Now before anyone calls me out on it, I’ll admit it! My Digital Self is my Xbox One Avatar. My point in making this is that I feel like I got it pretty close to the original. Truth be told … Continued
Looking around at some of the design assignments, I saw one about menu design. This got me thinking about a long backlogged personal project of mine, developing my own blogging platform. This was a good reason to get started! Here’s some progress I made on the main site menu bar. The slide out search bar […]
Stop what you are doing, look around you and take it all in. You’re 17, starting your senior year of high school and have the whole world ahead of you. Stop worrying about what college you are going to attend, what school you will be playing field hockey at and what you want to do … Continue reading Dear Naive Jenna,
For my second assignment, I decided to create a wanted poster for Jesse James. I used the website mobile fish and read up on the famous outlaw. Jesse James was a Confederate soldier who, following the wars end, created the James-Younger Gang. They robbed banks, stagecoaches and trains. He murdered a county clerk on accident, thinking it … Continue reading "Design Assignment – Most Wanted Outlaws"
This is the kind of homework that I enjoy. Taking selfies with your dog? Im all in. Meet Kya, my bearded collie that might as well be a human. She is my best friend and I am hers. We enjoy long walks on the beach, a good game of catch, a nice juicy steak and … Continue reading Selfie Sunday
Once again, when I first looked at the To DO list of assignments for this week I was a bit overwhelmed. So, I began with reading through it carefully several times and determined which order I was going to complete the tasks. First, I decided to install the plugins onto my blog because as the … Continue reading Week Two 1/16-22/16 Summary Blog post
While reading through the week 1 summary blog posts of classmates, I could really relate to this one. I really liked how she started off her blog post. Two main reasons I liked the way she started it was 1) because it caught the readers’ attention and 2) I could relate to how she felt (because … Continue reading Reassured and learning new things
During the first week I was prompted to look up western movies that I had never heard of before. I was also forcing myself to stray away from the more recent films and watch an original spaghetti western. I was inspired by the assignment trailer it from the video assignment bank. Here is my attempt at a … Continue reading "Video Assignment – Trailer It"
Time for my second weekly summery! This week I was able to post on my blog a lot more. First off, I wanted to start the week off early and try to get everything done as soon as I could for two reasons- my MCAT (test to get into medical school) is this upcoming saturday […]
Well everyone that just walked past me in the library while I was using paint to color a coloring book page of a cow probably thought I had SERIOUS issues haha. Today’s dailycreate was to wildly paint a cow and post it to twitter. For this I googled “coloring page of cow” and then uploaded that into […]
After reading today’s daily create, the name Scott Eastwood came right to my mind. I recently watched the movie by Nicholas Sparks, “The Longest Ride” (and several times since then). It features Scott Eastwood (son of Clint Eastwood) who plays a professional bullrider that falls in love with a sorority girl. There is no doubt … Continue reading The Bull, the Horse, and the Fool — Daily Create #1 (1/19)
I’ve always loved the idea of Space Cowboys. There’s the late Han Solo and Malcolm Reynolds that really set the stage for me. I grew up with Han Solo and Indiana Jones as my heroes. I loved the music, I … Continued
Something ordinary yet quite beautiful. The Keurig that wakes me up every morning☕🌞 #ds106 #dailycreate #tdc1469 pic.twitter.com/BcSLtuBqig — Tierra (@wildwebds106) January 16, 2016 I did January 16, 17 and 18th’s daily create and they were actually really fun! The 16th one is right above. It was to find something most would see ordinary yet you … Continue reading Weekly Summary 1/15-1/22
I was assigned to the audio group. As such, I had to create an audio assignment that would be added to the assignment bank for other class participants to possibly complete. At first it took me a long time to determine what I should create but, once the idea of creating a radio commercial came … Continue reading My Audio Assignment Creation!
Um Hello! How cool is this assignment?!?! Who wouldn’t want to show off their dream room…Well for me my dream room would be this closet. First off all lets talk about these stairs! I LOVE THEM. How cool would it be to have a closet underneath your master suite! Only you can access it and … Continue reading Dream Closet
Hello all,So I think I did the Assignment bank wrong, because a blank page pops up when I click on the link. So I have added my animated pet here! I guess you need to click on image to see it move…..
This assignment really, really pushed my creative boundaries and musical abilities. I am not musically inclined nor do I play any instruments or sing on a regular basis and when I do sing, people usually ask me to stop. But, this audio assignment appealed to me because it allowed me to express my creativity. In … Continue reading My Jingle Jangle for One of My Favorite Products
This is my first ever writing assignment and I decided to do a Haiku about myself. Not that I am conceded but just to show everyone what I like to do. So here you have it folks, a haiku about my favorite hobby, weight lifting. That weight is heavy, Give it your all and lift … Continue reading A Haiku About You
For this assignment I decided to take to Pinterest and design my very own room! Now in the description for the assignment it says to make it as out of the box as you want, I like to say mine is out of the box chic! I’d love to have books and indoor plants everywhere … Continue reading Dream Room
I expressed my concerns regarding social media in my week 1 summary blog post, and professor Bond responded to my thoughts, stating that these platforms are used as storage for the multitude of different thoughts, opinions or artistic expressions individuals share. His comment altered my perception of social media. Thinking of it more as a storage device makes … Continue reading "Social Media as Storage"
Today’s dailycreate mentioned “an old Western saying tells us not to approach a bull from the front, nor a horse from the rear. It also tells us not to approach a fool from either side.” With this quote in mind we had to create a picture or pictures talking about this quote. I went on google and […]
For my final assignment bank post for the week I decided to do an audio one. The one I chose was 1-Quote-a-Day which instructs you to pick a favorite quote and then recite it using soundcloud. So this is a big week for me- my MCAT (Medical College Admission Test) is this Saturday. I’ve been working towards […]
I spent a long time sifting through the assignment bank, trying to pick which assignment to complete. I chose to complete this writing assignment titled “With Random words and an animal” to test my creativity. In order to complete this task I first had to visit a site that randomly chose 10 words that I would be … Continue reading The Short Story Assignment that Inspired Creativity
This is my first ever visual assignment I am doing! Can you guess what this is? Hint: It’s not just simply Captain America! I chose this assignment because I love taking pictures, especially close ups. Now since it isn’t warm or nice and snowy out I had to settle on something indoors that I really … Continue reading That’s Not What I Expected
Today’s dailycreate you had to transform a verse of Home on the Range to a verse about #ds106. I first looked up the lyrics to the song (see previous hyperlink) then I googled rhyming words to see what path I wanted to go with. After this I used and app for the iPhone called Phonto to place the […]
Today’s daily create was to write a ds106 themed verse of Home on the Range. It was too long to post on Twitter so here it is!!! Oh, give me a web where the creative roam, Where the student and the teacher all learn, How audacity works or to create a cool verse, And how … Continue reading Home on the Web – 1/18 Daily Create