I feel that the digital story telling is traditional story telling in a new way. I also think that it can be more of a way of promoting stories that could go on to be something bigger. I also think that the digital aspect seemingly lends itself more to the realm of nonfiction writing than […]

After reading this article by Bryan Alexander, it really opened my eyes on the different forms that a story can be told digitally. When I think of traditional storytelling, I imagine a collection of stories in a book or the passing down of stories orally. Digital storytelling, however, can become much more intricate and personal. … Continue reading "Web 2.0 Storytelling Reflection"

@ds106dc But really, where can I buy this? #tdc1705 pic.twitter.com/5rtZvmStUZ — Katie Melhuish (@katie_melhuish) September 9, 2016

@ds106dc #tdc1705 I decided to use my poem to advertise my favorite event on campus… Bingo!! pic.twitter.com/R4gLjgiWEN — Katie Melhuish (@katie_melhuish) September 8, 2016

@ds106dc I know I would be instantly more attracted to domains that reference memes! So how bout .harambe .pepe .badluckbrian? #tdc1704 — Katie Melhuish (@katie_melhuish) September 7, 2016

Backstory: So there’s this guy name Kip. Kip Johnson is what they call him. He competes all over the world in competitions known as “The World’s Strongest Man”. Kip is a cool, athletic, individual and very active when it comes to being fit in the gym. He won his first title in 2013 in Sanya, China … Continue reading “Kip is What They Call Him”

Here we are at week two and I still feel like I’m trying to get into the swing of things. Normally I would try to talk about which assignments I found easy this week and then the ones that were challenging but instead, I want to talk about one assignment for both. I want to … Continue reading "Week 2 update"

★★☆☆☆ I realised I’d missed an important part of the requirements for the assignments this week: be sure to choose assignments from 3 different categories I wasn’t sure what to do for this one, so I decided to get on Steam to take a little break from working. Of course,...

Here is the mighty crest of the O’Donnell family. The bright colors represent our explosive personality. The cigar is to show that we are gamblers. The Cheetah represents what we are at heart, cheats. Finally our family motto, “If you are going to be a phony be a big one”.

For this assignment I decided to map my family. Unfortunately there are 180 in my family so I went with the next best, The Stark family. You might recognize this dysfunctional family from the hit TV show Game of Thrones. https://kumu.io/Bobbles/stark-f...

I am the technician for the radio station on campus, WMWC Radio, and I love it. We are the oldest club on campus, although no one knows we exist. For this assignment, I decided to look at how the WMWC website has changed over time. I used Wayback Machine to go back and see previous […]

I felt that this week had a great deal of variety.  We first had the opportunity to reflect on how storytelling is adapted or changed when used digitally.  I will say that with this aspect of our coursework, Hypothesis was acting oddly.  Sometimes I would go to add a new annotation and it would start […]

I read the story A Logic Named Joe, as well as the article discussing it. In the story, Leinster describes “Logics” which have totally revolutionised the way the people in the story’s world live. The Logics in this story seem to be a search engine with a hint of artificial intelligence...

This assignment focuses on celebrating too early. I relate to this topic a lot because often times in school I do great most of the semester, leading me to think that I have A’s in the bag. But then the last month hits you with a bombardment of homework, projects, presentations and FINALS. I picked … Continue reading "Media Assignment #3"

I was intrigued by the idea of aging a movie trailer to make it appear to be from the silent era.  It essentially admits that silent films are a separate art in and of themselves, with unique pros and cons (while of course also providing the opportunity for a humorous editing project).  As such I […]

This was a visual assignment the required to take a close up of something and making it unrecognizable. This actually took quite a bit of effort because I didn’t want to just take a close up of whatever and be done with it. So I took pictures of items that I owned that I thought … Continue reading "Media Assignment #2"

For my third assignment I chose to do a post secret which is worth 1 point completing the points that I need for the week. The prompt can be found at: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/postsecret/ I chose to share one of my travel dreams which is to back pack across South America from Patagonia up into Columbia for … Continue reading "Post “Secret”"

In reading this article, one of the first things that struck me was that I couldn’t believe I had never heard of this sci-fi short or author before.  The fact that Leinster was able to so accurately predict future technology is incredible, and I couldn’t understand why it appears to be obscure.  It’s notoriously difficult […]

I was first drawn to this assignment simply by reading the title.  I had heard of the Wayback machine, but had never used it myself.  This seemed like the perfect opportunity to do so! The first thing to do was select a website to examine.  Originally I considered Wikipedia, but then the idea of examining the […]

In the second week of ds106 our work became much more involved. It was also a lot more fun. I particularly liked the assignment bank. It was cool that we could pick our assignment and choose which one you wanted to do. My favorite was the design assignment for your favorite movie quote. I, of … Continue reading Weekly Summary 2 →

I am going to be honest and say that I definitely procrastinated this week! Going out of town for Labor Day delayed me starting and I definitely do not want to wait until Tuesday to start all this work again. Overall, this week went pretty well. I didn’t run into any problems, other than trying … Continue reading Weekly Summary

For this assignment I decided to create and Xbox avatar of myself. I decided to use my Xbox for this because I play a lot of video games so it feels like a persona i take on almost every day. The one complaint I have about using this medium is that there are almost no … Continue reading "A Digital Reflection Of Myself"

For this assignment I decided to relate it to our class. Since its all online, I decided to make it somewhat funny yet motivational. My thought process was that many stories are told through writing as well as through word of mouth. It was pretty challenging to come up with anything, but I took a … Continue reading "Media Assignment #1"

For my second assignment, I chose to create my ideal room. Well really it will be my idea back yard because I love to spend time outside and that really is my ideal room. The internet gives us the power to research and look for ideas that we like from other places. In essence that … Continue reading "Backyard Plans"

After looking for a while through different assignments to complete, I came across this one. I initially misread it as “go for a walk and create a timeline of pictures of different colors”, but when I read it again, I realized it said to pick one color. After looking at the other people’s posts who […]

Well week two of #ds106 is finally completed! i really cant wait to see what else i’m going to learn in this course. This week, our central theme was the internet. we read and responded to two articles (http://abbissss1.com/uncategorized/internet46/ AND http://abbissss1.com/uncategorized/web20story/ ) and started our daily creates! my daily create tweets can be found bellow- #ds106dc #tdc1706 … Continue reading "Week 2 Summary"

sound cloud: Throughout my day today I recorded several different sounds and compiled all of them into one stream that I uploaded on my SoundCloud Page. These are just some normal things I hear walking to and from class on a daily basis! I woke up, drove to campus, had two classes, ran to lunch … Continue reading "Sounds Of Your Day"

“Rhythms With Things” In this assignment I was assigned to find things around the house to make a rhythm with. The items I gathered were a metal plate, a glass plate, a empty plastic water bottle, a full plastic water bottle, a spoon, and a pencil. Im not very musical so it took me about 15 minutes to divide up all the … Continue reading "Rhythms With Things"

This week was filled with a lot of readings but allowed me to, yet again, see a new light in the world of digital storytelling. I had no idea how much of an impact Web 2.0 had on story telling. Web 2.0 changed from static web pages to user friendly content and has eventually lead … Continue reading yayayay week 2 complete!