WE DID IT!! I can’t believe this is my final DS106 post! It’s been such a fun ride! I can’t believe its over! Though, as we all know we are ds106ers #4life!!
So what does Digital Storytelling mean?
Well In week 3 I said “I immediately think of Animea or …
I can’t believe I’m at the point in DS106 where I am giving advise for all future ds106ers! I remember back to my first week in the course and watching/reading advise from DS106 alums! So crazy!!
This semester has flown, I’ve learned so much from this class and feel that …
Whew! The final story is posted! I really enjoyed creating all the media for this project. So here’s a post for you to refer to for all the media used in this project!
A-Z Collage (3 stars)- Kate’s royal baby name collage. Storytelling within the web (5 stars)-…
The final project is here! Hope you enjoy! I’ve written this like you are reading bits and pieces from Kate’s private diary…
I’M PREGNANT!!!
Eek! I this is such wonderful news! William will be ecstatic and I know the rest of the royal family will be as well, even though …
Originally I was going to create a video of different people guessing what Kate’s baby as going to be and a possible name. But then I ran out of time
So I replaced it with another video assignment, “This is my story” (2 stars). I was trying to …
Only a couple more assignments to complete before the big reveal!
The next assignment for my final story is the Google Map Trip (2 stars). I don’t want to give to much away. But Kate and William do go to Nepal in the story. I’m not giving specifics. But just …
There’s no doubt that the Royal family needs to start prepping for their newest mini-Royal due in July. One necessary purchase will be a stroller. While the Royals are wealth beyond compare, it is no shock that they are also very practical people. Kate, herself, wears her outfits more than …
The Second component for my Final Project was to complete the 5 star assignment of Storytelling within the Web. You will see this assignment in another post as well because I am using it twice!
For this assignment though I wanted to make Kate’s Royal Baby Pinterest board. …
WooHoo! It’s final project time! Remember, I’m doing a story on Kate and William’s Royal Baby?? Well here is component number one!
An A-Z collage full of royal baby names. I tried to pick English names and there are all sorts of internet finds for guess of what the …
Well I’ve posted all the Remix assignments for the week, but I failed to actually describe what remix is.
This week we were asked to review some videos on remix and see some examples of it before starting our own work to get a better understanding of what remix means. …
Whew! This past couple weeks have been kinda crazy.
I have to saw that Remix was definitely not one of my favorite weeks. But thankfully I survived… now on to the final project.
But before I get going with that, let me recap my work for Remix week. I’ve been …
This semester we had two create two tutorials of DS106 assignments.
My first tutorial was of the Valentine’s day card we had to make during Visual/Photography week in February. You can read all the details and see the tutorial here.
The tutorial will teach you how to make this:…
In addition to two tutorials, we had to create two brand new assignments to share with DS106.
The first assignment I created is called “Dear sixteen year old, me“! I feel very official having a DS106 assignment out there with my name on it! Basically all you do …
Here is a quick tutorial on how to make my own assignment “It’s Vacation time“.
First you need to decide what vacation you want to make a video out of and gather all the pictures. I find it easiest to create a new folder on my desktop and …
While Mozilla Popcorn wins the prize for worst/hardest assignment ever in DS106 history, this project ranks pretty high on the challenging list of assignments.
We had to remix a picture (or remix someone else’s remix) of Cory Doctorow. He is a british science fiction author who works under with …
The title of this post really just scratches the surface of my feelings and emotions to the program, Mozilla Popcorn. We were given an assignment to Help Alan go on a Vacation. He created the video and left spaces between the clips for us to insert media.
(I plan …
To complete my 6 stars of mashup assignments this week, I decided to do the 2 star assignment “What Color is your world?”
In this assignment you had to take pictures of one specific color throughout your day. In addition, you needed to find a song with the …
One of the required assignments of remix week was to remix an existing DS106 assignment. To do this, you had to use the Remix Generator. The Generator picks and assignment and a “Remix Card,” but the assignment isn’t fully remixed until you press the BIG Remix it button. The …
This week we had to complete 6 stars worth of Mashup Assignments.
The first assignment I chose was “Growing up with Drew Barrymore.” It is a 4-star assignment and the purpose was to find a real actor/actress that has been in many movies over the course of their …
A couple weeks ago we were required to submit a few pieces of media that we had no used for a specific ds106 assignment. However, since this week is Remix week we were told to take these old media pieces and create a story out of them.
All the unused …
As you may or may not know (and if you don’t know, all I ask is WHY?) there is a Royal Baby on the way! Yes, William and Kate are having a baby! Now I don’t know about you, but I was definitely one of those crazy’s up at …
Wow only a few weeks left in the semester! Spring semester always flies by, if you ask me.
For the past two weeks we’ve been working on video. Well in all honesty, I started last Friday, so I’ve a week. We had to do quite a few projects. So I’ll …
Almost a month ago we had an assignment to make some Foley sounds for a section of the Charlie Chaplin video “A Lion’s Cage“. I was responsible for the section between 2:31-2:55. I made my sounds and (at the time) they matched up with the video just about …
So far I’ve completed 7 stars of Video Assignments. My next assignment is a BIG one, with 5 stars. I was a little nervous taking on a 5 star assignment, and while it was time consuming it wasn’t to terribly challenging.
My 5 star assignment was a “Return to …
I think we’ve all heard of YOLO before, right? If not, it means Live Your Own Life. It’s also the name of the next video assignment I made.
Y.O.L.O Is the Motto is a 2 star assignment where you take videos, pictures, music and put it all together to show …
The second assignment I planned out last week was the A Word…A Picture…A Story… You can read about my pre production plans here.
I was at the beach while I wrote up the assignment so I went with a beach themed story. I picked out pictures that I wanted …
You may remember this post from last week, where I shared my plans for two video assignments. Well here is the first one: Where are they now??
For this 2-star video assignment I chose the cast of the 1987 movie Dirty Dancing. I think we all finish that movie …
What a week! Reading that this week was what most DS106ers consider the most challenging week on DS106, made me a bit nervous. I did have a few moments of drama with deciding what to do and how to do it. But in the end, I felt like a survived, …
March 26th- Rewrite a Classic movie scene so that its plot is related to DS106.
I played off of the “Just keep Swimming” scene on Finding Nemo and came up with “Just keep Searching.” I cut a few minor parts out of the real scene …
