Being Minimalistic

Being Minimalistic

by Keeping up with Kaitlyn

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February 19, 2013

Here is my second design assignment for the week! This one is a 3-star Minimalist TV/Movie Poster. All you need to do is pick a movie/TV show and then create a poster that “captures the essence of the story.” For … Continue reading →
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Can you guess?

by Keeping up with Kaitlyn

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February 19, 2013

We are on to design week, this week. And I’m ready to show you my first assignment! This is a required 2-star assignment called “One Story/4 icons.” Basically you need to get 4 icons that describe the movie/story/event you are … Continue reading →
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Weekly Wrap-up

by Keeping up with Kaitlyn

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February 16, 2013

This week was my favorite so far, I really loved all the assignments we had. Radio Show We had to form our radio show groups for our impending project. I’m really excited for my group. Here are my group-mates: Kelsie, … Continue reading →
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Best of…

by Keeping up with Kaitlyn

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February 16, 2013

Best of…, a set on Flickr. Here is a set of pictures that I feel are the best I have. Most of these have been edited or created from scratch, but I picked these because I put a lot of … Continue reading →
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Improving your photography

by Keeping up with Kaitlyn

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February 16, 2013

I really love taking pictures, and I have a fancy “paparazzi” camera (Nikon D3100) but I honestly don’t know how to really use it. So I really loved reading these tips from David duChemin. To work on my photography, I … Continue reading →
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TDC’s Week 5

by Keeping up with Kaitlyn

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February 16, 2013

Monday: Take a photo of someone other than you using your favorite type of technology. This is a picture of my Dolphin pillow pet -Sandy. I used my iPhone to take the picture, which is my favorite type of technology. I’ve … Continue reading →
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Photoblitzing

by Keeping up with Kaitlyn

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February 16, 2013

Definition of Photoblizing- taking photos (with a specific topic) in 20 minutes. Ready.Set.GO. A feeling of “openness.” Two items that don’t go together. A toaster and hairspray=a fire Something at an unusual angle (looking up at lanterns) Something that’s is … Continue reading →
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A-Z Photo Collage ~African Savanna Animals

by Keeping up with Kaitlyn

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February 14, 2013

*Happy Valentine’s Day to everyone!* Today I am sharing with you a really fun, but challenging for me, assignment. This is a 3-star A-Z Photo Collage. The purpose of the assignment is to pick a theme- I went with African … Continue reading →
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I’m on a roll

by Keeping up with Kaitlyn

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February 12, 2013

Here is my third post and visual assignment for the day! I can’t help it! I am loving Visual week SO MUCH! These assignments are too fun!! I decided for my next assignment I would choose a random one, since … Continue reading →
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Did you know I was in a Band?

by Keeping up with Kaitlyn

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February 12, 2013

Yeh, me neither! I’m really not in a band (I have ZERO music abilities) but for this 2-star ds106 assignment I got to pretend I was in one! This was a really fun assignment and I laughed so much while … Continue reading →
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Splish Splash Color

by Keeping up with Kaitlyn

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February 12, 2013

Update: After a wonderful comment from Mr. Andrew Forgrave on trying to zoom in on my pictures in the app, I am uploading edited photos plus two more (I couldn’t help myself!) Why I didn’t think to zoom in on … Continue reading →
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Getting Cheesy up in here + a tutorial

by Keeping up with Kaitlyn

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February 11, 2013

It’s another new week of DS106! This week is about visuals and photography. This week we start choosing our own assignments from the assignment bank. However, before delving into that, the whole class is starting off doing captions for Postcards … Continue reading →
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Check, Check and Check – Week 4 Summary

by Keeping up with Kaitlyn

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February 10, 2013

When I read the assignments for this week, I became a little nervous. I’ve never really done anything audio related before. However, this week turned out to be really fun and a pleasant experience! Audio Storytelling After watching two videos from … Continue reading →
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ds106 Radio

by Keeping up with Kaitlyn

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February 10, 2013

I tried on and off all week to try to catch ds106 radio in a live broadcast, but it seemed like I could never listen when it was live. I started listening to it around 1:05pm. I took a picture … Continue reading →
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Dilly Dally Daily

by Keeping up with Kaitlyn

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February 9, 2013

Daily Creates for the Week: Wednesday’s: Retitle a movie poster to make it more accurate I adore Pride and Prejudice! But I feel like after (most) girls watch this movie they all want to find their own Mr. Darcy and … Continue reading →
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A Sound only Story

by Keeping up with Kaitlyn

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February 8, 2013

EEK! I’m literally about to jump up and down over this assignment, I’m just SO EXCITED!! Honestly, when I read through this weeks work I was dreading this assignment. I thought it was going to be TERRIBLE. But it turned … Continue reading →
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Doppelgänger- This American Life

by Keeping up with Kaitlyn

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February 8, 2013

SOOOOOOO. I don’t even know where to begin with this post. Well first off if you don’t know what a Doppelgänger is then let me enlighten you: A ghostly counterpart to a living person (according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary). When … Continue reading →
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Audio Storytelling Nuggets

by Keeping up with Kaitlyn

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February 8, 2013

I’ve skipped a bit ahead of myself, because before I discussed audio Storytelling on the blog and what it encompasses I made a Radio Bumper! And I’m so excited about the feedback I’ve gotten on it. I thought it was … Continue reading →
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Bump Bump Bump[er] it up

by Keeping up with Kaitlyn

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February 7, 2013

After gaining several grey hairs last night from this assignment, I have officially made my first DS106 Radio Bumper! This week is all about audio storytelling and one of our assignments was to create a Radio Bumper. It was suggested … Continue reading →
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My own daily creates

by Keeping up with Kaitlyn

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February 3, 2013

So we get to make out own daily creates! Get excited! When trying to think of what I’d like to come up with, I knew I needed something that would (hopefully) appeal to a wide audience. I think one of … Continue reading →
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Sum it up

by Keeping up with Kaitlyn

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February 3, 2013

What a week. When I first clicked on the link to see this week’s assignments I was thinking, wow this is a ton to do! But while I was completely the tasks I never felt overwhelmed and I didn’t find … Continue reading →
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On the Daily

by Keeping up with Kaitlyn

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February 3, 2013

This week we had to complete 3 daily creates My first daily create was on Monday. The prompt was to create the Blue Screen of Death using type only. The second daily create I completed was on Wednesday. It was … Continue reading →
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A Story Sandwich

by Keeping up with Kaitlyn
February 1, 2013

Happy Friday Y’all! Tonight I am wrapping up another assignment for the week. This time it’s about picking two photos from the Daily Create photography assignments and creating a story between the first and second photo, like a story sandwich … Continue reading →
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Looking at the Past

by Keeping up with Kaitlyn

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January 31, 2013

One of the really neat things about ds106 is the ability to look at past “ds106ers” work (thanks to blogland) and to see their creativity come out through their work. This week current ds106ers are to look at two digital … Continue reading →
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The Shape of a Story

by Keeping up with Kaitlyn
January 31, 2013

This week we had the task of watching a video on Kurt Vonnegut’s approach to storytelling. From his video and looking at Maya Eilam’s infographic- I decided to go with the “Boy meets Girl” approach, except in the movie I chose it … Continue reading →
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The meaning of storytelling

by Keeping up with Kaitlyn

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January 30, 2013

The word storytelling brings a lot of thoughts to my mind. First, when I think of the word “storytelling” I flash back to 4-5 year old me and my great grandma “gran” and asking her to tell me about the … Continue reading →
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A-ttention: Bootcamp is Over

by Keeping up with Kaitlyn
January 26, 2013

Done.Dun. Dunzo. We are ds106 bootcamp graduates For the 2nd week of Bootcamp we had many tasks. 1. Setup an email address for our blog and to make sure it forwarded on to another address. My email address is [email protected] … Continue reading →
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Let the Gif[ing] begin

by Keeping up with Kaitlyn

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January 26, 2013

I’m going to be honest from the start and say that I had no idea what a gif was. Well, after googling it, I realized what it was, but I didn’t realize that’s what those things were called. Am I … Continue reading →
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The Daily Duo

by Keeping up with Kaitlyn

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January 26, 2013

So I’m going to admit that my week didn’t start until Wednesday this past week and so I got a little behind on the daily creates :/ No worries though, I don’t have anymore long weekends in sight and I … Continue reading →
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Let’s take a moment to Reflect

by Keeping up with Kaitlyn

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January 18, 2013

We did it! We all survived the first week of bootcamp and ds106! YAY. So far I am really enjoying the class and I am excited to see what we will be doing in the coming weeks. Let me just say that some of you have some crazy awesome video making skills (shoutout to Amber ...
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