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Unit 8: You won’t BELIEVE these personality tests!

by @BenjoBangs

| Syndicated
January 22, 2018

We’ve all seen those online personality tests, they’re practically unavoidable for anyone who frequents use of Facebook or Twitter in the modern world, but have you ever taken one? I found myself spending a lot of time when I first began using social media finding out what kind of animal I am deep down, or … Continue reading "Unit 8: You won’t BELIEVE these personality tests!"
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Unit 7: Create a Space with Sound

by @BenjoBangs

| Syndicated
January 22, 2018

Imagine closing your eyes, forgetting where you are; the only tool you’re allowed to use to pinpoint exactly where you are is your ears. Could you do it? Or could you create a virtual environment around yourself? Creating a virtual space using just audio is done in several steps, multiple noises cannot just be thrown … Continue reading "Unit 7: Create a Space with Sound"
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Riette attempts digital creativity

by @Riette de Jager

| Syndicated
January 22, 2018

Tis I. Riette. Making digital goods. And the bads. And the uglies. Hopefully not too many of the latter.
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A Son Remembers Scotland

by B. Short

| braveheart, genealogy, go back and trace your steps, Hey Genealogists, irvine welsh, macbeth, scotland, Syndicated, trainspotting, william wallace
January 21, 2018

I didn’t really know much about Scotland before we went there. Or I knew what everybody knew. I knew Braveheart and I knew Trainspotting and I knew, what, Macbeth, I guess. I had read Irvine Welsh’s breakout novel in college when it was recommended to me by a friend as “the greatest novel ever written.” After […]
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A Dad Solves One Mystery and Discovers Another

by B. Short

| Edinburgh Castle, genealogy, helpful librarians, Hey Genealogists, Holyroodhouse, not so helpful librarians, scotland, Syndicated, University of Edinburgh
January 21, 2018

This post is continuing the story from Ed’s last post. Our family headed to Edinburgh, Scotland, for a two-week vacation partly to find out if my wife’s ancestor Robert Morrison had a bust in the lobby of the University of Edinburgh. The bust’s existence was according to family lore. The 1891 Winnipeg Canada census showed […]
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My Blog is Ten Years Old

by Natasa Bozic Grojic

| #evosessions, Syndicated
January 21, 2018

I started this blog ten years ago on this very day. I had just bought my first internet-enabled computer (back then the digital divide was a real thing and Serbia was really lagging behind other countries). The whole wide world was opening before my ey...
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Show Us Your Blue Steel

by @MatthewJLetts

| Syndicated, Video
January 21, 2018

I was excited when I first read this assignment, as Zoolander is one of my favourite movies, back in college me and a few mates tried recreating Blue Steel as a joke. The objective for this assignment was to recreate Blue Steel with effects and music in your own way. I planned to have it … Continue reading Show Us Your Blue Steel
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DS106ers React! (Video)

by @charlottelfish

| Best Work - Assessed, Syndicated, Video, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments1722
January 21, 2018

For this assignment I had to create one of YouTube’s most uploaded video contents. A reaction video. Basically, the idea is to film yourself watching a video which you then capture them instant reactions to whatever is going on. Here is … Continue reading →
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A NOTEable story

by @Jessica_herb

| Assignments, Best Work, Syndicated
January 21, 2018

When asked to make a gif using post- it notes I had many ideas. The first was an alien shooting a gun but that did’t go as I had intended and was much harder to draw the same several times in a row than I first thought. As someone who is known for being an … Continue reading A NOTEable story →
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Make Your Own Mixtape

by @MatthewJLetts

| audio, Syndicated
January 21, 2018

I enjoyed this assignment a lot, as I got to listen to a load of my favourite songs with my main being David Bowie’s Heroes, which I started the mixtape off with. The point of the assignment was to create a mixtape that people used to decades ago, with your favourite songs. It reminded me … Continue reading Make Your Own Mixtape
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Yeah I’m singing with myself

by @RiannaL05

| audio, Best Work, Syndicated
January 21, 2018

When my time comes around Lay me gently in the cold dark earth No grave can hold my body down I’ll crawl home to her – Work song by Hozier I chose to do this song A Capella because in the song it has some nice harmonies already and I thought I could recreate... Continue Reading →
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Sexy and Greig knows it!

by @p16215559

| Best Work, Syndicated
January 21, 2018

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Guess them songs

by @ceejay_97

| Best Work, Syndicated
January 21, 2018

For this assignment in the ds106 bank, I had moved onto the mashup category. This task required me to mix some songs together and have the person listening to it guess what the song is. This assignment I enjoyed and got carried away because when I was looking for the songs to use on youtube I kept on […]
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Auditory Hell

by @MatthewJLetts

| audio, Syndicated
January 21, 2018

This assignments probably the easiest I’ve done so far. The aim was to create the worst sound ever. To do this, I used my Microsoft Headset, which has a very competent microphone that picks up every little sound. This allowed me to put the microphone in my mouth and just breath in, with a minor … Continue reading Auditory Hell
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A star is born

by @RiannaL05

| AnimatedGIF, Best Work, Syndicated
January 21, 2018

Assignment: Choose your favorite musician, and then head to Youtube and pick one of their videos to make an animated gif of. Try to use the best quality video possible, preferably HD. So I decided to create a gif of one of my favourite singers Kiah Victoria. At the end of the blog you will find... Continue Reading →
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Unit 6: Tattoos that Describe You

by @BenjoBangs

| Syndicated
January 21, 2018

A simple image with a deeper meaning, this assignment gives me a chance to talk about a tattoo I have already had done. The tattoo is based off of the above image, a geometric pineapple. The sentimental behind the tattoo derives from my friends and I’s cheesy use of a pineapple signifying our friendship after … Continue reading "Unit 6: Tattoos that Describe You"
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The James Bond that never made it to Hollywood…

by @dandennis_media

| Assignments, Best Work, Mashup/ Remix, Syndicated
January 21, 2018

This unit was about mashups and the assignment is called “I’m ready for my close up“. This assignment was about taking a close up of a person or an actor and replacing the background with something completely irrelevant. I decided for mine I’d want to make it into the first draft of a movie poster […]
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Unit 5: Colour Changer

by @BenjoBangs

| Syndicated
January 21, 2018

Looking through the lenses – a working photograph piece for #ds106. Changing the colour on a photo can dramatically change the way people perceive the image and dramatically shift the focal points as to where an audience is going to look when they view your image. For example, shifting the colour tones in this image … Continue reading "Unit 5: Colour Changer"
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Star Warped

by @Jessica_herb

| Assignments, Best Work, Syndicated
January 21, 2018

I’ve only become a Star Wars fan recently but my boyfriend has been the biggest fan for years. So purely due to peer pressure I’ve now seen every film and know more about the franchise than I ever wanted to know. In return for making me watch all the films I made my boyfriend watch … Continue reading Star Warped →
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Education Evolutions #50

by Fred Haas - @akh003

| Education Evolutions Newsletter, Syndicated, Teaching & Learning, Teaching Today
January 21, 2018

Celebration flickr photo by xdegarmox shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC) license Select Readings and Thoughts on Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age Well, it is a kind of anniversary of sorts – Issue 50 of this newsletter that started out as a kind of experiment and has developed into a bit more than […] Continue reading →
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La Vie En Rose 2018-01-21 04:53:00

by @Jessieb55762060

| ds106, Syndicated
January 21, 2018

I am the girl who constantly swims against the tide....It's fucking exhausting!I have this theory though that if you swim against it long enough you will develop muscles you never knew you had.As a woman in the beauty industry I see women striving for ...
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My Disney Remix

by @eleanorjo

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignment2102, Best Work, ds106, Syndicated
January 20, 2018

For the audio assignment I chose the Disney Lyric Mash up as I am a massive Disney Fan. I know all of the words to the songs (pretty much) so it was kinda easy to chose the songs which fit together. Firstly I download the songs I wanted, this was quite hard just picking as […]
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Google Draw Something

by @eleanorjo

| Best Work, ds106, Syndicated
January 20, 2018

For this web assignment is chose to do the google draw something challenge as I looked like a fun game and I liked trying new stuff. When I first opened the game I thought I was clever a tried to skip the instructions, this lead to me thinking that you could draw what you wanted […]
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GangnamNOstyle

by @ceejay_97

| Syndicated
January 20, 2018

To begin this task I had chosen an assignment from the video assignment section within the ds106 bank. The one I had chosen to tackle is creating a musicless video which invlolves adding some sound effects to the video. This assignment was very entertaining to complete and I had a lot of fun searching for sound effects […]
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Drama Girls.

by @RiannaL05

| Syndicated
January 20, 2018

Now this is the story of how these three beautiful queens met and became inseparable It all started 27th August 2014, When These two (below) met at an audition for a drama course. They both did well and were accepted onto the course. Both of them then went and sat in the canteen of the... Continue Reading →
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Dan reacts to…

by @dandennis_media

| Assignments, Best Work, Syndicated, Video
January 20, 2018

This assignment for ds106 was part of a video unit was called “DS106ers React!“. Not too recently there was a lot of controversy surrounding channels on youtube that were labelled as “React Channels” these channels were simply videos of people reacting to other videos. The reason they sparked up a lot of talks online […]
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Hearing places…

by @dandennis_media

| Assignments, audio, Best Work, Syndicated
January 20, 2018

This ds106 assignment was part of an audio unit and was called “Create a place“. The aim of the assignment was to use audio to paint a picture of a scene and put the listener there in the location. This assignment really shows the importance of audio in that it can be used to create […]
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Ode to my hat

by @Jessica_herb

| Assignments, Best Work, Syndicated
January 19, 2018

When I saw this assignment was to take pictures of a mundane object in different ways I took a while deciding what object to use. After a while I thought about the hat that my parents had got me for Christmas. Every year they seemed to set themselves the challenge of finding the weirdest hat … Continue reading Ode to my hat →
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Things that make me go ‘ahhhh’

by @p16215559

| Syndicated
January 19, 2018

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The Armourer! coming to cinemas this weekend

by @p16215559

| Syndicated
January 19, 2018

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