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Week 11 Summary

by @lucyschraff
March 28, 2022

This week, we focused more on AI and did our third session of peer teaching.

On Monday, we created AI-generated versions of classic literature. For this, I used Dracula text and Frankenstein and created a mesh of the two.
https://discord.com/channels/929855040741593109/955435501358305290/955538854666981498
My favorite thing that we have done with AI is …
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Week 10 Summary

by @lucyschraff
March 20, 2022

This week, we continued our discussion of AI, applied it more to ethics, and analyzed the way that AI can create various things.

On Monday, we spent the majority of the class discussing the railroad game. In this game, you would pick whether or not you wanted to save/kill different …
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Week 9 Summary

by @lucyschraff
March 20, 2022

This week in class, we focused a lot on Artificial Intelligence. I find this subject really interesting because I think it is really impressive how innovative AI tech has become in recent years. Still, a part of me also wonders (and worries a bit) about the limits and ethics of …
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Week 7 Summary

by @lucyschraff
March 20, 2022

This week, we continued to learn more about python, and during Professor Whalen’s teaching day of this week, we talked specifically about defining and calling functions in python.

The rest of the two days were peer teaching days, I missed class on Wednesday due to a game, and submitted my …
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Week 6 Summary

by @lucyschraff
February 21, 2022

This week, we focused on thinking about the big project, and diving into a bit more programming.

One thing that stood out to me this week we read after class on Monday. I found the article “The Making of a Youtube Radical” really interesting because it applied algorithms (that we …
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Week 5 Summary

by @lucyschraff
February 20, 2022

In this week of DGST 395, I learned more about coding, specifically python. I was nervous to take on this week because before taking this course, I had no prior experience with coding. However, after learning the basics of HTML code, I have been feeling a little more comfortable.

On …
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DGST395 Week 4 Summary

by @lucyschraff
February 7, 2022

This week in DGST 395, my main focus was my retro HTML page.

When we first started working on HTML, I was pretty nervous because I have no previous coding experience. However, once we got into it I really started to enjoy the process of coding.

For my page, I …
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Applied Digital Studies Week 2 Summary

by @lucyschraff
January 30, 2022

This week in DGST 395, we focused on connections. Through the pre-work for class, classwork, and homework, I was able to acquire a better understanding of how connections apply to this course, and learn more about the metaverse in general.

Before class on Wednesday, I:
Read Cory Doctorow’s essay, “Science …
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Final Project: What is (UMW) Women’s Lacrosse? Telling this story…

by @lucyschraff
April 30, 2021

For my final project, I decided to take one of my interests, women’s lacrosse, and make it appealing to someone who knows nothing about the sport or has never seen the sport played. I am a member of the UMW Women’s Lacrosse team, and I love to share my sport …
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Final Project Week 1: My Sport Is Part of My Story

by @lucyschraff
April 26, 2021

For the first week of my final project, I spent the majority of time picking what project I was going to do and creating a detailed plan of all 3 media elements that I would use. I decided for my project, I would do in introduction to women’s lacrosse. Although …
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Week 12 Weekly Summary

by @lucyschraff
April 16, 2021

I really enjoyed Week #12 and the mashup/remix assignments, because I got to be creative on many different mediums.

To start out this week, I did three daily creates on Twitter.

A poem about painting. #tdc3378 #ds106 pic.twitter.com/wrjcF9Bu9v

— Lucy Schraff (@LucySchraff) April 12, 2021

2.

#tdc3380 #ds106 pic.twitter.com/CTkmIQCjTr

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A Haiku Poem About A Haiku Poem: Remix- Dr. Suess It

by @lucyschraff
April 16, 2021

For this remix assignment, I was challenged to write a haiku poem about a haiku poem (just like I did the first time I completed this assignment), but this time around, I needed to introduce a Dr. Suess character into my haiku. So here it goes:
A haiku haiku…
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Logo Switch Up/Remix – Happy Days

by @lucyschraff
April 16, 2021

The last time I did the Logo Switch Up assignment, I decided to add the Wawa logo onto a Huggies diaper ad. This time around, the Logo Switch Up Remix prompted me to do a logo switch up set in the 1950s (the era of Happy Days).

To create this …
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Disney Mashup: An Unusual Prince/Once Upon a Dream, A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes, and When You Wish Upon A Star

by @lucyschraff
April 16, 2021

For 4 stars of Mashup Assignments from the assignment bank, I did the Disney Mashup assignment. This assignment challenged me to take my favorite Disney songs and make them flow into one song.

To create this mashup piece, I used Garage Band, and cut out different segments of each …
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Movie Mashup: Mean Girls and High School Musical

by @lucyschraff
April 16, 2021

For 4.5 of my 8 stars of Mashup Assignments from the assignment bank, I chose to complete the Movie Mashup Assignment. The goal of this assignment was to think of one of your favorite movies, then think of a movie similar to it, and use those two movies to …
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Week 11 Summary

by @lucyschraff
April 9, 2021

This week, my focus was on creating my ~10 stars of video assignments. For these I created a lyric video for one of my favorite songs, Hold In, Hold On by Kid Bloom. I also created a What I Eat In A Day Video to show what I eat on …
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What I Eat In A Day

by @lucyschraff
April 9, 2021

For my second video assignment this week, I did a what I eat in a day video.

For this video, I recorded everything I ate this Wednesday, and compiled it into one video. I used iMovie to make this video.

First, I added all my clips into a new project …
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Lyric Video (Hold In, Hold On by Kid Bloom)

by @lucyschraff
April 9, 2021

For one of my Video Assignments from the assignment bak I decided to create a lyric video for the song Hold In, Hold On by Kid Bloom.

For this assignment, I used I movie to create it. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to add a a background to the video after …
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Final Project Ideas PT.2

by @lucyschraff
April 9, 2021

After reading other’s project ideas, my perspective on potential projects I could do is broadened. While video projects are definitely not my favorite, I think picking a topic that I am truly interested in will ensure that I put out my best work. Being passionate about the topic of your …
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Week 10 Summary

by @lucyschraff
April 2, 2021

This week was one of the first weeks in a while where I struggled with the work. It wasn’t an overload of work, and none of the required readings/videos were exceedingly confusing, but I am unfamiliar with creating videos, and I think that inhibited me from being my most creative …
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Game Of Thrones Video Essay *Season 1 Spoiler*

by @lucyschraff
April 2, 2021

For my video essay, I chose to analyze a scene from Game of Thrones (not that this is very surprising). For my scene analysis, I chose to use Ned Stark’s death scene. I chose this scene because it was very emotional, and I knew that I would be able to …
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From my POV

by @lucyschraff
April 2, 2021

If you’re on TikTok, you know that point of view videos have become pretty popular. When I saw this assignment, I thought it would be a good choice for one of my video Assignment Bank assignments for this week.

For my POV video, I decided to make a POV: …
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Compilation Video: Getting Ready for School

by @lucyschraff
April 2, 2021

For another of my video assignments this week, I decided to create a compilation video. I was super excited to make this video because I had a bunch of clips already complied from high school, where I would film my friend’s younger sister running out of the house to …
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Game Of Thrones “But” Edit *SPOILER ALERT*

by @lucyschraff
April 2, 2021

For one of my assignment bank video assignments this week, I chose to do a “But” edit, which is when you create an edit of a preexisting clip in which a certain part of the clip is replaced. For example, the description of this assignment used Lil Pump’s Gucci Gang …
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Week Nine Summary

by @lucyschraff
March 26, 2021

This week, I enjoyed listening to my classmates radio shows, remixing my old posts, and coming up with new ideas for a future project.

Aside from that, I did three daily creates this week. I connected these TDCs by relating them to memes, as you can see here.

This …
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Reflection on a Radio Broadcast

by @lucyschraff
March 26, 2021

One of my favorite things that I did for this class this week was listening to the radio shows that people created. After spending my last two weeks creating my show Un-University, I thought it was really cool to see how other people’s shows turned out and what they were …
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Haiku Poem… Revised

by @lucyschraff
March 26, 2021

For my second revision of a previously posted assignment, I decided to revise my assignment A Haiku Poem About A Haiku Poem (the title is pretty self explanatory).

Here is my original poem:
A Haiku Poem Five seven five seems easy But Haikus are hard. Haikus about cats Haikus about…
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What A Crappy Font Will Do: Revised

by @lucyschraff
March 26, 2021

For this revision/remix of a previously posted assignment, I decided to revise my post What A Crappy Font Will Do, which was based on this assignment bank post.

In my original post, I was challenged to remix a font of a familiar logo in order to change the …
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Week 9 Daily Creates

by @lucyschraff
March 26, 2021

This week, in order to connect my three daily creates into somewhat of a story, I chose to connect them with a common theme. For my three daily creates, I chose to connect theme by the theme of memes. Memes are something that are a great storytelling tool, because they …
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Future Project Ideas

by @lucyschraff
March 24, 2021

Coming in to the last two weeks working on the radio show group project, I was initially intimidated. It is out of my comfort zone to do group projects with people I don’t and to put my voice out there where all of my classmates can hear it. However, at …
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Syndicated Blog Posts by @lucyschraff

Week 11 Summary

Week 10 Summary

Week 9 Summary

Week 7 Summary

Week 6 Summary

Week 5 Summary

DGST395 Week 4 Summary

Applied Digital Studies Week 2 Summary

Final Project: What is (UMW) Women’s Lacrosse? Telling this story…

Final Project Week 1: My Sport Is Part of My Story

Week 12 Weekly Summary

A Haiku Poem About A Haiku Poem: Remix- Dr. Suess It

Logo Switch Up/Remix – Happy Days

Disney Mashup: An Unusual Prince/Once Upon a Dream, A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes, and When You Wish Upon A Star

Movie Mashup: Mean Girls and High School Musical

Week 11 Summary

What I Eat In A Day

Lyric Video (Hold In, Hold On by Kid Bloom)

Final Project Ideas PT.2

Week 10 Summary

Game Of Thrones Video Essay Season 1 Spoiler

From my POV

Compilation Video: Getting Ready for School

Game Of Thrones “But” Edit SPOILER ALERT

Week Nine Summary

Reflection on a Radio Broadcast

Haiku Poem… Revised

What A Crappy Font Will Do: Revised

Week 9 Daily Creates

Future Project Ideas

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