There’s not much to put in this summary other than my final project and the ds106 advise. Both are fairly self explanatory in their posts, so I’ll let you enjoy them.   FINAL PROJECT Advice for future agents Thank you everyone for a great semester! Please don’t use any of the assignments from this semester …

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This was my first and only online class I have ever taken or will ever take. While I did enjoy my time, it wasn’t the experience I was necessarily looking for. To learn a lot in this online class, you need to make sure you are self-motivated enough to put in the time to read …

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Last week, I chose the topic of uncovering the mystery of who the double agent in ds106 is. For my final project, I went through posts from one of our classmates’ blogs to examine material that would raise flags. I used a software called Slidestory to create my work, and I was very excited with …

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For my final project, I plan on going with Item 1: Something is wrong in ds106! We have had several reports that there is a double-agent in our midst. Quite likely there is more than one. We must find out who they are before it’s too late. This may involve looking for clues and gathering …

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Daily Creates: Saying ‘thank you’ to something in the internet in different languages, so naturally, I thanked Google Translate. @ds106dc #tdc1922 #ds106 we've all been there pic.twitter.com/q3CKGIBSYj — Chris Markham (@Markham_McFly) April 13, 2017 Daily create 2 Will always take opportunities to bash the Bee Movie @ds106dc #tdc1923 the message may not be BS, but …

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For my tutorial, I’m presenting how to use my go-to digital design platform; Canva. Dubbed “the poor man’s Photoshop” (by me), Canva has many useful features and is easily accessible because it is done on the internet rather than an application. After you go to Canva.com and login using Facebook or something, it’ll take you …

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In making this assignment, I learned more about Canva that I didn’t know about. I wasn’t aware I could crop and alter the transparency of images, which was exactly what I needed to do for this assignment. I took one of the most iconic spies of our generation, Carmen Cortez of Spy Kids, and superimposed …

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Below is a mashup of the James Bond and Pink Panther theme songs. I used the Youtbue doubler machine, which I had a lot of fun playing around with and will probably use more often. I wish I could clean it up a bit or add an ending time to each video, but the surface …

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Fitting the spy theme, I did a mashup of James Bonds for an assignment from the assignment bank. I used Photoshop and it was pretty simple. If you notice, I made a slight alteration to the text at the top.  

Daily Creates: “Huntsman spiders have evolved to travel through sewer lines and into homes” @ds106dc #tdc1914 nope nope nope nope nope pic.twitter.com/S1Gzu6vBAw — Chris Markham (@Markham_McFly) April 6, 2017 Fear, uncertainty and doubt are all culminated in grades, especially  this time of year. @ds106dc #tdc1915 the "what if score" function on Canvas drives more fear, …

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For this assignment bank activity, my roommate helped me reenact the famous bathroom scene from Psycho, however in our kitchen. We had a lot of fun with it, up until the knife accidentally grazed  his head and I ended the video. No injury was caused, but I was very much scared. Don’t play with knives, …

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For the movie project, my friends and I worked on an interview with a local Fredericksburg barber. This was used for a video project for The Blue & Gray Press, UMW’s student newspaper, as well. I figured out a way to get it to work for both platform. Ethan, my spy character, is an investigative …

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For the one-second video assignment, I took a quick video at track practice as we practiced going over steeplechase barriers. The hardest part of this was timing it to get what I needed in a one-second time frame. The other part was thinking of what I could tape for one second that could make for …

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For the bad movie review, I decided on none other than the infamous Bee movie. It’s pretty easy to rip apart such a bad movie.

A time-honored tradition at UMW is bench sitting. It’s the perfect cover for spying on your targets. Your mission: post up on a bench on campus and record passer-bys until your target is spotted. Once spotted, track his or her moments to establish a daily routine for the agency to use to track and capture …

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Daily Creates: “You Had One Job” @ds106dc That's a big waste of money #tdc1905 pic.twitter.com/jlK676fhQ9 — Chris Markham (@Markham_McFly) March 28, 2017 Chuck Berry tribute: @ds106dc #tdc1904 as a track runner, I can appreciate how difficult it probably is to do this https://t.co/pWfYeeYVRC — Chris Markham (@Markham_McFly) March 27, 2017 Assignment Bank: 3 stars: Personal …

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Below is my character interview. Here, I answer a series of questions from Director Burtis as I paint a picture of myself as a spy with my candid, totally unprepared answers to her…unique questions.

When I read the assignment description, I knew exactly which scene I wanted to use. Kingsman has been my go-to movie for just about everything in this class and that won’t change any time soon. This scene put the movie over the top for me. As I was watching, I liked it but this scene …

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For our video show, we plan to do much of the same from what we did during our radio show, in that we are going to base it largely off of spy movies. In our radio show, we did matching games of spy songs and movies while spinning off into critiques of the movies and …

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For this, the clear answer was to run. That’s what I’ve been doing for the past eight years. As a result, the video is a little shaky, but I like giving the viewer a perspective of what I do. I wanted to film while I was running so I was winded and such to add …

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A struggling alcohol, James Bond, tries to make the transition into drinking more water. This was really simple to do. I really wanted to implement the spy theme, and I had a water bottle with me, so the inspiration came pretty easy. I just recorded from my phone on the computer I was using, so …

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So over the weekend, I worked on a video that conveniently lined up with the requirements of this assignments. The internship is for World of Beer, which hires four interns every year to travel the world over the summer so blog and tweet about their beer-drinking experiences. Naturally, I felt my calling with this one. …

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Best of ds106 showcase: There was so much work to go through. I wish I could have spent more time going through these, or a more organized  way of finding specific assignments, but I feel like there are just so many sites being utilized for this class, it’s easy to get lost in the web …

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The more shows I listen to, the more I realize how different our show was from everyone else’s. I guess that can be a good thing, but it worries me that we were thinking down a completely different path than everyone else. This is an example of one of those shows, and it was really …

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There has been a lot of good work being done so far by the class. It kind of makes me feel bad about my work (not really) but still really good. This one called “Spy Phone Conversation” by Daniel Hawkins is great. It’s really simple and well done. My only wish is that it was …

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1900 was a pivotal year in the world of sports, as the second ever modern Olympic games were held, giving a new emphasis to the world of sports. Garnering little media attention, the sports world was an innocent landscape filled with humble athletes: @ds106dc #tdc1900 Paris Olympics 1900. You think she's showing too much ankle? …

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So I spent HOURS trying to figure out stepworks because it look much more interesting to me, but I don’t think I succeeded in my quest. I definitely made what I wanted and followed the instructions I was given, but the link doesn’t change and it goes back to the original work. http://step.works/index.php/show/impact-printer/?script=resist-the-policy-love-the-people SO, if …

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Canva is bae. Canva is life. I use Canva for most assignments for this class. It is so easy and simple to use. I’ve even used it to make custom Snapchat filters for events and such. When you start, Canva gives you options of layouts to choose from, depending on what you’re designing. You can …

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I’ve always wondered what people use to make emails that look like this, and now I’m glad I do! To stick with the spy theme, I made an email from the government, warning them that all cameras are watching them. I used the website mentioned in the assignment listing, Vertical Response. It was really easy …

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Daily Creates: I loved doing this one. Used Canva again. For whatever reason, it was really easy to come up with something off of the pictures I could choose from. @ds106dc #tdc1894 #ds106 we all know that one cop pic.twitter.com/W1iwJk1zyl — Chris Markham (@Markham_McFly) March 16, 2017 This one, I used a photo editing app …

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