This weekend I took a backyard photo safari.  As I assembled the images a story of my past life as a wife and mother of two young daughters revealed itself.  For DS106 Visual Assignment 426, Is that a ….GHOST! I decided to use one of the photos of an abandoned swing set to produce a new […]

I went out this morning to capture images in my backyard during a time of day I knew would avail interesting shadows and lighting for a DS106 Photo Safari.  What I didn’t expect was that through the process of my editing and choosing the photos, a story of my life as the mother of two […]

I did it.  I successfully pulled off a live broadcast on ds106 radio this morning.  Christina Hendricks and I were going to rebroadcast our DS106 Headless week 4 audio review, but our open-online course mates had already listened to it through our earlier blog posts. I decided to not let this free airtime go to […]

Five Card Story: Communicating with My Scattered Abstract Brain This is a repost from “MA” an internal 3M-DS106 Salon member  a Five Card Flickr story created by MA Not too long ago, I learned about Insights communication color energies: - cool BLUE: energy for observing & thinking, - fiery RED: for taking action & directing, - sunshine YELLOW: for motivating & inspiring,  […]

What comes to mind when I think of storytelling? Originally posted 9/10/13 on an internal 3M blog by “AH” a 3M-DS106 Salon member Over the past year, I’ve reinvented virtually every aspect of my life. It has been incredibly rewarding and invigorating. Storytelling has been a feature of virtually all of the changes. This post seems […]

Weekly Summary Checklist Here’s a run-down of what I accomplished in DS106 Headless 13 Week 3 – Digital Storytelling. First Things First: What is a story? What is storytelling? What is digital storytelling? Wanting to understand and become a better digital storyteller is what attracted me to DS106 in the first place, so I’ve been doing some serious […]

Link to Worms Crawl In Video DS106 Headless 13 Week 3 was all about the basics of digital storytelling. Part of our assignment was to watch a video of Kurt Vonnegut humorously illustrating his rejected master’s thesis in anthropology that showed how the journey of a story’s main character can be graphed to reveal the […]

Thanks to a recent post by John Johnston “Flicking a Five Card Story”  I brushed aside my anxiety, took the leap and dived into the HTML. Well, let’s be real… I just dipped my toes in the shallow end… but I did it. I created borders around all of my images in my 5 Card Flickr […]

Five Card Story: Sharing my story a Five Card Flickr story created by Rockylou22 I crave community. Do I need to be flashy and bright to be seen? Do I need my words set in stone to be valid? Is it okay to have fun and learn along the way? With heart, body, and soul […]

This blog post was submitted internally at 3M by “HC”, one of the 3M-DS106 Salon members on 9/10/13. I’ve been given permission to re-post it to my personal blog in order to share it with the outside DS106 community.  Last week “HC” created his headless self-portrait that I riffed into this GIF. [Read about it […]

Alan Levine has been updated and tweaking the DS106 site quite a bit the last few weeks.  He’s been asking for people to test things out, trying some new formats.  You know… things like that.  Well yesterday’s DS106 Daily Create, TDC613, asked us to take a photo that represents the TDC idea of regular exercises […]

What is a story? What is storytelling? What is digital storytelling? Week 3 of DS106 Headless 13 has us asking these questions and exploring this for ourselves. What do you associate with the word storytelling? Before you do anything this week, use this as an opportunity to put down in words what your current concept […]

Link to Rockylou Productions Trailer   During week 2 the DS106 Daily Create TDC607 challenged us to create an exciting movie trailer for our DS106 website and use “the voice”.  Wanting to make the most efficient use of my creative time, I decided to modify the project so that I could use the art I […]

What did I do in DS106 Headless 13 Week 2? Tried to keep up with essentially two courses of ds106 at the same time, and it’s stretching me to the limits.  I’m learning tons setting up the 3M-DS106 Salon’s cyber-infrastructure behind the 3M firewall.  And continuing to experience a lot of frustration as I come […]

For my week 2 DS106 Headless 13 summary I created a separate summary post for all of my daily creates from that week.  It’s not only highly recommended, but I find it helpful to my own learning to write-up my process while producing my projects and share those learnings with others. The bulk of the […]

It’s week 2 of the Headless 13 dS-106.  While we were finishing up boot camp and continuing to build and personalize our personal digital cyber-infrastructure, we were also having some fun along the way creating GIFs and doing some daily creates. Some of us who have been through a round or two of ds106 know […]

I’m joining the GIF FIght again.  This time we were given a pair of stark white mannequins to work with. I like to give some time to thinking about my projects before I start them. [Link to past example of my non-linear creative thought process. ] I had a couple of ideas in mind that […]

One of my favorite movies of all time and characters is Michael Keaton as Beetlejuice.  The ghostest with the mostest.  This 1988 comedy horror film directed by Tim Burton is a scream and I’ve always thought quite romantic too.  [Wikipedia Post] And look at that… the official movie poster? Yes.  There are indeed headless ghosts running […]

What better way to share an update on Week 1 of the 3M-DS106 Salon than in their own words. This digital story was created simply using verbatim snippets from salon members’ 3M blogs and comments written to one another. ****************************************   I am curious. I am cautious. I am anxious. I am getting started with 3M DS-106! […]

DS106 Fall Headless course started on August 26, 2013. Our first week’s assignments were pretty easy for me since I already had my blog up and running, [About Page ] I just needed to tweek it a little. The biggest tasks for me were around building the digital infrastructure for my 3M-DS106 Salon for which I’ll publish a separate […]

Star Spangled What?! video link Today’s DS106 Daily Create tdc597 was to “edit an existing video clip to include an unexpected object in the story.” Video is my “thing”.  Not so the case for many of the DS106ers.  And I didn’t realize until I read a couple of comments in the DS106 Google + community today […]

A study of music…. Music is a powerful force that can change the mood and even the meaning of a video. I’ve been wanting to illustrate this concept for awhile and when I saw the tweet and original video created by Brian Bennett I knew this was my opportunity.  Because of the video’s simplicity with one on-going […]

DS106 Daily Create tdc595 was to “Build a monster out of items in your kitchen.”  I tried a few things on my countertop with a teapot, an over-ripe banana, a recipe book holder, a cup tree, some tongs, knives, beaters, a cork screw, and a tea tin, among other various items. But my attempted kitchen […]

As I become more and more experienced with any of the digital media platforms we play with here in DS106, my thought process for how I choose and go about creating matures. Let me walk you through how this one went. I read the tweet announcing the new #GIFFight challenge photo had been posted at […]

Your Invitation Want to have some fun improving your 3M digital communication & collaboration skills? This is your invitation to join me in creating our first 3M DS106 Salon*. Where we’ll develop our digital presence and learn the power and responsibilities that come with good digital citizenship – more important than ever as our digital lives blur between […]

You know how you can take those quick burst photo strips at the mall or the fair? Wouldn’t it be cool if you could bring it to life with a GIF? That was my inspiration for making this Film/GIF Strip extracted from a short video clip taken on my grandson’s 2nd birthday this past weekend. […]

Gluten-free, Microwaved Chocolate Cherry Bundt Cake 1 hr prep time + overnight in refrigerator 1 tablespoon sugar 1 package Betty Crocker Gluten Free Devil’s Food Cake Mix 1 cup cherry pie filling (non-high fructose corn syrup) 3 eggs 3/4 cup water 1/4 cup vegetable oil 1 tsp almond extract 24oz Plain Greek Yogurt as cake […]

  Some of the best parts of ds106 happens when people spontaneously build off of the whacky things others share. Rapid fire style. Your assignment is to riff on someone else’s ds106 work and make it new in a GIF form. It can be revising an existing GIF, or taking a graphic and turning it into […]

DS106 joined in the Tumblr GIF Fight (#GIFFight) this week.  Our subject?… to GIF-ify Darth Vader. A few of us (who I knew about) stepped right up when the tweet from @mbransons came across our screens. Jim Dancing with Darth Vader by @jimgroom Darth Vader plays a mean guitar by @cogdog You Ain’t My Father, […]