This is my advice to any future students of DS106!  Do NOT procrastinate!!! EVER! You will regret it if you do. Try and complete the daily creates right when you get a new weeks worth of assignments. It’s more stressful putting them off last minute. Don’t be afraid to ask for help! Tweeting and Professor … Continue reading For future reference…

Howdy everyone! My name is Sally “Shot” Winderson and I am going to tell you the story about how I became a Gal of the East through the reasons why I love this place. Well if you ever read my tiny little background at the very beginning of this semester I said I was born … Continue reading This is Sally.

These next two weeks blend together and so far all I have posted this week is my game plan for the final project and I have commented on others ideas. I have started my project but will not post any of it until it is all together in one single post. Here’s to the rest … Continue reading Do I need one of these?

Throughout this entire semester my character Sally has told you her stories of the West as well as of the East. For this final project I will be telling her story of why she is now officially a Gal of the East. She loves the West and will always have fond memories of it but … Continue reading Sally: The Gal of the East

This week was all about web assignments and I had so.much.fun! But before I get into that, daily creates! This week was different though because we had to make a story and use our daily creates within that so they are all combined into one marvelous post! The required assignment of the week was to … Continue reading Weekly Summary 4/8/16 – 4/15/16

So every week we always have daily creates. This week we were required to do three and then post each of them in one blog post and make a story for them, so here’s my story about the day I, named Tara for the story, saved the DS106 world with the daily creates I did. … Continue reading How I saved the world…. (The DS106 world that is)

So for this week the required assignment was to find a web page and make it our own. Or the Storytelling Within the Web assignment. First I had to download the X Ray Goggles which was simple since I use Firefox on the regular. I then went and searched for a CraigsList Ad to mess … Continue reading Supernatural Sewing

For this assignment Sally is applying to a job in Fredericksburg, VA. She’s actually applying to be a bartender at Capital Ale! Her resume is a little rough around the edges but she’s surprisingly super smart and active! Here’s to hoping she gets the job. All I did was use Word to produce this resume … Continue reading Hire Sally!

For this assignment I decided to create my own search engine. I used the X-Ray Goggles and remade the Google page. It was pretty complicated because I could not for the life of me figure out how to change the Google logo, so now it’s a dingy little button. But I did have fun changing … Continue reading Help Me

To start off this weeks worth of web assignments I made a BuzzFeed Quiz. I just had to join the community and make the quiz. It took a lot longer than I thought it would since I had to download all the images from Google. Also coming up with a topic was quite a bit … Continue reading Find out who you are!

This week was all about remixes and mashups with a tutorial thrown in for good measure. As usual, daily creates up first! April 4th: I put myself on a billboard and in front of one too. @ds106dc #tdc1548 I'm on a billboard for a gym! pic.twitter.com/APwFl4gb7w — Tierra (@wildwebds106) April 4, 2016 April 5th: I … Continue reading Weekly Summary 4/1 – 4/8

For my last assignment of this week I am going to provide you with a tutorial from an assignment I did awhile back. It’s a desgin assignment on making your own custom shoe. The assignment is not too challenging but I know it’s always nice to see before hand what you are going to get … Continue reading How to make a shoe!

For this last mashup assignment I was to take a picture of something/someone in the moment that was similar to an emoji. I was then required to put them side by side for comparison. Well it just so happened that I walked in on my roommate being extremely studios. Like books out, notebook open, laptop … Continue reading #nerd

For this mashup assignment I was to combine three of my favorite holidays into one image. I took clip art images and used paint to combine all of them. I chose St. Patrick’s Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas. I chose these three because my family and I always do something on them and they tend to … Continue reading ThanksPatrick’smas!

For this assignment I decided to combine two scenes together from two movies I enjoy. It’s not as subtle as I’d like but I still think it’s quite funny. This wasn’t that hard to do however, I did have to YouTube a tutorial on how to combine two images. I used images from google an … Continue reading Jack? Jason?

For this assignment I did one more remix to complete the two remix assignments required. I decided to write a short letter to my future husband – Dr.Seuss style. I type this all up in a word document and then posted it below. Enjoy! Dear future husband, My name is Tierra, I’m not 100% fair-a … Continue reading My future husband of busband…

For this assignment I decided to do a remix and it ended up me adding a western theme to the original. The assignment was pretty basic, it just wanted something nostalgic from your past and to create something for it. When I was younger I used to play with these little toys called Polly Pockets … Continue reading Nostalgia with a Western twist…

Videos were continued in this past week but before I get into that, here are my daily creates! 3/27: Some form of March madness. Well and Irish dancers “March madness” is constant dancing throughout the month! @ds106dc #tdc1540 March madness = dance drills pic.twitter.com/iDDei3jXDl — Tierra (@wildwebds106) March 27, 2016 3/30: A new modern ACME … Continue reading Weekly Summary 3/25 – 4/1

This entire week has been a blur of learning how to shoot, edit and publish a video but it has been accomplished!!!! I shot my portion on Tuesday and then attempted to edit it in Windows Movie Maker but I couldn’t accomplish what I had in mind. Fast forward to today, Thursday, and I finally … Continue reading We’re live people!

This week was all about video and man was it a learning process. But, before we get into that – here are the daily creates I completed! 3/19: Created a snippet of life around me. @ds106dc #tdc1532 a little bit of nature(life) and a little bit of the Weeknd pic.twitter.com/pdljJ1ETIf — Tierra (@wildwebds106) March 19, … Continue reading Weekly Summary 3/18 – 3/25

As told in my last post, I said I was going to bless you all with a little trailer of what our vlogs next week will consist of – well here it is! I simply filmed myself with my camera, went to audacity and made a voice over. I thought it would be funny and … Continue reading The wait is over… sort of…

This week a few of the girls from the radio show group and I decided to work on this video assignment we were provided. It was a little rocky at first just because everyone’s schedules’ were so hectic but in the end everyone is now on board and on the same page. What we’re aiming … Continue reading Anotha one! (plan)

For this week we were assigned to do a video essay. What that is in short is watching a movie, picking scenes (or in this case picking A scene) and talking about the cinematography of said scene. We were given movie options and to my delight Django Unchained happened to be one of the options. … Continue reading Bye- Bye Brittle Bros.

In my bio/intro post I talk about my favorite thing to do which is lifting. For our assignments this week we were required to pick an assignment that was given to us and I decided to do my favorite hobby. And like I just said before, my hobby is literally walking to the gym and … Continue reading Watch my lift, now watch me…. lift again….

On Tuesday, 3/15, I listened in on two radio shows. The You Might Be A Cowboy If… and WWW News Show aired that night. The first one that played was the WWW New Show which was PHENOMENAL. The hard work was apparent in this group and it sounded like a true news show. The commercials … Continue reading I listened.

This week was the week of the radio show broadcast. Our show airs tonight (Thursday, 3/17) but I did listen in on Tuesday’s show and it was great! The World Wide Western news was amazing. It sounded very professional and exactly like a real news show. The second show sounded very much like a music … Continue reading Weekly Summary 3/11 – 3/18

For this assignment, Lindsey M‘s character Danny and my own Sally  “emailed” each other a little sequel to the radio show they participated in. It consists of a time traveling train and what’s going on back in Tombstone, Arizona. Read below to see what happening now in that crazy western town! This assignment was worth … Continue reading Time Traveling Train

Help me, Sally, find my good pal Tallie who has gone missing! She was last seen at her ranch wearing her ranch working outfit (jeans, boots and a button up) on Sunday around high noon. If anyone has any information please tell the Sheriff or me, Sally, at Tumbleweed Saloon in Tombstone, Arizona. The poster … Continue reading One of the Gals is MISSING

Just kidding! But there is a new ad up for a new camp out in Tombstone, Arizona! That’s right! Two of the Gals of the West have teamed up to put on a summer camp filled with blasting bullets and having a great time. Sally (aka Shot) and Angus both have teamed up with their … Continue reading Summertime is finally here!

This week and spring break were dedicated to making our radio show. I happened to finish all my segments before and during spring break. More about the radio show is in my second progress report. This week we were also required to do two daily creates which you can find below! On 3/7 we were … Continue reading Weekly Summary 3/4 – 3/11