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by @MaddySlunt

| Syndicated
February 12, 2021

Bring Your Pet to School I have always wanted a dog and loved all of the submissions that included people’s dogs edited to be on campus, but I have never been allowed to have a dog. I have fostered dogs and I work in a house with two beautiful golden retrievers, but the only pets… Continue reading Visual
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Visual

by @MaddySlunt

| Syndicated
February 12, 2021

Can You See What I See I feel like I cheated the photography aspect of this week, however, the instructions of the assignment stated that I could find an image on the internet to use. I loved this image with the idea I had for this edit because the baby looks very curious with wide… Continue reading Visual
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Weekly Summary: WEEK THREE

by @hrashhDS106

| Blogs, ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
February 12, 2021

This week has been going pretty well! Even though this course is work heavy, I feel like I understand everything and I actually know what I am doing. The work can be tedious sometimes plus with the other classes and homework that I have to complete. I feel like I already got the really hard stuff out of the way. […]
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Week Three Summary

by @imatutu_

| Syndicated, Weekly, WeeklySummary
February 12, 2021

This week was a ton of fun to complete. Analyzing the methodology behind storytelling and the evolution of the mediums in which stories are told in this post was really thought provoking to me and was insightful into how stories are the backbone of a lot of our society. It teaches us lessons about the […]
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Amazonian Apocalypse

by @imatutu_

| assignmentbank, Syndicated, WritingAssigments, WritingAssigments2161
February 12, 2021

Now I could write about a product that actually would be extremely helpful to survive the apocalypse, but where’s the fun in that! I’m going to find some extremely random item that has no use post-apocalyptic era and argue a use for it. Here it goes: This Dr. Martens Unisex 2976 Crazy Horse Chelsea Boot […]
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Pepe Silvia! Pepe Silvia!

by @ari_squared

| assignment-tags.jpg, ds106, storyanalysis, Syndicated, tagged.jpg, weekly assignments
February 12, 2021

Anyone who has seen It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia knows the infamous Charlie Mail Room Scene from the episode “Sweet Dee Has A Heart Attack.” If you haven’t seen the show… please watch it, it’ll make your life 10x better. Okay maybe not, but it’s great. The use of pictures, boards, and hand movements in […]
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Global Thermonuclear War

by @imatutu_

| assignmentbank, Syndicated, writingassignments, WritingAssignments2164
February 12, 2021

Oh how I love this silly prompt! Since the Wargames movie in 1983, I’ve always wondered what would happen if what was played out by the computer wanting to play thermonuclear war actually carried out the plans it had for human destruction on a global thermonuclear scale. I’ll write my perspective of the computer realizing […]
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Journal Entry #652

by @imatutu_

| assignmentbank, Syndicated, writingassignments, writingassignments2225
February 12, 2021

It’s been about 400 years since my last journal entry, but I just can’t seem to move anywhere to get a decent shade to write down my thoughts. Maybe it is because I am the shade, my leaves and all. I love when children climb on my branches or play with the tire swing hanging […]
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Another Day

by @imatutu_

| assignmentbank, Syndicated, writingassignments, WritingAssignments2392
February 12, 2021

I think today is one of the most applicable days for this writing assignment, because it snowed last night and there are 3-4 inches of snow on the ground. Quite literally the definition of a Winter Wonderland. Even looking at such a boring white color, for some reason we find beauty in it being everywhere. […]
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The Evolution of the Story

by @imatutu_

| storyanalysis, Syndicated
February 12, 2021

The most interesting part of the development of the methods of storytelling and how it has changed over time has been how trope-ical that stories have become. In most stories in Western society, you can draw a story back to the classic Hero’s Journey, or another common writing storytelling trope that most all good stories […]
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Nostalgia, Photos, and Bad Poetry :)

by @RMdigitally

| ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
February 12, 2021

This week has been a whirlwind for me. I started off really excited to work on the assignments for this week, beginning with my story analysis post, but it was kinda downhill after that lol. My analysis post was a lot of fun because I got to revisit some of my most memorable stories from…
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Write, Wrote, Written.

by @trippthrumylife

| ds106, Syndicated, WeeklySummary
February 12, 2021

Goodbye week three! This week was ALLLLLLL about the writing. Like I said in my Daily Create post this week, being creative is hard. I think this week really showed me how it isn’t so much the creating part that I struggle with, but more so coming up with what I am creating. I like… Continue reading Write, Wrote, Written.
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10 seconds can save a life!

by @SchallerJasmine

| Syndicated
February 12, 2021

I am thankful for my soul, for guidance, for my family, for books, for my dogs, for my life, for my body, for my god and for my health! That was a lot faster than I expected! I didnt get to list everything I wanted, but here is a snapshot list of the things I …
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A B C drives me Crazy!

by @SchallerJasmine

| Syndicated
February 12, 2021

Abby believed crab’s daddys extra funky gravy had iffy jacked krusty lemon meal, nobody offered plates quickly. Really, such travesty united voters. Women x’ed yellow zebras! WOW this was a lot harder than I though it would be. I created a somewhat non-sensicle story, but the process was pretty fun. I redid this like 7 …
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10 Seconds of Gratitude

by @trippthrumylife

| ds106, Syndicated, writingassignments, WritingAssignments753
February 12, 2021

snow daysbreath in my lungsmy friendsmy familychicken nuggetsfire music playlists The list above are the first 6 things that came to mind when tasked to come up with as many things I’m thankful for in 10 seconds. A very good list if you ask m...
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A Cracked Cookie and Me.

by @SchallerJasmine

| Syndicated
February 12, 2021

Follow that restless urge to find yourself. I think this is the human calling, to always be chasing betterment and deeper understanding. The more I expeirence life and its challenges the greater my empathy for my fellow humans. I meditate everyday, in those quiet moments many lessons become known. When one is restless that means …
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storyanalysis

by @SchallerJasmine

| Syndicated
February 12, 2021

The digital age has opened up the possibility for story to be told through multiple vehicles simultaneously. While reading text a hyperlink could take you to somthing about that text, or there could be visual images or music or etc. going on at the same time. Over the last couple months my sister had been …
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Being Creative is Hard.

by @trippthrumylife

| dailycreate, ds106, Syndicated
February 12, 2021

Hey everyone! Here are my three Daily Creates for the week! I think one thing I noticed this week was that creating isn’t necessarily difficult; however, coming up with what to create is the hard part. I just kept wanting to one up myself and definitely put more pressure on myself than I probably should… Continue reading Being Creative is Hard.
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10 seconds starting….. now

by @TurnerM000

| Syndicated, writingassignments, WritingAssignments753
February 11, 2021

This assignments instructions are: 1. Using a timer, write what you’re thankful for in just 10 seconds! Anything and everything that you can think of being thankful for is fair game, but stop at 10 seconds.2. Share what you’ve written on a blog, wiki, ...
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Giving Thanks >Giving Gifts

by @TurnerM000

| Syndicated, writingassignments, WritingAssignments1502
February 11, 2021

Thanksgiving is definitely the best holiday. The premise of it anyways, I am not referring to the very real dark history surrounding it. If you were to disregard the terrible things we Americans did many years ago, I feel that what we teach on thanksgi...
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Tasty Haiku

by @TurnerM000

| Syndicated, writingassignments, WritingAssignments926
February 11, 2021

This assignment‘s instructions are: Write an entire recipe only in haiku. Stick to the 5/7/5 syllable pattern as much as possible, but don’t leave out any key instructions! This is one I knowRight from the top of my headI’m happy to share S...
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Apocalypse Terms of Service

by @lucyschraff

| Syndicated, writingassignments, WritingAssignments2163
February 11, 2021

Here are the Apocalypse Terms of Service for #ds106 and “What’s (Y)our Story?”: Never forget to check the Weekly Assignments. Make sure you do Daily Creates everyday before you go […]
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Story Analysis: Bao, a Pixar Animated Short Film

by @hrashhDS106

| Blogs, ds106, storyanalysis, Syndicated
February 11, 2021

The short film Bao is a Pixar animated film that was released in 2018. This short film was written and directed by Domee Shi. I remember going to the theaters to watch The Incredibles 2 with my uncle. Before the movie began, the short film played, and I was in love. It was one of the cutest short stories I […]
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Nonhuman Perspective: UMW’s Squirrels

by @lucyschraff

| Syndicated, writingassignments, writingassignments2225
February 11, 2021

When considering the theme “What’s (Y)our Story?”, I thought of something that all of us in this course have as part of our story, being a student at UMW. Whether […]
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Haiku Haiku

by @TurnerM000

| #writingassignments1764, Syndicated, writingassignments
February 11, 2021

For this Writing Assignment, you’re asked to write a haiku poem about haiku poems. You can write about what people normally write in a haiku poem, how a haiku poem is formed, and/or how you feel about writing haiku poems. This assignment might so...
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Café

by Downes

| 2021365, Syndicated
February 11, 2021

February 11, 2021. This is a Presse Café at the base of four office buildings at Commerce Place, right next to the Costco. When I look at a place like this I can imagine that there's a whole world inside - the people who work there, the regulars who ar...
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A Boy Chronicle

by @TurnerM000

| Syndicated, writingassignments, WritingAssignments1616
February 11, 2021

This assignment‘s instructions are to: Create a story that uses words that begin with the letters of the alphabet consecutively. For example, A big cat dug eight… But you have to go all the way to the letter Z. Try to make as much sense as possib...
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Week 3: Writing, Writing, Writing

by @Conner44769274

| Syndicated, Weekly Summaries, WeeklySummaries
February 11, 2021

For this week, we focused completely on writing. I’m glad we got the section I was least excited about out of the way as soon as possible. Writing is not something I particularly enjoy, however this week wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be! The prompts helped a lot with generating ideas and […]
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How Can Fantasy be Incorporated Into Y(Our) Story?

by @Conner44769274

| ds106thoughts, storyanalysis, Syndicated, Thoughts
February 11, 2021

Miyazaki films are some of my favorite movies, particularly Spirited Away. The film follows Chihiro and her journey trapped in a world of spirits. I actually haven’t seen this movie in several years, so I went back and rewatched it for this assignment. I was a little worried that the film wouldn’t live up to […]
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Animal Crossing New Horizons : Video Game Review

by @ari_squared

| assignment-tags.jpg, ds106, Syndicated, tagged.jpg, weekly assignments, writingassignments, WritingAssignments1337
February 11, 2021

Assignment Choosing a Writing Assignment was easy when I saw “A Game of Reviews”. I am always playing my switch lite and have about 6 games (that’s a lot to me, lol)! I decided this would be a perfect opportunity to relate back to this semester’s theme: What’s (y)our story. Behind the Work
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