Chapter 8 Summary Andrea kidnaps her children. Evan and Lizzy reluctantly welcome them into the house. Andrea panics when the children go missing. Although they are soon found playing hide and seek, Andrea is so shaken by the experience that she turns them (and herself) in to the authorities. Lizzy believes Amy visited her in ...

The assignment was to write a letter, right?

Chapter 7 Summary Lizzy smashes her way into the basement. She and Evan search relentlessly for Kelly without success. Lizzy reaches her breaking point and wants to go to the authorities. Evan won’t let her, remembering Kelly’s last request. Andrea joins in the search, but eventually falls asleep. When she wakes up she rushes out ...

Chapter 6 Summary Lizzy continues her search for Amy refusing to sleep. Evan and Kelly offer to continue the search in Lizzy’s place while she rests. Evan believes he’s found evidence of someone else in the house when he records a knocking sound in the hallway upstairs. Kelly’s flashlight goes out while she’s in the ...

For the mashup assignment I mashed up scenes from Invader Zim featuring GIR and the Natalia Kills song, “Activate My Heart.” I had a pretty hard time with this assignment. It took me forever to come up with a good idea for a mashup. Actually I came up with a bunch of ideas, but I ...

Chapter 5 Summary Evan and Kelly prepare to be evicted from their apartment. Lizzy continues to look for Amy by herself. Andrea shows up at the house under the influence. Lizzy wants to take drastic measure to get through the jammed door into the basement. Kelly stops her and finds that she is able to ...

Chapter 4 Summary Kelly rushes to the house when Evan tells her Lizzy is there behaving erratically. She leaves before Kelly can get there and goes missing for several days. Lizzy finally contacts Kelly when she threatens to go to the police. Lizzy confesses that she dropped out of college several months ago and that ...

I’m sure I’m forgetting a bunch, but here are some of my favorite mashups off the top of my head. As you might guess if you’ve been following my blog they’re all pop music related. Lady Gaga on the ‘V’ Alien Mothership I think this mashup of Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” music video and scenes ...

Chapter 3 Summary Evan reveals Cruz‘s secret. Andrea helps Evan look for him without success. Evan leaves the house for a while when Kelly tells him they are in danger of being evicted from their apartment. Lizzy‘s tweets concern her sist...

Chapter 2 Summary Evan wakes up and finds that Cruz is gone, believing he was scared off and went home. Evan abandons Kelly once again to clean up the house. He discovers a timid dog in the house and leaves it some food and water. Kelly is outraged when Andrea goes to the house wanting ...

For this video assignment I combined some of my favorite creations from the class so far into a video compilation. It’s a little bit of a mashup too. I added music to some of the visual assignments and I mashed up the Flickr version of my story “Running Shoes” with the sound effect story redux. ...

Chapter 1 Summary Evan enters the house and finds that it appears to be abandoned. Cruz joins him and finds the house unsettling, especially what he describes as a ringing sound which Evan doesn’t hear. Kelly and Evan grow further apart as she’s left to plan their wedding with only Andrea’s help. Evan notes that ...

Prologue Summary Kelly joins Twitter as suggested by Evan. Andrea‘s ex-husband files for sole custody of their children claiming she’s a drug addict. Evan loses his job as a software engineer. Initially it looks like he’s headed for a quick recovery when he gets an interview for a new job, but it doesn’t work out. ...

Here’s my finished video essay about one of my favorite movies from my childhood, Bambi. It was pretty fun to make and to rewatch the movie for the first time in years. It brought back a lot of memories. It wasn’t as tough to make either, probably because I have some experience with Movie Maker. ...

My final project, a Twitter-based horror story called “The Keepers,” is coming along nicely. I’ve been working on it for a couple weeks now. I haven’t posted anything yet because so far I’ve been mostly setting up the real story. Now the story is starting to pick up so I’m going to post the prologue ...

In Melanie McBride’s article “Praxis 2.0: Escaping the edu-travelogue,” she encourages educators to rethink the way the creative process is presented to students. She thinks that students are not given enough freedom to remix and compares the current teaching methods to a travelogue rather than traveling. The article covers a broad issue so it was ...

I know some people are tired of hearing about Rebecca Black and Friday, and that’s understandable, but I’m still pretty fascinated by the whole thing. I’ve had the song stuck in my head for over a week and I must have watched the video 20 times. The music video inspired me to retell its story ...

Here’s my segment from the Dexterous Strangers’ radio show “POPular Documentaries” which got cut off when the show aired. It’s about rising stars in pop music. The songs featured are: “Light After Dark” & “The Last Dance” by Clare Maguire “Like a G6″ by Far East Movement featuring Dev “Bass Down Low” by Dev “Poison” ...

I made this segment for my group’s radio show continuing with our theme of documenting pop music, and I thought some other people might want to try it out. Check out the assignment here. I used clips from various Lady Gaga interviews as well as part of this clip from freesound.org, recorded myself asking questions, ...

For my final project, I’d like to use Twitter to tell a fictional story. The result would be a little like this project by Megan, but instead of it being a retelling of an existing story, it would be an original work of fiction by me, and instead of it being presented as a single, ...

I had the idea last night to create a Lady Gaga-themed DS106 Radio bumper for this audio assignment, and here’s the finished product. I used clips of Lady Gaga speaking at the National Equality March in 2009, at the Monster Ball Tour in Toronto, as well as the “Pop Ate My Heart” intro from the ...

For my sound effect story, I decided to do a retelling of my Flickr Five Card Story “Running Shoes.” I actually changed the story a little bit since I was able to create a more detailed story with over a minute of audio than with five photos. Basically it’s still a story about a bunch ...

I’m proud of all the work I’ve done for this course. I always put my best into everything I do and Digital Storytelling has been no exception. Still the output of my classmates has been so outstanding it’s been tough to keep up. Sometimes though I’m surprised when I create some pretty outstanding things myself. ...

This is my submission for the design assignment. I made a minimalist poster for one of my favorite shows, House. In the poster the ‘O’ in the word “House” is made out of 2 canes configured in the shape of a heart to convey both the main character’s disability and the medical aspect of the ...

Five Card Story: Running Shoes a ds106 story created by electrovert flickr photo by captureme45 flickr photo by ahappyjaffee flickr photo by dustyzeigler flickr photo by Intrepid Flame flickr photo by nagahamaa “Let’s make a run for it!” “Faster! It’s coming!” “Ow! I tripped over my shoelace!” “Get up! We have to keep moving!” “We’re ...

The Daily Shoot assignment is now halfway over. Some of the prompts so far have been challenging, so it’s been tougher than I thought it would be. I’m also enjoying it more than I thought I would, though. I didn’t have much experience with photography before this so I wasn’t sure what to expect, but ...

Here’s my take on Call_lean’s idea of a short story made of song titles. Hope you enjoy it!

For my third assignment I decided to use Glogster to tell a story about Web 2.0 storytelling. I chose it because as I was looking through Alan Levine’s examples of 50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story, this one was by far the most visual appealing to me and it seemed like a pretty ...