I take my privacy and security very seriously when talking about going online. I counted a lot of commercial products on my computer but I also have a lot of open source software too. The words open, community, and cooperation accurately characterize the open source software community. It is nice to use open source software …

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For some of my stars this week I decided to do that Character Resume (3 1/2 stars) and create a resume for my secret agent. I created the resume in google docs but uploaded it as a PDF. I also decided that I would host the final product as it’s own page on my site […]

@ds106dc What people thought the 2000's would look like back in the 1900's. This is a post card! Love it! #tdc1900 pic.twitter.com/BLiEuGmsgD — Heather Slota (@slotaheather) March 22, 2017 @ds106dc #tdc1898 hahaha. Cats. pic.twitter.com/QvyCb2185x — Heather Slota (@slotaheather) March 22, 2017

  AHH! This assignment was so much fun. I played it three times and it was more and more fun each time. I think it is cool how they can have a program like this that guesses the images as you draw them. I think that everyone should play it if they can!   Stars: … Continue reading Quick, Draw! FUN

The last assignment I did to bring me over eight stars is called Buzzfeed personality quiz and is worth 4.5 stars. Buzzfeed personality quiz For this assignment I had to create a personality quiz on Buzzfeed. I really love Buzzfeed so this was a great assignment to do. I decided to create a personality test …

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This assignment was called create a dream vacation on pinterest and is worth 3.5 stars. http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/create-your-dream-vacation-on-pinterest/ I really enjoyed this assignment because I regularly use pinterest so it was fun to do. My dream vacation has always been to spend and extended vacation in London. I created a board to put all of my pins …

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The first web based assignment I did this week was called Google Draw Something and is worth 2 stars. http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/google-draw-something/ For this assignment you have to go to the google draw something site and follow the prompts it gives you to draw six things with twenty seconds to draw each image. I really liked this …

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http://pin.it/O1bz2Yh My dream room is very…complex. There are a lot of components that I would love to have. First of all, it would be HUGE. It would have a walk in closet, maybe two stories tall. Then it would have a projector with a movie screen for a Tv. Another thing I would love to … Continue reading Dream Room

Using the x-ray goggles provided by a firefox extension, I created my own web browser homepage. Instead of it being “The search engine that never tracks you.” I changed it and wrote Google. Because Google and many other big companies are tracking everyone online to help with advertising and learning more about a person to …

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Tuesday night I tuned int agents on air on the DS106 radio. The agents talked about the different things they are up to. It was such a creative show and I really enjoyed listening to it. They were very interesting cases to listen to and hear what each agent was doing. I liked listening to …

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On Tuesday I tuned in to listen to ds106 radio. I listened to a show called “A Spy Story”. They incorporated very cool intro music and outro music. They had very good use of radio bumpers and good use of background noises and sound effects. Gunshots seemed to be a popular choice for sound effects. It …

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This week we did something completely new where we took an existing website and changed it up a little. I thought this was something really cool and interesting to do. At first I looked and was confused but as I looked more into what the assignment was I knew we could do a lot of …

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Sexspionage This radio show was pretty good. There were some things that could be stronger. One thing that could be better is when sound effects are used, turn them down a little because it was blaring. Another thing that could be improved is the storyline. It was hard to keep up with the plot because … Continue reading Radio Show Review

I listened to the radio show on Tuesday called “Sexpionage.” Listening to other radio show as an audience member invoked new experiences: Experience of listening- It was a good experience to listen to a show that another group had composed as I was able to hear what others thought of when they thought of the term, “spy.” Various sound elements employed- Sound effects …

For this assignment I wanted to take the opportunity to tell the story of the beginning of the Suicide Squad. If you all have not yet seen this movie, go watch it. Is it a masterpiece? No. Is it worth a watch? Absolutely. Anyway, the Suicide Squad is a group of criminals and super villains …

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This was insanely fun, which is kinda embarrassing to admit. I played it so many times I lost count, but I wanted to share my first experience with you guys. I decided to take a snip of my first try at the game which was probably the worst draw out of all of them. This …

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Web Page Remix   https://thimbleprojects.org/HTTP/mjryanonline/235319/ For this assignment I wanted to change the story of an ad selling an old car into an ad selling a rocket car. I tried to find the oldest and most rusted out looking car that I could find so that it seemed even more humorous for me to say …

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https://twitter.com/A_marillo/status/842729359773487104   The first thing that I came across that I personally think turned out really well was this daily create challenge to take a picture and post it and then post the edited version right beside it so we could see the differences. I think this photo that I included accomplishes this wonderfully because …

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I listened to the first radio show that was on air and that was the Miami Spy Convention. There is always some pressure to be the first group presenting your project, even when it’s through the internet and you’re not actually there. The Miami Spy Convention follows several radio show hosts that are in Miami …

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Greetings…fellow agents. While taking some R&R, I tuned into a Cloak & Dagger Radio Show This show is about a mystery about decoding a message. It’s quite a long story with a commercial in between but while I found it a little void of sounds, the ones used throughout and overall storytelling was superb. After […]

Archives “The sword cuts through the dark” How perfect! I chose to reflect on the Cloak and Dagger show. I just want to start off by saying that I loved the intro! But aside from that, the show itself was pretty great. My group did a “live” broadcast so it was really cool to listen to Cloak and Dagger since it was the complete opposite as it was story telling. The sound effects were put in perfect positions, the ringing phone in the Nancy Drew segment especially! Having the advice segment in between the story kind’ve felt out of place […]

Some of the best assignments that ds106 students have done have gone unnoticed because of the abundance of posts that go into the class feed. I went back through some of the different posts and found three that I really enjoyed and would consider the best. To me the best means a lot of thought and …

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Stars: 3.5 https://www.pinterest.com/hslota/dream-vacation-honeymoon/   I have always wanted to go to Greece and now that my honeymoon will be coming up next year, maybe this is the perfect time to plan my dream trip. I will need to get my fiance his passport. Then we will have to find a hotel that is within our budget. … Continue reading Dream Trip on Pinterst

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/youtube-it-your-way/ https://thimbleprojects.org/HTTP/alpr/233760/ Greetings…fellow agents. I modified this youtube video page to prank Captain America on thinking it’s magneto that will save him instead of iron man! Mwuhahaha. Eventually I got tired of editing all of the comments but I did quite a handful as well. Originally the video is about iron man’s entrance to the […]

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/inklewriter-storytelling/ http://writer.inklestudios.com/stories/h8g8 Greetings, fellow agents….I have created a super secret interactive code message above! It is loosely based off of a maze I created in a different class, making it up as I go along. It has many branching paths to explore with a cool ending and an (intentional) infinite loop! Took me about an […]

Greetings…fellow agents. I am finally alone all to myself again GUAH.rgrfg…mwuahaha it is I, Dr. Howlizer! I’m finally in agent smith’s account! Er…wait, this is google! What th…well whatever. That’s even better! Look! Look at how I changed everything on the webpage to whatever I desire! It tricks people into NOT clicking the links, saying […]

This assignment was a lot of fun and also extremely frustrating. I have always been a huge fan of these sorts of games, I usually play Pictionary and charades with my family. I am without question better at acting something out than I am at Pictionary, I was never one to have that artistic ability … Continue reading Google Draw Something

For my first web assignment, I decided to do the Find a Digital Tool assignment. The assignment is to Find a cool, easy to use  digital tool online and to write up a brief tutorial on how to use it, and what it can be used for. The tool that I will be writing a tutorial … Continue reading "Canva Tutorial"