Well, this has been an exciting week to say the least. Pluto and Bailey go missing and Sasha, Sarah, and I had to fling ourselves into the 21st century to find them. When we arrived in this current time, we found a note left by Sarah’s cat Bailey left us a note explaining that he … Continue reading Final Sleuth Update and DS106 Blog Post

This tutorial is for the 3D Magazine Collage design assignment in the DS106 Assignment Bank. This tutorial only shows the steps I took when making the sculpture What You Need: -magazines/newspapers, preferably about something that interests you -scissors -glue/Mod Podge (tape, if needed) -something to use as a base for your sculpture ex: paper mache, construction … Continue reading Collage-Constructing Tutorial

In this post, I’ve included the assignment descriptions for two assignments that I have created on the DS106 Assignment Bank website. Both ended up being design assignments, mostly because those have been my favorite assignments to work on. 3D Magazine Collage Take some of your old magazines and newspapers and create a 2D or 3D collage/sculpture … Continue reading Ideas and Collages

After thinking of ideas for a while, I came up with these guidelines for possible Daily Creates to be implemented on the tdc site in the future. I wanted to create Daily Create ideas in more than one category and hopefully I’ve made them so that they can be completed in 20 minutes or less. … Continue reading Creating Daily Creates!

I felt very accomplished this week, especially since the Steadfast Sleuths were able to solve the “You Don’t Know Jack” case. Our case meeting in the middle of the week was particularly enjoyable and our altercation with Shannon Mills was edited particularly well by the persons documenting our cases. Finding Matthew was by far my … Continue reading Matthew/Jack Case Closed!

The second half of this week has been exhausting, fulfilling and exciting, but tiring none the less. On Wednesday, the three Steadfast Sleuths met up to discuss what had happened the previous week such as Sarah’s poisoning and noir-y’s disappearance as well as the news concerning Shannon Mills’ escape from prison. After our meeting, we … Continue reading Two Cases, Two Personalities

We just found out that Shannon Mills has escaped from prison! The prison guards didn’t realize she was gone for over a week, probably due to the fact that one of the officers helped her in her escape. Sarah and I are worried that she’ll target Sasha again. Hopefully we’ll be able to solve the … Continue reading Mills Escaped!

Finding clues for this week, creating blog posts on the Steadfast Sleuths blog site, and posting case updates on this site have been quite useful ways of spending my time and good ways of organizing the Steadfast Sleuths’ information regarding our current case. I helped with the process of creating the SS blog posts with … Continue reading It’s All Coming Together

After finding the message in the ITCC earlier this week, Sarah, Sasha, and I went to the Multicultural Fair in order to locate Jack. While we did enjoy the performances and vendors at the fair, our main objective was locating and learning more about Jack. We saw Black during our investigation, so we figured that … Continue reading Sleuthing at the Fair! (Case Update #2)

Tonight was the first night that the Steadfast Sleuths have been able to meet up because Sarah has been poisoned! Sasha, Sarah, and I went out to dinner Saturday evening in Los Angeles. Sarah and I ordered the restaurant’s special while Sasha ordered a salmon salad. Our specials each came with brussel sprouts as a … Continue reading Who is Jack? (Case Update #1)

This week contained a majority of online assignments or web-based assignments and I enjoyed being able to expand my knowledge through learning how to embed word documents and how to edit the colors and visual effects of an image in Powerpoint. The only thing that gave me trouble this week was attempting to figure out … Continue reading The Blogging Sleuths

This post contains my, Shelley Layton’s, current job resume for the purpose of fulfilling the requirements of the Character Resume Web Assignment and when I happened upon the assignment I realized that I needed to update my resume anyway due to my moving to San Francisco and becoming a part of the Steadfast Sleuths. I … Continue reading My Resume

For the 10 Seconds of Thanks Visual Assignment, I thought of what I was thankful for in my daily life personally and in business. I wrote what I am thankful for directly into this post and also posted a photograph of a 10 second pen drawing of me. This assignment made me realize what I … Continue reading I’m Thankful

For the Dream Vacation on Pinterest Web Assignment, I created a Pinterest board through Kayleigh’s Pinterest account detailing my dream vacation that I eventually would like to take to Japan. I first became interested in Japanese culture as I was learning the Japanese language during my time as a student at the University of London. Then when … Continue reading My Dream Trip

For the Patent Pending Visual Assignment, I felt that I would hang some old patent drawings of pocket watches on my walls at my home or in the Steadfast Sleuths office. I found the pocket watch and stopwatch images through a Google image search and used the photo-editing elements of Powerpoint to make the patents … Continue reading Watch Patents

Since the NoirCat originally appeared on Maggie Black’s computer, it seemed appropriate that her birthday card contained cats to some extent, including a cat pun. I found this black cat alphabet online and edited the card within the Powerpoint program. The cats remind me of my cat Pluto, maybe I’ll use the font for more … Continue reading Happy Birthday Miss Black

For the Save Noddy! Daily Create, I decided to show where I would take Noddy after removing him from the garbage. I’m pretty familiar with Noddy as a television character since I spent most of my childhood in England and I find him to be a charming fictional character for children. I took Noddy to … Continue reading Noddy in the Garbage!

Hello, this is Shelley Layton. I guess I’m in charge of the weekly summaries for ds106 as well. My first week being immersed in ds106 has been a great experience. The assignments this week were manageable while balancing my work load in the Steadfast Sleuths. Getting used to using a computer for my assignments was my … Continue reading The Second Adventure of the Steadfast Sleuths

The instructors of ds106 found it to be important to individually interview each member of noir106. I sat down with them today for a casual interview about myself. I feel that the interview went well and that I’ve learned more about the purpose and inner workings of ds106. A few of the questions were strange, … Continue reading Interviewing Shelley Layton

This blog post is about the Daily Create Your Own Words of Wisdom Inspirational Poster and I came up with this quote on the spot and I believe in it completely. What one person may think of as their limits, another may see that person as having untapped potential and limitless possibilities. I believe it … Continue reading Room to Grow

I don’t know too much about Batman, so I decided to incorporate an recurring noir106 character into the ’15 second Batman’ Daily Create. NoirCat has taken up the mantle of Batman in this quick drawing, and the cat is quite serious about completing its duties as a hero. I consider myself to be adequate in … Continue reading NoirCat Batman!

I was told by Kayleigh that a weekly assignment for this ‘ds106′ is Daily Creates, so my first Daily Create is the Breakfast Selfie, which was basically photographing what I ate for breakfast. I normally have a light breakfast of whatever fruit I have at home, toast with jam, and a cup of hot tea. … Continue reading My First Daily Create

This week, Sasha Kellogg, Sarah Mustard, and I have  decided to keep collaborating for at least a bit longer as The Steadfast Sleuths to help the citizens of California and beyond. I hope that this agency will last for a while, but I know we all like to move around and can’t stay in one … Continue reading The Agency of The Steadfast Sleuths

Sorry for putting all of the progress in one report, but this week has been pretty busy with the Steadfast Sleuths being called up for more cases since the Shannon Mills case. Apparently, someone decided to follow us on one of our cases and record it, not very professional, but Sasha convinced us into giving … Continue reading Busy, Busy Week

I feel that I completed these assignments to the best of my ability. I enjoyed working in my radio show group again this week to begin creating our video for the Steadfast Sleuths. The daily creates are always fun assignments every week and listening to the rest of the class’ radio shows were fun to … Continue reading The Beginning of Video and The Steadfast Sleuths Episode!

Uploading this video has been very, very frustrating. I was going to record my voice over the video at first, but then my computer tells me that my recording device isn’t working for some reason, so I added text to the video instead and kept the scene’s background music. Then, when I uploaded the video … Continue reading Kiss Me Deadly Analyzed!

Our radio show group decided to team up again for this video project on Monday. We started throwing around different plot ideas for the show on Monday and Tuesday, but Wednesday was the day where we worked out the plot, different scenes, and locations where we can shoot the video. We then split up the … Continue reading The Sleuths Are Now On Screen!

The Steadfast Sleuths are back together for their second case. Whose body was found in Sasha Kellogg’s apartment? What new adventure awaits the trio in the second installment of the Steadfast Sleuths?! Find out next Sunday as our group compiles the footage from their latest case. I found the background music “confused piano” on freesound … Continue reading Steadfast Sleuths Episode Trailer!!

It felt weird to hear my voice being broadcast on ds106 radio, but also pretty exciting! I’m really happy with how the Steadfast Sleuths ended up sounding on the radio and thought it was funny when our night of radio shows became known as the ‘noir cat night’ because of cats being present in all three … Continue reading The End of Radio Sleuths

This week I listened in and tweeted about the “Dinner Party at 6″ radio show broadcast on Thursday. I was really excited when I found out it was based on the movie Clue, which is one of my favorite films. The sound effects used in the dining room sequence, including the silverware and the thunderstorm … Continue reading Clue Party