Listening to & Learning Design

Listening to & Learning Design

by @Sam_ara106

| Reflections, Syndicated, Week Six
February 20, 2018

Scher and Carson both made me question my definition of design. Some of the “designs” that they showed seemed like everyday things to me. When looking at this image from Scher’s talk, I simply saw a t-shirt. Of course, I knew that shirts have to be created, but I had not seen it as a […]
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Talking to the End

by @Sam_ara106

| Syndicated, Week Five, Weekly Post
February 18, 2018

After that frightening intro video (which I will refer to later), I created my character! I loved the archetype I submitted (The Lover, who still sees zombies as humans who can be saved), so I used it to create Winifred Hart. In this post I spent a lot of time trying to show how good she is. […]
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Calming Sounds

by @Sam_ara106

| #AudioAssignments, audio, AudioAssignments2142, Syndicated, Week Five
February 18, 2018

For the final star, I created a short audio clip of calming sounds. I included beach waves and birds, which is what I immediately think of when I think of calming sounds. I also added some different instruments, including one that I have never heard of and cannot identify. I don’t have much to say […]
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Finis Bus Ad

by @Sam_ara106

| #AudioAssignments, audio, AudioAssignments2009, Syndicated, Week Five
February 18, 2018

I scrolled through many audio assignments that had at least three stars until I found one that caught my eye: a fictional radio ad. I was immediately drawn to it because of the picture of Charlie Brown, and I loved the video! I decided to go with the theme of Magic School Bus, and the […]
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The Frequencies of Friends

by @Sam_ara106

| #AudioAssignments, audio, AudioAssignments2178, Syndicated, Week Five
February 18, 2018

I found Frequency 2156 interesting and very difficult. Audio is a nice choice since in the case of the apocalypse, I don’t think many of us would have the time or ability to watch TV. We’ll either be hiding or running. The use of audio also allows the listeners to imagine the apocalypse. You might know that “they” are […]
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Learning to Listen

by @Sam_ara106

| audio, Syndicated, Week Five
February 13, 2018

My previous experience with audio has been fairly limited. I listen to B101.5 in my car, and my eleventh grade English teacher played a few podcasts for us in class (after talking about how amazing they are, to which we all rolled our eyes), but other than that, I tend to have some sort of […]
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Winifred Hart

by @Sam_ara106

| Syndicated, Week Five, writing, writingassignments, WritingAssignments1867
February 13, 2018

With a name like Winifred Hart, she was destined to be peaceful. Winifred means “blessed peace,” and Hart is obvious. Her parents imagined a world with no poverty, discrimination, or hunger, and Winifred grew up with the same mindset. Since her first day of kindergarten, she has been giving countless compliments about how kind and […]
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Vi4eo Week

by @Sam_ara106

| Syndicated, Week Four, Weekly Post
February 10, 2018

Although my temperature is normal, I have been feeling sick all week. The only good part about that is that I was able to finish almost all of the assignments for the week in one day. Before I began working on the assignments, however, I completely redesigned my website. I was able to customize the […]
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Films, Movies, Gifs

by @Sam_ara106

| Syndicated, Video, visualassignments, visualassignments2, Week Four
February 7, 2018

Although the post said that La Jetée is told mostly in images, I still found myself surprised when there actually were moments of silence. Not only that, but I found myself paying more attention, and feeling more interested, when there was no narrating. I noticed many of the images of people had very dark backgrounds. […]
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A Zom5ie Story

by @Sam_ara106

| photography, Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments2167, Week Four
February 7, 2018

I will post my zom5ie story first so that you can interpret it before I give anything away! Here are the spoilers! This story is featuring my sister and my dog. The first image depicts a normal life with a girl and her dog. Then, a zombie suddenly comes out of the closet. […]
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Individual Differences

by @Sam_ara106

| photography, Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments2172, Week Four
February 7, 2018

Before and After Above I have linked to my before and after (well, after and before) pictures of the apocalypse. I took the before picture in a brightly lit room, looked directly at the camera, and smiled. This is what would be considered a “normal” picture, and is what everyone would expect. For the after […]
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Photography is as Difficult as 1, 2, 3

by @Sam_ara106

| photography, Syndicated, Week Four
February 7, 2018

Today is my sick day (so expect a lot of work for this class!), but that hasn’t stopped me from learning. I would also like to point out that I am expecting to feel 10x better when I recover (I’m looking at you, Dr. Burtis). I have taken a photography class once years ago, but […]
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Writing The End

by @Sam_ara106

| Syndicated, Week Three, Weekly Post
February 4, 2018

I began this week with several Daily Creates. The short story wasn’t my favorite (and is what I would change for the week), but I loved the other two I chose. I spent a long time thinking of what was backwards in Simpson Library as I sat on the couch, and then I saw the…
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Psycho the Superhero

by @Sam_ara106

| Syndicated, Week Three, writing, writingassignments, writingassignments2104
February 4, 2018

I go by Psycho. After all, that’s what everyone has been calling me since middle school. However, I don’t notice anyone laughing after they call me. Not since the apocalypse. I am a psychic overseer, and I use my ability to warn people when the zombies will be arriving where they set up camp. I…
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Need For Zombie Hot Sauce

by @Sam_ara106

| Syndicated, Week Three, writing, writingassignments, WritingAssignments2161
February 4, 2018

Amazon would not let me write a review since I have never purchased anything, but here is what I would write. I cannot begin to tell you how ironic and useful this hot sauce has been. I spend most of my time hiding from zombies, but now I am able to peacefully eat while staring at even…
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Humans End, Cats Begin

by @Sam_ara106

| Syndicated, Week Three, writingassignments, WritingAssignments2164
January 31, 2018

Domestic cats are told “no” probably more than any other pet humans had. One can imagine that cats were not too disappointed when humans begin quickly disappearing due to a virus that only affected their species. Cats could finally live. Many around the world were locked into houses from which they could not escape, but the…
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Finis – The Better Ending

by @Sam_ara106

| Syndicated, Week Three, writingassignments, WritingAssignments1552
January 31, 2018

The ending we know: It seemed to Eastwood the cry of the perishing world. He held her in his arms and kissed her wet, tremulous face that was strained to his. The twilight was gone before they knew it. The sky was blue already, with crimson flakes mounting to the zenith, and the heat was…
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The Apocalypse in a Few Words

by @Sam_ara106

| Syndicated, Week Three
January 31, 2018

I admit that I chose my two short stories based on their length (three pages was more realistic for me than forty), but I ended up finding them both interesting. I began with Finis. Immediately, I found it difficult to determine the relationship amongst all of the characters, but I think that lead to another…
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The Beginning of the End

by @Sam_ara106

| Syndicated, Week Two
January 29, 2018

I began this week with nothing other than the Daily Create! My flash fiction about zombies being at my 8:00am class instead of students probably wasn’t as creative as I would like looking back, but it was difficult to tell an entire story in the limited characters Twitter allows. Find my story here! I decided to also…
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Apocalypse Reading Reflection

by @Sam_ara106

| Syndicated, Week Two
January 25, 2018

I found End Day interesting in what they qualified as an apocalypse. I always envisioned it as the end of the world, where all of mankind is destroyed. However, this film defined the “end” as events happening in specific areas, such as tsunamis in New York and the East Coast, nuclear weapons, and meteors. For all…
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My Adult Trip to the Zoo

by @Sam_ara106

| Syndicated, Week Two, writingassignments, WritingAssignments2160
January 23, 2018

A new beginning in my life was beginning. Technically, I have been an adult for over eight months, but I don’t do adult things. Sure, I am a college student. However, I live in the same room I did a year ago, don’t pay bills, and didn’t travel without an older adult (my parents) with me.…
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Entering the Apocalypse

by @Sam_ara106

| Syndicated, Week One
January 20, 2018

I should start off by admitting that this course is not at all what I expected it to be. I imagined the square story boards from my high school programming class, and lectures to listen to once a week about how to, quite literally, create a story. Even though this class is not what I…
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First Post

by @Sam_ara106

| Syndicated, Week One
January 17, 2018

I am looking forward to this course!!
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