This is my final assignment for DS106. The assignment was to come up with an ad campaign for DS106. I started with my own feelings about DS106. I came into the class thinking that maybe I was too old to be involved with the web. But as I worked on projects and began to see ...

This American Life‘s “Godless America” examines the tension between the idea of America as Christian country and the idea of America as a place where one’s religion plays no role in governance.  It examines the rise in influence of the Christian Right and their contention that the Founding Father’s intended America.  This group complains that ...

This This American Life segment was about two families linked by the inadvertent switching of their babies at birth.  Although the switch was more than suspected by one of the mother’s involved, the entire truth did not surface until 43 years had passed.  I found the story compelling on many levels.  One thing that caught ...

At the risk of sounding like Forrest Gump, NPR’s This American Life series always reminds me of a box of chocolates. It’s hard to imagine that stories so different in tone, texture and meaning can be united under one theme. Kinda like lifting the lid on that box of chocolates and finding pieces containing caramel ...

When I was a little girl, I lived for awhile on a small island in the Caribbean.  My sister and I had a cat named Tee Tee.  One night Tee Tee was gone from the house.  We could hear her bawling outside, but no amount of calling made her come inside.  Finally, we discovered that ...

This is my submission for a photo dominated by blue.  It is another painting from my collection done by BVI artist Joseph Hodge.  I really like the brush work– kind of Van Gogh-esque.

                    My version of high key photo

Not an everyday item, true, but this painting is what came to mind when I started to think about manipulating color schemes for the ds106 exercise.  Cockfight is an original painting by BVI artist Joseph Hodge. The first frame is the original version of Cockfight.  I used picnic in Flickr to create the blue and ...

Here is my Little Caption exercise.  The photo was taken from my deck. The Ann Landers quote reads in its entirety, “Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquility of a lovely sunset.”

Meet Simba, Tom and Tink.  Simba is looking for a new home for Tom and Tink because she is allergic to cat hair.  There is a nice lady across the street who LOVES cats.  Sounds like a happy ending is in the making.

This American Life’s segment on The Cruelty of Children was troubling, but ultimately hopeful.  All of the stories had to do with power–who has it, how it is used, and how it is accommodated.  David Sedaris’ story about making fun of “sissy boys” although he himself was one, illustrates a common phenomenon. People often try to ...

Five Card Story: MAY 21, 2011 a Five Card Flickr story created by janeann flickr photo by krutscjo flickr photo by lesliemb flickr photo by bionicteaching flickr photo by bionicteaching flickr photo by lesliemb Everyone in town knew that today would be the day. The wild animals knew that something was coming, but what? In ...

One of our weekend DS106 assignments was to look through the visual and design assignments and choose four that we would like to work on in the coming week.  Here are my selections: Common Everyday Object: This assignment asks that I take a picture of a common everyday object and manipulate the colors.  I thought ...

I left class on Thursday feeling overwhelmed and not a little sorry for myself.  I am drowning in information–new ideas, new language, new equipment, new skills…  It does not help to look around and notice that no one else in the class is hyperventilating or straining to read the instructors lips in an effort to understand what is ...

Okay, so now I am making my way around the Word Press Dashboard. I have installed a plugin that should tell everybody who cares to know when a new post is uploaded.  So, this is actually a test run. Here goes!