This week, I’m looking at a video from NatGeo Times called “10 Unbelievable Future Technologies That Will Change The World In Your Lifetime.” This video quickly outlines ten “in progress” technologies that the producers see as having a large impact on the world. It’s just under ten minutes long, if you want to give it … Continue reading Digital Story Critique: 10 Unbelievable Future Technologies

For my last DS106 assignment bank creation, I wanted to do something I had not done before from a “new to me” category. I had also determined in last week’s course reflection that I wanted to involve my family in this week’s project. So, I worked with my husband to choose the “Buzzfeed Personality Quiz” … Continue reading Web Assignment: Catching the Buzz

This week we got to choose our type of assignment. I start out wanting to try something that involved a little writing. Then I started seeing Twitter conversations about the unexpected gameplay experiences that had cropped up after the launch of Pokemon GO. My mind kept coming back to this augmented reality game and what its … Continue reading Mashup Assignment: Pokemon Put Criminals in the Pokey

This week I’m looking at the “Future Cities” photo contest and story from the National Geographic YourShot site, edited by Monica Corcoran. The general concept is this: YourShot runs a contest with a theme for which anyone can submit a photograph and an optional amount of written explanation of their photograph. In the case of … Continue reading Digital Story Critique: Future Cities

Our assignment for Week 5 involved choosing a Mashup assignment from the DS106 Assignment Bank. I have to admit that I had no clue what to choose – nothing was speaking to me. I finally went with the Vine It Then Combine It challenge as I haven’t worked much with Vine. My subject matter, pretty … Continue reading Mashup Creation: My Future Library

This week we were asked to complete a project from the DS106 Design Assignment bank. I spent a lot of time looking through these assignments (I even started last week), and really had trouble finding one that spoke to me in the right way – the right way being that I could accomplish it within … Continue reading Design Creation: Put a Rhino on It!

For this week’s Digital Story Critique, I’m looking at the video, “The Anthropocene and the Near Future,” by John Green, Hank Green, and Emily Graslie, which is part of the Crash Course: Big History series. I decided on this video after an ongoing contemplation of action (or inaction) based upon anticipation of the future. Now, in … Continue reading Digital Story Critique: The Anthropocene and the Near Future

Superhero movies are all the rage right now, and I’ve thrown my hat in the ring with this short film about a woman who receives visions of future dangers. “The Small Perks of Seeing the Future” was created for the “Play It Backward, Jack” video assignment from the DS106 Assignment Bank. The assignment called for reversing a … Continue reading Video Creation: The Small Perks of Seeing the Future

Humans in space? A person on the moon? For much of human history, these ideas were inconceivable – pure fantasy of the future. The events during a span of time from the late ’50s to the mid-’70s, often referred to as the “Space Race,” is a place where “the future” and “the present” touched in the … Continue reading Digital Story Critique: Where Spacing Out Means Tuning In

This week’s assignment was to chose something from the DS106 Audio Bank. I tried using the randomizer again, but felt unsatisfied with the results. Audio is something that I’m still getting used to, and I really wanted to push myself a bit in terms of audio expression. So…I found something totally out of my comfort … Continue reading Audio Creation: Keeping Time with Me, Myself and I

There’s always a bit of adjustment to be done (I long to one day be organized enough to actually plan out a week properly in advance), but I’m pretty pleased with my first week as part of ILT5340 and DS106. There were whirlwinds involved – I wasn’t as prepared as I would have liked to … Continue reading Reflective Summary: Anchors Aweigh!

Ah, the power of music, or, in this case, poetry. I spun the metaphorical wheel in the Visual Assignment Bank for DS106 and was rewarded with the assignment to take a set of favorite lyrics and arrange them over a related image that helps convey the feel of the music. After much contemplation, I adjusted the … Continue reading Visual Creation: The Lyrical Image