This week, for our final project, we were to create a story using some of the different forms media we learned about this semester. I chose to revolve my story around my created western character, Talie. I felt this was a great way to tie everything we learned about this semester into one assignment. You … Continue reading Week 15-The Final Summary

The final assignment for this semester was to tell a story using multiple forms of media such as video, design, audio, visuals, web, etc. I felt this final project was a great way to tie together all of the different aspects of media I learned about throughout the semester. As such, for my story I … Continue reading Talie’s Wild West Adventures!

I decided to complete this assignment so I could incorporate it into my final project story. In my story, my created western character, Talie, is feeling down and looking for things to do to change her daily routine. She recently came across an advertisement for a running marathon that would help send the local town … Continue reading Fundraiser Event Poster

I decided to complete this assignment so I would be able to include it in my Final Project story. I am revolving my story around my created western character, Talie. In this story, Talie has become bored of her everyday routine and has not felt like her normal self because of a recent town crime. … Continue reading Event Advertisement

Future DS106 students, I found this course, Computer Science 106, to be very insightful and practical in that I have learned many skills that I can apply to my personal life, as well as my parents’ business. There are many benefits provided by taking this course, but there are just a few things you have … Continue reading My advice to future ds106 students

I believe that this final project is a great way for me to showcase in one assignment the different forms of media I have learned how to use this semester. I feel throughout this course I have learned a great deal on how to utilize the values that are provided by the different forms of … Continue reading Talie’s Wild Western Adventures!

This week was web week! I found a few of these assignments to be harder than previous assignment types. However, some of them were pretty fun to complete. The one that I thought was going to be very difficult was the assignment titled “Storytelling within the web” where I was required to intervene in an … Continue reading Week 13 Summary

This week we focused on web related assignments. As such, one of the required assignments to complete was the assignment titled “Storytelling within the web”. This assignment required me to alter an existing webpage and intervene in the html of the site. So, I had decided that this would be the last assignment I would … Continue reading Storytelling within the web: Talie’s Wild West Show!

This assignment seemed like a fun one to complete. It required me to create my dream room using pictures from pinterest. In order to complete this assignment the first step I had to do was create a Pinterest account. That was pretty simple but, then I had to figure out how it all worked. I … Continue reading My Dream Room!

I chose to complete this assignment because the image of the paint brush sparked some good memories for me. The image reminded me of a painting software that I used while in elementary school during computer time and I always enjoyed my time playing with it. So, I thought it would be fun to try … Continue reading The Triangle Tool!

This week we were required to complete three daily creates. Completing daily creates is generally a usual task for each week. However, for this week, instead of just completing them and posting them to our blog, we had to create a story that incorporated them! I actually really liked this assignment. I not only had … Continue reading My Daily Create Story

I chose to complete this assignment because I like to complete assignments that involve my created western character, Talie. For this assignment I had to develop a “fake” resume for a fictional person or character as such, I created a resume for Talie, the western character I created for this course. You can read more … Continue reading Job Hunting!

I found this week’s assignments to be fun and somewhat challenging. This week I learned about the differences between mashups and remixes and completed assignments in each of these categories. I feel by completing these assignments it has reinforced all of the new techniques I have learned over the semester and I had to apply … Continue reading Week 12 Summary

For my second remix assignment of the week I chose to remix the visual assignment titled, “Larger Than Life”. The remix of this assignment was to include Waldo within the picture of one of an already completed Larger than Life visual assignment. So, I picked one of the completed Larger than Life visual assignments that … Continue reading Find Waldo! That was easy!

I chose to create a tutorial for this assignment, Event Advertisement. I chose this assignment because I believe it is a very useful task to know how to create a poster not only to advertise an event, but the many other purposes that posters can help promote. Even though I have not completed this specific … Continue reading Event Advertisement Tutorial

For my first remix assignment of the week, I chose to remix the assignment titled “the Unusual Superhero”. In order to remix this assignment I had to take someone’s completed unusual hero assignment and remix it so it could be used as an advertisement or recruiting tool for ds106. As such, the completed unusual hero … Continue reading Mustache anyone?

I came across this assignment and chose to complete it because I thought it would be fun to create a 10 second mashup of some of my favorite songs. However, it was a bit more difficult to create this mashup than I originally thought it was going to be. I chose five songs, each playing … Continue reading 10 seconds and 5 songs–can you name them all?

For my second mashup assignment of the week I chose to complete the assignment titled, “Mashing Friends and Emojis” because it seemed like it would be fun. In order to complete this assignment I first looked up emoji images. I chose about four emoji faces that a person could possibly replicate. So, I called my … Continue reading Emoji Mashup!

This is my first Mashup assignment! This week we have learned about the difference between mashups and remixes. As such, one of our tasks this week is to complete 12 stars of mashup assignments, so the first one I chose to complete was the assignment titled “Mash Thyself, Before Ye Trash Thyself”. This assignment directed … Continue reading Talie’s Mashup video!

Today’s daily create was to create some lyrics about working from home. So, I focused on a few positive aspects! Check it out below. @ds106dc #tdc1546 #ds106 Created some lyrics for today's dailycreate! A few reasons why working at home is so great! pic.twitter.com/gnysuIzwfB — Natalie Motley (@NatalieCPSC106) April 2, 2016

I really liked today’s daily create challenge! It was fun and simple! Although it took a few tries to get a straight and serious face. @ds106dc #tdc1545 #ds106 A serious selfie for today's daily create–featuring my brother and I! pic.twitter.com/v9TQj5PaKM — Natalie Motley (@NatalieCPSC106) April 2, 2016

This week was our second week working with video. I feel I improved from last week and have a better understanding on how to use Windows Movie Maker and make additions, edits, and special transitions in my video creations. I started off the week reviewing a provided resource which I found to be very helpful … Continue reading Week 11 Summary

This week I was to complete this mini documentary assignment . I chose to create this documentary about my western character, Talie. You can read more about Talie here. I focused on certain aspects of Talie’s life such as her job, where she lives, what she finds important, and her personality. As such, in this … Continue reading Talie’s Documentary

For this assignment I was to create a six second video of myself creating art. This week I have to complete ten stars worth of video assignments that incorporate my created western character, Talie. You can read more about Talie here. I chose this assignment because I do like art particularly drawing (even though I … Continue reading Talie’s Six Second Art

This week we are required to complete 16 stars worth of video assignments and 10 of the stars must involve the western character I created this semester. As such, for this video assignment I acted as if I were my created western character, Talie. You can learn more about Talie here. I chose to complete this … Continue reading Talie’s 5 Second Film Joke

Today’s challenge was to create a new ACME product! I created an electric gel that you can rub on anything and it will give a shock to whoever tries to take your stuff but won’t provide a shock to you!

For this assignment I had to choose one of my favorite athletes and create a highlight reel video. I selected the famous ice skater, Carolina Kostner. She is an Italian figure skater and has been a role model for me since I was little. In 2003, the Figure skating world championships was held in Washington … Continue reading Highlight Reel of one of my favorite athletes

I’m not really into basketball. So, today’s daily create was pretty easy for me to exclude basketball while still focusing on the idea of March Madness. Check out my tweet to see what I decided on for today’s daily create challenge! @ds106dc #tdc1540 #ds106 Some sort of March Madness for today's daily create! Wishing it … Continue reading March 27, 2016 Daily Create

I used Word doc. to help me create today’s daily create challenge! @ds106dc #tdc1539 #ds106 Today's daily create challenge–create a calligram pic.twitter.com/XEwFGbTuLP — Natalie Motley (@NatalieCPSC106) March 26, 2016

Wow can’t believe how time is flying! Week 10 is complete! This week we focused on videos. I reviewed many, many resources that taught me about the detail that goes into the creation of movies and how to analyze them. As such, I took this new information from these resources and applied them to a … Continue reading Week 10 Summary