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    Advice

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    The one thing I can say to incoming students of this class is DO NOT drop it because it looks like too much work. DS106 is a great class, but it does come with a hefty work load. Each week takes on a different form of media to tell a story and there are a lot …

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    Final project

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    I have noticed some weird happenings between Russia and Canada. Usually larger countries just make fun of Russia behind its back and move on, but Canada has been different. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and President Vladimir Putin have been buddy buddy lately from what I have seen. I, Benjamin Agos, am launching a full inquiry …

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    Twitter poll

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    At the start of this week I was assigned to create a twitter poll about one of the class’ agents. I chose to ask a question about Agent Zero. I decided to ask what was Agent Zero doing when he left his house yesterday? The answer choices were Prague, McDonalds, to get top secret intel. …

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    Closeup mashup

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    http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/im-ready-for-my-closeup/ The first assignment I did for the mashup category was called I’m ready for My Closeup and is worth four stars. For this assignment I had to layer two images over each other and one had to be a closeup of someone and the other had to be a landscape. I chose to use http://pixlr.com/editor/ …

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    Game of Thrones remix

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    http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/create-a-game-of-thrones-house/ For this assignment I chose to do the remix button for it. I had to make a Game of Thrones house siglia and with my remix had to “stache it” which I took to meaning add a mustache to the house siglia. I used the website http://www.jointherealm.com/ which is a family arms generator for the …

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    800% slower tutorial

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    http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/make-it-800-slower/ This is a very fun assignment to do in which you will need access to Audacity. First you will need to find a song that you would like to slow down. I like to look through free sound websites like http://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music/2. If you feel risky you can find downloads of songs that are not royalty …

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    Mission

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    This week we have been tasked with coming up with a mission for the class. There were not very many specifics to go off, so I am going to just go with what came into my mind. I think that it would be cool if we came up with a distinct and recurring super villain …

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    Signing

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    This assignment is called signing words and is worth 4.5 stars to bring me over the 12 star minimum and it is going toward the theme of the class so it also brings me over the 6 stars for that. http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/signing-word In this video I am signing a common phrase heard in one franchise of …

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    How to video

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    This assignment is called how to video and is worth 4.5 stars. http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/how-to-vide I decided to use this as one of the assignments that counted toward the class theme. I decided to do a tutorial video on how to turn an umbrella into a secret weapon. I am still having difficulties with my strep throat …

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    One second video

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    For the options we had this week I chose to do the ten stars worth of video assignments. The first one I did was called one second video and is worth two stars. http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/1-second-video/ For it you had to make a video that told a story in one second. I am at home with strep throat …

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    Video essay

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    This was a very interesting assignment to do. I started by reading the how to read a movie post and thought it was very interesting. I liked how they evaluated Casablanca which is a classic. I liked how they took all of the various design parts and put it into one essay about it. I …

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    Connected daily creates

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    @ds106dc #tdc1892 small person, big mountain pic.twitter.com/Lkn4d2sSfQ — Rachel Ayers (@rayers2umw) March 14, 2017 Small person from UMW runs for Judicial Review Board President. Very nervous and excited to compete she does all she can to campaign in the election of her life. @ds106dc #tdc1901 look at meow pic.twitter.com/m25af4JjLx — Rachel Ayers (@rayers2umw) March 23, …

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    Create a dream vacation

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    This assignment was called create a dream vacation on pinterest and is worth 3.5 stars. http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/create-your-dream-vacation-on-pinterest/ I really enjoyed this assignment because I regularly use pinterest so it was fun to do. My dream vacation has always been to spend and extended vacation in London. I created a board to put all of my pins …

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    Google draw

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    The first web based assignment I did this week was called Google Draw Something and is worth 2 stars. http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/google-draw-something/ For this assignment you have to go to the google draw something site and follow the prompts it gives you to draw six things with twenty seconds to draw each image. I really liked this …

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    Radio listen

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    Tuesday night I tuned int agents on air on the DS106 radio. The agents talked about the different things they are up to. It was such a creative show and I really enjoyed listening to it. They were very interesting cases to listen to and hear what each agent was doing. I liked listening to …

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