So there is this group of girls at my school, they call themselves “The Plastics,” who on earth wants to be referred to as plastic? Anyways, they are incredibly mean to everyone and usually they don’t even have a reason to be. They are even mean to each …
Weeks and weeks had passed by, like listless grass blowing down the dirt lane, since she had returned home. Still, no one was going to challenge Dorothy as the saddest person in Seward County, perhaps in all of West Kansas. Not the moping cows, not even the Rogers family who …
This should be the last piece of media for my Dorothy ds106 story. I have been wanting to the dialog mashup assignment since I heard the first examples from listening to the stellar examples from The Truth’s episode of Movie Mashups:
As demonstrated by the Movies Mashup episode of …
Another element I am using in my story is that Dorothy figure ut that to return to Oz, she would need to go shopping and find a new pair of ruby slippers, since you cannot expect to just fall out of the sky again and land on another witch.
So …
As part of a ds106 final project story I am doing based on the Wizard of Oz, I have a part where Dorothy decides to go back to Oz. Not knowing how to find another tornado to whip her house (no one in Liberal, Kansas could explain how the house …
In my story of Dorothy getting bored in Kansas, I wanted to have a way for her to go back to Oz, and the easiest way would be via the Play It Backward, Jack ds106 assignment:
Things always look super weird when you play them in reverse, don’t they? …
What could be more key and symbolic of the magic of Oz than the red slippers that Dorothy snagged from the Wicked Witch who got mushed by her flying house? The fact that Dorothy always had the magic but did not know it until sparkly Good Witch clued her in. …
Why was Dorothy so set n going back to drab, black and white Kansas? Was Auntie Em that much of the life of the party? If the truth were told, she would have expressed her desire to hang out with those wild Munchkins:
As part of my evolving Dorothy story, …
Dorothy seems timeless even looking back at the Wizard of Oz from maybe 80 years past its time. But her statue I saw on the streets of Liberal Kansas seemed kind of old, maybe it was just the texture of the metal, but I speculated she might get nostalgic for …
On my trek home earlier this month, I picked off of the map a route in Kansas that would take me through the near Texas border town of “Liberal” – which I read on a plaque has nothing to do with politics– it was in reference to the …
This is “Supercut It,” it is video assignment 608 and worth 5 stars! The assignment reads,
“Create a supercut montage of overused dialogue, themes, motifs, filmmaking techniques, etc. for a particular character, tv show, film, and/or public figure. A supercut is a “fast-paced montage of short video clips …
the WIRED Feature – What’s Inside You? assignment is actually quite simple despite the 4 star rating. The most difficult part was figuring out What’s Inside Me? Even this can be quite simple if you ask yourself the right questions.
I used this assignment to create character profiles for my …
At my house we are currently in the middle of a move, so this means going through all the millions of boxes of your family’s stuff and deciding what stays and what goes. While rummaging through these boxes I came across my sisters old cell phone… a brick of a …
This is an assignment I did way back but Alan had suggested I use my version of it as a assignment submissions so I created Text Impersonations, where you took a text based conversation and impersonate their voices. The process of making the conversation was quite simple. I recorded …
My final summary, then I’m heading home for break!
So, here is my final story. I tried my best to make a short story that implemented what I do with EMS and make it fun. Sure, I didn’t entirely go into someone getting hurt, or me fixing them, but …
To end the semester I:
did the The Grand Finale: this changed from my original proposal because once I starting making the projects I just wanted to go with the next thing that popped into my head. I like how it turned out, I think it tells the most …
My grand finale has a few parts:
Part 1 My story starts with a girl, named Eliza, who is soon to graduate from college. She, like most other college girls, is looking at her Pinterest in hopes the answers to all her finals will magically be “pinned” . She is …
“Tell us where you are, where you’re from, or simply where you’d rather be and build a greeting card.”
Being the good daughter she is, Eliza sent her parents a post card from paradise filling them in on her amazing trip.
The back says:
“Mom …
For my second created assignment, I wanted to explore the aspect of childhood memories. The assignment can be seen here!
Here is my example of what this assignment might look like!
For my version, I went back to the year 2000 when my family and I took an amazing trip …
“Make up a Newsweek cover. You may design this in such a way as to satirize the topic, or Newsweek, or both.
You must select a powerful image and a pithy title.”
Here is my cover
This is part two of my final story. Part …
“the idea of changing up an existing web page to tell a new story ” you will be intervening in the code and design of a website of your choice to tell a story. You are not to photoshop the design of the site, but …
Once upon a time, President Barack Obama happened to wander across a Cafepress super hero cape for sale. Recognizing his ability to destroy sexism, he decided to become America’s super hero in the fight against Rush Limbaugh and his cohorts. He quickly purchased the cape in “super hero red”.…
Alright everyone, this is it. For all my DS successors, good luck in your endeavors. This class is what you make of it, so make it awesome.
And here it is, my Looney Rescue Story.
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So I wanted to do …
I made this BEAUTIFUL collage of Keep Calm posters just for you! All semester I procrastinated, each week I told myself “This week I will start monday” but as Monday rolled around, I never did! So please, START ASAP. (If ASAP to you is SUNDAY, just don’t bother). And when …
This is design assignment 313, “Animated Movie Poster” It is worth 4 stars. The assignment reads:
“Pick a movie poster and animate it. You can see an awesome example and quick explanation by Michael Branson Smith here.“
I decided to create an animated movie poster for Mean …
This is web assignment 713, “Storytelling Within The Web.” It is worth 5 stars! The assignment reads:
“From the Spring 2011 ds106 class came the idea of changing up an existing web page to tell a new story ” you will be intervening in the code and design …
Daily Creates:
Make a video of yourself eating something you hate
Take a picture of one of your favorite somethings, playing a sport, watching tv, a special token, whatever it is.
Assignments:
Remix one of your favorite tv shows so that it includes your family
Take a video of someone …
