Well my fellow bloggers…..Seems as if this interesting journey that has been known as CT 101 has come to an end. However, my new found knowledge of what it truly means to be a digital storyteller will live on.   … Continue reading →

Here is a visual assignment from ds106 that I have seen a lot of my fellow classmates on the CT101 site take on, “Word Cloud“. The goal was to create a word cloud which contains words that are meaningful to me and best describes my life. I have not used nor heard of the Wordle … Continue reading Liya’s Word Cloud! Continue reading →

For a ds106 web assignment called “Socialize Your Media”, I decided to make some social media accounts from my FA284 character, Pandi Cana. I introduced this character to the world about two months ago and recently premiered her video (My final project). I’m sure you’re thinking…Why on earth would a bacon loving panda bear with … Continue reading Let’s Welcome Pandi Cana to social media! Continue reading →

In case you didn’t know, I took the CT137 Hacking and Building course this semester, which is a basic requirement for the CT major. The class is based on electronics, circuits, and programming. For the past couple of weeks, the class has been working on final projects. My project is sound reactive LED accessories. A … Continue reading My CT137 Project! Continue reading →

Ladies and Gentleman, I’d like to present my first cartoon “Pandi Cana”!!! This is the final project for my Computer Graphics class FA284.  The objective of the class projects was to create our own character and an event that is relevant to their life. The character I created was a curious, bacon loving panda bear … Continue reading My first cartoon! “Pandi Cana” Continue reading →

I came across a video off the reading list on the CT 101 class site called ” Are Emoticons the future of  language?“. The video is from the PBS Off Book Video Series. The video discusses communication in the digital age today. It mostly centers on the popular use of emoticons or emojis, pictorial symbols which are … Continue reading Emoticons: Future of Language? (My Thoughts) Continue reading →

The other ds106 assignment I completed was the Home Video Gif . You have to take a home video of your and make in to a gif. Ever since gifs became popular, it was something that I have always wanted to do but I wasn’t sure of how to do it. Thanks to programs such as … Continue reading My Happy Dance! in GIF form Continue reading →

Never mind the corny title but this week’s digital story telling assignments include “A wolf in sheep’s clothing”. This design assignment from ds106 requires you to take the logos or trademarks of a company and its potential competition, and edit them into one logo. These type of assignments are always fun to do and very … Continue reading Biscuit in Chicken’s Clothing? Continue reading →

Another assignment that I picked from the ds106 bank is to make a gif of my favorite musician. This was hard because I have so many favorites of all genres of music. However, If i had to choose one, it would that one superstar that I have consistently been a fan of…and that is……. Beyoncé … Continue reading GIF of my favorite musician! Continue reading →

I completed a visual assignment from the ds106 bank, A College of your favorite vacation pictures. Using PicMonkey, I made college of my top 5 favorite vacation spots.   First Row: Nassau,Bahamas,  Miami Beach FL. Second Row: Orlando FL, Williamsburg Plantation Resort in Williamsburg, VA, and Atlantic City, NJ These are in no particular order as these … Continue reading FFVS! (Five Fav Vaca Spots!) Continue reading →

This is one of my favorite poems called “What is Love?”. I love this poem because I can relate and it pretty much describes the painful experiences I have endured in my past, when it comes to love and heart break. For the assignment “Poetry Art”, I had to use the poem and an image … Continue reading “What is Love?” Continue reading →

For my digital story project this week, I took on the movie mash up assignment from the ds106 assignment bank. The assignment is to make a movie cover that is a mash up of two different movies. I picked the lifetime movie “Cyberbully” and “Mean Girls”, one of the greatest movies of all time. I … Continue reading “Mean Cyberbully Girls” Coming out….??? Continue reading →

In regards to the “Alphabet Food Collage in Pink” project, I issued my own little challenge for anyone interested. The challenge is to try and sing the names of the foods in my  A-Z collage in tune of the ABC song. Here is the collage for reference.   As cheesy as it may seem, I … Continue reading A Challenge for a Challenge! Continue reading →

  This week, I updated and added more content to my website: Randomgirlrock.com. I posted two new digital projects . “An Alphabet Food Collage in Pink”, which is a visual assignment requiring a food collage in alphabetical order. Due to remixing … Continue reading →

What’s In Your Bag? My purse is a pretty moderate size, but it carries so much stuff. What is in the purse? Typical girl stuff. Make up (Variety of lip gloss, lip stick, eye shadow,eyeliner, and powder). The funny thing … Continue reading →

I finally got around to customizing my website. I picked the theme and appearance, added links to my social media sites, and added an “About me” post. I think it was a great idea for us to have our own … Continue reading →

In my second blog post, I talked about what projects I would like to do from the Ds106 assignment bank. One project I really wanted to do was the A Capella with yourself project. This project requires you to record yourself singing your … Continue reading →

I just wanted to showcase a little something for you guys. This is my project for my FA284 class (Computer Graphics) which is due this week. The assignment is to create a character and place them in an event that … Continue reading →

Im sorry…but I could not resist! Using Imgur, I think I had too much fun making some hilarious gifs. Then i thought “who could be a better candidate for reaction queen other than this bundle of fun right here?” Incase … Continue reading →

After browsing through many project ideas on the Ds106 assignment bank, I chose two assignment ideas that stood out to me the most. The first assignment I chose was the A Capella with yourself, in the audio category. This project requires … Continue reading →

After analyzing the syllabus and group conversation in the “CT 101 Digital Storytelling Syllabus in Progress” document, I believe I have a clear understanding of what the objective of this class is. There was one post from the conversation that … Continue reading →