Final Project

Final Project

by @sunglasses260

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April 30, 2021

Links to the final project blog posts: Personal Creative Canon Video Series A Letter to the People Who Have Taught Me About Creativity Media Slideshow These are my final project posts for ds106! I can’t believe it’s already the...
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Personal Creative Canon Video Series

by @sunglasses260

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April 30, 2021

This post contains the videos for my personal creative canon video series.
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A Letter to the People Who Have Taught Me About Creativity

by @sunglasses260

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April 30, 2021

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Media Slideshow

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April 30, 2021

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Project Update #1

by @sunglasses260

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April 23, 2021

I’m both excited for and a bit overwhelmed for this entire project. My main element is video, supplemented by audio and visual, as well as web storytelling. Media Forms I’ve decided for sure that I’ll be making a series of videos as my primary element. In addition, I’ll be making a poster or slideshow of […]
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Project Ideas – Part 2 (aka the essay post to end all essay posts)

by @sunglasses260

| ds106, General Posts, ideaspart2, projectideas, Syndicated, the essay post to end all essay posts, Week 11: Video - Part 2
April 10, 2021

Last week I wrote about some of my ideas for projects going forward and my thoughts about storytelling and the final project in general. In this post, I’ll be considering themes and ideas that others have discussed and expanding on my ideas from the previous post. It’s going to be a long post, so buckle […]
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Project Ideas

by @sunglasses260

| ds106, General Posts, projectideas, Syndicated
March 26, 2021

I’m amazed that we’re already more than halfway through the semester. Looking back, we’ve covered so much ground, and I’ve learned so much in terms of digital creation just in these last couple of months. Thinking ahead, we’ve got a few weeks in which we’ll be exploring video, remixes/mashups, and a final project. One idea […]
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Design Blitz

by @sunglasses260

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March 5, 2021

This week, one of the assignments was to do a Design Blitz (similar to our Photo Blitz challenge a couple weeks ago!). This page is currently under construction.
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Deep Thinking on Design

by @sunglasses260

| designthoughts, ds106, General Posts, Syndicated, Week 6: Design
March 5, 2021

Although I haven’t ever really thought about becoming a graphic designer, and I don’t think that’s what’s in store for me in the future, thinking about visual design and reading and watching this week’s assigned material was quite fascinating for me. The first couple things I checked out were the videos “Movie Poster Expert Explains […]
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The Story of the Jukebox Hero

by @sunglasses260

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments2138, ds106, DS106 Assignment Bank Creations, General Posts, He was a skater boy, JUST ONE GUITAR, Music, she said see you later boy, Syndicated, Tommy used to work on the docks...
February 27, 2021

Everyone, gather ’round! It’s time for you to hear the story of the legendary jukebox hero. This story was born before I began ds106, but when I saw the Audio Bank assignment “Create a story using music”, I knew the world deserved to hear the tale. The assignment had only two sentences of description: “Create […]
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ds106 radio bumper! aka: my first Audacity creation

by @sunglasses260

| ds106, General Posts, radiobumper, SoundCloud, Syndicated
February 24, 2021

This week’s ds106 focus is audio! Since we’ve got a ds106 radio station, one of the assignments was to create a radio bumper. In order to make it, I downloaded Audacity (an audio editing tool) and used it for the first time. Here’s the exact instructions for the bumper from the Assignment Bank: Now that […]
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It’s Dutch Blitz! It’s Blitzkrieg! No, wait…it’s Photoblitz!

by @sunglasses260

| #photoblitz, ds106, General Posts, photography, Syndicated
February 20, 2021

Even better than a football blitz. Photoblitz is an activity where you take photos of seven things within 20 minutes. This was my list of seven items: Smooth, rough, dirty, or wrinkled. Make a photo of hands that tell a story. They’re all around. Make a photograph of a wheel near you. Make a portrait […]
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Collage of My Pets: Sugar, Shadow, and Stormy

by @sunglasses260

| Animals, ds106, DS106 Assignment Bank Creations, General Posts, Personal/Author-Centric Post, Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments1729
February 20, 2021

I’ve never lived without having pets before; I couldn’t imagine life without them. Sugar, Shadow, and Stormy all mean so much to me, so when I saw the assignment “Your love for your pet”, I couldn’t help but pick it as one of my assignments for the week. Here’s the description: Make a collage out […]
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A Very Avenger-y Bunch of Post-It Notes

by @sunglasses260

| Avengers/Marvel, Creation-Centric Post, ds106, DS106 Assignment Bank Creations, General Posts, Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments1505
February 19, 2021

When you mix a favorite fandom with a love for world and character building, what do you get? A bit of daydreaming of domestic fluff that can result in creating grocery lists and post-it notes. I’m a fan of Marvel movies, and I find it fun to imagine what the Avengers are like outside of […]
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A Dreamy Drive Down the Pacific Coast Highway

by @sunglasses260

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February 18, 2021

In the summer of 2019, before I started my first year of college, my family took a trip out west to California for 2 weeks. We had never gone on any vacation like this before, and it was absolutely amazing. This was why, when I saw the assignment “Story Map”, I knew I had to […]
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Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof

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| ds106, DS106 Assignment Bank Creations, General Posts, Music, Personal Post, Rush, Syndicated, writingassignments, writingassignments2043
February 12, 2021

Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof Because I’m happyyyyyyyyy Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth Because I’m happyyyyyyyyy Those are some of the lyrics to the song “Happy”, a well-known pop tune that came out in 2013. We all have certain songs that make us feel […]
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Future Experiences…

by @sunglasses260

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February 12, 2021

Like many, many, many other people, I have a bucket list. I don’t usually think about it as a bucket list, though. I tend to think of it as things I’d like to do or try someday. The writing assignment “That Bucket List Though” from the ds106 Assignment Bank seemed to understand my thoughts on […]
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A Jumbled Poem: Words from 2001

by @sunglasses260

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February 12, 2021

2001. What went on that year? Well, I was born. The Ravens won their first Super Bowl ever. Those are a couple fairly important things, in my opinion. However, other than that, there were several words added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary. Let’s set the record straight: it was the year the words ack, auto-suggest, blade […]
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Story Analysis

by @sunglasses260

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February 12, 2021

Coming soon, 2/13/21!
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Move-In Moments

by @sunglasses260

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February 12, 2021

It’s so odd how I’m already almost halfway through my time at college, and yet it sometimes feels like I moved in yesterday. I remember how new things felt back then, how uncertain it all was. (It’s also a little odd writing this post about my first move-in day, which was in the middle of […]
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Monologue of the Erasable Pen

by @sunglasses260

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February 12, 2021

“I would argue that I’m Audra’s most useful pen. After all, I’m the only pen of hers that can actually erase. Sure, she has a few erasable highlighters, but those almost always sit in the pencil bag and are only used on special occasions. I’m an all day, every day kind of pen, baby! She […]
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Three Thrilling Daily Creates

by @sunglasses260

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February 12, 2021

Well, hello! Here’s this week’s Daily Creates that I participated in. And here are photos of my creations, separate from the Tweets: I completed these Daily Creates on February 9, 10, and 11. My favorite of these was the sign creation. I was immediately intrigued. I looked through the icons on the website listed on […]
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The Bedroom of My Dreams…

by @sunglasses260

| #WebAssignments, ds106, DS106 Assignment Bank Creations, General Posts, Syndicated, WebAssignments1877
February 5, 2021

As I was browsing through the assignment bank, the “Create your own room” web assignment caught my eye. Maybe it was because of the house-creation online games I used to play as a kid, or perhaps because for quite some time now, I’ve had a Pinterest board for cool home-and-bedroom-related ideas (many of them far […]
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Rock ‘N Roll ‘N Rush

by @sunglasses260

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February 5, 2021

Anyone who has talked to me about music for at least five minutes has probably heard me mention the name of my favorite rock band: Rush. If you don’t know who Rush is, let me introduce you. Once upon a lighted stage, approaching the unreal…* There were three fantastic musicians who formed the band Rush […]
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“Oh, THAT’S what it is?”

by @sunglasses260

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February 5, 2021

The title of this post is what you, the reader, are going to say after I reveal what the picture in this post is. One of the assignments that I picked to complete this week was “That’s Not What I Expected”, a visual assignment. This is the description: Take a close up picture of something […]
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Four of the First Week of February’s Daily Creates

by @sunglasses260

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February 5, 2021

Hiya! Here’s this week’s Daily Creates that I participated in. I completed these on February 1, 2, 4, and 5. One of the main things I kept in mind as I created these was that I’m not supposed to take more than 10-15 minutes to make them. I am a perfectionist, and I like to […]
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What’s Your Story?: Theme of ds106

by @sunglasses260

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January 28, 2021

When I first read the theme for Digital Storytelling this semester, I felt sparks of excitement. I love reading and writing stories, both on my own and with others. After I read Week One’s assignments and “Thoughts on a theme,” I considered my own interests, or rather, the things that I’m passionate about, that fire […]
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