Dreaming about Vacation

Dreaming about Vacation

by @caholt2000

| #WebAssignments, Syndicated, WebAssignments1325
March 22, 2019

Create A Pinterest Board Of Your Dream Vacation This is an assignment for dreamers! If you don’t already have a Pinterest account, create one! Next, take a moment and contemplate where you would want to go. A vacation does not necessarily mean you have to select one place to travel to. It can involve a variety of locations.…
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Agents with Girl Power!

by @caholt2000

| radiolisten, Syndicated
March 22, 2019

All of the radio shows were amazing. I really loved how different all of the group’s shows were from each other. Each group shared an interesting perspective or topic of secret agent characters or music. The show “Girl Power” was really interesting. I learned a lot about female secret agents that I had never heard…
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Einstein’s Social Media

by @caholt2000

| #WebAssignments, #WebAssignments712, Syndicated
March 22, 2019

Too bad Facebook was not around for most of history! Use the Fakebook tool to make a Facebook profile for a historical figure and make a fake tweet for the same character using the Twister tool. See for Abraham Lincoln the example of a fake facebook profile and what he might have tweeted. Make sure what you create is coherent…
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A Call for Agent Squirrel

by @caholt2000

| Syndicated
March 22, 2019

This week, all of the Daily Creates were connected together. The story is a little crazy, so bear with me! I hope it is entertaining. **This is a completely fictional story** One day, the one and only Caitlin Holt’s heart was transplanted out of her body into the body of a young scuba diver. The…
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Skippy Reviews Skippy

by @caholt2000

| #WebAssignments, Syndicated, WebAssignments713, webstorytelling
March 20, 2019

From the Spring 2011 ds106 class came the idea of changing up an existing web page to tell a new story ” you will be intervening in the code and design of a website of your choice to tell a story. You are not to photoshop the design of the site, but rather intervene in the actual…
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Week Eight Summary

by @caholt2000

| Syndicated, WeeklySummary
March 15, 2019

What a great week! Super Secret Opinions is complete and I cannot wait for it to air on DS106 radio. I was surprised at how easily our group completed the project. It really helped that we all worked well together and were organized. The progress of the radio show this week was reported in the…
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Super Secret Opinions… Finished!

by @caholt2000

| radioshowweek2, Syndicated
March 14, 2019

This week, we met in the HCC and recorded the radio show. We had an outline prepared in a Google Doc so we could follow along as we recorded the show. We already recorded our commercials and bumpers last week for the radio show, so this week all we had to do was meet up…
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Week Seven Summary

by @caholt2000

| Syndicated, WeeklySummary
March 1, 2019

This week has been great! I had the opportunity to meet with my group and discuss our radio show. I wrote up our progress in this first week in a post. In this post, I also included what work I have individually contributed this week to the radio show. The progress post was kind of…
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Super Secret Opinions Progress

by @caholt2000

| radioshowweek1, Syndicated
March 1, 2019

I met with my group this week for about an hour to discuss our radio show, “Super Secret Opinions.” We had a great discussion about how the show was going to play out and what everyone is going to contribute to the show. We also have a Google document that we all have access to…
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Hey Jude Merged!

by @caholt2000

| #AudioAssignments, #AudioAssignments2007, Syndicated
March 1, 2019

Take the original version of a song and mix it with a cover that is drastically different. This will allow you to truly see the difference in the two songs in real time. It could be a slow version of the song and then a faster paced version of the song. It is cool to…
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The Recaller

by @caholt2000

| #AudioAssignments, audioassignments1118, Syndicated
March 1, 2019

Create a commercial featuring an item that you have invented that would be extremely useful to your favorite movie or TV Show character. Try to be as creative and abstract as possible. Must include sound effects or background music and be at least 20 seconds in length. Assignment Bank- Audio Assignments For this assignment, I…
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Super Secret Opinions Bumper

by @caholt2000

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments36, Syndicated
March 1, 2019

Now that we have a #ds106 radio up and running creating a 15 to 30 second bumper for the station. What is a bumper? It is a short recording that identifies the radio station with signature music or an expression that makes sure the listeners know what they are tuned into (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumper_(broadcasting)). So for ds106…
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The Daily Create!

by @caholt2000

| Syndicated
March 1, 2019

The daily creates were super fun this week (like always). We were assigned three daily creates this week, and the ones I completed ranged from life’s mysteries to a pet poster mashup. Life’s Mystery The first daily create I completed this week called for life’s biggest mystery for me right now. Ever since I started…
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Not so Secret Promo

by @caholt2000

| radioshowpromo, Syndicated
February 28, 2019

In order to promote my group’s radio show, I created a poster featuring the title of our show and our secret agent characters. The poster does not contain too much information, but then again, there is not too much information to share. In order to design this poster, I first came up with a general…
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Week Six Summary

by @caholt2000

| Syndicated, WeeklySummary
February 22, 2019

I really love graphic design! This has probably been one of my favorite weeks in the semester so far, along with the excitement of getting this blog set up in the first couple weeks. It was so much fun completing the assignments for this week. There is so much to see, so let’s dive right…
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Search for Principles

by @caholt2000

| designblitz, Syndicated
February 22, 2019

To reinforce your understanding of design principles, you need to undertake a “Design Blitz.” Carry your camera with you this week and take photos of objects, ads, signs, etc. that illustrate at least four of the ten concepts listed below (one photo per concept). Refer to the DesignBlitz resources on the Design Resource page for more information…
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Nutty Plates

by @caholt2000

| designassignments, designassignments1645, Syndicated
February 21, 2019

Design your own license plate! You can use an online site, alter a preexisting photo, or make your own from scratch. Make the license plate describe either your or a character. Your license plate design should have two part to it: designing the background for the plate and designing the font. Be creative with it. …
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Just Stay Inside

by @caholt2000

| #DesignAssignments2075, designassignments, Syndicated
February 21, 2019

Create some sort of graphic. Design the overall graphic to convey some sort of feeling or theme, but then have text saying something completely contradictory to the theme or feeling. Sort of like one of those old anti-motivational posters, but with more design than a black box with a white frame. Assignment Bank- Design Assignments…
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Keep Your Music to Yourself

by @caholt2000

| designassignments, DesignAssignments817, Syndicated
February 20, 2019

Using Gimp or a similar program, create a public service announcement billboard on something that really aggravates you about people, society, the world, etc. It can be serious, goofy, but not offensive. Use a 680 x 300 work space in order to mimic the space of a billboard and have fun with how your positioning,…
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Reflecting on Design

by @caholt2000

| designthoughts, Syndicated
February 20, 2019

First things first, I absolutely love graphic design. As soon as I saw this was design week, I got so excited. I did a lot of graphic design my senior year of high school when I was taking an Advanced Design class and Photojournalism (working on the school’s yearbook). I am so ready to create…
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Squirrel Cloud

by @caholt2000

| designassignments, DesignAssignments2087, Syndicated
February 17, 2019

For this assignment, create a word cloud that relates to your class character. Use an online tool such as wordclouds.com. You can even choose the shape, theme, and color to best suit your particular character. Make sure the text you choose to use is meaningful for your character. Assignment Bank- Design Assignments This assignment was…
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Week Five Summary

by @caholt2000

| Syndicated, WeeklySummary
February 15, 2019

I was worried about this week when I saw that we were working with audio. I usually do not create audio recordings, so I was worried this week would difficult because I lack some important knowledge in this area of storytelling. Just like always, though, everything turned out fine and I stepped out of my…
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Welcome to…

by @caholt2000

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments2118, Syndicated
February 15, 2019

For this assignment create a place by just using sound. For example, make the listener know where they are if outside use birds, cars, etc. You can get sounds from https://freesound.org Assignment Bank- Audio Assignments Welcome to Jurassic Park! Cue the theme song. I decided to create the feeling that you’re in Jurassic Park using sounds…
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The One That Got Away

by @caholt2000

| #AudioAssignments, #AudioAssignments70, Syndicated
February 15, 2019

Tell a story using nothing but sound effects. There can be no verbal communication, only sound effects. Use at least five different sounds that you find online. The story can be no longer than 90 seconds. Another example (by a UMW student): http://ds106.us/wp-content/audio/audio_story.mp3 Assignment Bank- Audio Assignments This short story could be relatable for some…
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Tune in to this!

by @caholt2000

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments36, radiobumper, Syndicated
February 15, 2019

Now that we have a #ds106 radio up and running creating a 15 to 30 second bumper for the station. What is a bumper? It is a short recording that identifies the radio station with signature music or an expression that makes sure the listeners know what they are tuned into (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumper_(broadcasting)). So for ds106…
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Funky Squirrel

by @caholt2000

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments1494, Syndicated
February 15, 2019

With audio programs, making a song from scratch suddenly becomes really, really easy. Programs like GarageBand come with their own loop selection, but if you are using a different program, try downloading bass riffs or back beats and go to town! Or download beats from Youtube- wherever. The challenge is to make a song without…
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Radio Show Ideas

by @caholt2000

| radioshow, Syndicated
February 15, 2019

I do not listen to the radio, so I was not completely sure what radio shows consist of when I first started brainstorming. I did some research and figured out that radio shows can have music, interviews, journalism, stories, etc. It would be cool to have a show with that has interviews with the secret…
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Notorious Storytelling

by @caholt2000

| ds106radio, Syndicated
February 13, 2019

I tuned in to ds106 radio and participated in a tweet-along with the radio edition of the movie Notorious (1946). It was interesting to see how movies have changed over the years just by listening to the audio of this classic. The amount of sound they can use at once was limited, so they had…
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Audio > Visual

by @caholt2000

| #audioreflection, Syndicated
February 13, 2019

Consider what we watched, read and listened to this week and in the previous weeks. How does sound drive stories? How does it impact mood and create atmosphere? How do the ideas in Abumrad’s videos relate here? Write a blog post on your thoughts on audio storytelling. Use specific examples and embed them in your…
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Week Four Summary

by @caholt2000

| Syndicated, WeeklySummary
February 8, 2019

This week was a lot of fun aside from the fact that I started this week a couple of days later than I wanted. It all ended up fine in the end, so there was no need to stress too much. At the beginning of the week, I reflected on my current photography skills. After…
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