Hi ds106er’s, So, here it is: the last weekly summary of ds106. I’m relieved that I’m done with all my schoolwork, and hopefully GRADUATING (after three longgggg years… I don’t know how people can stand four years of college!); but at the same time, I feel as if this huge blanket has been yanked off of me ...

Hi guys, My name is Fa Mulan, and today is my first day of high school. Being a teenager, I obviously needed the world to know:     When I got to school, the day started off kinda shaky. Some of the girls noticed I was new, and were trying to be nice by asking ...

Here is the last component of my final project! For this final assignment, I wanted to do a web assignment, so I went with one of my favourite ones, the “What They Might Have Done in Social Media” assignment. For this one, you have to make a fake Facebook page and fake Twitter tweet. Since ...

Okay, so this assignment was pretty simple. First, I found an image on Google of Mulan and her man. Even though it’s from Mulan 2 (which is god awful, don’t watch it!), I still thought it was the best image I could find. Here it is: Next, I went on my favourite image editing site, ...

Almost halfway done with my final project! The next assignment I did was the “Animated Music Video” assignment. I originally wanted to do a few weeks back, but I wasn’t sure if I wanted to sit there and edit a ton of clips with no clear vision or direction. So, when I was looking for ...

The next component of my final project I worked on was visual. I decided to go back and revisit the “Say It Like the Peanut Butter” assignment we had to do during week 3 of ds106. I forgot how to make a GIF, so I had to go back and look at Jim Groom’s tutorial ...

For my final project, I wanted to have a picture of the hunky Li Shang, Mulan’s future husband. Therefore, I did the “Cartoon You” assignment. First, I started with this picture of him: and then used Pixlr to edit it. On Pixlr, I: added in a monochromatic filter called “Logan” added in a ripped paper ...

So this semester, we had to make 2 tutorials, create and complete 2 assignments, and submit 2 daily create ideas. Here are the ones I did: Tutorials The first tutorial I did was on this video assignment called “Watching Movies with The Stereo on.” I thought the assignment was pretty basic, so I thought it would ...

Hujambo ds106ers! This is our final weekly summary! Can you believe it? After this, all we have left is our final project stuff and then we are officially done with class! It really just seems like last week we were struggling with figuring out our domain names and tweeting at @CogDog about what the heck ...

This is the second assignment I made, and I actually had a lot of fun making the mashup! First, I had to pick a song that’s a parody in itself. I went with Aqua’s “Barbie Girl,” since I had it stuck in my head since yesterday when I was trying to explain what a remix ...

So, trying to make a remix assignment was really hard. But I finally figured one out! Last year, I took a course by Dr. Whalen called Adaptation, which is about how books, etc. change when they are adapted into different forms (such as Alice in Wonderland the book vs. Alice in Wonderland the Disney movie.) ...

For this assignment, I was not sure what I really wanted to do. So I picked the photo with a ton of faces on it, and decided, hey I would think about it while I have it open on GIMP. Nope, GIMP decided to not work for me. So, after trying to open the program ...

Okay, so I really did not know what to do for this assignment, just because I kept getting the weirdest remixes. But I finally landed on this one, which I kinda liked. So, since it was kinda simple, I decided to make a funny little tutorial for this assignment. Here it is: Find a funny ...

Today was recycling day in my household. But today was different in the sense that I wasn’t just sorting through plastic bottles and cardboard boxes, but also through old media files that were discarded and abandoned during the 16 weeks of ds106. Since I’m a senior, and will be done with college in less than ...

Before you listen to my explanation of what a remix is, I thought I should tell you guys that I was pretty tipsy off of red wine when I was doing this. I was only going to have half a glass, but after getting so frustrated from my Popcorn assignment, I ended up drinking one and ...

If we got to punch one ds106 assignment, I would definitely punch this one. Before starting this project this afternoon, I went on Twitter and say some of my classmates were having problems with Popcorn. I wasn’t completely sure what the issues were (did they find it difficult to use? did they not understand the ...

Can you believe we’re almost done with the semester? I had to double-check my calendar because I feel like time flew by so quickly! Anyways, for my final project, I had trouble deciding which character I wanted to base my work around. I thought long and hard, flipped a few coins, and finally decided to ...

Howdy ds106er’s! Can you believe we’re at the final stretch before completing ds106? I still remember making my blog and ds106 accounts like it was yesterday! Whew, anyways, although I had a really late start to this week, I actually enjoyed making videos a lot! Don’t get me wrong, it was a ton of work, ...

The final thing I did this week was bringing the Foley video we saw a few weeks back to life. We had to do this by downloading the video clip, removing the audio, and replacing it with our classmates’ Foley clips and a different soundtrack to match the story we wanted it to tell. Since ...

I’m kinda sad this is my last video assignment! Anyways, I actually needed to do this tutorial for my mom, so I thought “Hey, why not submit it as an assignment too?” Okay, so for this assignment, I went on this website my brother always used for me (prior to screensharing on Skype and FaceTime ...

Okay, so I’m not going to lie, this assignment was pretty easy compared to the other videos I’ve been making. So I figured, “Hey, why not make a simple tutorial for this?” So, here’s how it goes: Find a video on YouTube of a clip from a movie you like (or don’t like, who cares, ...

The one thing I look forward to every Sunday morning has to be Sunday brunch. I’m not sure what makes it so appealing to me: the food? the mimosas? or the fact that it’s socially acceptable to wake up around 11AM and have my first meal be around noon? Maybe it’s all of the above, ...

So, for my second assignment, I chose to do something that was way more advanced than my first assignment, the “A Day in Your Life” assignment. Before I go into gibber-jabbering about the assignment and my approach to it, here’s the video I made: Now, I saw this assignment yesterday and kind of planned it out ...

Okay, so this was my first video assignment, and boy, oh boy, was it hard! This baby took me so long to do, and only for 2 stars??? I’ve gots a long way to get to 16! Anyways, for this assignment, I decided to look into the future of the characters from Gossip Girl. Here’s ...

Howdy ds106er’s! So this week we primarily analyzed movies! The past few days kind of reminded me of a class I dropped out of my freshmen year called Intro to Film Studies. I kind of disliked this week, but I mean, I think it’s because I had to write a lot rather than go out ...

After analyzing the “If you can dodge traffic, you can dodge a ball” scene from Dodgeball, I had to go and research more about this particular movie. First, I went on IMDb’s profile of the movie. From here, I found a few fun facts like The original title was simply ‘Underdog’. The entire cast practiced ...

For the three time analysis assignment, we had to watch a movie clip three separate times to focus on different elements, such as visual and audio, and then visual and audio together. I know this is awful, but none of the clips Cogdog had really interested me (sorry Cogdog!). So I decided to choose a ...

Making videos scare me. No, I’m being serious. That’s because unlike hearing a person through an audio clip or looking at someone through a picture, there’s nothing that’s left unknown in a video. You can see what they look like, you can hear them, heck, you can even pick out their nervous habits. You’re more ...

Ok, so for this week, we had to think about different genres of movies. I always thought genres were pretty easy to identify, like horror or comedy or action. But I feel like nowadays, there are a ton of new genres that are like a huge mumbo gumbo of different genres thrown together like black ...

Here are the daily creates I did for this week: March 26, 2013 Rewrite a classic movie scene so that its plot is relevant to ds106.   Okay, so Scarface is easily one of the most famous movies in the history of movies. And of course, for this daily create, I chose the famous scene ...