I had never heard of a MoonTubeShot. Props to @NomadWarMachine for making it a Daily Create. It’s a cool effect, and I especially like the low-tech angle. I think a moon needs context though. And what better than the three … Continue reading →

Well, the end of the year. These last few weeks I was like a chicken running around with it’s head cut off. For the final project, I was able to get a lot done over the Thanksgiving break and in between my other class work. Working on how the internet affects me and making my […]

“What would the name of your band be?” Paul’s rule number 1 for the Daily Create: If you don’t have an idea, ask someone else. Today’s challenge was, “If you were a musician, what would your debut album look like?” … Continue reading →

    For me, the internet is life. It’s an endless abyss that my life revolves around. I wake up, I check the internet. I see something funny, I modify it using the internet. I share what I modified, using the internet. If I need to learn how to do something, I just use the internet. […]

Hey guys! First, for this week, I posted a response to the “Minuscule Stories” radio show.  This show was very interesting, and definitely an awesome, unique topic. Radio Show Review My favorite blogs done by fellow students are listed below.  First, I decided to look through some of my radio show group mate’s work, and … Continue reading Week 8 Summary →

Hey guys! This is my final post of web week.  I used Mozilla’s X-Ray Goggles to edit the UMW home page.  I decided to make the story of this page based on someone being stuck inside the webpage.  His name is Dave.  It took a while to edit in all the components of the story, … Continue reading Long Live Dave →

Hey guys! I decided to to the web assignment of building my own dream bedroom using pictures from Pinterest. I used five different kinds of bedroom designs as the premise for searching for pictures, and these are the ideas that I came up with. This bed is amazing. I don’t know what that ring at … Continue reading A Pinteresting Bedroom →

Hey guys! I used X-Ray Goggles by Mozilla to edit twitch.tv, one of my favorite websites where video game streamers have channels where you can view their gameplay! Below is the link to the website I edited Twitch.tv Check it out! The editing was pretty simple, except one time when I was editing it, I … Continue reading A Connor Driven Twitch →

Hey guys! This post is designed to highlight what I feel are some of the best posts from DS106 classmates. First, I found this blog post by Daniel Valdez that is a missing person report of Hank Schrader.  I loved Breaking Bad, so this might be why this is one of my favorite posts, but … Continue reading Best Posts by Classmates →

Hey guys! After listening to the Minuscule Stories radio show, I thought it was a great idea for a radio show!  It’s pretty entertaining, and I love the premise of the a few word stories.  The flow of the radio show seems natural and calm, and I love the music in the background as well.  My … Continue reading Radio Show Review →

During Week 12, it was my top priority to work on the completion of everything I had missed out on during the earlier parts of the semester.  I worked especially hard on audio creation for week 4, and the remixes and mashups of week 11.  I did spend a little time thinking about the final project, and … Continue reading Week 12 Summary →

Hey guys! For the Audio Story, I decided to create a story of a person parking at home, putting some things down on the counter, feeding his dog, and sitting down to relax and watch some TV.  I really like the finished product.  The noises were taken from freesound.org and produced using Audacity. Audio Story … Continue reading Week 4 Summary →

Hey guys! I created this radio bumper using Audacity, and recorded my voice using a Mac in the ITCC.  It was relatively easy to create, since it was only about 30 seconds.  I used the pitch changer to make my voice deeper, and I found sci-fi ambience using freesound.org. I had originally made a radio … Continue reading Radio Bumper →

For this assignment I used a photo editing software like Fotoflexer.com to mashup up three of my top favorite holidays and cultural celebrations. My three favorite holidays include, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Valentines Day. All of three holidays are my favorite holidays, because you get to spread love tp people who care about or need to feel … Continue reading “Holiday Mashup!”

My final project is done! FINAL PROJECT: SUPER! This was hard! I knew vaguely how I wanted to tell the story, but honestly, I was really fuzzy on the details. I thought the fake social media accounts were a really good idea… until the goggles didn’t work on Facebook or Twitter. Dani’s facebook account is … Continue reading Weekly Summary 15: Final Project →

http://superwebstory.tumblr.com/ This is the  URL where everything is hosted. Now for all the text messages in order: Here’s the newspaper article I wrote using Mozilla goggles: https://thimbleprojects.org/HTTP/athiaoflight/150911/ Danielle Carter’s facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100014520840308 (not sure how to embed those links; don’t think I can?) Individual pictures: And their files: http://superwebstory.tumblr.com/post/154337024985/file-danielle-carter http://superwebstory.tumblr.com/post/154338409745/file-farha-hammad http://superwebstory.tumblr.com/post/154340182285/file-maeve-hunter And… Oh! the spotify playlists! … Continue reading FINAL PROJECT: SUPER! →

This week was all about remixes and mashup. Here is a look at everything I did this week. I had a lot of fun doing these assignments and I learned how to use pixlr… and almost master it. Mashup 1 Mashup 2 Mashup 3 Remix 1 Remix 2 Daily Creates @ds106dc #ds106 #tdc1765 pic.twitter.com/qwiMNILiL6 — … Continue reading Weekly Summary 11

This is my final mashup that was worth 4 stars. The point of this assignment was to insert something into a picture that does not match. I added a picture of a Range Rover onto the Moon. I got both of the images from google. Then I used pixlr to edit them. The final image … Continue reading Mash Up 3

This mashup was worth 4 stars. The goal of this assignment was to combine multiple team logos to make a cohesive one. I used pixlr to edit my photos, that I got from google. I used a cavalier logo, the falcons logo and the lakers logo. The final logo is pretty interesting… I would cheer for … Continue reading Mash Up 2

Hey guys! I completed a few ads for my final project using Audacity! The premise of the ads is to attract students to the Wellness Center to talk about their experience in college, learn how to stay on top of their work, and get help staying motivated to get good grades and do well in … Continue reading Final Project Wellness Center Radio Ads →

This assignment was worth 4 stars. The goal of this assignment was to take a picture of someone who looks like an emoji. I used fotor to make the collage of the two pictures. I got the picture of the emoji from google and the picture of my friend from my camera roll. Overall, this … Continue reading Mash-up 1

For this remix assignment I had to make my stop motion video more “emo.” I used vid to mp3 to download a metal song from youtube. Then I added the song to the video and changed the video to black and white, to make it “emo.” Finally, I uploaded the video to Youtube.  Enjoy!

For this assignment I remixed a previous assignment, a highlight reel of Peyton Manning. The goal for the remix was to countrify the video. I used vid to mp3 to download the song “Gambler” by Kenny Rogers. I then added to to the video to make it “country”. After, I uploaded the video to Youtube. … Continue reading Country Remix

This week was our second week of videos. I didn’t have much trouble this week because I learned how to use iMovie last week. I really like using iMovie because it is very easy to import your own media and the editing process is fairly simple. After 2 weeks of making videos, I would say … Continue reading Week 10 Summary

This assignment was worth 3.5 stars. The point of this assignment was to make a Vine of an object moving. After looking around my apartment, I found a potato. So why not make it move! I used my iPhone to record the vine and I used some of the music they have on Vine as … Continue reading Vine

For this week, I did a video assignment worth 5 stars. The goal of this assignment was to create a lyric video. I used iMovie to create the video and I used the website vid to mp3 to download the song. Sadly, I knew most of the lyrics to the song so I didn’t have … Continue reading Lyric Video

For future DS106ers, I really advice to be open minded. I remember at the beginning of the year I would...