Story Analysis
After reading, The New Digital Storytelling: Creating Narratives with New Media written by Bryan Alexander, watching Vonnegut on The Shape
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Fuzzy Red Puppy?
One of my favorite things to do with my best friend, Drana Brooke, is to Role Play, or RP, with our characters. Sometimes there is a prompt that we start with; most times, our characters pop up during a conversation and start talking and we go from there. (Discord even has a bot that allows ā¦ -
WeeklySummary#3
Daily Creates The daily creates were visually stimulating this week! I found my dormant inner artist come out, I used to be really into painting, but I let that go when other things became a bigger focus for me. I actually experimented using my laptop drawing application which was a interesting new media to draw ā¦ -
10 years from nowā¦
by @jclark22umw February 12, 2021A letter to my future self.. Hi me! I bet youāre working to help everyone get along better. Maybe an ambassador? Maybe a humanitarian? I still donāt know what I want to be, but at 31 youāve figured everything out. You still believe talking through issues and loving everyone you meet can help make the [ā¦]
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Story Mechanics
Have you every thought about all the elements that combine to make a good story? Plot, Characters, Setting, Theme, Conflict, Resolution, etc. A story must have these and more to be a good story. Yet, even with all of these elements sometimes a story can fall flat. So, what is it that keeps a reader ā¦ -
Funky Broadway Boogie Woogie
https://phb256.tumblr.com/post/642947986452873216 For todayās Daily Create we had give a picture a soundtrack. The first thing I thought of was Mondrianās Broadway Boogie Woogie. But I wanted to get GIF-fy with it, naturally, so I downloaded the image from Wikimedia and ā¦ Continue reading -
Weekly Summary #3
Weekly Summary #3: 2/5/21-2/12/21 This week in Digital Story Telling, I was to complete at least 12 stars worth of writing assignments and 3 daily ā¦ -
Fearing the Unknown
When I was in my freshman year of college, I had an English professor who liked to use a particular ice breaker on the first day of class. He had several questions that each person had to pick from and answer. One of the questions I remember was āWhat is your greatest fear?ā I remember ā¦ -
Dear Future Husband
by @jclark22umw February 12, 2021A letter to my future husbandā¦ Dear Husband, Have we met? Where are you? What are you doing right now? How tall are you? Do you have a dog? Whatās your favorite movie? What about your favorite food? There so many things I want to learn about you. I suppose weāll have all our lives [ā¦]
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Down the Rabbit Hole
A person could easily get lost down the rabbit hole of Wikipedia articles. There is so much information there to browse through and read. The writing prompt āRandom Wikipedia Writingā takes advantage of all these options (3 stars). The challenge is to take a random page (a special Wikipedia link allows you to do this) ā¦ -
Move-In Moments
by @sunglasses260ds106, DS106 Assignment Bank Creations, General Posts, Syndicated, writingassignments, writingassignments1692February 12, 2021Itās so odd how Iām already almost halfway through my time at college, and yet it sometimes feels like I moved in yesterday. I remember how new things felt back then, how uncertain it all was. (Itās also a little odd writing this post about my first move-in day, which was in the middle of [ā¦] -
Weekly Summary 3
Story Analysis Writing assignments This week to complete 12 stars worth of assignments, I chose to do 5 different activities. They are titled: 10 seconds starting… now Giving Thanks > Giving Gifts Tasty Haiku Haiku Haiku A Boy Chronicle I really ... -
Water? For a Fire? Nah, Just Use Ice
Have you ever wondered what life would be like if you were a superhero? That is exactly the prompt that āDay in the Life of a Superheroā presents (2 stars). Using a Superhero Name generator website for powers and your superhero name, I was challenged to write a short story āabout the day in the ā¦ -
2010ish YA Books Analysis
I chose to do my analysis on these kinds of books because, as embarrassing it is to admit, these are the last books in my memory that I have read start to finish. This was probably back in 2012 or 2013. Around this time there were lots of YA books that... -
My hopes, dreams, and fears
For this assignment worth 3 stars, I was to āwrite a letter to yourself describing how you ideally imagine your life, career, etc. in 10 ā¦ -
A Pictureās Soundtrack
On top of Star Wars, Iām a huge fan of anything fantasy! Things like Lord of the Rings and Dungeons and Dragons are right up my alley. Hereās a fantasy-esque painting with a (hour long) youtube aesthetic soundtrack.
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Summin it up ā round 3
I was excited about this weeks assignments because it required me to interact with friends, talk about my favorite person (my mom), and I got to show off some of my favorite pictures of sunsets. I ended up sending my mom the post I wrote about her and she was very touched by what I [ā¦] -
Weekly Summary : Week 3
Every day this week I checked the main ds106 class site and twitter to stay up to date on otherās work. After last week, I decided to stick with making at least 12 comments per week. I chose 12 because it was the number I accomplished last week and I think I should try to [ā¦] -
Next Time Wonāt You Write With Me
by @ari_squaredassignment-tags.jpg, ds106, Syndicated, tagged.jpg, weekly assignments, writingassignments, WritingAssignments1571February 12, 2021Assignment For my final week 3 assignment I chose a random page number and selected the first 3 star assignment I saw: āA Story In Alphabetā. Behind the Work Okay to start off, I am really proud of the title I came up with for this assignment. Itās a play on the end of the [ā¦] -
To my mom
For this assignment, I was to write a letter to my mom that was worth 4 stars. I am going to hand-write this to my ā¦ -
Monologue of the Erasable Pen
by @sunglasses260ds106, DS106 Assignment Bank Creations, General Posts, Syndicated, writingassignments, WritingAssignments1056February 12, 2021āI would argue that Iām Audraās most useful pen. After all, Iām the only pen of hers that can actually erase. Sure, she has a few erasable highlighters, but those almost always sit in the pencil bag and are only used on special occasions. Iām an all day, every day kind of pen, baby! She [ā¦] -
Sharing Credit
For this writing assignment, I was to take turns writing a collaborative story via email. This assignment was worth 4 stars. Here is a story ā¦ -
Am I a Storyteller?
I am not a huge fan of telling people personal details about my life ā especially random strangers on the internet (sorry folks), but let me give you a glimpse. When I was watching Kurt Vonnegut talk about the shape of stories, I started wondering how I would draw my graph. My life has been [ā¦] -
Cardinal Collision
by @ari_squared February 12, 2021Assignment I wasnāt sure what Writing Assignment to attempt for my 3rd week 3 writing assignment as I completed my 2 favorites: āA Game of Reviewsā and āEmotional Lyricsā in the beginning of the week. After some thought, I decided on āA Picture is Worth a Thousand Wordsā. Behind the Work In May of 2019 [ā¦] -
Three Thrilling Daily Creates
Well, hello! Hereās this weekās Daily Creates that I participated in. And here are photos of my creations, separate from the Tweets: I completed these Daily Creates on February 9, 10, and 11. My favorite of these was the sign creation. I was immediately intrigued. I looked through the icons on the website listed on [ā¦] -
My Bucket List
For this writing assignment, I was supposed to make a bucket list. This assignment was worth 2 stars. I want to do all of these ā¦ -
Visual
Thatās Not What I Expected I donāt think I am supposed to tell you what this item is, but because it is not an everyday item, I will tell you that you will find this in both a gym and a therapists office. I loved the texture on this and hadnāt noticed how intricate itā¦ Continue reading Visual -
Week Four Visual 4
by @MaddySlunt February 12, 2021Color Changer This photo was taken in Italy at a skyline lookout, it had a gorgeous view, but the best part was the sky. In the original photo, the clouds were a very dark grey, but the sun was bright behind. This is shown in the photo and emphasized through the neon pink/orange on theā¦ Continue reading Week Four Visual 4 -
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Bring Your Pet to School I have always wanted a dog and loved all of the submissions that included peopleās dogs edited to be on campus, but I have never been allowed to have a dog. I have fostered dogs and I work in a house with two beautiful golden retrievers, but the only petsā¦ Continue reading Visual -
Visual
Can You See What I See I feel like I cheated the photography aspect of this week, however, the instructions of the assignment stated that I could find an image on the internet to use. I loved this image with the idea I had for this edit because the baby looks very curious with wideā¦ Continue reading Visual
