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  1. fhowell

    Six Words Memoir

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        When designing this six word memoir I used an image of myself in Labadee, Haiti and inserted it into www.Pixlr.com (please see my tutorial in how to make a bumper sticker http://www.frederickhowell.com/uncategorized/my-neck-n-back-presents/ to see how to insert images) and inserted an image from my computer. I added some text and an image from Pixabay […]
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    My Neck-n-Back Presents

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    We have always had thoughts or funny situations that would make a great bumper sticker, but it may be that it is something you can find ready-made. Well next time the situation arises, with this tutorial you will at least be able to design one of your own (of course you have to find another tutorial […]
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    Twitter is an Advance Day Party-Line

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    ,,,and I try to explain what Twitter to a person 100 years ago. You know the party line you have traveling from yard to yard in your neighborhood that allows you to talk to your neighbors and others on the phone, but you have to wait for the line to clear to make a call. […]
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    Invisible Authority

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    Kelli Anderson (Kelli) speech in the TedxPhoenix Talk had similar tones of what I observed Dr. Wesch was saying from last week. The new media is offering wonderful tools to address social issues as we saw with Kelli’s artistic manipulation of the New York Times. This exercise was a great demonstration to its readers; a […]
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    Bigfoot in Spotsylvania, Virginia?

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    We all hear things that go bump in the night, or at least sounds we sometimes cannot explain or identify. Well that has been an ongoing issue in my yard for years. We hear this owl like sound usually at dusk, but mostly at night (rainy ones too) with minor “call” changes at times. There was a […]
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    Half a Pair

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    Today’s daily create in class was about creating a picture showcasing more than half way.  I just have no clue how a pair of footy socks make it downstairs and into the washer and dryer. The trip back up one sock and myself find ourselves in an unsolicited game of Marco Polo looking for the […]
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    Safer Streets

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    The new law I would create would have every new license issued to a person under the age 21 requirements change. There would be new prerequisites to obtaining a license, and this will be a three part addition to regular driving school, written test, and over the road test. They would be as follow: Every […]
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    Post Secret

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    This is truly a secret I have kept until recently, about flying my own private plane.  Now before I go on my post it note was created through paint brush. I downloaded a blank Post it and added text and the picture of a plane. Flying appears to me the sort of freedom motorcycles have given me.  The […]
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    First Week Was My First Step

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    Week one assignment summary I will have to admit was an uphill challenge for myself. I do feel like I accomplished a lot in a week with getting a domain name, getting a blog site, and having them the blog site to work. It was a challenge because first I haven’t many experiences with an […]
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    Knowledgeable verse Knowledge-able Reflection

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        Hearing Dr. Wesch’s story on how he was not encouraged to read all the way through high school; then to hear how passionate and accomplished he is in his today’s work made me think about the importance of being driven by questions. I agree questions are important for the individual learner, but passion […]
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    Trip to the George Washington Forest

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      Backpacking Trip to George Washington National Forest Please click the link above to journey with me as I hike The Three Ridges trail through the George Washington National forest. This is a 14.4 mile circuit that also share pieces of the Appalachian Trail, which is exciting because certain times of the year through hikers […]
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    Birthday Card

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    This was an app generated birthday card.  The app was called CGreetings and can be found through the app store on Windows8. the card actually had an inside also I had done, but I did not realize this was an email generated app. I still made it work after having it emailed to my self […]
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    Birthday Song for Dr. Garcia

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    https://soundcloud.com/fhowell07/audio-recording-on-thursday The donkey was found on YouTube and played while I was playing the djembe (drum).                       I uploaded the live recording to sound cloud as the YouTube video played from my laptop. When it was finish I hit the shared button and tweeted the recording with the appropriate tags, I ran into some trouble getting […]
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    Bugging Me

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    This picture was done in paint shop on my laptop. I inserted picture from my picture file. From menu bar I selected a callout shape and placed it on right side of image.  Then I chose a text box and placed it inside of the callout. I was able to type the “If this bug […]
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    Backpacking Trip to George Washington National Forest

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    Backpacking Trip to George Washington National Forest  Backpacking Trip to George Washington National Forest pp (click on for Journey visual in a power point) The journey was documented on Google presentations. I did a search for Google Presentation and opened the website. I chose the simple light presentation. It has one slide up already which I […]
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    Personal CyberInfrastucture

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    Gardener Campbell talk resonated with me in terms of dreaming and reiterated the importance of dreaming. Proposing personal Cyber-infrastructure for students use appears to be in step, and in the same direction of what technology is also proposing.  The three recursive practices are done everyday (seemingly all day by some) on and in social media […]
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    DS 106 Zone Low Down 001

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    My journey to this podcast has been challenging to say the lease. I have looked everywhere searching high and low to find audio and videos were on the page initially sent. I can say I found it before it is due. I was impressed to hear the podcast and someone who is enthused about helping […]
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    Today’s heat is tommorow’s fantasy

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    Today was not what we would consider a miserable day in terms of our VA summer time weather, but it was humid enough to break a sweat. I had some issues with my motorcycle today and had to work on it where I was. I was tinkering around with it yesterday and advanced the idling […]
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    Daily Create

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    Hello Everyone, It seems after a long day, not giving up, and instructions from the professor I am here. My name is Frederick a senior graduating in December. I am a returning student in the BLS program majoring in Leadership and Management. I am very new to social media just getting a twitter account two […]
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    Video Comment

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    I was not sure which video to comment on so here is to both. I thought the little white animals were mice until the meow sound in the bushes. This must have have been a lot of time invested to make the video frame by frame.The second video was encouraging after today. I still feel […]

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