Hallo, ds106ers! So, this week went by quickly. I feel like that Sunday deadline came so quickly! Probably because we had three weeks to do our last batch of work and only one week for this batch. Spring break definitely put me on a weird schedule. I don’t want to do any work now! But ...

Okay, so this assignment definitely intimidated me when I first read its instructions. However, as soon as I got the X-Ray Goggles from Hackasaurus on my bookmark bar and played with it on a few sites, like Craig’s List and Facebook, I was completely comfortable messing around with a website. So, I went on Amazon.com ...

Here are the daily creates I did for this week! This week had a new twist in that we needed to create a story that connected all of our daily creates together. I had this idea that there is someone missing someone or something. Here’s the story (in the story order which helps all of ...

While browsing through the web assignments list, this one definitely grabbed my attention. It’s probably because one, I’m taking a course called “Social Media” this semester, and two, I have a social media internship right now. So yeah, I definitely felt obligated to do this. First, you have to go on this site, which creates ...

This assignment was the first web assignment I did for this week. At first I wasn’t really sure what to do, so I looked around at what other people before me did to get some inspiration. I came across CogDog’s submission, and thought it was super cool he was able to create a map with all ...

This week, my group, the Fab Five, was assigned to listen to the Dot Commer’s radio show called The Science of Group Projects. It’s about a group of students who have to do a group project. But wow, I thought this group did a great job! I was surprised that this group was able to ...

Ni hao, ds106er’s! Hope ya’ll had a great spring break! Did you guys go anywhere exciting? I ended up staying in good ol’ Fredvegas, but I did get to relax in my bed and catch up on some sleep, so I’m as happy as a clam now. Too bad I’m craving summer more than ever ...

Okay, so for the rest of my stars this week, I decided to do this audio assignment I found randomly. I chose to do my favourite play, “No Exit.” It’s a really good play, so I recommend you read it (you know, unless you’re not into existentialist writing, then I probably wouldn’t look at this). Anyways, ...

Okay, so this was pretty tough. For this assignment, we had to make sounds to the video below: Since I was born in February, I had to do the sounds from 0:30 to 1:00. It was tough doing it in one take, but after several attempts, I got it! Here’s my finished result: Yeah, yeah, ...

So whew, this project was a lot of work! Thank goodness I started on it early or else I would have been super stressed trying to get it done. Anyways, here’s the rundown of my group’s radio show: Concept and Organization If you didn’t know, for our radio show, we decided to do a segment ...

Here are the six daily creates I did for week 7 and week 8: March 3, 2013 Write one line from a song that predicts how your day will go, another how it really went. Here is my submission for this daily create. When I saw this prompt, I thought of that scene from 500 ...

I get a ton of email spam. And by a ton, I mean approximately 3-5 a day. I’m not exactly sure why I get so much spam (I rarely sign my email up for anything anymore) but I do. The one I read is a spam email I’ve gotten at least five times now. I ...

Aloha ds106er’s! This week flew by so quickly, didn’t it? Not going to lie, design week wasn’t that bad. I thought it was really cool to read about all of the different design elements, especially since I’m interested in marketing and such. Anyways, here’s the rundown for week 6 para mi: Design Safari Here is ...

For this assignment, I choose to revamp a saying I saw on a bumper sticker when I was driving down to Radford, VA last summer. I thought the original would have been a little too vulgar for ds106 (it’s definitely rated at least PG13). Since this was my last design assignment, I decided to bite ...

For this assignment, I choose to use my favourite site, Pixlr again. I googled a picture by searching “sleepy person” and added text via Pixlr. I chose to make it red, since red stood out against the background and normally catches people’s attention. I also made the warning in big bold letters. I thought this ...

So, for this assignment, I decided to use Pixlr because GIMP was being totally sucky. Anyways, I took a photo of me (from like freshmen year), and added in text that was about me. I had a little difficulty because I was trying to find colours that would stand out against the background and also ...

  For this assignment, I had to think pretty long and hard about which word I wanted to use. Then, I was cleaning out some stuff, and found my old Lucky Brand hoop earrings, which are in a peace sign. At this point, I just finished my design safari, and was thinking about design elements ...

So, this week, we had to carry our cameras around with us and take pictures of things that depicted the main elements of design. Here are the photos that I choose! Colour Here on this play mat, we see colour is used to keep our attention and evoke happy emotions. This is extremely important since ...

  Coincidentally, I had to do this exact same assignment for my creative writing seminar this semester. We didn’t have to do it with a picture, of course, but we did have to make up our own six-word memoir. The one I wrote was “Love; 7 lbs and 10 oz” (I hope ya’ll get what ...

Here are the daily creates I did for week 6: February 18, 2013 Take a picture of something that is nice and cozy in a blanket. My two favourite guys snug as two bugs in a rug. It was during T.J’s afternoon nap. I wish I could have been sleeping too but alas, I was ...

Konnichiwa ds106er’s! So after a tough week of audio clips and bits, we moved on to visual week! Even though I liked taking pictures way more than recording my voice (I feel like I sound like a little baby, eckk!), I still had a hard time since I don’t have a fancy smancy digital camera, ...

TJ’s Typical Day, a set on Flickr. For this flickr set, I decided to add in photos that best described what my son, Taishi, does during a typical day. I put the photos in chronological order, and the titles are his “times” such as “Play Time” and “Bath Time.” For each photo, I described more ...

Twenty Minute Blitz, a set on Flickr. For my photo blitz, I decided to take photos in my room because 1) I didn’t feel like leaving my room, 2) it was dark outside, and 3) it was super duper cold. So, since I was in a confined space, I feel like I had a harder ...

Here are the three daily creates I did for week 5: February 11, 2013: Take a photo of someone other than you using your favorite type of technology. Now, this daily create was a little ambiguous because of the wording. It could mean two different things: 1) take a picture of someone that is using a ...

  For this visual assignment, I did another “try random one” and came across the “Street View Story” assignment. Being an English major, I was more than excited to find an assignment that incorporates visual as well as textual elements. The photo is of Ponte Cavour, Rome, Lazio, Italy. Here is the little story I ...

So, I was kinda getting bored of the visual assignments that were listed, so I clicked on the “try random one” button to find something new that no one else was really doing. I came across this assignment called “Warhol Something” and decided to give it a shot. At first, I was trying to use GIMP, ...

For this assignment, I found an app for my iPhone called iSplash (which is free, yay!) that allowed me to edit my pictures and make certain parts black and white, or coloured. It was really hard to do considering I had to edit the photo using a touchscreen rather than with a mouse on a ...

  This picture is what I created for the “An Album Cover” assignment. After seeing Kaitlyn’s submission for this assignment, I decided to attempt this one too! The directions are super simple. First, you click here, which directs you to a wiki article. The title of the article is your band name. I got this: ...

For this assignment, I decided to use this photo from Sara’s flickr set. I saved this photo and uploaded it onto Pixlr.com, a website Michael Branson-Smith talked about during this week’s ds106 show. On Pixlr, I used the text tool to add in the text, chose my font (an elegant cursive font), sized it, moved ...

What’s up, fellow ds106er’s? This week, I am again scrambling around last minute. But hey, before you judge, I had a very busy week! Earlier this week, I celebrated my 21st birthday three different times: once with my friends before my birthday, once with my immediate family on my birthday, and once with my boyfriend ...