1. sgtsocks

    Week Three Summary: Get Your Stories Here.

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    Let me start by pointing out that the NHL is going into a lockout for the 2012-2013 Season in approximately 3 hours….Okay, now that that is out of the way, let me give you the rundown for my third week of Digital Storytelling. Wait, what is Digital Storytelling, you ask? What a coincidence, I have the answer here! Okay, that may not be the actual answer, but it’s my answer and I’m sticking to it!! And since you’re here, you must care about what I think, so read up! Now, we’ll move on to the creating the Shape of Stories assignment…PLEASE BE AWARE THAT IF YOU CLICK THIS LINK, IT … Continue reading
  2. LyndseyLu Smith

    It’s like talking to a forehead…

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    Have your parents ever said to you, “I love looking at your forehead.”  Do you know what they’re implying? … GET OFF YOUR PHONE! Now, I am not here to bash technology but in this day in age I feel as if more and more kids are ignoring their parents words of wisdom by constantly being on a cellphone… What a blessing as a human to be able to communicate emotions, words, actions. Sometimes I feel as if people overlook the lack of communication happening in our society. Put down your phone when you’re talking to your parents, friends, acquaintances. They don’t deserve to have to stare at your forehead. … Continue reading
  3. LyndseyLu Smith

    Lightning McQueen (StoryShape)

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    For this assignment I was asked to watch Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories! I really enjoyed this video, I actually am going to admit to watching it at least 7 times.. haha It was just that entertaining! Definitely two thumbs up! His video inspired me to do my own story shape about the movie, Cars, by Disney/Pixar. I really enjoy watching this movie with my two younger brothers so I sort of know the entire movie by heart. The story starts off with a race-car, Lightning McQueen, he’s the rookie race-car. The movie starts off with the Piston Cup race, only it ends in a three-way tie, which … Continue reading
  4. LyndseyLu Smith

    A Quartet of Daily Creates (:

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    Week FOUR of Daily Creates!! Traffic, on traffic, on traffic… *Daily Create Sept 10th* The Daily Create was to express what makes you angry. I commute to school approximately 45 minutes, traffic is a hit or miss situation. I absolutely hate traffic, because I get upset and angry sitting in the car not being able to fix my situation. Anger to me means getting frustrated, traffic = frustration. Traffic is something that definitely makes me angry!   On My Sidewalk Today *Daily Create Sept 12th* The Daily Create assignment was to capture the view from your sidewalk. So, my picture is of my momma walking on our neighbor sidewalk. I absolutely love … Continue reading
  5. kpyrtle

    Third Time’s the Charm!

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    What is storytelling? The first thing I did this week was sat down and thought about storytelling. I thought about what storytelling  really meant to me and what I associated it with. Thinking about traditional storytelling really brought back childhood memories for me. I put all my thoughts in a post entitled “Reminiscing in a ...
  6. nstringer

    Week Three of DS

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    I learned so much this week. This week started off with a blog post of: New blog post DS106: What is [Digital] Storytelling ultim8bimmr.net/what-is-digita… — Nathan Stringer (@NathanStringer) September 11, 2012 I was able to take time to analyze the … Continue reading
  7. nstringer

    Daily Creates

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    Review Below to view my four daily creates for the week ending September 15th. A unique texture/pattern would be my Rolex. I bought this for myself my freshman year of college. It is my favorite watch. I am an avid … Continue reading
  8. bparsons

    Summarization #3

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    Another week of ds106 has successfully gone by.   I still agree with all of my ideas about storytelling and what it means to add digital to the word. In fact, reading other people’s blogs has only confirmed my beliefs more.   I really enjoyed this video! It was quite entertaining and I love the ...
  9. mwatanab

    Top-Heavy Weeks

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    The problem with top-heavy weeks is that, since you have been off a computer for four solid days, that the return back to your computer is overwhelmingly distracting while trying to whittle down my assignment load and getting enough Zzz. I have wandered upon Caine’s Arcade with the help of Nirvan who works for a ... Continue Reading
  10. twerkooo

    Old DS …

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    We were asked to acknowledge previous DS students and look through their work…SO MUCH TALENT AND CREATIVITY!! One of the small pictures that was really appealing to me personally was the picture that a girl named Chelsea posted, as one … Continue reading
  11. astegemi

    The shape of Flintstones

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    I personally enjoyed Kurt Vonnegut’s outlook on the shape of movies.  I feel as if he couldn’t be more correct and he portrays his outlook in a comical manor.  My attempt at his outlook involved the movie The Flintstones.
  12. cogdog

    Nudging Your WordPress Installs Up the Directory Stairs

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    We are just sampling the success we have had with not only ds106, but many other classes at University of Mary Washington, in getting students going with their own domains and web sites under Domains of Ones Own. One niggling issue is on the wordpress installer, it is set by default to install the blog in an ugly subdirectory named wordpress so rather than having my web presence sitting at my domain, like http://coolestdogevah.me/ I end up with it living at http://coolestdogevah.me/wordpress Butt Ugly Urls. Even worse is that if someone goes to the root URL, they get a default server screen. Martha and I offered this week some extra credit to students that could figure out a way to redirect any traffic from say http://coolestdogevah.me/ to http://coolestdogevah.me//wordpress to fix that issue. There are several ways one could do this, some htaccess redirect, or a redirect in a PHP or ...
  13. kpyrtle

    The One That Got Away!

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    Five Card Story: The One That Got Away. a Five Card Flickr story created by Kiersten Pyrtle flickr photo by bionicteaching flickr photo by bgblogging flickr photo by auilix flickr photo by Serenae flickr photo by Serenae Once upon a time, there was a dock with a beautiful white cat sleeping on it. Then, all ...
  14. mwatanab

    Fish

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    Add a touch of nature to your page with these hungry little fish.  Watch them as they follow your mouse hoping you will feed them by clicking the surface of the water. via Fish.
  15. amelialord

    Inspiration

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    Since DS106 is a community of digital storytellers, it is fun to go back and look at past works other people have made to inspire future work, or to just look at in amazement. I choose to blog about a poster made my Keelin in Spring 2012. Original Post I love everything about the poster, the colors, the simplicity, the patterns, the mystery behind the message.. pretty much everything. It stood out to me because, obviously I really like it and at this point I would have no idea where to begin to make something like it. In the post, the steps are explained and it was made in photoshop, which ...
  16. asterne1

    Storytelling, a forgotten art.

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    Storytelling; the act of telling stories… DUH. When someone says storytelling I think of people sitting around a fire telling stories of the past, present, or future. I think of someone accounting things that may or may not be true. I think of small children, engaged in a fantasy world that will forever shape their images of the real world. Storytelling is something scared, something that will never go away. There will always be ways for people to “story tell”. Digital Storytelling… Making up one’s story and posting it on the web? I honestly have no clue. Honestly, when someone says Digital Storytelling it makes me think of Fan Fictions. … Continue reading
  17. LyndseyLu Smith

    I’m a Huge Fan!!

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    Wow!! All I can say is I hope one of the assignments I create for ds106 will by half as clever as some of these AMAZING posts on the INSPIRE ds106 site!! The one that STOOD OUT the most to me was this one!! Man oh man! This girl ROCKED this ds106 assignment. I believe she had to renovate a movie poster, and let me tell ya she did one heck of a good job! This poster for The Vow shows Rachel McAdams(one of the co-stars of the film) along with her(ds106blogger) catchy, new renovated caption “If Channing Tatum says that you are married, just go with it.” The new caption fits any girl’s … Continue reading
  18. amelialord

    The Shape of Little Red Riding Hood

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    This week I watched Kurt Vonnegut’s video explaining the “shape” of stories. He has invented a graph which he explains in the video, very sarcastically. The vertical axis is a measurement of happiness the bottom being complete unhappiness and the top being bliss. The horizontal axis is a measurement of time; beginning to end of the story. I’m going to analyze the shape of Little Red Riding Hood. I think this is a story I think most people know but if you have forgotten here’s a little refresher: click here This graph shows what I think the shape of Little Red Riding Hood is: (events numbered and labeled below) The top got ...
  19. dzim

    I MUST CALCULATE!!!!!

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    So I’m new to this whole web development thing… I naively signed up for Advanced Web Application Development thinking it would be good for me but all I have gotten is a Daniel shaped impression in the lab seats a fewer hours of sleep than I...
  20. sgtsocks

    Getting in[SPIRE]d

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    RETURN TO THE SCENE OF THE CRIME This assignment caught my eye from the start…although I did have to go straight to the duel with keyboard cat right after…hmmm Anyways, I think this will be a cool assignment because you get to dig through old photos and return to the place where it was taken. Yeah, it may be somewhere you go EVERY day, but what if you take the assignment to heart and traveled a distance just to create a masterpiece? Or even a place you haven’t been since you were a little kid? We all had photos that had to be developed back in the day, so why … Continue reading

UMW Spring 2024 (Bond & Groom)

Welcome to Paul Bond and Jim Groom’s Spring 2024 ds106

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