1. @jpegman24

    Digital Storytelling; Week 13; Weekly Summary

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    This week, I worked on planning out my final project. For the project, I’m going to continue a story I started last week on the Text Message Story conversation. My secret agent is tasked with interrupting a illegal vinyl transaction. The Vinyl contains a key to a very important location in the city’s catacombs. I …

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  2. @JasmineAlanis2

    Week 13 Summary – Project Outline

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    This week, my super awesome radio show group (Rogue Agents) decided to reunite for our final project! Our group consists of Hannah Duncan, Morgan Roane, and me (Jasmine Alanis). We decided to outline our ideas on a google doc. Essentially, we plan on telling a larger story with many mediums. Our first assignment will be
  3. @caholt2000

    Mission: Directorate

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    What is happening at the Super Secret Squirrel Agency? Sammy A. Squirrel is on the case. . . Agent Sammy A. Squirrel was strolling through the Super Secret Squirrel Agency drinking coffee and eating a peanut butter cookie. He still could not believe that he was a special agent. Even though he has been doing

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  4. @Katie73536604

    Weekly Summary #13

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    I am super excited about our final mission! I am also excited that the idea of the project was something that I had in mind when we were coming up with our final mission suggestions. I loved the idea of pulling together a story of some sort into multi...
  5. @christinac106

    Final Countdown

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    Wow, just one more week left here in ds106! It’s crazy to look back and see all that I have accomplished and learned within this thrilling and liberating semester. Now just one last task lies ahead… our final mission. Our final mission is ultimately our final project here in ds106, one last thing in between […]
  6. @CommTweetWithMe

    The Final (Mission) Countdown

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    Over the course of the semester, we have explored writing, photography, audio, video and design. We’ve remixed and mahed up, worked solo and in a group, and completed big projects and small. But now, as the semester winds down, it’s time to bring it all together for one final mission. This week has been preety […]
  7. @kdzebdi106

    Progress Report

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    I have joined the group with Christina C, Matt, and Chris M. We have been extremely busy and have not had a 100% clear outline. We have some ideas of what we want to include in our mission project. We wanted to possibly do a video game project in conjunction with this project. We are…
  8. @faith_martino

    Endless Summers

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    How does one simply get rid of a run down boat and make some money? You lie. It will work, because people will definitely not catch on. First you find a website that will allow you to post anything. Then you make up some crazy story that seems totally realistic. But.. you have to post the pictures of the actual boat, otherwise people might be a little suspicious when they show up. Now all you have to do is wait. Wait for someone to respond to your post. Wait. It will work. Original Page Edited Page I chose to create a Craigslist post for this assignment. Throughout the past, I have found some hilarious posts there and thought it would be funny to edit one. I then downloaded Mozilla X-Ray Goggles. While searching for a post, I fond a boat in terrible shape and thought about the different stories that could be told through it.
  9. @madeleine_ds106

    Week 13 Progress Post

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    For the final project for this week I’m thinking of doing a recruitment style project. For this project we are required to use three forms of media. To complete this recruitment style project, I plan on using the media forms video, audio, and de...
  10. @tiffmooree

    Progress Report

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    We’re almost at the end of this class! I’ve enjoyed it more than I thought I would. I originally took this class because it was online and it helped with being a commuter student. I dropped one of my lectures on campus before even going, and chose to do two online classes instead. This is something I’ve never done, and I thought the course load for just two online classes would be the death of me. Here I am to say, however, that I am happy with my decision. This class has shown me that I don’t know as much about computer systems as much as I thought I did. Audio was quite difficult to me, as audacity proved to be a challenge. After a few hours, I was able to get the handle of it, and I’m glad I learned how to use it! Visual assignments were harder than I had thought. I took photography in high school, so editing and uploading images were not new to me. I did not have any editing software though. I learned how to use photoshop throughout that class, but it was provided to us. Photoshop is quite expensive, so I had to find other means. This was a learning experience for me. I went onto the apple store and found so many different editing apps. I loved how I had to do this, and learned more despite the experience I had. Writing was easy for me, as this is one of the only things I am good at. I am an English major, so this was a breeze. The assignments we not difficult either! Web assignments were also easy, as they didn’t require any new softwares to experiment with. I loved doing the radio show! It was a lot of work, but I loved my group and how it brought the class together. Group assignments are either a hit or a miss, and this one was a hit! FOR THE FINAL PROJECT: I really like how the final project is up for our interpretation. I think how we had to think about it for the past few weeks has really helped pull it together. The first week we all had a vague idea of what we were going to do, and week after week we expanded on it. I knew I wanted to use everything we had learned this semester, and put my knowledge to the test. I am going to go for the outline that I put forward last week. This would cover all platforms we have experienced. I expanded on my ideas by looking at other student’s posts. This helped give me a better idea of what to do, while also inspiring me. Find my Blog Post Here: However, I don’t think this would equal to be 30 stars. I have done a lot of 5 star assignments throughout the course of this class, so I know this outline would be too easy. I am going to change up video a little bit. I think the scavenger hunt would be too difficult in itself without everyone participating. What would I be trying to find? There would really be nothing unless everyone made a blog post correlated to the assignment. Instead, I am going to make essentially an announcement about the missing agents. Almost as if it would come across T.V. as a broadcast (but not actually, people aren’t supposed to know about our secret agents). This in itself would be around 5 stars, so I am going to edit it enough to were it will be around 10 stars. This means it won’t be a typical assignment bank where minimal editing is key. I will make sure the title and closing titles have music and are accurate, and it is more than me just talking about the agents. I am going to keep the visual assignments. However, one poster would be equal to 5 stars, so I am going to make around 2-3 with great editing. This should equal it to around 10 stars as well. Audio will also be the same. The radio bumper will be less of a bumper, and more of a broadcast as well. Not as complex as the radio show, as I am not in a group, but complex enough to be around 10 stars as well. I am going to have around 5 minutes of me talking and editing it as much as the radio show. Writing will be changed up a bit as well. There is a weekly summary required, but that would not be enough. I am also going to make a separate blog post talking about our secret agents and how they are missing. These both should be around 10 stars together. Overall, the assignments should equal out to be around 40 stars in my opinion, with the 5 star leeway if I am off by a tad. I have also started working on the final project. Here is my progress with the basis for a few assignments:

UMW Spring 2024 (Bond & Groom)

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