Making up for Lost Time
Ah, yes. I am far far behind in the going-ons of camp. I lost myself in my other camp job, which I openly admit was my fault for poor time
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Suess-y
I’ve had a difficult time with the audio assignments this week. I kept getting very frustrated with my tone and volume while talking that I must have read 5 different -
My Apologies
Dearest Fam, My apologies for my lack of interaction recently with ds106. I’ve been overwhelmed with a second camp that I’ve just started at. I’m short on free time and -
Hey me, Hey mama
Dearest Fam, I’ve concluded my fourth week here at Camp Magic MacGuffin. So far, so good. I got some feedback from my esteemed directors early in the week, and I -
Destination: Over the Rainbow
My final design assignment. I understand why our esteemed directors said that people would get into these assignments. I’ve had a really great time playing around with Photoshop and GIMP -
To Dwell on Dreams
I can openly acknowledge my love affair with the Harry Potter series, and both books and movies alike, I can’t get enough. As I worked on this latest design assignment -
Share the Joy
Part two of my Design Assignments requirement, I chose to do the Creative Commons Poster. Being an animal enthusiast, I chose an adorable hound in the middle of a field -
Tragedy of the Commons
The title may not be the most appropriate, because it doesn’t seem to be a tragedy at all that the work is shared. I did just learn this term in -
Aloha, Aloha
Aloha fellow campers, I’ve sent my family a postcard from Camp Magic MacGuffin this evening as part of the Postcards from Magical Places assignment as designated by our esteemed directors. -
Ain’t it though?
Day one of week four and I’m getting my grips on the Design Assignments. I tried the Lyric Typography Poster assignment, which can be found here. Waddya think? I chose -
Exhausted!
Great great great third week here at CMM. I learned my way around GIMP decently, and though it’ll be a long journey, I’m feeling pretty confident in my progress thus -
Littlefoot on the Move
Staying on the trend of making .gifs in an attempt to master them, this gem took me only a few minutes. Over the holiday break I got a new camera -
Hugh Mercer Dancing
I finished my second Visual Assignment today. After a few flubs with the Photoshop trial (my computer shuts down 20 minutes after I open it), I switched over to GIMP. -
Look Ma’, First GIF!
I did my first GIF today as part of an Visual Assignment for this week. This assignment was worth three stars and it was pretty fun. It was called Say -
Two Down
Two weeks down here at Camp Magic MacGuffin. There’s definitely a monster in the lake, my bunkhouse is called Slaughterhouse 4, which just feels like a bad omen, and people -
Political Storytelling
by Kerry Girard June 3, 2012After reading Bryan Alexander’s introduction, I never thought of a blog as a diary. New Media, and specifically blogs really are amazing… they’re a forum that you can share with -
The Shape of a Romantic Comedy
by Kerry Girard June 3, 2012Based on Kurt Vonnegut’s “The Shape of Stories“, and being a sucker for romantic comedies, I chose to focus on the most recent movie that I saw, The Five Year -
A hawk, a bunny, and a bathroom
I had a lot of fun with this week’s Daily Creates… My first was TDC143, Look up today and make a photo that favors what’s going on in the sky. -
Trouble In Paradise
After a great week of blogging and learning, I had a rough patch these past few days. I moved into my brand new house that had belonged to a UMW -
Meta-Media Fluency
Michael Wesch’s talk on new media as a learning tool illustrated the potential that multi-media operations have on the future of the world. The two men who posed as corporations -
TDC 136
Forgive my awkwardness, I hate talking into cameras. So, the quick version of this is that my dad is a Charlottesville “legend” to anybody who graduated UVa in the 70s -
Getting Acquainted
I’m finally getting accustomed here at Camp Magic MacGuffin. My first week, despite a few bumps in the road like getting completely turned around as I tried to maneuver my way through
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