Hello agents! This is secret agent Scarlet Jones with a final write up about my final mission as a DS106 Agent. I have worked hard and endlessly on this case and am proud to share my reports and finding with you. A you all know, I recently accepting a case out in Russia to unearth …

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My advice for any future students would be to organize and do not procrastinate. Procrastination was often my biggest downfall. The information and the assignments aren’t hard or complicated but sometimes there is a lot of work thats assigned for the week, so waiting till Thursday night or Friday to start your weekly work is …

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First off, I am very excited for my final mission! I have read over the information and I think this will be a fun a creative way to end the semester. I think that everything that we have worked on so far this semester has been a great way to prepare us for whats to …

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And the results are in! For my twitter polls I asked questions about Agent Zero and Agent Kid. I used my questions to help me try to figure out how to incorporate this information into a storyline that I will later need for the final mission. The first poll that I did was about Agent …

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This week I worked on mash ups and remixes. At first it was a little hard having to learn how to use photoshop and other tools. I had to watch several video tutorials to learn how to create a photoshop picture. For my first assignment that I created I made a tutorial  for how to use the …

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For this tutorial I decided to demonstrate how to use Preview to create my movie poster mashup. In the first photo you can see the starting point. In this second photo you can see the how I annotated the photo. You go to tools and then scroll down to annotate. Then select the option that …

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Two of my favorite Tom Hanks movies, Forrest Gump and Saving Private Ryan. I decided to do these two movies because I feel like Tom Hanks is compared in both of these movies even though they are completely different and he has completely different rolls in each film. To make this movie poster I found …

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For this assignment I had to take a photo from an iconic movie and add it to another iconic movie photo in a  subtle way. Can you tell what two movies they are? Can you find the thing that doesn’t belong here? I created my assignment using Pixlr.com. Because I did the holiday mashup assignment …

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For this assignment I used pixlr.com to create a photo combination of my three favorite holidays. In case you couldn’t tell, my favorite holidays are halloween, thanksgiving, and Hanukkah. At first it was hard to figure out. It took me about an hour to learn how to edit the photos and layer the other images …

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This week was a little stressful for me. I was in a car accident on Sunday and have been dealing with insurance stuff all week regarding my injuries, car and rental car. I know that I am missing an assignment or two, unfortunately I didn’t have time to complete everything with everything else going on. …

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This video is a video of my roommate recalling her least favorite memory while living in our current off campus house. The incident she talks about in the video happened about 2-3 weeks ago. We have always known that our neighbor was a jerk, but never knew he would take something like a friend using …

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So this video is paying homage to something that I love…ANIMALS!! If you can’t tell by the photos in this iMovie presentation, I am obsessed with almost every animals, especially puppies. I made this video using iMovie. I made a small collection on my laptop desktop, of some of my favorite animal photos. A lot …

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For this assignment I decided to do the College Collage project. This assignment was worth 4.5 stars. I started by collecting a bunch of my favorite college photos from my phone and old Facebook photos. I tried to get a variety of pictures with the most important people in my life. I also tried to …

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Week 10 is complet! I didn’t know what really to expect this week. I decided to chose the option of doing the video assignments over another group project simply because it fit better with my schedule. So for my first video assignment I did the 1 Second Video assignment. I like this assignment because it …

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I actually really enjoyed doing this project. I liked being able to pick my own interview questions. My favorite question was which red animal would I be? I also enjoyed being asked the questions by the different DS106 professors. I thought that it was a fun twist on the course. I tried to pick a …

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For this assignment I decided to use the trailer for the 2007 movie Nancy Drew. Nancy Drew is one of my favorite spies of all time and I think that my secret agent character and her connect in a lot of way. I used the techniques learned about after reading the articles posted in the …

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For my final assignment I decided to do the Plinkett Review assignment. However instead of reviewing a movie, I decided to review a TV show instead. I decided to review the TV show Gilmore Girls, which is a shocker because everyone loves Gilmore Girls but surprisingly I don’t. I outlined some reasons why I am …

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For this assignment I decided to do a video of how to use the Preview tool. I found this very helpful through the course so far. I used the Preview tool mostly for creating daily creates that involved word creates. I liked using Preview because it was very easy and simple to navigate and had …

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For this assignment I made a one second video of what a typical Thursday night at my house looks like, me trying to do my assignments while watching the new Grays Anatomy which ultimately results in me giving up on the homework until the new episode is over. I decided to this as my story …

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This week went well. I was a little worried at first that that the web remix assignment would be a little difficult. But it was actually pretty simple and fun to do! I used the X-ray googles tool to edit and create my page. For the Web design projects I decided to do the Dream …

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For my web re-design I decided to remix a page for the Eco Dot. I liked this project because it was a fun and different project that I got to experience. I decided to recreate the page for the Eco Dot because it actually is like a buddy in a box. All of the points …

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For this assignment I hand to go through the history of DS106 and find an old assignment that I could redo and make my own. I decided to go with the assignment “Love is Something You Can’t Live a Day Without” from the DS106 fall 2016 course. I first found this assignment by googling #ds106 …

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I loved this assignment! It was super fun for me because I enjoy browsing Pinterest on my spare time and getting ideas for my dream home (since I’m 22 and will be on my own and starting a family soonish). I have pretty simple taste. I like things to look nice and neat but also …

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I decided to tune in and listen to the radio show ‘Agents on Air”. I really liked the beginning of the show. I think that they had a great opening hook! I loved the sounds and the music. Great opener. I also loved that they had 4 different agents on the air and used this …

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This semester has been filled with talent so far! Every week I like to take a few minutes to look at other class members blog post and see the work that they did for the week. Sometimes it helps to inspire me, and other times I just think that it’s fun to see what my …

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Overall I think that week 8 went well! My group finished our radio show and I enjoyed working with a different group of people and learning new digital media projects. My group met twice (one time online via video chat and one time in person) to go over details, style, format and to actually record …

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This week my group meet once online (google hangout) to video chat about what specific things we want to include in our radio show, details, time frame, and speaking parts. We talked for about 30 minutes planning all of this out. and then set up individual parts to do on our own before me met …

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This week went pretty good! I enjoyed all of my assignments and daily creates!   My first assignment was the assignment “The Day in the Life..”. In this assignment, viewers will get to learn even more about my character Scarlet Jones and what a typical day in her life would be like. I liked doing …

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This is a logo design that I came up with for my groups radio show project. Our show name is a spiny off and is called Cloak and Dagger. Cloak is coming from the term “Blanket Spying”. I made my design using Preview on my Macbook. This process was pretty easy. I just edited my …

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I think that our radio show is going to be great! My group has been collaborating all week on some cool ideas for our show. We have pretty much come up with the idea to do a segment on mass-survalliance with contrasting old school spy methods and new school spy methods. We have also decided …

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