If I could give one piece of advice for future ds106 students, it would be: don’t be intimidated by technology! When I first signed up for this class and read the syllabus, I was so close to dropping the class because I was so afraid I wasn’t good enough at technology to succeed in the course. … Continue reading Advice for future students

I’m officially done with ds106! Here is my final website: http://storytellingshoes.kristinloconnell.com/blog/ This was a ton of fun to create. I got to use basically everything I’ve learned in this class and intertwined it to make a super cool website. I worked harder on these final aspects of this project than anything else in this class … Continue reading This is the end

I am almost done recording for my final video. It has been really hard to remember to record whenever I walk somewhere, but I think I will have enough to make a substantial video. I am going to a Christmas parade tomorrow night, so I should get some pretty cool footage then. I will be … Continue reading Final Project Update #3

I began taping for my final project video! I started on Saturday at a Virginia Tech football game, and I got footage of people walking, jumping during Enter Sandman, and other various shots. I am pretty excited about the video. I am planning on taking videos everyday until next Saturday and then I will compile … Continue reading Final Project Update #2

This week I just did some brainstorming on how I want to do my final project. Probably my favorite assignment I have done this semester was my “where my shoes take me” video: I wanted to create something along the lines of telling a story through various media using something such as my shoes…so maybe … Continue reading Final Project Update #1

Tutorial Mashup assignments: me mashup ; holiday mashup ; yonce mashup Remix assignments: best friend remix ; socks remix @ds106dc #tdc1769 #ds106 this is beauty pic.twitter.com/nzuZ7oAW9V — Kristin (@kristinoconnn) November 11, 2016 This week was good! I really enjoyed making the mashups and getting to reuse the stuff that I worked so hard on in the past. I also enjoyed making the tutorial, although … Continue reading Weekly Summary

This video was simply exquisite. Everything about it screamed new age creativity. From the iPhone quality videography to the rustling and voices in the background–you could tell that this assignment was so little thought out that it was cool. The lighting–incredible. The actors–phenomenal. Overall: 10/10 would recommend.   Remix assignment: http://remix.ds106.us/remixassignments/whats-your-opinion-on-remixed-stuffy-art-critic/

My first remix: This was pretty easy because I used a video I had made for a previous assignment, and I have reversed a video before so I knew how to do all of it. I think it’s funny mostly because of the song playing backwards, and the video at the end playing backwards. First … Continue reading My best friend REMIX

For my next assignment, I create a song mashup, but I changed the rules a bit. Instead of using 2 or 3 seconds of 5 songs, I used 10 seconds of 2 songs to make a mashup. I used 2 Beyonce songs to mash together. First, I imported the two songs into Audacity. Then I … Continue reading “If I were a single lady”

For my next assignment, I created a holiday mashup. My two favorite holidays are my birthday and Christmas, so I mashed the two up: To create this assignment, I used Photoshop. I downloaded the Santa Claus picture from pnglng.com, and then I added some birthday clipart throughout the picture. The process was pretty simple, and I … Continue reading Favorite Holidays

For my first mashup assignment, I mashed up my own audio assignments for 4.5 stars. To do so, I imported three of my past audio assignments into Audacity, and cut and pasted pieces of the three to tell a (nonsensical) story in one piece. Although it doesn’t make much sense, it sounds like someone telling … Continue reading Mashup of me

This week I’m going to show you all how to play a video in reverse on iMovie. It is very simple! First, import your video into iMovie. You can do this by going to “File” at the drop, then scroll over “Import” and click on “Movies…” Click on your video in import it. Once your … Continue reading Tutorial: playing a video in reverse in iMovie

This week was definitely better than last week! I am getting used to iMovie and am more comfortable making video assignments. I think I did a better job this week of using the assignments to tell stories, rather than just to get stars. Check out my work from this week: Assignments: Running in reverse Where … Continue reading Weekly Summary

For my last assignment, I chose a video to play in reverse. The funniest thing I could think of was to use a video of Usain Bolt running. He always wins races, but if he were to run in reverse he would lose. First I downloaded this video and inserted it into iMovie. Then I chose … Continue reading Usain Bolt losing a race!?

I created an assignment this week! I rated it 4 stars, but I am going to give myself 5 stars because I came up with it 😉 The goal was to tell a story using a video of only my shoes. I told the story of my morning, and it was a lot of fun. … Continue reading Where my shoes take me

The funniest thing to me is watching people fall, which is slightly messed up but that’s okay. I chose to remix a video of a girl being pushed off of a desk to edit. First I found the video on YouTube, then I downloaded it online onto my computer. I imported the video into iMovie, … Continue reading Falling in Slow Motion

This has been my least favorite week so far. I have never done any video editing, so everything made me really frustrated and I didn’t necessarily like it. Here are my assignments: Scene Analysis Video Montage Socks product review @ds106dc #tdc1755 #ds106 pic.twitter.com/ulqe8c1uDZ — Kristin (@kristinoconnn) October 28, 2016

For my last assignment, I recorded a product review on my cat. This assignment was pretty simple. I just recorded myself using my phone (next time I would turn it the other way…it bugs me) and ranted about the hatred of this cat that lives in my house. I then uploaded the clips into iMovie, sorted them, … Continue reading Review on my cat

For another assignment, I got some information about socks. My assignment was to interview people off guard about their opinions on a subject and record their reactions. I interviewed some friends tonight and recorded their reactions, and I was not disappointed. First, I recorded everyone I wanted to interview on my iPhone, I was surprised … Continue reading Opinions on Socks

For this assignment, I made a video montage of my Beagle, Jeter. I chose him because he has been my bestie for the last 9 years and he is really cute. Enjoy. To do this assignment, I first had to hunt for a bunch of pictures and videos of Jeter. That didn’t take long because … Continue reading My Best Friend Montage

As soon as I read the assignment description, I thought of this scene from We Are Marshall. It gets me every. single. time. After reading the articles and watching the “Every Frame a Painting” videos, it was easy to understand why this scene gets me so emotional. Every single angle in these scenes is purposeful … Continue reading We Are Marshall scene analysis

Another week is done! After the radio show it was nice to go back and reflect on stuff we have accomplished in 8 weeks. I am definitely learning a lot and becoming more creative. Here is what I have created this week: Radio Listen Best of ds106 Web Storytelling Connected Daily Creates Web Assignments: Target Way … Continue reading Weekly Summary

Craigslist is hilarious, and a little disturbing. Here is an ad I found in Blacksburg: (Side note: I pray no one answers this ad) So I chose to change “baby” to “dog,” because that’s a little less weird, right?? Here is the new ad: I would probably answer this ad. I really struggled with this … Continue reading “I want a baby” –> “I want a dog”

For my last assignment, I chose to use the way back time machine to look at the Target website in the past and today. It is listed as 2 stars, but I would say it’s worth 1 star because all you have to do is type the address in. The earliest I could find a good screenshot … Continue reading Target.com Waaaaaay Back

I used my 3 daily creates this week to tell a story–enjoy! @ds106dc #tdc1748 #ds106 my dream team forever pic.twitter.com/GK9LXY6Dzd — Kristin (@kristinoconnn) October 21, 2016 The dream team: Harry, Niall, Zayn, Liam, and Louis @ds106dc #tdc1746 the ink on the pebble varnished the pistachio in the rainy weather — Kristin (@kristinoconnn) October 19, 2016 … Continue reading Daily Creates

I chose to analyze the Internet Gene show. I thought this show was incredibly unique and creative. I love how they formatted the show like a panel, including positive and negative opinions about the gene. It sounded so real!! Not only was the show incredible, but the commercials and sound effects were on point as … Continue reading Listening to the internet gene

My all time favorite assignment anyone has ever done is Emily’s b-flat assignment. She took YMCA by the Village People and flattened it, and it is hysterical. I honestly enjoy it more than the normal version. She did a great job with this assignment, especially considering it was one of her first assignments ever for … Continue reading The Best of ds106

storify: kenya My next assignment was to create a storify using several social media sites. It was marked as 2.5 stars, but I would argue I used 3 stars of work due to the amount of time it took and how many photos and tweets I put in it. I chose to use my Twitter and … Continue reading the story of kenya using storify

My first assignment was worth 3.5 stars, but I am going to claim that I did 4 stars worth of work. I put quite a bit of time in this one! My job was to create a Facebook and Twitter for a person who was not around for the social media craze. I chose Alexander Hamilton, because … Continue reading If Alexander Hamilton had Facebook

This week was good! It was nice that we only really had to worry about finishing up our radio show, which went better than expected. You can read about the project more in depth here. The hardest part of this week was just kind of deciding where to start with the show, but once we planned … Continue reading Weekly Summary