I just wanted to post a little something reflecting on this semester! I was going through all of my posts that I have done for this class and I realized I am really glad I took this class because we did some pretty cool stuff! From the visual and design assignments to the radio show ...

Dear Future ds106er, I want to start this off by saying, I would highly recommend this course to anybody!! This is one of those classes in college that really teach you things that you can use even after you have left that class. I came into this class knowing little about what the internet offers ...

When I started doing this assignment, I realized that this is the last creative assignment for this class. I can’t believe it is already the end of the semester! Time goes by too fast…anyways, for the fandom assignment, I decided to change a Hershey’s bar! I absolutely loveee Hershey’s chocolate..all types of it! One of ...

I have finally reached the topic of Pakistani food! In my opinion, I loveee Pakistani food. It is spicy, but I am used to it. Whenever my friends try it, they say it is sooo spicy, but for me it has become normal. I included a slide show made on Animoto. I decided to use ...

I created a collage of photographs of different types of jewelery found in Pakistan. Long earrings, or big necklaces are popular to wear at weddings. Also, bangles are worn all the time too! To portray the jewelry of Pakistan, I created a collage using Publisher after I copied images from this website. The collage is ...

I shared with you guys the Pakistani Wedding. In those videos I created, I had many pictures of different people wearing various clothing from Pakistan, but here I want to highlight the clothes and styles of Pakistan in these videos from YouTube. The first video is of women fashion. You will notice that some clothes ...

I decided to create a video assignment and made a digital story compilation of my favorite work from ds106. As I was creating this, I realized how much fun I had doing the different assignments and I am going to miss it!! I created my video using Windows Live MovieMaker. I got some sounds from ...

The Walima is the third and last day to the Pakistani wedding. I made another photostory and included pictures from my cousin’s wedding. I recorded a narration to explain some more! I have embedded the video below.

I decided to choose the writing assignment haiku it up to do as another project. I picked one of my favorite pictures from the dailyshoot to write about. Also, I wanted to include the haiku on the photograph itself, so I used picnik to put the text on ...

My mashup is finally done! I took parts of a trailer/scenes of The Incredibles and took sound from Iron Man to create this mashup. I wanted to take an animated movie and put sound from another action filled movie. I chose The Incredibles and Iron Man because both are some of my favorite movies! As ...

So my idea to do a dance remix of songs, was not working out so well. I tried to put together many different songs, but it wasn’t flowing as well as I had hoped! Especially after I listened to this mashup, it was very well done! I really like how the video and the song ...

Here is my Photostory for the second day of a Pakistani wedding. I hope you enjoy looking at the very different culture, from the clothes to the traditions and customs to the music I added in! Enjoy!

I decided to do my mash-up project on a remix of dance songs. I wanted to challenge myself by not only having audio, but hopefully include videos in it as well. I am using audacity to mix the songs and then import them to Windows Live Movie Maker to include the video with it. I ...

I decided to do my video essay on the movie Paul Blart Mall Cop. This project was a great learning experience because I had never used most of these programs before! I posted in my previous blog all of the programs that I used to create the final work. I used MPEG Stream clip to ...

I have been working on the video essay assignment, and Jim is right when he says that it is very time extensive! So for those that have not started it, I really recommend that you guys get on it. I just wanted to blog about my progress so far. It has been going good, just ...

I want to post the first part of my final project. Like I said before, I want to portray my culture through digital storytelling! For the first post on this, I want to show you all how a Pakistani wedding is. A lot of different  traditions and practices go into this. The wedding usually lasts ...

This assignment was a lot of fun doing! At first, I was a little slow getting started, but the tutorial by Professor Burtis was very helpful! Once I got it rolling, it went good. I decided to use a Flickr page and created a completely random story about it.  I don’t even know where I ...

For my final project, I finally came up with an idea and am every excited about it! I want to record how much my culture affects my life. My parents are from Pakistan and I was born here, so there are many that I do, that involve the Pakistani culture, or the American culture, or ...

I decided to do the visual design assignment, “An Album Cover”. This what I came up with! My random Wikipedia page came to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIMCO My Album title came from the last 5 words of this quote: “To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.” by Anne-Sophie Swetchine. The photo ...

For this assignment, I used sounds from the websites  http://www.freesound.org/index.php and http://www.mediacollege.com/downloads/sound-effects/ to create a short story. It was fun experimenting with the different sounds to create a story. The story ...

I really liked a lot of different works by so many different people. Everyone was creative in their own way and I enjoyed looking at what others created! Some of my favorite Daily Shoots are of the following: This photograph was taken by electrovert It is taken from such a unique view and it came ...

Out of all of the assignments for this class, some of the photographs I took for the Daily Shoot assignment, were my favorites. Here is a favorite: I like this photograph a lot at first glance you can’t tell exactly what it is. It is actually of a clock in my room. I really like ...

Here is my story made from different song titles. Enjoy!

This design assignment is The Big Hip Hop one where you take a photo from Big Photo and add lyrics from a top 100 song. I used the website, http://www.picnik.com, to add the text in. It was pretty cool! I decided to use this picture of supporters raising their hands at a rally in the ...

Five Card Story: A Mystery a ds106 story created by Sofia flickr photo by jasonkgreen flickr photo by twothousandsuns flickr photo by srodgers2 flickr photo by NoiseProfessor flickr photo by afacewithfreckles I am walking through the hallway in an office building, when I hear something fall behind the door that I am standing near. I ...

One week of the daily shoot assignment has passed and I am really enjoying it! I have been into photography for years now, but I never find time or motivation to get out there and actually take photographs. After I heard about this assignment, I got excited because it gave me the opportunity to go and take ...

Web 2.0 has evolved into something that can benefit almost everyone. I think one of the greatest things about it is the idea to be able to link everything together. That allows people with the same interests to share and see what they want. “Social media” is evolving more and more each year, and this ...

The article brought up many good points. Building a personal cyberinfrastructure, would surely enlighten some people and make them want to engage it. The problem is, they have no motivation to. It needs to start somewhere and the place is in the classrooms where professors assign students work digitally, as the article tells. The push ...