For my first web assignment, I chose to do the dream vacation board on Pinterest. I decided to pick Iceland as my hopeful destination.
Follow Hope’s board Iceland Trip! on Pinterest.
3 starsI’ve been wanting to go to Iceland for forever, but it never really pans out. I love …
Like all Freshmen, upon entering high school I was determined to reinvent myself and make the next four years amazing. I obsessed over my first day outfit, because it was also picture day. And I got a hair cut. I convinced my mom to let me lighten …
For those of us doing the Storytelling Within the Web assignment, I wanted to create a comprehensive tutorial for how to go the extra step and upload the finished creation to WordPress. The directions given said that we should download the HTML- but I couldn’t for the life of me …
I had absolutely no idea what I wanted to do for my website storytelling assignment. The examples given were all really well done, and I may or may not have spent several hours reading Amazon product reviews. I was flipping through channels when I came across a marathon for …
This week was an insane amount of audio assignments! In previous weeks I have absolutely detested the audio assignments we had to do, but I must admit, I enjoyed this week!
WHAT DID I DO THIS WEEK? Daily Creates:So, I messed up a bit with my Daily Creates this …
Of all the sound assignments in all the classes in all the world, we had to do this one.
I will be frank: I hated the Foley assignment. I could not get the timing on this to work to save my life! So many of my sounds were too quiet …
I knew I wanted to do something ghosty for my radio bumper, so I knew that whispers and such were a must. I’m currently pretty sick and lost my voice, which surprisingly worked out well for this project! My raspy man-like sick voice gave off a great spooky vibe. I …
I did this on Monday of last week, and I was incredibly proud of myself for remember to actually start my Daily Creates nice and early. It felt good, I won’t lie. The prompt was to create stationary for DS106. I made this really easily …
For the remainder of my audio assignment stars, I did the Beat Craigslist assignment, where we read a Craigslist ad that has interesting wording, and then record it like a beat poem.
I love Craigslist. The majority of furniture in my house was obtained from the free section …
My final audio project for this week was the commercial for the radio project. Since our radio show is Halloween/ Spooky themed, I decided to do a horror movie inspired commercial. A lot of the subject matter for our show is much more scary than traditional kind of campy Halloween …
For my first audio project this week, I did the 911 call prompt.
I’ve never gotten to call 911 before and it’s actually a little disappointing. This project was almost liberating, finally giving me the opportunity I’ve never had.
I enlisted the …
I’m really excited for how well my group’s radio show is coming along. Our plan has been for a spooky/ Halloween themed radio show in honor of the upcoming holiday. The group met last week to discuss ideas, names, and what we want to do.
The name we decided on …
Hands down, this has been my favorite week of DS106 yet. I’m a graphic design junkie. I design logos and layouts for websites, I do a lot of design for the school paper, and I’m the layout designer for the Battlefield yearbook- so I’m always kind of swimming in it. …
For this week’s designblitz, I mostly looked through magazines, newspapers, etc to find examples. I feel like these places typically have great design, and occasionally a really really bad one to serve as a warning. The examples I pulled this week are all from the UMW Blue & Gray …
It was actually surprisingly fun to go back through some of my Daily Create photos to put together this collage. We’ve only been at it a month, but there were definitely assignments that I had already forgotten about. To put together …
For the final design assignment of this week, I decided to make a logo for my site. I’m a fan of more minimalist design, so I may not necessary use this logo on the site, but it’s a good skill to have.
Secret confession: I love making logos. …
So basically, I am a giant nerd and obsessed with all things Harry Potter. I chose to complete the minimalist tv/movie poster assignment, where we were tasked with creating a poster for our favorite story using minimal designs or icons.
I actually own a minimalist Harry Potter …
You never really notice how melodramatic your favorite songs are until you have to take the lyrics out of context.
I had an obnoxiously hard time selecting a song for the lyric typography assignment, because everything I found was either depressing or overly emotional, which is not …
There is just about nowhere on this earth I love as much as Scotland. When I saw that we had the option to make a postcard from somewhere we wish we were, it was a no brainer because I always wish I was in Scotland.
For this …
For my first design assignment I did the four icon story assignment, which asked us to take a story we know well and parse it down to four visual icons in a minimalist manner.
I feel like this story is pretty easy to guess, but I’m very …
You know what setting isn’t very copacetic for working on a laptop? The beach.
I’ve spent the weekend away from Fred-Vegas and at the beach for a family weekend, therefore forcing myself into this thing called time management and completely a significant amount of my work ahead of time. I …
This is technically from 106.1 FM, because I didn’t think a recording of static would sound very good. I recorded this very late at night while driving through nowheresville North Carolina. No clue what the song is, but …
Apophenia 3.5 stars
For this assignment, we were instructed to take a normal, every day object and turn it into something else. I actually put off doing this assignment because I really didn’t want to do it. Something about the idea of it just didn’t jive with me, and it …
I struggled a little bit with this assignment, and didn’t take a whole lot of the pictures that I wanted. Admittedly, it may be because I got interrupted by waffles half way through, and waffles are my weakness. I make no apologies. For this set, I included what I feel …
8 photo techniques from Rob Wall For the “Becoming Better Photographers” exercise, I decided to upload three of my favorite photos that I took this week. I borrowed my sister’s Canon XTI which really made all the difference. Comparing these to my iPhone pictures is astounding. While I don’t find…
Earlier this semester we learned that stories can come in all shapes and sizes, so for this Flickr set I wanted to tell one of my favorite stories: a recipe.
In my experience, recipes can be very confusing and difficult to follow, whereas pictures can tell a thousand words. Earlier …
For this assignment, I decided to do the “Troll Quote” prompt. We were told to take a picture of a famous person, add a quote by a second person, and attribute it to a third, unrelated famous person.
I decided to use one of my favorite quotes by Ernest Hemingway, …
So I have to admit- this is not the first time I have done this assignment. In my (freshman?) year of high school this idea was floating around Facebook and a ton of people did it, including myself. I had a blast doing this assignment, and it made me laugh …
What do you call two 21-year old college students working in the ITCC on a Saturday night? DS106.
This week was a little rough, I will admit. The easy assignment from last week spoiled me, and the audio assignments were a bit of a rude awakening. That said, I actually …
I love Ira Glass. I find him witty, hysterical, and endlessly entertaining. As I have discovered through this assignment, he is also full of much needed wisdom.
In this video, Glass talks about the basic necessities of a radio program: telling anecdotes and raising questions. Facts are boring, he says …
