For the fandom assignment, I decided to put together all my favorite scenes from the movie Y Tu Mamá También.  It is a great movie about two teenage boys in Mexico who go on a road trip to the beach with an older woman.  Along the way, all three learn about various aspects of life. ...»

Dear Future DS106ers, This class could be either one of the best or one of the worst classes you take at UMW.  It all depends on what you decide to put in to the class.  For me, it has been one of the best because it has taught me real tools that I have used ...

I have been playing with the way back time machine on the Internet Archive.  I decided to create a web assignment where you pick a particular website to look at overtime.  I picked the New York Times to look at since 1996.  For the assignment, you provide screen shots of the website overtime, and then...»

Yesterday, I worked all afternoon on my mash up and had absolutely nothing to show for it. I really had my mind set on doing an audio mash up because I failed at this during the audio radio section of the class. I thought that with more time, I could master a song mash up. ...

My live TV debut on DS106tv.  Talking about the future of journalism and my new job

Recently, I have been trying to figure out what I’m going to change my name to when I get married.  There are certainly many choices, such as the hyphened last name, the two last names, just your husband’s last name, etc.  But, what makes this more challenging for me, is that changing my name means ...

Dear DS106, Don’t be afraid of the takeover of Google.  A far greater threat to our world is the evil, all powerful Apple.  You see, money is the root of all evil, and Apple has a few billion more than Google. Back in the 1990s, Apple was a sad place.  The computers were awful and ...

The last few days I have been thinking about what to do with this blog after I graduate in a month.  I have to pay for it until at least my wedding in October because my wedding blog is currently a subdomain of this site.  Originally, I thought that I would just keep it until ...

I have been working on small things on the wedding website for my final project. One section of the website is for guests to know which hotels to stay at in the area. Although I am providing the recommended hotels in the page, I wanted to have a widget that people can search for other ...

Just a clip from Garden State that shows how much we value originality.  Now, onto the opposite of originality… Actually, I wouldn’t consider mashups and remixes the opposite of originality.  Instead, Brian Lamb describes the mash up as two completely different things being combined and the remix as the working/adapting of an existing work.  Mash ...

Here is my video essay on the movie Life is Beautiful.  I downloaded the movie from youtube.  This was difficult because the video is originally in Italian, but I wanted it in English or with English subtitles.  Most of the clips I found are in English, but it is not the best quality.  Then, some ...

Here is my web story.  Click it to make the larger size.  It is the NASA website’s story about the super moon.  I changed it to make it so that the super moon is actually ending the world with various natural disasters and changes.  Here are some step by step things I did. 1. Initially, ...

So I have been working on my web story all morning and it just hasn’t been working very well.  I was trying to use PolitiFact, but my main problem is the advertisements.  When I inspect the element for the rotating ads, it cannot find them.  Then, when I save the PolitiFact page with any changes, ...

For my Web Storytelling project, I am going to change PolitiFact.  PolitiFact is a St. Petersburg Times fact checker.  Basically, they search for the truth it what politicians say.  If Obama says: Then, PolitiFact checks to see if this is true.  They give ratings such as promise broken, mostly true, true, false and pants on ...

For my final project, I am working on making my wedding website better. Here I want to describe how to get a nice audio player in a blog post, like I did in the below post for the decades radio bumpers and like I did on the homepage of my wedding website. I took a ...

Here is our 1 minute, 30 second and 15 second bumpers for Decades Radio. Tomorrow, I will blog more about the process of how we created these and the ideas behind them.

I have been having a lot of ideas for my final project, but I have finally settled on one topic.  In the beginning of the semester, I created a wedding website to share with family and friends.  I created it as a subdomain off of the websites we created for this class.  I figured that ...

Now that I gave love to everyone else, I get to showcase what I have loved about my own work.  Here are my favorite four photos from Daily Shoots (click to make larger): For some reason, I like the converse photo.  My fiance was packing his suitcase at the time and I took some pictures ...

There has been a lot of stuff I have loved about this class that I want to showcase here.  Constantly my classmates and roommates are showing me up by coming up with even better design projects.  I am also amazed at what people came up with for assignments for others to do.  Here are some ...

I just listened to Stephanie’s “10 Things I Hate About DS106″ audio and loved it.  I liked the idea of bitching about DS106, but through a movie poem.  This prompted me to make my own.  It is the poem from Little Rascals, but adapted for DS106. I am going to upload it to the radio ...

So today is the last day of daily shoot and here is my photo.  I really liked it.  I was driving up in Arlington, and I pulled over to take this quick shot.  However, for some reason this photo isn’t pulling into the daily shoot page today.  I don’t know why after 12 days of ...

Five Card Story: Darby and Dylan a Five Card Flickr story created by Jessica Masulli flickr photo by cogdogblog flickr photo by bionicteaching flickr photo by bionicteaching flickr photo by krutscjo flickr photo by cogdogblog Every morning, Darby the dog wakes up at sunrise and waits on the porch for his best friend to wake ...

I just did two assignments for the big caption.  I found the photos on this website.  These were pretty simple and fun to do.  I will do more, but I don’t have Photoshop.  I have to use the Photoshop at the Bullet office, but Jordan just told me about a program that is similar to ...

The last two days of daily shoots have made me incredibly anxious for spring.  On Wednesday, it was almost 60 degrees and all the daily shoots were outside minus jackets.  Then today, the daily shoot photo was about taking sky/horizon pictures.  All my pictures were just so colorless since the sky was gray and the ...

I crashed my wedding blog today because I tried to add a password plugin.  I wanted the entire site to be password protected, but this plugin must not have been good.  At first, I freaked out that my site was completely gone.  Then, I troubleshooted.  Here is how to fix a crashed site if this ...

I just got my Flickr photos to link to the widget on the side here.  I am going to use this for the Daily Shoot assignments so people can also see my photos here.  The plugin is called Quick Flickr and is very easy to use (after trying other ones that were not so easy). ...