DS106! That’s What! This week’s assignments were versatile and exciting. There were 2 readings, 3 Daily Creates, and 8 stars worth of assignments from the Assignment Bank due for the week. The first reading was about defining ‘digital’ in the context of digital storytelling. The reading was intriguing and it made me think about the […]

Can’t Get It Out Of My Head – Assignment I stumbled upon this audio assignment and I knew exactly what song I would record myself whistling. This particular song is from an animated movie that came out it 1994. This song is extremely catchy, so once I hear it I can never really stop humming, […]

What A Crappy Font Will Do – Assignment When I saw the picture of the eBay logo that accompanied this assignment, I knew I had to give it a try. Even though I instantly recognized that eBay was being represented, I couldn’t help but notice that something about the logo was strange and off-putting. It’s […]

This particular assignment caught my eye immediately because I am a HUGE sports fan! The assignment is to make a GIF of the best sports play, in my opinion, from the past year. I instantly thought of the NFL football game between the Green Bay Packers and the Detroit Lions. As you can see in […]

Shaun Nichols’ post about Murray Leinster’s short story A Logic Named Joe was extremely eye-opening. I cannot fathom how accurate Leinster’s 70 year old predictions were about computers and their functions in society as they are today. Nichol’s article highlights that the Logic Joe is not evil, but extremely complex and to a certain extent he is […]

This reading got me thinking. The concept of new may not actually exist! The storytelling chapter made me realize that the internet, or anything else digital, is just a new way of saying the same old thing. I don’t say this to downplay the importance of anything digital, but just to explain my newly? found […]

This first week in DS106 has been exciting! I am looking forward to the rest of the semester. The activities this week were a mixture of preliminary setups and reading and commenting on articles related to our course. I enjoyed creating new accounts for Flickr and Soundcloud because I liked learning about what those sites […]

In response to How To Break Open The Web, I am officially mind-blown. I never even considered the internet in the ways that the authors describe. Understanding that the internet was developed with key ‘rights’ allowed me to realize that those rights have been modified.  I was very intrigued by the figure of Network Structures near […]

I thoroughly enjoyed reading the article 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered. Each of the 10 suggestions were interesting and they all got my creative and intellectual gears turning. One of my favorite parts of the article advises people to focus on their process as much as, or even more than, their product. […]

I have set up all of my accounts for DS 106. These accounts include Soundcloud, YouTube, Flickr, and Twitter! I added Jailhouse Rock by Elvis Presley to my Soundcloud account. I am a huge fan of Elvis and I am excited to add to my “Classics” playlist! I provided a hyperlink to my YouTube account […]

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