Another assignment I chose for this week was the “A Place I’ve Never Been” (3.5 stars) assignment. Seeing as I haven’t been to a lot of places, I had quite a few choices! One of my good friends lives in… Continue Reading →

One of the assignments I chose to do was create a DS106 Post Secret (2 stars): It’s time to get real! Design your own ds106 themed Post Secret postcard. Use photo editing software to experiment with different fonts and layering… Continue Reading →

I chose to do the “Minimalist TV/Movie Poster” (3.5 stars) assignment in the category of “Design/Re-designing Posters” in this weeks Design Assignments. Unsure of which movie to chose, I decided to stick to Disney movies to simplify my options, and… Continue Reading →

Between our two options for “Visual Thinking and Symbols” this week, I chose “One Story/Four Icons” which is 2.5 stars. To keep it easy and stop myself from trying to remember every movie I’ve seen, I just chose to do… Continue Reading →

I literally typed in “Weekly Summary #3″ before realizing it’s the end of Week 5. What?! I feel like this semester is going to fly by, and I can’t decide if I’m happy or sad about that. In other news,… Continue Reading →

In order to pimp up my Flickr this week, I created a bunch of sets (albums) for my photos. This included my best photos, outdoor pictures, travel, etc. Here’s the set of my best photos:   I found that if… Continue Reading →

Using the list of tips on the weekly assignments page, I tried my best to make my photos a bit better and more thought-out this week. Looking through my photos now, I think the one I used best was Change… Continue Reading →

Assignment: Using Knightlab’s Story Map, create a map telling a story of a trip you took or would like to take. Include pictures. They can be your own, or from flickr (just give them credit). (4 stars). For my third assignment… Continue Reading →

Assignment: Find something in your house. Take a picture. Let your imagination churn. Make as many different augmented versions as you can think of. Help others see what’s in your head. (3.5 Stars) This mandatory assignment intimidated me because I don’t… Continue Reading →

For one of my three weekly assignments, I chose to do the Common Everyday Objects assignment (2 stars). For the assignment, I had to photograph a common everyday object and manipulate the colors. I chose to photograph my couch, because let’s… Continue Reading →

I had such a fun time with this weeks Photoblitz assignment. Here’s a Slideshow of 5 of my favorite pictures from the Photoblitz, excluding the start and end times. On each individual photo I have a description of which assignment… Continue Reading →

Well to start, this week was as difficult as I thought it’d be! Definitely the most challenging week yet, I’d say. However, the outcomes were very rewarding and I’m proud of myself for the things I created and learned. Reflections:… Continue Reading →

This week, I set aside time to listen to DS106 Radio! I had no idea that was a thing, until this week. It’s definitely cool that this class has it’s own radio since this is where we’re learning the techniques… Continue Reading →

I really enjoyed getting a chance to listen to a full story. It was nice to sit down, relax, and listen rather than watch. I chose to listen to “How I Got Into College” on thisamericanlife.org. I’d never been on… Continue Reading →

Whenever I wake up in the mornings, I hate the world. I know my last post was pretty pessimistic, so let me just say that I promise I’m a cheery person, but I am not someone you will ever want… Continue Reading →

“Pfft audio.. anyone can do that, how hard can it be?” Oh my goodness, I’ve nearly thrown my laptop across the room at least three times. Not only am I horrendously bad at anything in technology past Facebook and making… Continue Reading →

I have to admit, when I first saw that this week’s assignments all were audio-related, I was extremely intimidated and slightly not looking forward to it. And I wonder, why is that? After watching Ira Glass talk about the processes that… Continue Reading →

I found this week to be a bit easier than last week, or the weekly assignments were just a lot more enjoyable for me. Being able to sift through past ds106 students’ projects was interesting and inspiring, while it also… Continue Reading →

For starters, I’m a huge Kurt Vonnegut fan, and the video of him telling a story about storytelling didn’t disappoint. He started out with average, and ended with a classic story that’s repeated in numerous ways in so many movies.… Continue Reading →

This week, my friend and I went hiking in Shenandoah National Park, and I took some photos. As I was looking through them, I realized they collectively epitomized my emotions while hiking. Here’s the story:   I found this activity… Continue Reading →

This is the weekly assignment I was looking forward to most so that I could see other students work and use it as inspiration. After uncovering quite a few dead links and looking through some past projects, I found this post… Continue Reading →

At the beginning of this week, I jotted a few notes down on what I think Storytelling is. I put it away for the week and continued with our assignments. For the Daily Creates, I thought about this question and… Continue Reading →

Happy Friday! I read today’s Daily Create assignment while walking home from my last class of the week (woo!) and decided I’d just film a few snippets of the rest of my day and upload that as my daily create. However,… Continue Reading →

As part of our weekly assignments, I created a GIF. I looked up how to do it and saw a bunch of sites, but I figured the site “makeagif.com” seemed pretty promising.Two of my favorite movies are Shrek and Little Miss Sunshine. It was quite a toss-up between the two, but I went for this … Read More →

The podcast was such a refreshing assignment! It was nice to not look at a computer screen but instead, listen. I read a few of the other students posts and I think a lot of people came to agree that… Continue Reading →

For starters, the work load for this week was certainly a lot more than last week. While the assignment that intimidated me the most was the GIF assignment, that ended up proving to be the least time-consuming for me and… Continue Reading →

Gardner Campells article on A Personal Cyberinfrastructure was interesting to read because I could see a lot of his ideas implemented in this class. We’re given our own domain and space on the internet to express ourselves. Not only that,… Continue Reading →

I deeply enjoyed Wesch’s speech about a new and fresh way of education. I’ve always thought it seemed silly that we, students, only memorize information to then repeat for a grade, and then forget. It’s only things that have interested me beyond normal information that I remembered, but that wasn’t often or an abundance of … Read More →

Here’s my version of the internet in my head! I’m strangely proud of this drawing. At first, I was just going to draw myself in a little house in Facebook Street, since that’s the main site I usually spend my time on, but then I thought about it, and I do shamefully spend a lot of … Read More →

For my first Daily Create assignment, I chose this picture because it’s got a few of my favorite things: Sunflowers, photobooth pictures of me and my three best friends, a picture from my time in Edinburgh, a Human Rights Campaign/Equality sticker, and the effects of a sunset. For some reason this picture isn’t showing up […]