What is Storytelling? Storytelling to me means several different things because as I got older my view on storytelling has shifted some. When I was little I associated storytelling with my parents reading books to me before I went to bed. For awhile this is what storytelling was to me , but as I got older storytelling became something else

As soon as the bus stopped at the corner of my street I ran home. I quickly ran upstairs to my room to put away all my things from that day at school. I put on my swimsuit under the clothes I was already wearing so my mom wouldn’t know where I was going. I … Continue reading The Ocean in my Backyard →

Here’s my daily create for the day. I’ve embedded the link into the prompt. Enjoy. Write a short story about an ocean at the end of your backyard…   There’s an ocean in my backyard. I do not know how or why it got there. One day I woke up and there was an ocean […]

As part of this week’s assignments, we had to tell a story by either creating a 5-frame picture with no text, doing a 5 card flickr story, or using pictures from another person’s daily create. I opted for creating a 5-frame no text image to tell my story, and that post can be found here. … Continue reading A Story in Five Frames: Explained

My daily create on September 10th. This is my second daily create of the week. I had to write a short story about the ocean at the end of my backyard. The tweet: @ds106dc Short story for #tdc1341 pic.twitter.com/e735STjQ27 — Ben Brady (@BBrady92) September 10, 2015       The story: Every Wednesday, from 8:15 … Read More →

First, I’m going to link the story I’ve decided to do my reflection on right here and tell you that if you haven’t already viewed it, you really should. I went through and looked at all of the past stories linked on the week 3 assignment page, and this one stood out for me immediately … Continue reading Blast from the Past: 3,000 Miles in 30 seconds(ish)

Mediterranean Mermaid Some children, with their endless capabilities to imagine, splashed around in a pond or a pool and believed it to be the vastness…

I enjoyed this assignment! It didn’t feel to constricting or objective because it’s really up to myself and other viewers to determine the actual story told by the five pictures. These pictures happen to be of my hedgehog, King Louis, that I got with my fiance. We took this video the day we picked him […]

I reviewed Sean Doud’s assignment, “Starry Night,” with the goal being to animate a classic painting. I think this is a really cool assignment because you’re able to take an already existing work and make it your own through your specific choices, creativity and imagination. It’s cool how Sean used GIMP, a GIF creator, to […]

Storytelling is the action of telling a story to an audience. The first things that come to mind when I come across the word “storytelling” is childhood, exaggeration, adventure, and sitting around a campfire. Specifically, some images that come to mind are sleepovers with friends, camping, and a full moon. A place I instantly refer … Continue reading What comes to mind when you when we say “Storytelling”?

Firstly, a warning: there will be some major spoilers. Charlotte Bronte’s Villette is an amazing novel, and I fully recommend reading it, especially if you’re a fan of Jane Eyre. There will be spoilers for the novel in the explanation of this graph, though, so just be prepared. This is a graph for Charlotte Bronte’s […]

From the sandy shores of the children’s playground, you could look out at the blue water that gently rolled back and forth, smoothing pebbles within its foamy fingers. I visited the ocean every day, sitting with my pink polished toes on the edge of the water’s reach, giggling when the chill sent shivers up my […]

Today’s daily create was to write a short story about the ocean in your backyard. My story was a little longer than the maximum characters allowed in a tweet so I tweeted a picture of my response. @ds106dc #tdc1341 pic.twitter.com/yLcPGc5mWv — Kelsey Stanbro (@KelseyStanbro) September 10, 2015 x Kelsey

After watching this video, write a new blog post and explain a story that you’re familiar with in terms of Vonnegut’s approach. Pick a movie, TV show, book, poem, song, etc. The idea is to outline the shape of that story in a visual and descriptive form. Use some kind of media to do this, make it […]

This is a direct link to my Comment  on Andrew Boswell’s daily create of Levato’s poem #tdc1340 .

Today’s daily create is to write a short story about an ocean at the end of your backyard. My short story is “an ocean is as big or small as you want it to be. In my backyard there’s a pond, where I fish & relax by the edge” Here is the direct link to … Continue reading Daily Create #3

Storytelling in my mind is kind of a strange combination of literature and communication. As opposed to books and literature, “storytelling”, probably because it has the word “telling” in it, usually involves stories read aloud to someone else. Like a parent telling their child a bedtime story, or reading to them from a book of […]

  Today’s Daily Create was pretty cool because everyone wrote a poem together via Twitter! What a creative way to bring people together. This is my contribution to the poem.  

I really enjoy the story this video tells. Emily May  did a wonderful job piecing together a story of her...

Good evening guys and gals, For me, storytelling has different categories and requirements for each category. For example, there is storytelling via fiction  or non-fiction…

Five Card Story: Building   The inside of the city building contains empty rooms with echoes and only shadows from the windows. The floors are shiny, but are nothing without the furniture and desks that used to stand there before. There are birds that have created a new habitat inside, mainly on the stair rails … Continue reading Telling Stories with Photos

Hey guys and gals! Below is my daily create for 9/9/2016. The poetry idea is really cool and I read some previous people’s responses and they…

#pxc001 #poetry #tdc1340 @_levato @ds106dc We hide our wavering identities whist running from the truth — Andrew Boswell (@Boscoe1213) September...

#tdc is poetry… I might have to sit this one out — Kelsey Stanbro (@KelseyStanbro) September 9, 2015 I’m not a poetry fan so today’s daily create wasn’t really my style. However, since this week is so hectic I decided to do it. I did think that this was a really cool assignment. The power […]

I inserted a direct link to my twitter of todays daily create. I created a line to add to Levato’s poem. Twitter link

According to Kurt Vonnegut’s theory on the shapes of stories, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, has a shape which defines the plot structure of the novel. I drew a picture with Vonnegut’s two axis (good/ill fortune and beginning/end). The plot line varies back and forth from good to bad, ultimately ending in a steady downfall […]

I chose the Disney film, The Lion King, for this assignment because of how Simba’s emotions go all over the place due...

In order to fully understand what digital storytelling means, we are supposed to find a past storyteller and read his/her work. I came across an awesome story by Emily May. Her blog title for this specific story was called “3,000 Miles in 30 Seconds(ish)”. Her short yet sweet blog post entails of her journey as … Continue reading Appreciating Past DS106 Stories