Create A Place

Create A Place

by @KellyPratt27125

| #AudioAssignments, Assignments, AudioAssignments2118, ds106, Syndicated
June 3, 2023

Prompt: For this assignment create a place by just using sound. For example, make the listener know where they are if outside use birds, cars, etc. You can get sounds from https://freesound.org I always say that water is my spirit animal. Yes, I know that doesn’t make sense, but that’s how I feel. Water feels like […]
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A Murder Of Crows

by @KellyPratt27125

| Assignments, ds106, SoundAssignments, Syndicated
June 3, 2023

Check out the story, “A Murder of Crows” on Spooked, Season 5, Episode 11. Story 1: The Head Superstition: A bird in the house means someone in jeopardy and if the bird is injured then the person will die. The basic storytelling used foreshadowing with the death of a bird which was trapped in an […]
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Thoughts About Audio Storytelling

by @KellyPratt27125

| ds106, SoundAssignments, Syndicated, Thoughts & Ideas
June 3, 2023

“War of the Worlds” 1938 Radio Broadcast The broadcast aired on Halloween in 1938. One thing I noted was the constant return to very upbeat and soothing music throughout the broadcast. From my understanding, the radio show was live, so effects were employed to make it seem that interviews were happening in other places. For […]
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About Audio Storytelling

by @BalladofE11442

| Assignments, Blog, Summaries, Syndicated
June 2, 2023

Listening to the experts in the first part you are told that school doesn’t really let a person tell a story as it is intended. They give you sentence structures that don’t actually work when writing a story. A story is to be told with suspense. In the...
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New to Newsletter — Earn With Paid Subscriptions

by @incbesh

| newsletters, Syndicated
June 1, 2023

Whether starting a paid newsletter from scratch or taking an existing one up a notch, there's no better time than now.
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Chapter Proposal – Autism, Neurodiversity, and Equity in Professional Preparation Programs

by plowenthal

| Syndicated
May 31, 2023

We are currently in the process of editing a forthcoming publication entitled Autism, Neurodiversity, and Equity in Professional Preparation Programs to be published by IGI Global, an international publisher of progressive academic research. We would l...
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How Yarnnakarn Ceramics Uses WordPress.com to Expand Their Business

by @incbesh

| Customer Spotlight, Syndicated
May 31, 2023

Our community team recently traveled to Bangkok, Thailand to meet with longtime WordPress.com customers Karin and Nok Phisolyabut. They’re the owners of Yarnnakarn, a small arts and crafts studio that specializes in telling stories through contemporary ceramic pieces. Part of why we love this studio, in addition to their beautiful …
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Summary 2

by @BalladofE11442

| Assignments, Blog, Summaries, Syndicated
May 28, 2023

I learned that design has different elements and several different parts to make an image or advertisement. What was harder than I thought would be was one of the daily creates because I didn’t understand it at first. What was easier was taking p...
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Design Summary

by @KellyPratt27125

| Assignments, DesignAssignment110, designassignments, DesignAssignments1767, DesignAssignments2817, designblitz, ds106, Summaries, Syndicated
May 28, 2023

Design Week Assignments: Design Summary What did you learn? This week, I learned that design is complicated. There are so many elements that go into creating a good design that I wasn’t aware of until this week. During this whole week, I probably spent about 10 hours just reviewing information focused on design. And that […]
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Create A Movie Poster

by @KellyPratt27125

| Assignments, designassignments, DesignAssignments110, ds106, Syndicated
May 28, 2023

Prompt: Create a “movie poster” for your picture. #ds106 #DesignAssignments #DesignAssignment110 About two years ago, I bought my first ferret. Her name was Bandit. I’ve always wanted a pet ferret after reading Rikki Tikki Tavi in school. It’s not legal to have a mongoose, so I went for the next best thing: a ferret. From […]
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Tee Shirt

by @BalladofE11442

| Assignments, Blog, designassignments, DesignAssignments1767, Syndicated
May 28, 2023

Looking for a DnD shirt that fully expresses that is all your personality is. Then here you have it. This shirt perfectly expresses that DnD is always on your mind but shows you can never find a group or have a normal schedule.
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Redesign Book Cover

by @BalladofE11442

| Assignments, Blog, designassignments, DesignAssignments1448, Summaries, Syndicated
May 28, 2023

“Throne of Glass” is the first book in Sarah J. Maas’ fantasy series. The story follows Celaena Sardothien, a former slave and deadly assassin, as she is pulled from her imprisonment in the salt mines of Endovier to compete for the ch...
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Create A T-Shirt

by @KellyPratt27125

| Assignments, designassignments, DesignAssignments1767, ds106, Syndicated
May 28, 2023

Prompt: For this assignment, you get to design your very own t-shirt! Find a blank t-shirt template, then add a picture or some text. It could be a joke, a pop culture reference, a movie quote, or anything else you want. #ds106, #DesignAssignments, #DesignAssignments1767 I am a person who often avoids and sometimes despises being […]
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My Story as a Video Game

by @BalladofE11442

| Assignments, Blog, designassignments, DesignAssignments2807, Summaries, Syndicated
May 28, 2023

In the enchanting world of Ballad of Ellements, embark on a grand RPG adventure set in a medieval fantasy realm filled with magic, mythical creatures, and epic quests. As a courageous hero, you must restore balance to the kingdoms that have fallen into...
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DesignBlitz

by @KellyPratt27125

| Assignments, designassignments, designblitz, ds106, Syndicated
May 28, 2023

Dominance Every image has dominance, I think. It’s the first thing in an image that draws your eye. For this image, I chose a picture that also metaphorically showed dominance, having bush in it that was larger than nearly everything else in the photo. I think I could have enhanced that photo by changing the […]
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DesignBlitz

by @BalladofE11442

| Assignments, Blog, Syndicated
May 28, 2023

Color- The use of color in the Bogo buy one get one free sign is shown by the orange that fades into yellow. These are warm colors that are a symbol of impulsiveness and energy. What I think this advertisement is trying to do with these colors is to gr...
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Vignelli Canon

by @BalladofE11442

| Assignments, Blog, Syndicated, Thoughts and Ideas
May 28, 2023

The Vignelli Canon by Massimo Vignelli is an important work that explores the fundamental principles of design. Vignelli, an influential Italian designer, presents several important concepts for designers across various disciplines. One of his key conc...
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part II Chapter II Exploring the City

by natalie

| audiobooks, books, ebooks, fiction, Latest, lisbon, lisbondream, lovestory, Reading, short stories, short story, sunday, sundayvibes, Syndicated, womanfiction
May 28, 2023

from the book THE WEEKEND: Love, Ambition & the Lisbon Dream Welcome to Part II of our audio Sunday listening adventure in “The Weekend: Love, Ambition and the Lisbon Dream”! In this chapter, we join Paige as she discovers a hidden gem, the Gin Lovers Bar & Restaurant at the beautiful Embaixada, located in the… Continue reading part II Chapter II Exploring the City
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Reclaim Karaoke at the Rockaway Club

by Reverend

| digital storytelling, ds106, ds106radio, ds106tv, edupunk, fun, karaoke, OBS, OER21, OERxDomains, OERxDomains21, oerxdomains21youtube, owncast, PeerTube, reclaim, Reclaim Edtech, Reclaim Open, Reclaim Video, streaming, Streamyard, Syndicated, youtube
May 27, 2023

It’s been a little while since I blogged, and that’s due to a combination of factors, including visitors, conference preparation, and a little bit of karaoke experimentation. The last of those will be the focus of this post, cause I’d … Continue reading ?
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Face The Odds

by @KellyPratt27125

| Assignments, designassignments, DesignAssignments2817, ds106, Syndicated
May 25, 2023

This design assignments resonated with me. As a Black woman, I am often a double minority in my chosen field of work: cemetery preservation. Many times, the caretakers and groundskeepers for historic cemeteries are white men. It is rare to see a woman, and rarer still, a Black woman. I have learned to carry myself […]
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Thoughts On The Vignelli Canon By Massimo Vignelli

by @KellyPratt27125

| ds106, Syndicated, Thoughts & Ideas
May 25, 2023

This short booklet, the Vignelli Canon, speaks to some of the aspects of good graphic design. As a past multimedia major, my classes often focused on graphic design for websites, logo design, video game design, video creation, etc. But, in all my classes, I don’t recall ever going into the specifics of design as Vignelli […]
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Twitter Sez DS106 Daily Create Get Off My Lawn!

by cogdog

| dailycreate, ds106, Rants, Syndicated, twitter, twitterisdumb
May 24, 2023

The Musky Dark Lord of Twitter has finally cast the fun loving, roll-in-the-grass-like-a-happy-dog DS106 Daily Create off of the tweeting lawn. This marks the end of 3811 successive never missed a single day of tweeting fun creative challenges openly and the last 2813 of them had, until today, been able to have their responses collected […]
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Educational Technology Conferences 2023 & 2024

by plowenthal

| Syndicated
May 24, 2023

The following list was adapted from Clayton R. Wright’s Educational Technology and Education Conferences List #48. Please refer to Wright’s complete list for other conferences as well as each conference website for more details. Each year I attend AECT...
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Larose Forest

by Downes

| 2023365, bicycle, bike, bikepacking, Syndicated, touring
May 23, 2023

May 22, 2023. This is my bicycle on day three. I made my way home along the Prescott Russell trail and then south through Larose Forest.It was tough because I had to ration water until I got to Bourget. I thought I might have lunch there but all three...
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Cobbs Lake Creek

by Downes

| 2023365, Syndicated
May 23, 2023

May 21, 2023. This was the view from the old rail bridge along the Prescott Russell trail. I rode it for a short distance along my endurance-level 70 km ride mostly into a stiff breeze on a sunny but cool day. I was completely wiped out by the end of ...
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Domaine du Sapin

by Downes

| 2023365, Syndicated
May 23, 2023

May 20, 2023. This is my campsite for the first night of my weekend trip, at Domaine du Sapin near Greenfield (just soiutheast of Maxville). Though it rained most of the day (and most of the night) it held off just long enough to enjoy a campfile and ...
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The Joy of Web Improbability: The Buggles on/in front of #DS106 TV

by cogdog

| ds106, nostalgia, On Sharing, Syndicated, webserendipity, Weird Web
May 22, 2023

Keep the internet weird and un-expected, not managed by machine languages and corporatized algorithms, but by the small human acts of sharing. Ok? This has happened to me countless times yet never gets old. So via Mastodon, all the way from New Zealand, my colleague Stephen Harlow thinks to share this: Indeed, in a YouTube […]
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Settling past beards

by Andrew Carle

| Culture, ds106, makers, Syndicated
May 22, 2023

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Visual Assignment Pt. 4: Summary

by @KellyPratt27125

| ds106, Summaries, Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments2152, VisualAssignments2167, VisualAssignments2815, VisualAssignments504
May 21, 2023

This week, I completed several assignments. For a quick reference, see the links below. Visual Assignment Part 1: Reflection Visual Assignment Part 2: Photo Safari Visual Assignment Part 3A: Five Frame Story Visual Assignment Part 3B: Your Favorite Photo Visual Assignment Part 3C: Mixing 2 Worlds Visual Assignment Part 3D: Draw It Visual Assignment Part […]
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Visual Assignment Pt. 3D: Draw It

by @KellyPratt27125

| Assignments, ds106, Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments504
May 21, 2023

Prompt: Take a photograph of something (If you take a picture from the internet, make sure to be nice and cite the original) and transform it through GIMP, Photoshop, etc, into a drawing. This is a 2 star prompt. Last week, I started my archaeology field school. My class of six people is working on […]
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