This assignment is rated 3 1/2 stars- unlike the last assignment, I actually upped the star count with my vote because dear God this was a lot of work. I don’t know if other people find design software (read: paint)  easier to manage or if I’m just a perfectionist, but this took me a significant amount … Continue reading I Am No Man →

For my final assignment, I chose a 3 star web assignment and I’m going to tell a story using Google maps. Here is the link: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/google-map-trip/ My story begins on June 16, 2016. I was traveling to Kenya with Young Life with 2 friends, Shannon and Josh, from Roanoke, Virginia. Our flight was leaving Atlanta, … Continue reading 30,000 miles in 3 weeks

For my first assignment, I decided to remake a popular logo in a different font. Assignment found at http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/what-a-crappy-font-will-do/ Stars: 3.5 I went with possibly…

For today’s Daily Create, we had to create an acrostic poem. I chose to write mine about cats. Cute earsAlways adorableTend to be temperamental@ds106dc #tdc1705 — Maureen (@gingerchic21) September 8, 2016

For my first assignment I chose to write a letter to myself 10 years from now… here is the link:  Dear Courtney, As of now you will be 29 and hopefully doing just fine….. I imagine that you have moved to Texas (one of your favorite states) and followed through with going to nursing school. … Continue reading Hopes… Dreams… and Fears… Dear 10 year older me….

For the first of my assignments this week I chose to write a letter to myself in 10 years. Here is the link to the prompt: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/your-hopes-dreams-and-fears/ Dear 31 year old me, Sitting here at 21 thinking about what I hope my life is like in 10 years, I have many aspirations. Only in 10 … Continue reading "Dear 31 Year Old Me"

The second project I did was from the audio category. This project was rated 4 stars, which I would say was fairly accurate. The goal for this project was to flatten or sharpen the audio of a song and upload it to Youtube. After searching online for a while, I finally figured out how to … Continue reading Assignment Bank

I relate to traditional storytelling in a new medium. I am very old-fashioned to the customs and traditions I’ve been grown into during my childhood. During my middle school days, technology was not as advance as it is now.  From reading Chapter 4, “Web 2.0 Storytelling”, I learned how blogging works and how it is … Continue reading Reflection

This week our assignment was to explore different media assignments and to complete 8 stars worth of activities. The first assignment I picked was from the visual category, it was ranked 5 stars, and I totally agree. The goal of this assignment was to use images from a movie and create a barcode, simple right? … Continue reading Assignment Bank

After some reflection about the article As We May Think, it is remarkable the vision of the future that the author had in 1945. Once Dr. Bush started laying out his ideas of the what the future would hold, I was amazed how accurately he predicted what would happen. It is almost like some of the modern … Continue reading "As We May Think"

Assignment 3: The Different Faces of Stress (1 star) I saw this assignment posting and immediately knew this had to be on my blog. And I knew the perfect face for it. I quickly texted my brother, who is a senior in high school, and asked him what he thinks three faces of stress look like … Continue reading ""

Assignment 2: To My Mom (4 stars) Dear Mommy, I wanted to take this time and say that you are one of my greatest gifts in my life. Not only did you birth me, take care of me when I was an emotional, smelly, whiney baby, and raise me to be an adult, but you gave me something … Continue reading "A Post Dedicated to Moms"

  I choose to do the camp poster assignment in the visual category and it was worth 4 stars! It asked for me to create a summer camp I wish I could have gone to when I was a child and I would have loved to gone away to camp in a national park but … Continue reading "Week 1 Assignment Bank"

Assignment 1: We’re the Real Life Brady Bunch! (3 stars) When I came across this visual assignment, I immediately wanted to try it.  As I have mentioned several times in this blog, I’m not very tech savvy, so I knew it would be a challenge. But I had a great idea for it so why not … Continue reading "The New and Improved Brady Bunch"

I really enjoyed reading this and easily got the idea he was going for. Before this article I had never really thought of it the way he put it but blogging is digital storytelling. The internet has given us a way to share stories virtually wether its through a WordPress blog, Tumblr, or even a … Continue reading "Web2.0Story"

My second assignment I chose was a 3 star writing assignment. Here is the link: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/your-hopes-dreams-and-fears/   Dear 31-year-old Kristin, Here is what you hoped for, dreamed for, and feared at age 21: Hopes: First off, I hope that you are happy. I hope that you are still following Jesus with your whole life. I hope … Continue reading "Assignment Bank: My hopes, dreams, and fears"

This article was published in the 1940’s… before Steve Jobs became as big as he is today… and before the use of internet became such an important part to everyone’s life. The author envisions a time where each home will be equip with a ‘logic’ device that is in sense a reference/ entertainment box. This … Continue reading “A logic named Joe”

For my first assignment from the assignment bank, I chose a 4-star Web assignment called “create your own room.” Here is the link: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/create-your-own-room/ I had SO much fun with this assignment. First off, it uses Pinterest, which I use all the time anyways. Secondly, I love designing rooms so this was great for me. I … Continue reading "Assignment Bank: Create your own room"

I believe that web 2.0 is a new means of story telling… before, web 1.0 was made of static web pages that would go from one computer.. to the internet… to a web server. There would be no interaction between other databases or users and, no way for others to comment or change/add to their … Continue reading "web 2.0 storytelling has changed the way we ‘web’"

Today’s Daily Create had us come up with a new domain name. @ds106dc I would make a .music domain for all bands and music artists #tdc1704 — Maureen (@gingerchic21) September 8, 2016

I loved the humorous example I saw while browsing this assignment.  The idea of mixing an image, quote, and signature to trick unwary viewers seemed intriguing.  I wanted to try my hand at finding similar characters and see how one could mash them into essentially one super-character.  But on a more serious note, the assignment […]

DS106! That’s What! This week’s assignments were versatile and exciting. There were 2 readings, 3 Daily Creates, and 8 stars worth of assignments from the Assignment Bank due for the week. The first reading was about defining ‘digital’ in the context of digital storytelling. The reading was intriguing and it made me think about the […]

Essentially I think the digital in “digital storytelling” simply provides a certain flexibility of structure.  The nature of stories remains the same.  It requires characters, a plot structure, themes, events, etc.  But it is the way in which these stories can be presented that has changed.  Writers can encourage their audience to not only comment […]

One of the many awesome things about ds106 is the way the community’s creations become a constant source of inspiration. Evan posted a great Inkscape tutorial on making a flag, and added an animation of the flag waving at the … Continue reading →

★★★½ (please add a half star symbol, Unicode) For my second assignment from the Assignment Bank, I’m going to be finding a digital tool and writing a tutorial. To be specific, the tool I’m going to be using is Inkscape, an open-source vector graphics program. In case you don’t know, there...

The story A Logic Named Joe is about a machine that became more powerful and smarter than expected, and a man trying to stop it. The short story by Leinster was weirdly accurate to the internet today in a few ways. “Joe” had access to virtually any information in the world (like Google) and “Joe” also … Continue reading "A Logic Named Joe: The 1946 sci-fi short that nailed modern tech"

I thought this post was very long, but interesting. I like blogs because they serve different purposes…the author describes several ways to use blogs such as a diary or an interactive story in which readers can participate in the story by commenting on the posts. The author included several interactive storytelling blogs such as World Without … Continue reading "Web 2.0 Storytelling Reflection"

I actually really enjoyed this Daily Create activity. Tuesday’s activity didn’t really require much thinking, since I really didn’t want to do what I ended up doing because I chose to be the greater-self. @ds106dc #tdc1703 I chose my greater self today when I fit in a lifting session in between classes! pic.twitter.com/ZM1hplMPO1 — emily dzubak … Continue reading "Daily Create"

If anyone in the western world hasn’t heard of the Game of Thrones series, they’re either Amish or live under a rock (do the Amish count as part of the western world?). I read the first four books in a month, about a book a week, and I loved them– so how could I resist … Continue reading Game of Thrones: Weberos →