Final Project!

Final Project!

by @OraMyAura

| Syndicated
December 7, 2018

My final! So as mentioned in last week’s post, for my final, I used audio/images/design and created a Part II of my radio show story about my character named Gallapher. If you recall, Gallapher is a horse who, in a nutshell, revitalizes children w/low self esteem by sweeping in, in the middle of the night …
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Final Project Progress Report

by @OraMyAura

| Syndicated
November 30, 2018

For my final project, I plan to use audio, images, and video and/or design. What I’m doing is taking the story that I created for our radio show about my character Gallapher and creating a part 2. This will include audio to continue the story and I am going to use some visuals to incorporate …
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Week 12

by @OraMyAura

| Syndicated
November 16, 2018

This week was full of mashups and remixes with a touch of tutorial. 🙂 I used a lot of my photo editor software on my HP laptop as well as pictures from google and I used stripgenerator for one of my Twitter responses. I decided to do my tutorial on the assignment entitled “I’m a …
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Cancer Remix..

by @OraMyAura

| Remix32, RemixAssignments, RemixedAssignments2994, Syndicated
November 16, 2018

My remix instructions were to take an assignment and give it a cancer awareness message. Make it a general cancer sucks message or pick a specific cancer close to your heart and create a way to convince others to get screened, raise money, or simply support the cause. My message is this; a lot of …
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Remiiixxx

by @OraMyAura

| Remix25, RemixAssignments, RemixedAssignments2992, Syndicated
November 16, 2018

So for this assignment, the original was to show a superpower I’d love to have in a mashup by editing at least two photos together to show how you’d it would work in an everyday situation. Well the remix was to simply make it pinker sooo, I added some pink hoods and back windows to …
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Holiday Mashup

by @OraMyAura

| #MashupAssignments, MashUpAssignments1872, Syndicated
November 15, 2018

My three favorite holidays. For this assignment, we had to mash up our three favorite holidays in 1 pic and for me, it’s Christmas, Thanksgiving, and the 4th of July.
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Photo Mashhh

by @OraMyAura

| #MashupAssignments, #MashupAssignments2037, Syndicated
November 15, 2018

For this assignment, we had to take 2 actors and mash them together into one photo and try to make sure that they look like they belong in their setting. Well Mr. DiCaprio here and the actress to whom I don’t know her name but was the only actress that I could find after about …
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Peace Ouuuttt!!!

by @OraMyAura

| #MashupAssignments, MashupAssignments2151, Syndicated
November 15, 2018

So this assignment was pretty fun as I was able to kind of create something that would go through my mind every single time I was stuck in Northern VA/ DC traffic while commuting. I would ALWAYS fantasize about being able to just fly my car above all the stalled, SITTING traffic to be able …
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I’m a girl tutorial

by @OraMyAura

| Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoTutorials1859
November 15, 2018

Hey everyone! So the assignment I selected to create a tutorial for is entitled “I’m a girl”. I chose this assignment b/c I recently completed it during video week and thought it was super fun, simple and a way for me to express my love for “girl stuff” ! 🙂 Enjoy!
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Weekly Summary – 11

by @OraMyAura

| Syndicated
November 9, 2018

The first assignment I selected this week was actually the most fun assignment for me. I selected some of the pics that best depict my life. Most of the pics are of me, my family and places that I’ve recently traveled – this pretty much sums up my life right now. I uploaded them …
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I’m a Girl!

by @OraMyAura

| Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments1859
November 8, 2018

So for this assignment, honestly, it didn’t have any instructions but was called “I’m a girl” so I just went with my imagination and said that I would gather pics of some of my favorite “girl stores” to shop and also...
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Bora Bora Video!

by @OraMyAura

| Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments1151
November 8, 2018

So for this video assignment, we were asked to do a video montage of images and/or video of the places that you would like to go, and add music that is native to the that area or just something fun. For this, I am still in love w/Bora Bora and so I went online, downloaded …
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Get to know Ora

by @OraMyAura

| Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments2230
November 6, 2018

For this assignment, I selected a ton of pics that best depict my life. Most of the pics are of me, my family and places that I’ve recently traveled – this pretty much sums up my life right now. I uploaded them to Movavi and then added music that was available for download within …
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Week 10 Summary

by @OraMyAura

| Syndicated
November 2, 2018

For my video essay post, I’m glad to say that after a few hours, I finally figured out how to upload at LEAST a minute and a half voice over for the scene I chose! Shew that was a process! After many, many, many tries of downloading the software recommended in the lesson, I was …
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Play by Play

by @OraMyAura

| Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments1458
November 2, 2018

For this assignment, I had to be the commentator for at least 4 plays. So I went to youtube and found a series of plays, uploaded to Movavi video editor after downloading via the 4k downloader and failed miserably at being a commentator LOL!
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Lip Sync

by @OraMyAura

| Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments1706
November 2, 2018

Ok, so for this assignment, I had to record myself lip syncing to a song – DEFINITELY not a norm for me – very awkward ! Anyway, my song choice is from one of my favorite artists Brandy, title “I wanna be down”. I recorded myself on my laptop and used YouTube for the audio. …
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Hillmonger scene in Black Panther

by @OraMyAura

| Syndicated, videoessay
November 1, 2018

For my video essay post, I’m glad to say that after a few hours, I finally figured out how to upload at LEAST a minute and a half voice over for the scene I chose! Shew that was a process! After many, many, many tries of downloading the software recommended in the lesson, I was …
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Week 9

by @OraMyAura

| Syndicated
October 26, 2018

This was a rough week for me due to some personal situations but as always, these class assignments are always very interesting. For this TDC, I decided that I’d rather go 100 years in the future. Why you ask? To see my children’s children’s children – that would be awesome!! #tdc2480 #ds106 Oh man, this …
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DS106 Radio Show

by @OraMyAura

| radiolisten, Syndicated
October 26, 2018

I know the assignment says to post about a radio show that we heard and were not a part of creating but I wasn’t able to get on any other night except for Wednesday to hear mine — so I apologize in advance, I just didn’t want to NOT do anything. To be honest, it …
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Bora Bora it is!

by @OraMyAura

| #WebAssignments, Syndicated, WebAssignments1325
October 26, 2018

For this assignment, I had to create a pinterest page w/my dream vacation and I have ALWAYS wanted to go to BORA BORA! The pictures of that place are stunning! From the bungalows over the ocean to the beautiful sea life, to the breath taking views of nature, it just looks so amazing! this is …
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Dream Room

by @OraMyAura

| #WebAssignments, Syndicated, WebAssignments1877
October 26, 2018

For this assignment, I had to utilize Pinterest to create my dream room – for me, this was my bedroom! I have always wanted a huge elegant bedroom, with vaulted ceilings, a chandelier, window seat, and of course a huge walk -in closet! Oh and I...
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Week 8 summary

by @OraMyAura

| Syndicated
October 19, 2018

This week is pretty slack in terms of items to summarize. I summarized week 8’s progress and included the link to our completed show in the following post: Radio Show Week 2 Progress – complete! For the first daily create of the week, I must say that there was some pretty interesting gadgets displayed there …
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Radio Show Week 2 Progress – complete!

by @OraMyAura

| radioshowweek2, Syndicated
October 19, 2018

Our group, Myths, Legends, and Character Conversations came together and finished the job off this week. We were pretty productive the first week and so this week was all about everyone besides the 2-3 who had already, finishing up their own personal stories and uploading. Lastly, Maggie did a great job of putting everything together …
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Weekly Summary 7

by @OraMyAura

| Syndicated
October 12, 2018

Well, I am glad to say, our group has hopped on board and started rolling with our show! We have gotten quite a bit accomplished already this week. We listed all assignments needed, split out the tasks amongst the group, and already have completions. So far we have: All 3 bumpers complete 2 posters complete …
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Myths, Legends, and Character Storytelling Process & Progress

by @OraMyAura

| radioshowweek1, Syndicated
October 12, 2018

Well, I am glad to say, our group has hopped on board and started rolling with our show! We have gotten quite a bit accomplished already this week. We listed all assignments needed, split out the tasks amongst the group, and already have completions. So far we have: All 3 bumpers complete 2 posters complete …
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A sick beat it IS!

by @OraMyAura

| #AudioAssignments, audioassignments2366, Syndicated
October 12, 2018

LOL! Wow, for some reason, this one was much much harder than I thought. The assignment was to come up with a ‘sick beat’ of my own. I used Audacity and literally made one noise with my mouth, tapped on my laptop and made another noise with my lips and let me tell you, trying …
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The Best Myths, Legends, and Character Storytelling Around!

by @OraMyAura

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments36, Syndicated
October 10, 2018

For this assignment, I used Audacity to create a radio bumper for our team’s radio show! It was so much fun! I went to YouTube and found some free radio jingles to use, which directed me to https://www.radiojinglesvip.com/free-radio-jingles to ...
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WeEk SiX sUMmaRy!

by @OraMyAura

| Syndicated
October 5, 2018

This week was pretty cool! Overall, I the level of effort to understand and figure out exactly what I was doing pretty much remained consistent but i was able to figure it out so that was good for me. I really loved the article about Kidd and his book – really inspired me to order …
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Design blitz

by @OraMyAura

| designblitz, Syndicated
October 5, 2018

This week’s design blitz was interesting. The 4 areas that I attempted to represent are color, rhythm, typography, and dominance. Color: Design Blitz – Color #ds106 #designblitz pic.twitter.com/1lu07Ffokx — Ora Wilson (@OraMyAura) October 4, 2018 This is a picture of a green wall. My son actually chose this color for his room when we moved …
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DS106 LOGO

by @OraMyAura

| designassignments, designassignments1491, Syndicated
October 4, 2018

This assignment asked to create a new logo for the DS106 class – how exciting! Once again, I used spark.adobe.com to do so – trying to get used to better understanding some of these sites better by doing different things on them. This wasn’t difficult to use – there was actually a lot of designs …
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