As the final piece of my “Do These, Danny Keys” story project, I opted to make a map that shows all of the possibilities within the story. Each large dot is a section, each green one is a choice you can make within the story, and each orange dot is one of the assignments I … Continue reading Story Map for Do These, Danny Keys! →

As my semester in this class winds down, I think it’s important to go back and reflect. My experience in DS106 was incredibly fun, although I definitely could have done some things differently. You can learn a lot in this class, so long as you take the time to sit down and prepare for each week … Continue reading Dear Future DS106ers… →

Danny Keys tells us what his plans are in “Do These, Danny Keys,” but if you haven’t gotten the chance to ask him there, he’ll tell you here! This was prompted by this assignment, worth 3 stars. Where will I be in five years? Here, hopefully. I love this town, moreso than any others I’ve … Continue reading Five Years From Now →

What would Danny Keys do in an alternate life? You might have asked him when playing the game “Do These, Danny Keys,” but if you didn’t, he’ll tell you here. This was made based on this assignment, worth 3 stars. That’s a tough one, honestly. I like myself pretty well. Although… if there was one … Continue reading An Alternate Life →

MY FINAL PROJECT IS HERE! WOO! This was a really great project to finish the semester off with, and I have a couple more components to add in, but hopefully everyone enjoys! Please give it a look and let me know what you think! Since this is my last project, and I want to fully … Continue reading Do These, Danny Keys! The Final Project →

I spent a good chunk of this weekend writing like mad, but I sat down and got some audio work done, as well. I was really excited to put together some more sound clips (since that has definitely been my favorite thing to do so far this semester), and I have officially completed that portion … Continue reading Making Progress in Sound →

I’ll be honest, I got a little more excited than I should have to see this. When I found out that Kris had updated his Western106 Buzzfeed quiz, I immediately went in search of Danny to see if he made the cut. And he did! It took me no time to answer the questions as … Continue reading YOU GOT DANNY KEYS →

Outside of planning, advertising, and commenting on others’ ideas, I have done three presentations and written two papers — one two pages long and the other ten. Needless to say, I have not completed the entirety of this final project in this week alone. Luckily, finals week comes with the warm fuzzy feeling of an … Continue reading This Week’s Progress →

Here it is, the first part of the final project! So far I’ve spent this week brainstorming ideas, picking out assignments to help guide my story, and writing out the basic plot. My goal for this story is to make it interactive, and since it relates to my character, I decided to let him tell it. … Continue reading Do These, Danny Keys! →

After receiving the instructions for our final project (and getting some other final projects out of the way), I started thinking about ways to tell a good, multimedia story based around my character. At first, I had no idea where to start aside from looking through the various assignments we could draw from. Then I … Continue reading I Have an Idea! →

This week was a very busy week for me, so I definitely didn’t space out my assignments like I would have liked to. I kept up with the Daily Creates, though, so I do have that! We did web design this week, which was very new to me but a lot more fun than I … Continue reading Web Worldwide: Week 13 →

For this assignment, I had to create a multi-level story using the website Inklewriter. This story is about you, the new sheriff in the town of Baddon, a place so tough they had to call you in from miles away. What’s going to happen, now that you’re here? You’ll have to play to find out! … Continue reading You’re the New Sheriff →

This assignment asked that  you take some story or situation and create a map for everyone involved. I decided to take this opportunity to map out a book that I had to read for my American Realism class called The Marrow of Tradition. It’s a really good book, and I highly recommend anyone read it if … Continue reading Mapping Stories →

This week, we had to do three Daily Creates and then combine them into a story. I ended up doing four (mostly because I really like taking pictures of trees), but this turned out okay considering my first would have been much harder to work into a story. In the streets of Figueira, Portugal, a … Continue reading The Story of the Hour: Daily Create Week 13 →

For this assignment, in which we take a website and change its content into a story. I decided to make an “honest grades” page, since the semester is coming to a close and looking at this page is increasingly more vital to surviving. Those assignments on the right bar just know I’ve been putting things … Continue reading Honest Grades →

This assignment called for a map of a journey that one might take, personal, historical, or ideal. I decided to make it into a personal history of my family (or, more specifically, my mom). Here’s the actual map, but I couldn’t really figure out how to share a whole road trip, so hopefully at least … Continue reading Are we there yet? →

This week was busy, but fun! I enjoyed putting together all of my mashup assignments and remixing some old ideas into new ones. And honestly, I really enjoyed putting together my tutorial. I like making things that could be potentially useful to others, and it gave me a chance to remake something that I had … Continue reading Mashup Time: Week 12 →

These are my dear friends hanging out in the Amphitheater during the first big snow on campus. My roommate Sophia was trying to take pictures of the snow/water on Emma’s glasses, and I was taking pictures of them. Claire joined in for one of the best series of photos I have ever collected. This one … Continue reading Emoji Friends →

This week we only had to do two Daily Creates, so I had to try to express something through emojis and then design something to the power of 4. I’m a little worn out with photo editing, so I tried to make something myself and, well, what’s done is done. Enjoy! ☎👻🚫 @ds106dc #tdc1549 — Lindsey … Continue reading Graphic Design is not my passion: Daily Create Week 12 →

This assignment called for subtly mashing together two iconic movie scenes into one image. In order to accomplish this, I took this pileup scene from the Blues Brothers and added in a little Terminator. He’s looking out of one of the upside down cars, biding his time… I had a bit of a hard time … Continue reading Something’s Different… →

I created this diptych as a means of remixing an assignment which has you change the color/hue of a photo to make it look surreal. The remix I got for this assignment was “Media Bender:” “Change up the media for the original assignment- take a video assignment into audio or design.” I chose this assignment because … Continue reading Seaside Diptych →

For one of my remixes, I got the prompt “Where’s Waldo? It” on my Dusty Dawn image’s assignment in which I put a scene in someone’s eye. “For this remix assignment, you want to place Waldo somewhere conspicuous in a Visual or Design Assignment or slip his name quickly into an audio assignment. If you … Continue reading Do You See Waldo →

This pixel assignment was quite possibly one of the funnest assignments I have done for this class. It was one of the first, too! While it was fun, though, it did require some odd little tricks to make it work. So, here’s a tutorial on how to make a 16×16 pixel image! My own assignment … Continue reading Pixel Character Tutorial →

For this assignment, I mashed together five songs into a 10 second slot. The real challenge is for you guys to name all of the songs (and artists)! Some of them should be pretty easy, but let’s see if you can get all of them! This project was a lot of fun to make. I … Continue reading Name These Songs →

I created this video in accordance with this assignment, which calls for you to take the audio of a film and put it over a video clip of a different movie while somehow relating them. I decided to put a little twist on this mashup by incorporating my character into this assignment. I took my radio … Continue reading Big Lessons →

This week my group got together and finished our video show “College is a Rodeo”. It took a lot of effort and many hours, but it’s finally done! It shows what our characters would do if they went to college here at UMW. Here’s the final cut: You can check out our progress through my video … Continue reading Filming, Editing, Uploading, Oh My: Week 11 →

After many hours of shooting, editing, and uploading, we finally have the finished video available for everyone’s viewing pleasure! Please enjoy! I want to thank my group for getting all of this together in such a timely manner. We did an excellent job, and minus a couple hiccups here and there, it turned out splendid. … Continue reading College is a Rodeo: The Final Product →

Tonight Tierra and I sat down to edit together the final parts of the video. Three hours later, we’re finally in the uploading stage. The video turned out really well, minus some little sound errors thanks to my portion. We got together in the tech center and used iMovie to compile all of the audio … Continue reading And… Cut! Progress on “College is a Rodeo” →

This week, I had to define March Madness, invent a Wile E. Coyote trap, and create a surreal scene out of Monument Valley.

The first half of this week was dedicated to shooting videos in order to use them as footage for our show. The show itself is a vlog-style interpretation of how our characters would interact with going to college, so making the videos was about incorporating campus life. After writing my script, I spent a lot … Continue reading College is a Rodeo: In the Making →