Advice from someone who knows better…

Advice from someone who knows better…

by @OliviaBreler

| ds106, ds106advice, Syndicated
December 6, 2017

Don’t drop this class because you get scared from all the warnings about the workload! Don’t get me wrong, it is a pretty heavy workload for a 100-level class, but if you just plan a little bit and you stick with it, it’s going to be the best online class you’ve taken! Even with the …
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Week 14

by @OliviaBreler

| ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
December 6, 2017

So this is my weekly summary, post final crisis project. I had a lot of fun making it, and it might be a little cheesy with the special effects but I had a lot of fun making this and I thought it turned out pretty cool. I’m beyond amazed by the things you can actually …
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The final crisis

by @OliviaBreler

| ds106, finalcrisis, Syndicated
December 6, 2017

Charlie and Nathan are on the road to Raleigh, North Carolina. They are laughing and singing along to whatever is on the radio. It’s been a slow week, Charlie has been itching for something to do but everything has been suspiciously calm. They are heading to North Carolina to check out a rumor about a …
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Progress report

by @OliviaBreler

| ds106, progressreport, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
December 1, 2017

Hi! I feel like I haven’t blogged here in forever. I have an idea for my final crisis! I’d like to use image, video and audio to tell my story, Charlie Sass will be in it and somehow save the day. I started making the video part and I’m putting it together in iMovie. I …
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Weekly summary #12

by @OliviaBreler

| ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
November 17, 2017

Another week comes to an end and the semester is almost over. This week was fun! For the mashup assignments this week I did: Disney Mashup Holiday Mashup Superhuman in everyday life Superhuman and the Actor Transformation Jennifer Aniston through the years Here’s my tutorial for how to make a mashup: Disney Mashup Tutorial Here …
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Superhuman

by @OliviaBreler

| #MashupAssignments, ds106, MashupAssignments2151, Syndicated
November 17, 2017

I completed the Superhuman in everyday life assignment (3 stars). I used a picture of lake Anna where I spend a lot of time, then I found a png picture of a flying woman because flying would be my preferred superpower, then used GIMP to layer the woman...
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That’s not what I expected

by @OliviaBreler

| ds106, Remix3, RemixAssignments, RemixedAssignments2798, Syndicated
November 15, 2017

For my second Remix assignment, I was tasked to “take a close up picture of something and see if people can guess what it is. Try doing the skin or outside of something that would make it hard for someone to guess!” in the original assignment, but the remix one told me to change the media. So …
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Remixxxxx

by @OliviaBreler

| ds106, Remix16, RemixAssignments, RemixedAssignments2797, Syndicated
November 15, 2017

For my first Remix assignment, I was tasked to create a collage of the opposite of peaceful places. I decided to use Charlie Sass’ least favorite places and things that generally make her scared or uneasy. I dowloaded a collage app on my phone and arranged the pictures in there, the I uploaded it to twitter. Charlie …
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Jennifer Aniston through the years

by @OliviaBreler

| #MashupAssignments, ds106, MashupAssignments771, Syndicated
November 14, 2017

So I did the Actor transformation (2,5 stars) mashup, to show how Jennifer Aniston has evolved since the beginning of her career in the 90s. I want to know the woman’s secrets though because she honestly hasn’t changed much in 30 years. Crazy. I used Quicktime to record my screen while the movie clips were running and …
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Have a thankful, scary New Years!

by @OliviaBreler

| #MashupAssignments, ds106, MashUpAssignments1872, Syndicated
November 14, 2017

I finished the Holiday Mashup (4,5 stars) assignment and choose the three holidays that Charlie Sass likes the best. Thanksgiving, Halloween and New Years! I found a good scary background, and then I layered different png pictures over the background to represent the three holidays. I used GIMP for the assignment, and didn’t run into any issues. …
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Disney Mashup Tutorial

by @OliviaBreler

| #MashupAssignments, ds106, MashupTutorials2132, Syndicated
November 14, 2017

I decided to create a tutorial for the Disney Mashup Assignment. I used quicktime on my computer to record my screen as I was doing it, and then used iMovie to add text to the tutorial! I also added a background song from free music archive. When it was done, I uploaded it to Youtube. …
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Disney Mashup

by @OliviaBreler

| #MashupAssignments, ds106, MashupAssignments2132, Syndicated
November 14, 2017

I did the Disney mashup assignment (4 stars) where I picked two songs from Moana and Frozen, my favorite newer Disney movies. I still like the old ones better though, not gonna lie. I used audacity and did some simple fade in and outs to make it flow. I also made a tutorial showing how to do …
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Weekly summary, week #11

by @OliviaBreler

| Syndicated, WeeklySummary
November 10, 2017

Man this semester is really flying by isn’t it? It’s almost over! Below is this week’s creations. My thoughts on the final project: Final project My video assignments: A day in my life Moving object Charlie Sass’ favorite thing to do And my three daily creates: Professor Yum now has a drinking problem and decided …
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Charlie Sass’ favorite thing to do

by @OliviaBreler

| ds106, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments1920
November 10, 2017

In order to incorporate my superhero in some fashion, I completed the My favorite thing to do assignment (4,5 stars). Even if Charlie and Nathan spend countless hours on the road, driving is still one of her favorite things to do. I carefully took a vi...
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Moving object

by @OliviaBreler

| ds106, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments1691
November 10, 2017

I completed the moving object assignment (3,5 stars). I used the vine app that I downloaded from App Store to shoot the video. Below is my creation!
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A day in my life

by @OliviaBreler

| ds106, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments1876
November 10, 2017

I completed the A day in your life (4,5 stars) assignment where I took video snippets to show a day in the life of me. Unfortunately I picked a pretty boring day since all “working days” (mon-fri) look basically the same. I used iMovie and added a song from free music archive as the background track and …
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Final project

by @OliviaBreler

| finalcrisis, Syndicated
November 10, 2017

So for the final project, or “crisis” I thought it might be kinda cool to incorporate everything we’ve covered this semester. I’m not sure exactly what the project is supposed to be, but what if the world is ending? We could create the worlds end using our preferred digital method (photo, audio, film etc) or …
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Weekly summary post #10

by @OliviaBreler

| ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
November 3, 2017

This week has been challenging and time consuming. Below are the daily creates: Here’s 10 stars worth of assignments: And the life hack assignment! Life hack!
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I’m a girl

by @OliviaBreler

| ds106, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments1859
November 3, 2017

So for the I’m a girl assignment (2 stars) that didn’t have any instructions, I decided to post a video of me and some of my friends being stupid. Cause I’m a girl and that’s what we like to do.
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Where my shoes take me

by @OliviaBreler

| ds106, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments2030
November 3, 2017

I decided to do Where do your shoes take you assignment (4 stars), which was harder than I thought. It felt really unnatural to be filming my feet wherever I went lol, it was weird. I’m not used to filming/taking pictures every day either, so I kept forgetting and had to go back and redo it. I …
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Life hack!

by @OliviaBreler

| ds106, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments2116
November 3, 2017

For the life hacks assignment, I decided to make a video showing how to get an oil stain off a piece of clothing. I’ve had this issue before and I just learned how to do it, so I figured I’d share it. I used powerpoint to create the text images and then just edited it all …
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The healthy vine challenge

by @OliviaBreler

| ds106, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments1327
November 1, 2017

I decided to do the healthy vine challenge (4 stars) where I made a 6 second video to show what I was cooking. So, this is something that my grandpa makes a lot, it’s actually really healthy, and the entire portion you see in the video is only about 550 calories. It’s a potato salad, so …
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Weekly summary (Week 9)

by @OliviaBreler

| ds106, superds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
October 27, 2017

Another week has come to an end! Except for getting to listen to everyone’s radio shows, this week was kinda slow and a little tedious compared to other weeks. Here’s what I did! My first web assignment: Create Your Own Adventure! My second web assignment (total 6,5 stars): Doodles! I listened to Distress Signal, who …
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Daily creates

by @OliviaBreler

| dailycreates, ds106, Syndicated
October 27, 2017

Once upon a time there was a girl named Ruby. One day as she was walking home, she was brutally attacked and killed by a smiling man, much like this one. https://t.co/lldfEfe2bk#tdc2116 — Olivia Breler (@OliviaBreler) October 25, 2017 She spent some time in the afterlife pondering why this had happened. One day she decided …
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Listening to radio show

by @OliviaBreler

| ds106, radiolisten, Syndicated
October 27, 2017

I tuned in to Distress Signal the other night, and geez it was great! I think they did such a good job, it sounded very professional all throughout the show and I felt like they choose a good overall theme for the show. I loved the game show theme! It made the show sound very …
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Doodles!

by @OliviaBreler

| #WebAssignments, #WebAssignments2073, ds106, Syndicated
October 27, 2017

For my other web assignment, I did Google Draw Something (2,5 stars) which was fun because I can’t draw to save my life. Google did manage to guess 2/6 doodles though so I guess that’s something. Here’s my twitter post about my terrible doodles. HOW tf do you draw bread anyway?
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Web storytelling

by @OliviaBreler

| ds106, Syndicated, webstorytelling
October 27, 2017

For the Web storytelling assignment, I used x-ray goggles to modify the content of a craigslist ad. The original post was about a washer for sale, obviously I changed everything about it. I’ve been watching Once Upon a Time lately, so that’s what inspired me to use this content. I had some issues with the x-ray …
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Go back in time

by @OliviaBreler

| #WebAssignments, ds106, Syndicated, WebAssignments2137
October 25, 2017

So for the pick 1/2 this week, I decided to go with the go back in time assignment. I went to Wayback Machine and found a picture of Google’s website in 1998 which I thought was kinda funny, so I decided to recreate it but base it on myself. Here is a screenshot from what Google looked like. and a …
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Create Your Own Adventure!

by @OliviaBreler

| #WebAssignments, ds106, Syndicated, WebAssignments1891
October 24, 2017

For this Create your own adventure assignment (4 stars) I have a playfic (inform7 game) that I’ve created. It’s a pretty simple interactive fiction game where the player just needs to go from room to room and solve a simple puzzle in order to find a pair of keys. It’s called Scatterbrain. I’ve coded several games through this …
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Weekly Summary (week 8)

by @OliviaBreler

| ds106, ds106radio, radioshowweek2, superds106, Syndicated
October 19, 2017

Hi again! This week has been substantially calmer in this class than the previous weeks (not gonna lie, it’s been kinda nice lol). I’m so happy with the way my group have worked together to make this radio show come together. Everyone has been on top of their game along the way, been early with …
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