now. Once I found … Continue reading "Classical-Modern Mashup"

This week I discovered I am not much of a fan of video editing… I like audio much more. Pulling the components together to create a successful video is quite difficult so shout out to all of you that love this. Here is what I did this week: Video Essay: Shawshank Redemption Video Essay Assignment … Continue reading "Weekly Summary!"

The second daily create I did this week was a question. “What is active learning to you?” My response was DS106 duh! #tdc1754 @ds106dc Active learning to me is DS106! pic.twitter.com/S2yy9zuRjh — Ben Sorensen (@bensorense) October 27, 2016  

The first daily create that I did this week was to find something on Google street view and post it on twitter! This was one of the featured items and I thought it was a cool piece of art! @ds106dc #tdc1751 Floating Piers in Italy! pic.twitter.com/xkFD...

  For my video essay I did the closing scene of Shawshank redemption, one of my favorite movies. This assignment really put my skills to the test and I am still not super happy with it. To create this I opened the video in youtube and muted it. I then went through and recorded myself … Continue reading "Shawshank Redemption Video Essay"

My last assignment for the week was to sign a word so that someone out there can guess what I am saying! I will give you a hint that it pertains to our class. To make this I opened photobooth on my mac and then recorded myself signing the word. Exported that to Imovie and … Continue reading "Sign Language"

The second assignment I chose to do was Vacation time where I put together a video of pictures and video from a recent vacation. This summer I was fortunate enough to study abroad in Ecuador. I was in Quito at a language immersion program, but decided while I was there that I would make it to … Continue reading "The Galapagos Islands"

The first assignment that I chose to do this week was to create a movie spoiler in 30 seconds or less. Well, spoilerrrrr mine is for breaking bad and its 2 minutes. The link to the assignment is: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/spoil-a-movie-in-30-seconds-or-less/ If you have never watched breaking bad, Walter the main character and his boss is Gus. … Continue reading "Spoiling Breaking Bad"

Another Great week in DS106! Best of DS106 DS106 Showcase Minuscule Stories Reflections: Minuscule Stories Radio Show Reflections Web Storytelling: WEB PAGE REMIX Web Page Remix Daily Create Story and This Weeks Daily Creates: Daily Create Story We...

For my web page remix using the X-ray goggles I created a funny job advertisement for myself. Earlier in the week I started creating a page on an amazon posting but it became really complicated really fast. After struggling for about an hour I gave up and walked away. Today I started over with a … Continue reading "Web Page Remix"

Unfortunately I was not able to catch a whole lot of the radio shows when they were on the radio. But I did go back and listen through a few. I really liked the Minuscule Stories show. I felt as if they did an excellent job with the sound effects, commercials, etc. I thought the … Continue reading "Minuscule Stories Radio Show Reflections"

I did three daily creates this week, two of which were incorporated into my daily create story! Walking on ink varnished pebblesEating pistachios in dreary weather#tdc1746 @ds106dc — Ben Sorensen (@bensorense) October 19, 2016 I write to communicate @ds106dc #tdc1747 — Ben Sorensen (@bensorense) October 20, 2016 Hoch vIt – tell the truth @ds106dc #tdc1749 … Continue reading "Week 8 Daily Creates"

One day last year, I went for a walk down by the lake after a storm. As I walked down towards the small beach eating my pistachios , I saw all sorts of new pebbles on the waters edge. These weren’t any pebbles, these were ink varnished pebbles; something I had never seen before! As … Continue reading "Daily Create Story"

I went through and found 3 of my favorite daily creates from out twitter feed for the DS106 showcase! I knew that I really liked the first one but the others I found as I went though. @ds106dc #tdc1742 #ds106 This goose about to drop the sickest mix tape of the century. pic.twitter.com/ehUMs23Kq7 — Brianna … Continue reading "DS106 Showcase"

The second assignment I chose to do for this week was to tell a story with an image that I found on google street view. This assignment was worth 3.5 stars brining me to the 8 stars that I need for this week. Surprisingly, I was only the second person to complete the assignment. I … Continue reading "Google Street View Story Telling"