Storytelling that Works

Storytelling that Works

by @Tillysisland

| ds106, storyanalysis, Syndicated
January 24, 2022

In the past few years, I haven’t done much reading for pleasure. I’ve picked up the odd Harry Potter book or an old graphic novel from my dad’s collection, but with the overwhelming presence of technology and the distractions that come with it, I’ve found it quite difficult to have
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Emotional Lyrics

by @OliviaF98845588

| assignmentbank, ds106, Syndicated, WritingAssignment
January 24, 2022

Writing Assignment: 3 stars *** I am choosing three songs that give me the feeling of nostalgia. This song reminds me of sitting around a camp fire with my friends in the summer. Drinking Diet Cokes and making s’mores, tired from the days activities. We talked about anything and everything around that circle, or sometimes ...
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A Picture is Worth A Thousand Words

by @CeliaSdigitally

| ds106, Syndicated
January 24, 2022

They say a picture is worth a thousand words…and here goes the story behind this one. July 2020: Covid is sweeping through the nation shortly after a young girl was born and given the name Joella. People all around the world are suffering from mental illness and depression from the past few months spent in … Continue reading A Picture is Worth A Thousand Words
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Living With Olaf… Arenndele

by @CeliaSdigitally

| ds106, Syndicated
January 24, 2022

If I was given the option to live anywhere in the world, or fictional world, I would choose the Arenndele Castle from the movie Frozen. I would most likely move here after college and work for the government. I would reside in the castle and use my degree in political science to sustain myself. One … Continue reading Living With Olaf… Arenndele
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The Yellow Wallpaper

by @CeliaSdigitally

| ds106, storyanalysis, Syndicated
January 24, 2022

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Stetson is one of my personal favorite short stories. I was introduced to this short story in high school, where I was a member of the scholastic competition team. This is an older short story, however, the context in which it was written and the hidden meaning behind the story … Continue reading The Yellow Wallpaper
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Celebrate your New Attitude and Suck the Blood From My Wound

by @Bendire Thrasher

| ds106, Syndicated, writingassignments, writingassignments2043
January 24, 2022

“Choose an emotion (happy, sad, excited, hyper, sleepy, suprised, inspired, ect..) and then choose three songs that elect that emotion. Name emotion, the song, and why it makes you feel that way. This can be done in three separate tweets to allow for character count. Have fun with this!” ds106 Assignments: Emotional lyrics Music is […]
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Week 2 Summary

by @BriannaDAlbis

| dgst 106, ds106, Syndicated, Weekly Summaries, WeeklySummary
January 21, 2022

Daily Create The first task was to explain blockchain with a photo or picture. Now, I don’t understand what blockchain is, but from what.
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Week 2: Oh Joy!

by @nalujoprojects

| ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
January 21, 2022

Throughout this week, I completed Daily Creates on Twitter, which were surprisingly fun ways to spend a few minutes every day. To complete the “Back to the Basics” design assignment, I built a cozy cottage in Minecraft. You can see a tour here: https://naomiljones.com/blog/ds106/extreme-home-makeover-minecraft-edition/ For the “By Any Sketch Of The Imagination” assignment, I went …
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Guess! That! Myth!!!!!

by @nalujoprojects

| #WebAssignments, ds106, Syndicated, WebAssignments2300
January 21, 2022

I’ve illustrated a story you might know-especially if you were a Percy Jackson kid-with some GIFs and pictures you’ve probably seen. See if you can guess it by the end! Several children passed in this manner. Fatherhood doesn’t come naturally to everyone. One fairly gruesome fight later: And so, Zeus became the king of the …
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Places of Peace

by @BriannaDAlbis

| Assignment Bank Assignments, dgst 106, ds106, Syndicated, visualassignments, visualassignments2109
January 21, 2022

I created a collage of the five places where I truly felt peace and posted it on Twitter. Here is a more detailed review.
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Minecraft Cottage

by @BriannaDAlbis

| Assignment Bank Assignments, designassignments, DesignAssignments2618, dgst 106, ds106, Syndicated
January 21, 2022

I love Minecraft. It has been my obsession since I downloaded it last July. So, when I saw a design assignment to build my.
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Bio Any Sketch of the Imagination

by @nalujoprojects

| ds106, Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments2690
January 21, 2022

I used the Pencil Photo Sketch application to alter a photo I tool in a few different ways with very different results. I’ve included two here. Can you guess what the original image was?
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A Warm Winter

by @amick_hailey

| Blog, ds106, Syndicated
January 21, 2022

For this week in digital studies, I watched the video on youtube A Warm Winter. My thoughts on this video flourished. Bob Ross is not just a phenomenal artist, but also a wonderful spokesperson and television host. His communication with the audience made his show so particularly moving. This piece in particular moved me in… Continue reading A Warm Winter
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Guess the Story

by @BriannaDAlbis

| #WebAssignments, Assignment Bank Assignments, dgst 106, ds106, Syndicated, WebAssignments2300
January 21, 2022

This is a Japanese urban legend. Good luck! SPOILER… It is the Japanese urban legend of Kuchisake-onna, also known as the Slit-Mouthed Woman. She.
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Extreme Home Makeover: Minecraft Edition

by @nalujoprojects

| designassignments, DesignAssignments2618, ds106, Syndicated
January 21, 2022

Unlike you in this class who play Minecraft, I didn’t create my first world 8 or 9 years ago. I didn’t buy the game until about 10 months ago, when I needed a break from cramming and I hadn’t had a creative outlet for awhile. At first I did a lot of exploring, but I …
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Another Marathon Down

by @Tillysisland

| ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
January 21, 2022

These first few weeks are proving to be a lot more testing than one would probably expect, but I’ve tried to take a “full speed ahead” approach. I’m in this for the long haul, and though I feel as though I’ve been working nonstop for this class, most of it
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Cubic Creation

by @Tillysisland

| assignmentbank, designassignments, DesignAssignments2618, ds106, Syndicated
January 21, 2022

When seeing this assignment, I was INSTANTLY drawn to it because of my experience with video games and how they have been my biggest creative outlet for much of my life. I wanted to do something related to Bob Ross somehow, so I found a Bob Ross inspired painting to
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Captain Asgard

by @Tillysisland

| assignmentbank, ds106, Syndicated, visualassignments, visualassignments2
January 21, 2022

When I think “pivotal movie moment,” I instantly think of this scene from Avengers: Endgame. The build up to this moment and the helplessness followed by triumph make for an incredibly epic moment. There isn’t much more to say about it other than the fact that this moment on opening
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Seeing Squares

by @Tillysisland

| assignmentbank, ds106, Syndicated, writingassignments, writingassignments2676
January 21, 2022

I roll over on the cold, flattened grass. My heart is beating out of my chest. I stare up into the sky, not looking around whatsoever, focused in on an incredibly rectangular cloud. There were distinct plains, running perpendicular and parallel to one another, outlining the sharp edges of such
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Is the semester over yet?

by @ammmybrookeee

| ds106, Syndicated, week2, Weekly Summarys, WeeklySummary
January 21, 2022

This week took a lot out of me. It wasn’t necessarily the workload, it was finding my creative side. Last week I wrote in my Goals blog post, that I wanted to not wait until the last minute to do assignments – I must...
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Weekly Musings

by @MeMcMe3

| ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
January 21, 2022

This was an interesting week for me. I’m still trying to get a hang of everything, and that’s proving to be a little bit more difficult than I originally anticipated. I’m sure there will still be some mistakes here and there, but I enjoy having more creative reign over where I decide to bring my …
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Week 2 Reflection

by @OliviaF98845588

| ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
January 21, 2022

This week I felt more in tune with this course and ready to tackle the assignments. The first week of classes it all about getting into a routine and figuring everything out. At first, I was overwhelmed with all of the assignments to chose from from the Assignment Bank, and it took some time of ...
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Just Riding the Wave

by @Tillysisland

| artisticambition, ds106, Syndicated
January 21, 2022

I’ve always considered myself to be quite creative, with the capacity to take on challenges in interesting and uncommon ways. I’ve never really struggled to create, but I have struggled to put a style to my work. Whether it’s a drawing, a song, a short story, a problem, etcetera, I’ve
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Over my Head and Down the Rabbit Hole We Go

by @Bendire Thrasher

| ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
January 20, 2022

I had a lot of fun this week! The assignments that I did turned out to be very interesting and I enjoyed making them. {see links and photos at the bottom} I am very proud of what I did, even my ‘Artistic Ambitions post (Dum-Dums are my Marlboros)’, which I thought was going to be […]
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What are my Marlboros?

by @ammmybrookeee

| ds106, Syndicated, WrittenAssignment
January 20, 2022

While going through everyone’s posts, I was immediately drawn to the post Dum-Dums are my Marlboros. After further reading I had this one thought: we are the exact same person when it comes to artistry. 1. I too have the mental image of an...
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The Deepest Shallow Creations

by @Bendire Thrasher

| dailycreate, ds106, Syndicated
January 20, 2022

The daily creates… If I could do any one of these over again, I would rename the book “Doorstopper”
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“the PBS version of Nickelback”

by paul bond

| bob ross, Daily Create, ds106, Syndicated
January 19, 2022

For today’s Daily Create, we had to illustrate the story of a @MagicRealismBot tweet. I scrolled through the list and found this one: A cobra says to Gertrude Stein: "I love Milwaukee." — Magic Realism Bot (@MagicRealismBot) January 15, 2022 … Continue reading ?
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Reflecting on Week 2: Exploring Storytelling and Digital Media

by @CeliaSdigitally

| ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
January 19, 2022

The second week of taking ds106 has been an adventure for me. I have really enjoyed diving into some of the assignments for the course and using new tools. This week I also started doing the daily Wordle and I have had fun seeing how many tries it takes me — and honestly trying to … Continue reading Reflecting on Week 2: Exploring Storytelling and Digital Media
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Week 2 Daily Creates

by @OliviaF98845588

| #tdc3658, ds106, Syndicated, TheDailyCreate
January 19, 2022

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If I was an “Artist”…

by @CeliaSdigitally

| artisticambition, ds106, Syndicated
January 19, 2022

The statement that everyone is an artist in their own way holds some truth. Artistry comes in many different forms and transpires into the world in many different ways. I would not classify myself as a typical artist that is involved in physical art, musical art, or videography. I also believe that many of the … Continue reading If I was an “Artist”…
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