Another Biscuit Story!
I know that I have done alot of posts about my dog, Biscuit, but can you blame me? She is too cute not to talk about!
I told a quick story about her on my soundcloud for the “Tell a Story” assignment. Enjoy!…
I know that I have done alot of posts about my dog, Biscuit, but can you blame me? She is too cute not to talk about!
I told a quick story about her on my soundcloud for the “Tell a Story” assignment. Enjoy!…
I wanted to create a somewhat scary story for my sound. Here it is:
Imagine you are just getting home from work on a rainy spring day. The birds are chirping, but the thunder and rain have made it very dark outside. You open your creaky door and notice a …
I’m really excited to make a radio show! I think our theme is very broad so there can be a lot of paths one could take with it. One idea could be an interview of group members to talk about “their story/experience” with COVID and ways of coping (in terms …
“Take a sad song, and make it better”
BackgroundFor the “Cover it Up” assignment I was challenged to make a cover of a song! I have been recently learning “Hey Jude” by the Beatles on piano. I love the Beatles! They were my most listened to artists on Spotify …
The moon graffiti podcast story was really interesting and I was captivated by it. The audio editing was really good and the sounds created a great story. For example, the mood in the beginning of the story is desperate and frantic. At times Buzz and Niel are interrupting each other. …
I decided that the “Tongue Twister” assignment looked fun so I gave it a shot!
I found a list of tongue twisters online and picked the “Peter Piper” tongue twister:
“Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked, If Peter Piper picked …
You know the morning announcement scene in Grease?
If not take a look:
The xylophone tune for the morning announcements inspired my radio bumper for the ds106 radio show!
Sadly, I don’t own an xylophone so I used my uke instead!
Hope you like it!…
Well week 4 was one of my busiest weeks yet! I took a different approach to this class than I usually do this week because of the visual assignments aspect. This weekend I looked over and planned for the assignments I would do. Then, at the beginning of the week …
I saw the “Time of Day” (3.5 stars) assignment and thought that it would be a cool thing to try out. I love taking pictures of the woods in my backyard and love how the sun moves throughout the day and creates shadows on the trees.
I took these pictures …
For the “Pop Star out of Place” (3.5 stars) I had fun editing my favorite celebrities in locations on campus!
I am a big fan of Harry Styles and Timothée Chalamet and I think they would really enjoy dining at UMW. In these pictures you can see Harry grabbing some …
Connecting to the theme of my story I thought I would complete the “Create a Silly Movie Poster” visual assignment (3.5 stars) because I love movies (especially old movies). During quarantine one of my favorite things to do is watch old movies with my family. I love Casablanca, Notorious…
My family must have thought I was crazy- frantically running around the house taking photos. I managed to take all of the photos assigned to me in the “Photoblitz” assignment. I took the picutures and edited some afterwards. It was hard to get mindful pictures in 20 minutes but I …
This week I had a lot of fun tweeting visual daily creates!This week I had a lot of fun tweeting visual daily creates!
My favorite daily create-tweet involved altering a famous painting. I decided to alter “Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” by Georges Seurat. This painting …
Here are some examples of some mindful photos I have taken. I took photography all through high school and completed an AP portfolio and independent study. My portfolio theme focused on macro photography of nature, the first two photos were included in my final portfolio. I also enjoy …
When I saw the “Your love for your pet” assignment I knew I had to make a collage of my dog, Biscuit.
It should be evident that I love my dog through my many posts about her. Biscuit is a yellow lab rescue who is 11 years old! My …
I take photos almost everyday. I take quick pictures on snapchat that are usually quick selfies or pictures of my dog that I send to my friends.
I also like taking pictures of nature and I have recently gotten into shooting photos on 35 millimeter film. My dad is a …
Wow! Another jam packed week down! This week I enhanced my creative writing skills by completing four assignments from the writing assignment bank and daily create assignments. I also helped build the digital ds106 community by commenting and responding to other’s work.
Writing AssignmentsAfter watching the videos (the …
This week I had a lot of fun tweeting daily creates!
On Monday, I took a picture from my window which was framed with tons of icicles! I took it because the sunrise was so pretty with no intention to post, then when I saw that the daily create …
“In an old house in Paris that was covered in vines” is the first line to the children’s book “Madeline” by Ludwig Bemelmans. I decided to write my story analysis post on the story because I share the same name with the title character! (As you may have seen through …
I chose to do the “Nonhuman Perspectives” assignment because of my dog Biscuit. I always want to know what’s going on in her head, so why not make it up?
The title “Biscuit stays at home” is a play on the popular children’s book ‘Biscuit..” by Alyssa Capucilli. …
I love love love going to concerts! For the “Tell it, tweet it” assignment I would like to briefly tell the story of how I went to two Jonas Brothers concerts almost exactly 9 years apart.
On August 14th, 2010, I was sitting in the stands of Hershey Park stadium, …
Please read this ficitional story via iMessage by Rosemary and I. We saw the “Sharing Credit” assignment and were inspired! The story is a weird situation where my character thinks that Rosemary might have killed the ficitonal character Captain Hook ( from ABC’s Once Upon A Time). We …
The perfect combo: cheese and tomato.
What food comes to mind when you hear these two ingredients? Pizza? Pasta? Perhaps a calzone?
The options are limitless because this ingredient combination might be the best of all time.
Today for lunch, I had Panera’s grilled cheese and tomato soup.
I taste …
A week full of creating and commenting! This week I have made many changes in terms of my participation and blogging style this week. Overall, I think the changes I have made have helped me build a sense of community within this online class.
After reading the week one wrap …
I received a comment from AJ Storm on my post “ A snow day(dream) : a story in five photos”. You can read the comment on my post, it was really interesting because of the connection to a news story in West Virgina. The story was called “Forget Virtual …
Last week I posted about my original thoughts for the class theme of “What’s y(our) story?”. After reading my classmates ideas, and the wrap up post I would like to continue with the idea of stories during quarantine. This is such significant time we are living in and I think …
This week I followed the ds106 Daily create account on Twitter and participated in four daily create posts.
On Saturday I participated in a collaborative poetry assignment by Wendy Taleo. The idea of the assignment was to work on a google doc and add one line of poetry in …
For the video assignment I chose “A Day In The Life” which is 3 stars. The assignment explained the popularity of “a second everyday” videos (Which I actually have been doing since the new year started!). I really like doing a video diary of just a couple seconds because it …
For 3.5 stars I decided to complete the “Five Frame Story” assignment. I love taking pictures (and I do so a lot) so I wanted to be more creative and try to tell my story through pictures.
This week we had a snowstorm! Yay! I love snow, making snowmen, having …
Por favor adivinar la leyenda (please guess the legend).
As a Spanish major, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to tell a famous spanish legend through gif for the “Guess The Story” web assignment. This will be a tricky one however don’t be discouraged and please stay tuned for my …