The End of The E.N.D.

The End of The E.N.D.

by @JillianAviva

| Media Assignments, Reflections, Syndicated, Weekly Posts
April 29, 2018

For the final assignment of DS 106, Elaina and I decided to team up and revisit our storyline from the audio weeks. We wanted to delve deeper into our stories. During our original planning, we thought we would do another podcast, but as we continued to plan and discuss, we landed on the idea of …
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Stranger Things Could Have Happened in Week 11

by @JillianAviva

| Reflections, Syndicated, Weekly Posts
April 9, 2018

Oh boy, what a week. After week 10 of videos, I did not think I would be so stressed about another week of videos, but I was wrong. This week required a little more video action than the last, I was even busier than last week! I had BellaCappella rehearsal every day this past week in …
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How to DS 106-ify a Movie

by @JillianAviva

| Media Assignments, Reflections, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments1232
April 6, 2018

The movie I watched this week was The Quiet Earth. On Tuesday, after lunch, I decided to go to the DS 106 movie watching meet-up, but I was the only student there during the whole movie…BUT it was an entertaining movie and it was nice to watch it on a larger screen! I really enjoyed …
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Making My Own Assignments

by @JillianAviva

| Reflections, Syndicated
April 6, 2018

I love how this class is not just a professor assigning specific assignments and spewing out information. Rather, we are able to have some freedom in choosing our assignments, and we can even make some of our own. Earlier in the semester, I created a design assignment called Charity Ad. I made the assignment because I …
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Week Ten…Not So Zen

by @JillianAviva

| Syndicated, Weekly Posts
April 2, 2018

This has been quite a busy week. I knew I did not have much time this week so I made sure to get my daily creates and planning out of the way quickly. My first daily create was a flying flower, which I drew early in the morning before I left for my practicum. @ds106dc #tdc2270 …
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DIY Film

by @JillianAviva

| Media Assignments, Reflections, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments1886, VideoAssignments2148
April 2, 2018

The video work for this week took a lot of my energy and efforts. I chose path one, 8 stars of individual video assignments. I completed the Take Us Through Your Day assignment and the Arts and Crafts Tutorial assignment, both of which were 4 stars. For the Take us Through Your Day, I vlogged …
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How to Read a Movie

by @JillianAviva

| Media Assignments, Syndicated, Writing for the Apocalypse
April 2, 2018

Generally, I only read a film when it is in another language, but this week I learned how to read any and all films. In Robert Ebert’s article, How to Read a Movie, I found it interesting how the placement and movement of characters in a film have such a subtle but effective way of controlling the …
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Tune in to Week Nine

by @JillianAviva

| Syndicated, Weekly Posts
March 26, 2018

Week Nine was rather light on the workload, which was definitely nice! The main focus of this week was tuning in to the radio shows, which was a blast! I listened to Alt-F4 and that survival group did an amazing job producing their show! Unfortunately, I was unable to tune into my own radio show, …
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Bumper Sticker Remake

by @JillianAviva

| Media Assignments, Reflections, Syndicated
March 26, 2018

To revise an old assignment, I decided to choose the bumper sticker that I made for my radio show, Survivors at Sunrise. Even though I took a long time to design the one I submitted, I was still not completely satisfied with it. After editing it once again, I can say I would probably put this …
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The Apocalypse Killed the Radio Show

by @JillianAviva

| Reflections, Syndicated
March 26, 2018

So the radio shows are over. Honestly, this makes me a little sad because it was a fun time creating, producing and listening to another group’s radio show. Bonding with my survival group as we brainstormed and recorded our show was one of my most favorite parts of this course so far. I was able …
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Week 7 and 8, and Feeling Great

by @JillianAviva

| Syndicated, Weekly Posts
March 19, 2018

The focus for these past weeks was the radio show, which I really enjoyed creating! I appreciated the opportunity to meet with my survival group in person and learn from them. It brought a new level to this course that was not possible through solely online interactions. And the fact that it is an online …
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Continuing the Sunrise Radio Show

by @JillianAviva

| Reflections, Syndicated
March 19, 2018

Before meeting with my survival group to begin recording our radio show, I wrote out an outline of my segment, Suck it up with Tala. This preparation helped the process of recording go faster and smoother. However, we did have a little brainstorming and collaboration on each of our segments to make them the best …
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The Rising Sun on Our Radio Show

by @JillianAviva

| Media Assignments, Reflections, Syndicated, Weekly Posts
March 4, 2018

Lauren, Elaina, and Alyssa and I met in the HCC/ over facetime this week to discuss our radio show. I must say it was a change to communicate with people in this class in person. It was really fun bouncing ideas around and getting inspired by each other and our unique characters to create our radio …
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Week Six Survival Tricks

by @JillianAviva

| Reflections, Syndicated, Weekly Posts
February 26, 2018

I spaced out my time this week much better than I usually do. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday I did all three of my daily creates, and I really enjoyed them! I have been becoming more comfortable using Pxlr to create unique images. I decided to complete the Character Design as my first design assignment, and I …
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An Alternative Cover for ‘The Book of the Unnamed Midwife’

by @JillianAviva

| designassignments, DesignAssignments2187, Media Assignments, Syndicated
February 26, 2018

I created this alternative book cover for ‘The Book of the Unnamed Midwife’ using both Pixlr and Canva. Originally, I was hoping to have an abandoned highway with half a person on the edge of the cover holding their hand in a fist. I wanted the person to represent the main character as being alone and …
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DesignBlitzing @ UMW

by @JillianAviva

| Syndicated
February 25, 2018

This designblitz took me on quite the adventure around campus. I took pictures in the UC for hierarchy and color; the boardgames sign on the TV emphasizes “boardgames” by putting the word in larger size text, in the poster about watching the Olympics, they used the colors from the Olympic rings in the text and the …
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How to Design

by @JillianAviva

| Reflections, Syndicated
February 25, 2018

The videos of Scher and Carson, as well as the tutorials on Canva, made me realize how being creative and taking risks is an important part of design. Although through some of the Canva tutorials created structured “rules” on how to align your design correctly and how to pair fonts well, it also encourages you …
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Shaving my Head for Childhood Cancer Research

by @JillianAviva

| designassignments, DesignAssignments2202, Media Assignments, Syndicated
February 23, 2018

For my second design assignment, I decided to add my own assignment to the assignment bank. The assignment I made is to create an ad for a charity. I created an ad for St. Baldrick’s, which raises money and awareness for children’s cancer research. In about three weeks, I will be shaving my head at …
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Tala’s Word Cloud

by @JillianAviva

| designassignments, DesignAssignments2087, Media Assignments, Syndicated
February 23, 2018

I used wordclouds.com to create my character, Tala’s word cloud. I used her backstory to retrieve the words for her cloud, and I deleted the filler and unimportant words so the word cloud would be more representative of her. I decided to make her cloud in the shape of a tree for two main reasons. The …
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Tala in Her Natural Enviroment

by @JillianAviva

| designassignments, DesignAssignments2188, Media Assignments, Syndicated
February 21, 2018

I placed Tala in a lush environment, standing on a rock next to a river. As an ecology major, she would find her self amongst nature quite often. I believe she would find peace and connection with nature because she has minimal connection with other humans. To keep her prepared on the go, I gave her …
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How to Survive Week Five

by @JillianAviva

| Syndicated, Weekly Posts, Writing for the Apocalypse
February 19, 2018

This week I told myself I would get my work done in a timely manner. I started out the week well by gaining my bearings and watching all of the videos and going through the resources for the week. On Wednesday, I got thinking about my character, Tala Madeira and wrote her an in-depth backstory. Wednesday …
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Can the police protect us from the end?

by @JillianAviva

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments2194, Media Assignments, Syndicated
February 19, 2018

For my second audio star assignment, I chose the three and a half star assignment, Call Me, Beep Me. I had to make a 911 call, and I chose to relate it to the Peoria Plague radio show from Wednesday night. I found it a little tricky to record myself as the 911 operator and …
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Humming Away

by @JillianAviva

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February 18, 2018

I chose the 5-star audio assignment, Humming Away as one of my audio assignments for the week. This is a fun, upbeat song that has been playing in my head! If you know what song it is you can tweet it to me: @JillianAviva
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Don’t Follow Strange Noises

by @JillianAviva

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments2178, Media Assignments, Reflections, Syndicated
February 18, 2018

Exploring Frequnecy 2156 was a unique and fun experience. I really enjoyed its collaborative strategy to creating a digital story. It is intriguing to imagine people from all parts of the world experiencing the end and trying to communicate with one another. This crowd-sourced audio lets the listeners add in to the story and continue the stories of …
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Learning about Audio

by @JillianAviva

| Reflections, Syndicated
February 18, 2018

Personally, I do not have experience creating audio, but I do enjoy listening to audio. I have always appreciated podcasts and I have been using them to get through long car rides and tedious tasks for years. I completely agree with Jad Abumrad from RadioLab that listening to stories can take you into a dream-like state. I …
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Tala Madeira: The Lone Wolf

by @JillianAviva

| Syndicated
February 14, 2018

Name: Tala Madeira Apocalypse Archetype: The Lone Wolf Tala was born into a middle-class family in the Northwestern corner of Arkansas. However, she has minimal memory of this. At the young age of three, Tala was taken by the government to be trained as a child spy. She spent her childhood traveling to different enemy …
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How to Take Photos

by @JillianAviva

| Media Assignments, Syndicated
February 12, 2018

Reading the Tips for Better Photography helped me grasp the basics of taking pictures. The rule of thirds was probably the most helpful tip as it makes sense to highlight the focus of your picture in the spot that is looked at first. I downloaded the rule of thirds add-on to my chrome browser so …
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Writing for The End

by @JillianAviva

| Syndicated, Weekly Posts
February 5, 2018

QUESTION OF THE WEEK: In the event of an apocalypse, do you think you’d be the kind of person to hoard your supplies (for yourself and your loved ones) or would you share them with those around you in need? Why or why not? Honestly, I would be the kind of person who would hoard …
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My Storage Container Home

by @JillianAviva

| Syndicated, Writing for the Apocalypse, writingassignments, WritingAssignments1757
February 5, 2018

The year is 2025 and I live in post-apocalyptic D.C. in my storage container tiny house. During the years of the apocalypse, my home protected me from viral diseases and extreme, destructive natural disasters. Now that the initial collapse of the old society has died down, I have been adjusting to life after the apocalypse. …
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A Dirty New World

by @JillianAviva

| Syndicated, Writing for the Apocalypse, writingassignments, WritingAssignments2164
February 5, 2018

Finally, the humans are gone. The humans, along with all other “living” beings were obliterated in the apocalypse. Even for me, a mere speck of dirt, the apocalypse was absolutely terrifying. I was thrown around from field to forest to sidewalks to anywhere you can imagine. I am so relieved that horrible experience is over. Currently, I …
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