When I think of storytelling a few immediate things come to mind. I think of books, of people, and I think of spoken word in a familiar voice. Storytelling to me has to be captivating and it has to be transcendent. I suppose there could be bad storytelling that wouldn’t be either of those things … Continue reading Telling a Story of Storytelling

I looked through the stories posted in the week 3 post and decided to write about “Swarley the Missing Dinosaur.” The story can be found here Swarley the Missing Dinosaur   I liked this story because it was humorous. The pictures of Swarley and his family with the “My Family Photos” square was great. After … Read More →

I thoroughly enjoyed learning about storytelling this week. It was interesting to really think about what storytelling means, as well as how that changes or stays the same when transferred into the digital world. It’s not something that we usually learn about in school, even as an English major. You’re just expected to have this […]

I chose a story of a college student(s) moving into college because it is easy to relate to. For me, the move-in process was a scary, but exciting one. Having grown up in a small town and having the same group of best friends since kindergarten it was tough to leave them behind. I was … Continue reading Tell a story in five frames reflection

How well do you feel you completed the requirements of the week’s assignments? There were quite a few assignments this week compared to the past couple of weeks but I feel like I met the requirements for each one. I used slickr-flickr this week even though it took forever to get the plugin to work, […]

I chose to show the shape of Lilo and Stitch. I used LibreOffice Draw to make the story curve and then dropped pictures from the movie onto their corresponding spot on the curve. The curve starts off below the fortune line. Lilo is a lonely girl with no friends who may soon be taken from … Read More →

                                    I chose to do the activity “tell a story in five frames”. My story is of a college student(s) moving in. It was a sequence of events that I have put together in order using images from … Continue reading Tell a story in five frames “Moving in”

I’ve never been comfortable writing comments on things, especially when there was a guaranteed chance that someone would see them, but I found this assignment to be a good way to get out of my comfort zone. I loved reading many different blog posts, and seeing what everyone else thought of certain assignments. It allowed […]

The story I chose to focus on was the final project about the broke college student by Omar Aminzay. I like this story because even though its very short it uses multiple digital platforms to help tell the story. The title is what drew me in because I can relate to being a sophomore in college with … Continue reading Appreciating A Past Story →

The shape of Peter Cottontail: Shown below is a picture of the story Peter Cottontail in the form of a story shape. According to Kurt Vonnegut’s theory of story shapes, Peter Cottontail has a defined shape that shows the ups and downs of the story. The shape of the story-line is based on the two axes , the vertical axis being good

Hey guys and gals! For this assignment, we had to choose to do one of the following: Tell a Story in Five Frames is a…

When watching Kurt Vonnegut explain the shape of stories, I began thinking about movies I really enjoyed that had a “shape” I could easily explain and visually describe. The movie I decided to focus on was Annie. Not the Broadway musical or the first film that was released in 1982. I’ve decided to explain the … Continue reading The Shape of Stories: A Modern Twist on a Classic Story →

We’ve all been there. Those times where it seems like giving up is such an easier option, however, it is usually times like that when we need to keep persevering, which is exactly what my brother, Roy did. It was his senior year of high school and everything was going just his way (as usual). […]

When Vonnegut was explaining the most popular story of having highs and lows. I immediately thought of A LOT of movies that I had seen with the same exact plot. The movie I chose is one of my favorites, “Coach Carter”. It’s about a group of high school kids that live in the projects, they don;t […]

Making a picture story: Making the five card story was tons of fun because I got to look through quite a few pictures to decide what the best outline for a story would be for me. Here is the process on how to make a Flickr five picture random story: I went to my assignment page Not Digital Truth Telling

Story in five photos. Here is the link to my story in the Flickr group and I added a slideshow of it too  

Ideally 50 years from now, I’ll still be walking around enjoying nature and the cool fall days.

“First, What is Storytelling?” What did you learn this unit about your notion of storytelling? Where might it apply to your interests or studies?  Storytelling is a form of telling stories, made up, real, to anyone at any age. I learned that storytelling is something that still occurs, and now, can be digital. This includes … Continue reading Weekly Summary 3

Five Card Story: Zombie Fish a Five Card Flickr story created by Adam Hoff flickr photo by bionicteaching flickr photo by bionicteaching flickr photo by bionicteaching flickr photo by bionicteaching flickr photo by bionicteaching In this Five Card Flickr Story, someone is coming home from work on a normal day, but when he gets to … Continue reading →

To appreciate past DS106 stories, I took a look at the final project titled “A Television Life.” A Television Life This final project is a digital story because it is a story being told with images, sounds, and videos. This project gave a humorous, yet slightly sad, view of a television’s life. I thought that … Continue reading →

Hey guys! I looked through some of the previous projects and stopped with THIS one because it gave me the exact example of a multimedia digital story…

Author Kurt Vonnegut gave a presentation on how stories can be described with curves on a graph. One curve he called “man in hole.” For this curve, the main character gets in trouble, then gets out of it again and ends off better for the experience. The movie that comes to mind when I think of … Continue reading →

After watching Vonnegut’s video on stories, I thought about movies that I have seen recently. I watched the movie Gone Girl, which is an awesome movie that I highly recommend. But spoilers below if you haven’t seen it. The movie starts off with Nick (Ben Affleck), worried because his wife, Amy, is missing..on the day … Continue reading Shape of Stories: Gone Girl

When I think of the word storytelling, many things come to mind. I think of telling a story using very descriptive words and captivating imagery to keep the audience engaged the entire time. I think of it as a more detailed way of telling something as opposed to strict repetition of memories. Storytelling is embellishment … Continue reading What does ‘storytelling’ mean to me? →

        I named my topic Appearances, because everything is not always as it seems. The story I hope to tell with these pictures is that a girl sees a huge creepy shadow on her ceiling and is scared she then peers under her bed and finds that the huge shadow is made […]

I chose to do Tell a Story in Five Frames. I knew that I wanted to do a story about a girl in bed and then she sees a shadow and is scared, but it’s actually just a stuffed animal. Unfortunately, not a lot of people have stuffed animals in college so I ended up […]

Going through the many pages of blog posts created by my fellow classmates, quite a few interesting posts I wanted...

For this daily create, we had to create a video of my life in the future. This was new for me in terms of my past Daily Creates. I thought of all technology when I saw it! #tdc1344: One Minute of Your Day in 2065 My life in 2065. Very full of tech. #tdc1344 @ds106dc pic.twitter.com/iTK8ChRBGN … Continue reading Daily Create 9/13/15

So this week we got to spend a lot of time really focusing on what “storytelling” is and began looking at what it might mean in a digital context. One of our first assignments was to write a post talking about what storytelling meant to us and to also think about what “digital storytelling” looks … Continue reading Looking Back: Week Three

Monday September 7th, 2015: Today’s daily create was to provide a caption for an image of a dolphin and rare red crab! @ds106dc #tdc1338 "Oh look, I love stuffed crab!" — Ashlyn Runk (@a_renee03) September 7, 2015 Tuesday September 8th, 2015: Today we needed to find something to help cheer up a classmate who lost … Continue reading Week 3: Daily Creates