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  1. shenika1987

    Make a Story Out of Search

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    This was an assignment that I would never in a million years thought of myself it was quit interesting and full of tips and tricks that I can use in the future. I had a hard time deciding what to do the story about so I randomly started jotting things down and began my search ...
  2. shenika1987

    What They Might Have Done In Social Media

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    What they might have done in social media http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/what-they-might-have-done-in-social-media/ This assignment tasked me with making a fake Facebook and twitter posting for a person of the past.  This was a very interesting and fun assignment. It was very easy to do all you had to do was basically put in the information you wanted displayed ...
  3. shenika1987

    Daily Creates and a story

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    This week we had to change it up a bit and make our 3 daily creates into a story. This was an easy assignment because we had a good topic to choose from everyday.  Prized Possession http://tdc.ds106.us/tdc293/ For this assignment we were supposed to take a picture of our most prized possession.  Of course it ...
  4. shenika1987

    Week 7 and 8 Summary

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    These last two weeks have been full to max with school items even with the 2 day break that we had last week.  The most important and time consuming part was the Radio Show (Group Projects).  I have too say that I am more familiar with Audacity than I would like to be lol!  We ...
  5. shenika1987

    Audio Story Telling

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    This is a link that you can find all 10 stars of my Audio Storytelling.  I chose to provide this extra page so that it made it easier to navigate and read my weekly summary since there was a lot of information http://shenikarich.com/voice-morphing/  ...
  6. shenika1987

    Daily Creates Weeks 7 & 8

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    The assignment for the last two weeks was to complete 6 daily create tasks.  I would have to say that there were a lot of fun and interesting tasks to choose from which always helps when we are assigned to these weekly.  I was able to use what I have learned over the last several ...
  7. shenika1987

    Mainstream Chipmunkd’

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    http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/mainstream-chipmunkd/ I don’t know about you but when I saw this my mind was doing high fives lol! The first thing that came to my mind was Alvin and the Chipmunks.  I always wanted to know how they got them to sound like that and have always wanted to create this for myself.  I used ...
  8. shenika1987

    DS106 Rap

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    http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/ds106-rap/ For this assignment I had to be a human beat box and rapper lol!  I used Audacity to first record myself rapping and then I recorded another segment with myself beat boxing.  I must warn you in advance I am not much of a rapper nor am I am I a beat boxer.  I don’t plan ...
  9. shenika1987

    May I take your order?

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    http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/may-i-take-your-order/ For this assignment I had to YouTube a video to help me improve my different accents.  This assignment requires that we use a different accent pretending to order something off the menu at McDonald’s.  One of the requirements was to be picky! Every time I order something from McDonald’s i’m picky so that was no challenge at all.  I used Audacity ...
  10. shenika1987

    Poetry Reading

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    http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/poetry-reading/ For this assignment I had to take a poem and make it more into a story.  Reading the poem aloud in a way to make it feel like a story and extend the end to connect to a story.  I used Audacity to record myself reading is by Udiah “Kiss of my Love” which ...
  11. shenika1987

    Voice Morphing

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    http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/voice-morphing-2/ This assignment I used Audacity to morph my voice into something unrecognizable.  I chose to quote Dr. Seuss “Don’t cry because it is over, smile because it happened.” I recorded myself reciting the quote and used the Paulstretch effect to completely change my voice.  I had never used this tool before and it turned ...
  12. shenika1987

    Week 6 Summary

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    This week was a great week besides having to take a few exams and quizzes (examining my hair to make sure I don’t have any bald spots from pulling my hair out lol!)  I enjoyed the creativity from my group members and the ability to interact with them via twitter and canvas.  I enjoy the ...
  13. shenika1987

    Design Safari

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    This week we had to learn about the major design elements of : color typography metaphors/symbols minimalism & use of space form/function/message balance rhythm proportion dominance unity We had to carry our cameras around this week and try to capture some examples of some of the elements to prove that we understood them.  We had ...
  14. shenika1987

    Zombified

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    I chose to do this assignment because of the recent news about Zombies.  It was extremely easy because I used the site http://makemezombie.com/  to morph myself into a Zombie.  If you want to see how you would look as a Zombie … Continue reading
  15. shenika1987

    Image with a message

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    I chose to do the image with a message assignment found at http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/image-with-a-message-2/ I found this to be a little more challenging to think of because I was so stuck on the idea of the light bulb with a Thomas Edison quote … Continue reading
  16. shenika1987

    Common Everyday Object

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    I chose to do the Common everyday object that we manipulate the color on which is found at http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/common-everyday-object-2/ I wanted to think of something different to do with this photo beside posting a photo of my household appliances or … Continue reading
  17. shenika1987

    Cogdog’s Illustrate 106

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    For this assignment we were to celebrate our 106ness by locating something showing the numbers 106. The original assignment can be found at http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/illustrate-106/ I was thinking of things that would have 106 in them and it dawned on me that 106 is something that I see everyday since my local radio station is 106.5 the beat. I had ...
  18. shenika1987

    Splash of Color

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    I have never done anything like this before and I would see this effect and thought to myself how cool is that. My inspiration is simple and like always my child… he makes me smile when I am down and naturally he is the only thing in my cellphone lol!!! I used some online photo ...
  19. shenika1987

    Daily Creates

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    I was trying my hardest to be excited this week about the daily create selections but I was stomped when it came to finding a bald headed person in my life and I was amazed at how I don’t hardly know any. You can never have too much yellow is so true.  I was looking at this assignment and ...
  20. shenika1987

    Photoblitzing

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    Wow how can I start to describe this project? As I read the directions for this assignment I thought that I was going to nail it but when my 20 minutes started it was like my creative mine drew a blank. I chose to do my blitz at home which is the only place that ...
  21. shenika1987

    Radio Bumper

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    I had never heard of the term radio bumper prior to this course which I have to say was a very interesting task of me even deciding what to do. I had a great time listening to others creativity I came across someone’s bumper from earlier this year that used chucky’s evil laugh as the intro to her ...
  22. shenika1987

    Weekly Summary:Week 4

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    Week 4 was a interesting week beign since I have never worked with audio editing before. I had no idea of the amount of work that goes into making even the simpliest sound bit.  This week we received information on our group project, and I did not reply to the request of group members because ...

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