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  1. @morgan_ds106

    One of the Best Digital Tools for Students!

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    For my first web assignment of the week, I was tasked with finding an easy to use, digital tool online and give a brief tutorial about it. I am choosing to talk about Quizlet! Quizlet is a free platform that offers so many different study tools. Users can go and create study lists like vocab …

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  2. @madeleine_ds106

    Google Draw Something

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    This last assignment for my Web Assignment task for Week Nine was another easy assignment. I was required to complete the “Quick, Draw” from Google. For those that don’t know what Quick, Draw is, it is a site through Google where you have 20 seconds to draw 6 different objects. Google then tries to guess what each drawing is. Google guessed 5 out of my 6 drawings correctly, the only one it missed was the Hockey Stick. Each time you play Quick, Draw, there is a different, randomly selected, group of 6 objects to draw. A really fun task to do when bored! After completing the assignment, there is an option to share your results via Twitter. I did so and then embedded the tweet into this post!
  3. @madeleine_ds106

    Guess the Story

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    This assignment required me to tell a story using at least 5 gifs. I had a little trouble beginning the assignment because the link I was using to embed some of the gifs refused to work. I then decided to go about it via Twitter since all the gifs I found on giphy.com were also on there. If you click the link to my Twitter above, you can follow the gif story! The assignment required me to have the viewers guess the story, so if you haven’t seen my tweets yet, don’t read the next sentence yet! The overall story of my gifs is the story your parents would tell you growing up: don’t eat watermelon seeds or a watermelon will grow inside of you. My first gif is of a cat eating a slice of watermelon, then someone telling them not to do that (eat the seeds), then the cat (or man) is sick in bed, next is a gif of Amy Poehler pregnant (pretend it’s the watermelon), and the last gif is a woman with a watermelon slice as her skirt, but we’ll pretend she is now part watermelon. This assignment was really easy, but it forced me to be a little creative. Something that isn’t exactly one of my strong suits. However, I enjoyed the idea of telling a story through the use of gifs!
  4. @madeleine_ds106

    Harness Relationships

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    For this assignment, I had to use the Kumu organizational tool to make a relationship web. I decided to make a web based on my family tree. I made myself the main connector and then branched the web to have my mother’s family on one side and my father’s family on the other. As you can see, my mother’s side of the family is much larger than my fathers. She has more siblings and some are already married with children of their own. It was relatively easy to make the web through Kumu. I simply made an account, selected which web structure I wanted to use, and began inserting connectors. I did have some initial trouble trying to make the first element since I was in this weird tutorial version and didn’t know how to end it. However, once I started, it became easy. I then saved the web, took a screenshot of it, and uploaded it onto this blog post. I first tried to embed the web with a link through Kumu, but for some reason, it wouldn’t work. However, the image embedded here does the job! Another fun assignment with DS106!
  5. @jpegman24

    Digital Story; Week Two; Weekly Assignment One

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    For the Assignment Bank, I chose the Wayback Machine assignment. In this assignment, the user had to pick a favorite site and compare it’s previous design to the current website. As a kid, I loved playing the online game “Club Penguin”. I decided to compare how the website used to look. Through this assignment, I …

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  6. @Katie73536604

    Drawing with Google!

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    For this web assignment, we were asked to create art using QuickDraw on Google. The objective is to help teach Google by adding your drawings to the world’s largest doodling data set. The way it works is a word will appear, let’s say “axe”, and when you are ready you click “Got It” and the timer will count down starting at 20 (seconds). While you are trying your best to draw a tiger, Google will be taking guesses until either it gets it or time is up. Like this: Pretty cool! I was able to create this video by using video recording on my iOS device. If you have a iOS device then you just swipe up from the bottom of your screen and click the recording button on the bottom right. Once I clicked to start recording then I went to the already open site QuickDraw on google and started the game. Once I finished the first round I swiped back up and ended the recording. I then sent the recording to my computer, uploaded it to YouTube and embedded it in this post! I found both this assignment and recording portion fun! I found the recording pretty easy and I also learned something new! As for the google drawing, I actually spent about 10 minutes playing several rounds of this game. I am not the best at drawing but it was still fun and I feel as if I helped google learn! Here are my results from the first game I did: Let me know if you try it out! You can comment your results under this post or even reply to this Twitter post!
  7. @FCMaisano

    An Inklewriter Tutorial

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    I really enjoyed using Inklewriter, so here’s a tutorial! First, when you go to https://www.inklestudios.com/inklewriter and scroll down a bit, it’ll say this: As of when I am writing this, it is still working (and it’s November 2018, months after August 2018). So, pay no attention to the warning. Click “Start Writing”. However, the direct link […]
  8. @Tyra13748487

    A Craigslist Special

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    For this assignment, we had to take a website that has already been published and assert our own story in that website. I chose to use an ad from Craigslist.com. The original ad offered childcare services.         I chose  remixed this ad to offer services for organizing and de-cluttering someone’s home.   …

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  9. @DigitalStoryTeller

    Web Assignments Week 9

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      Create Your Dream Vacation On Pinterest!    3 1/2 Stars My dream vacation would be going to beaches around the world. I believe beaches are a very calming and relaxing place to visit. This is a collection of pictures of beaches all around the world. Plenty of different furniture styles for groups gatherings and also …

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