Weekly Summary-Week 14-Goodbye, DS106!

Weekly Summary-Week 14-Goodbye, DS106!

by @FCMaisano

| ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
December 7, 2018

Wow, I can’t believe is the final week of DS106! So, for this final week of DS106, it follows the easy-hard pattern. The last two weeks were a bit harder than this week, only because I didn’t have to do as much this week! Like last week, I didn’t want to make separate blog posts […]
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My Final Project-Maria’s Semester

by @FCMaisano

| ds106, Syndicated
December 7, 2018

https://uploads.knightlab.com/storymapjs/d38893e877d84e1b749a7467a2a490fc/my-life-from-august-to-november/index.html Here’s my final project! If you want to see the process in which I made it, go to the Week 13 summary and the Week 14 summary. The Week 14 summary is also where I reflect upon this class as a whole. This post’s just to reflect upon this specific project and have all of the […]
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Project Update/Weekly Summary-Week 13-More than I can chew?

by @FCMaisano

| ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
November 30, 2018

You know, I can see why Professor Bond recommended for this to be a group project… So, for these past 2 weeks, since I am counting the 16th-29th, I, like everyone else, have been working on my final project. This hasn’t followed the pattern of easy week-hard week, as last week was frustrating, and this […]
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Weekly Summary-Week 12-Frustrating Again!

by @FCMaisano

| ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
November 16, 2018

I expected this week to be harder/less enjoyable than last week, since last week was an enjoyable, less frustrating week, and fun/frustrating weeks tend to switch off. I was right! Saturday I went home for the weekend, so I didn’t much Saturday. I did pick out which mash-ups I wanted to do. Sunday On Sunday, […]
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The Color Brown In My Life

by @FCMaisano

| #MashupAssignments, ds106, MashupAssignments620, Syndicated
November 16, 2018

For this assignment, I had to pick a color to photograph during a typical day and find a song that is relevant to the color I chose. While my favorite color is blue, I decided to go with brown, as brown is a color that I associate with my character Maria and the weekly assignments […]
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An Inklewriter Tutorial

by @FCMaisano

| #WebAssignments, ds106, Syndicated, WebTutorials1702
November 14, 2018

I really enjoyed using Inklewriter, so here’s a tutorial! First, when you go to https://www.inklestudios.com/inklewriter and scroll down a bit, it’ll say this: As of when I am writing this, it is still working (and it’s November 2018, months after August 2018). So, pay no attention to the warning. Click “Start Writing”. However, the direct link […]
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My Awful Drawing Skills, Now With A ‘Stache!

by @FCMaisano

| #Remix29, ds106, RemixAssignments, RemixedAssignments2955, Syndicated
November 14, 2018

So, for one of my remixes, I had to combine Google Quick Draw and mustaches. Well, I tried! Suffice to say that my drawing skills aren't very good at all! pic.twitter.com/eyniHySsxQ — Francesca Maisano (@FCMaisano) November 14, 2018 So, for the base assignment, I had to play Google Quick Draw, and then post my results […]
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The Rocky Road to Dublin-Music Mapped

by @FCMaisano

| #MashupAssignments, MashupAssignments208, Syndicated
November 13, 2018

So, for this assignment, I had to choose a song with geographic reference, create a Google map with them along with media, and then make a video. The first thing I did was try and find a song. I google songs that mention cities and I have some. However, I didn’t know any of the […]
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A Spider’s Point Of View

by @FCMaisano

| ds106, Remix25, RemixAssignments, RemixedAssignments2956, Syndicated
November 13, 2018

There’s that girl again. I suppose I shouldn’t say again, since she lives here too. She’s a strange one, and not very nice either. Just last week I saw her kill one of the gnats on the pink walls of our room. She isn’t much for sharing, or at least sharing with us insects and […]
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Defeating A Vampire!

by @FCMaisano

| #MashupAssignments, ds106, MashupAssignments1141, Syndicated
November 12, 2018

http://johnjohnston.info/flickrSounds/show3.php?j=1542001969 Here’s my video. Try as I might, I was not able to get it to embed. So, just click on the link! So, for this assignment, I had to make a slideshow using FlickrSounds. For a simple assignment, this was harder than it should have been! I knew that I wanted to make a story […]
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A Few Seconds Of My Favorite Films!

by @FCMaisano

| #MashupAssignments, ds106, MashupTutorials1158, Syndicated
November 12, 2018

So, for this assignment, I had to choose 6 of my favorite films and mash them together, using at most 2 seconds of each. This wasn’t an overly difficult assignment. The hardest part was choosing what movies! There’s so many movies I like. I decided to go chronologically, choosing movies from different times of my […]
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Weekly Summary-Week 11-Much better!

by @FCMaisano

| ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
November 9, 2018

I know last week I seemed (and was) a bit frustrated. However, this week was better! Saturday I was off-campus on a retreat with the UMW Catholic Campus Ministry where I wasn’t supposed to have my computer and doing homework would have been against the point of the retreat! Sunday On Sunday, I got back […]
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My Favorite Assignments (So Far!)

by @FCMaisano

| ds106, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoTutorials113
November 7, 2018

For this assignment, I had to make a video compilation of some of my favorite things that I have made for this class. I started by going through my blog and putting the links of all of the posts that I remember liking to make into a Word document. After that, I sorted them into […]
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Lost Tapes: Strigoi-Framed!

by @FCMaisano

| ds106, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoTutorials455
November 6, 2018

For this assignment, I had to go through a 2-minute video and pick out the frame that best represents the overall story. So, first I had to look for a video. YouTube doesn’t let you filter for exact minutes, just short (less than 4 minutes) and long (more than 20 minutes). So, I looked up […]
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Through The Eyes Of The Wawel Dragon

by @FCMaisano

| ds106, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoTutorials1470
November 6, 2018

So, for this assignment, I had to make a video of a perfect day in the life of an animal, and include music to go along with the animal or feel of the video. I decided to go with our theme of legend, myth, and folklore, and go with a classic legendary animal-the dragon. I […]
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The Missing Part

by @FCMaisano

| ds106, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoTutorials539
November 6, 2018

So, for this assignment, I had to chose 5-10 words randomly and then do a Google image search for each word and choose one of the first ones. After, you had to make a story out of it, with or without the use of sentences. To get random words, I chose to use https://wordcounter.net/random-word-generator, as I […]
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Weekly Summary-Week 10-So Frustrating!

by @FCMaisano

| ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
November 2, 2018

Yeah, this week was hard. For me personally, this was the hardest one yet. While I finished quicker than with other weeks, I felt far less comfortable with what I had to do and had less of a fun time. Everything was so slow and tedious! It didn’t help that this week was stressful when […]
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A Hell-firey Video Essay

by @FCMaisano

| ds106, Syndicated, videoessay
October 31, 2018

So, for my video essay, I chose to look use the Lost Tapes episode “Hellhound. It is one of the four episodes that scared me as a child (along with chupacabra, skinwalker, and strigoi) that I made my character Maria interested in. I have already done posts with the “Chupacabra” and “Skinwalker” episodes, so now […]
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My Dream Vacation-A European Tour of Heritage and Architecture!

by @FCMaisano

| ds106, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoTutorials1151
October 28, 2018

Pinterest it is based off of: https://www.pinterest.com/francescacmaisano/my-dream-vacation/ The blog post for the Pinterest assignment detailing all the legs of the trip: My (far-off) Dream Vacation! So, this was a process. A long, long process… For this assignment, I had to make a video about the places that you want to go. Seems simple enough, right? So, back […]
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History of Nintendo Handheld Consoles

by @FCMaisano

| ds106, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoTutorials780
October 28, 2018

For this assignment, I had to pick something to make a video showing the change in how it looks over the years. The assignment suggested technology. My first piece of tech I really loved was my DS Lite (I had 3-they kept breaking on me. I wasn’t that hard on them) and then later was […]
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My Favorite Vacation-Québec and Maine Edition

by @FCMaisano

| ds106, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoTutorials1036
October 28, 2018

For this assignment, I had to make a video about my favorite vacation. Picking the vacation was easy! I adored going to Québec City and Maine a few summers back. I already had the folders of pictures on my computer, so I was all set! I used the Photos app (Microsoft Store app) already on my […]
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What Happened To The Light?!

by @FCMaisano

| ds106, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoTutorials447
October 28, 2018

Here’s the reverse video! Here’s the original video! So, for this assignment where I have to reverse a video. The assignment prompt mentioned “something in your life”. When I thought about things in my life that I could film and make backwards, for some reason I thought about the light in my bathroom. It takes […]
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Weekly Summary-Week 9-Haunting Edition!

by @FCMaisano

| ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
October 26, 2018

As I start off all of my weekly summaries with if it follows the pattern, then I would say yes. This week was harder, as I had more stuff to do. However, I actually enjoyed it more! Saturday I looked over the weekly assignments and started picking out what web assignments I wanted to do. […]
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Extra! Extra! Read All About It!

by @FCMaisano

| #WebAssignments, ds106, Syndicated, webstorytelling, WebTutorials713
October 24, 2018

Above is the screenshot. Here’s the link from Hackasaurus: https://thimbleprojects.org/HTTP/fcmaisano/568534/ So, for my web storytelling assignment, I decided to change a news article to about the yowie. The day I am writing this is the day that our radio show goes up, so I thought it was a good time. The mentioning of using news articles made […]
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Extra! Extra! Hear All About It!

by @FCMaisano

| ds106, radiolisten, Syndicated
October 23, 2018

So, on Tuesday, I listened to and live-tweeted about the DS106 radio broadcast of Super Storytellers. First of all, great job guys! I thought all of your news segment and stories were very interesting! One thing I noticed about both this radio show and my own is how different each person’s part is. We all have […]
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Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bat! It’s an alien! It’s… what is it?!

by @FCMaisano

| ds106, Syndicated
October 23, 2018

Jonathan walks up a hill, wondering when he’ll see it. The night is dark and quiet, but the full moon is bright. In a way, that made the night creepier. Jonathan shivers. He couldn’t help but think of all the stories he’d heard of things that go bump in the night as he walks along […]
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A Haunting Churchyard

by @FCMaisano

| #WebAssignments, ds106, Syndicated, WebTutorials1702
October 22, 2018

http://writer.inklestudios.com/stories/388v Here’s my story! Please choose your own adventure and read it before reading the rest of this post! So, for this assignment, I had to use http://www.inklestudios.com/inklewriter/ to create a choose-your-own-adventure story. Growing up, I knew about but never really read those type of books. However, I have skimmed a few before, so I know […]
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Maria’s Pinterest Board

by @FCMaisano

| #WebAssignments, ds106, Syndicated, WebTutorials1040
October 21, 2018

https://www.pinterest.com/francescacmaisano/my-character-maria-segreti/ Here’s the Pinterest board! So, for this assignment, I had to make a pinterest board for a character with at least 20 pins and then use X-Ray Goggles from Hackasaurus to further modify the board. I chose my character Maria, and I got to 29 pins. However, the X-Ray Goggles no longer work, so I […]
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My Dream Antique Bedroom!

by @FCMaisano

| #WebAssignments, ds106, Syndicated, WebTutorials1877
October 21, 2018

https://www.pinterest.com/francescacmaisano/my-dream-room/ Here’s the link to my Dream Bedroom Pinterest board! So, for this assignment, I had to make a Pinterest for my dream bedroom. I just moved this summer and am looking into redecorating my room a bit, so this could be useful, as well as fun! My style of bedroom is antique. I love […]
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A Watery Guess The Story

by @FCMaisano

| #WebAssignments, ds106, Syndicated, WebTutorials2300
October 21, 2018

So, what story am I telling and how did I tell it? Comment below! There is text below-it’s just white! I don’t want you to cheat! Read only after trying to guess! Highlight the words (i.e. use your cursor to left-click and drag to select all of the paragraphs) and you should be able to […]
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