[View the story "Where You Lead, I Will Binge Watch" on Storify] 2 stars For my second web assignment I decided to do the Storify It assignment. The prompt was to use Storify to pull clips from around the web… Continue Reading →

Original Assignment (3 Stars) For this assignment, I chose the historical figure of our 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy. Turns out, JFK seemed pretty hip to the social media scene back in the 1960’s. While creating the Fakebook page, I utilized wikipedia and other online pages to gather all the information […]

For my tutorial, I decided to go back a week an discuss how to make a radio commercial. The first time I ever tried it I was a bit stumped but soon figured it out. Here’s a brief tutorial which may speed up the learning curve. 1. Decided what content you want in the commercial. […]

The goal here is to combine the 3 daily creates I did this week into one story. It should be interesting since none of my daily creates were even slightly related but bear with me here as I give this a try. First I’ll show my 3 daily creates and then give you my story. […]

Lacepool is a bad ass super hero who rocks the world of DS106 and doesn’t put up with anyone’s nonsense. He always does a kick ass job in DS106 whether it is audio, visual or web assignments it doesn’t matter. He’s a mercenary of this world just trying to earn stars every week. He’ll take […]

Original Assignment (3 Stars) For this assignment, I thought I would do it in simple terms, and in relation to something I love to watch. I chose to do the Indianapolis Colts’ away game schedule for this 2014-2015 season. I looked up the Colts’ schedule thanks to this ESPN Article about their schedule and I used […]

For my first web assignment, I chose to do the dream vacation board on Pinterest. I decided to pick Iceland as my hopeful destination. Follow Hope’s board Iceland Trip! on Pinterest. 3 stars I’ve been wanting to go to Iceland… Continue Reading →

Week 9 has come and gone!  Here is the summary of my work this week.   Web Assignments: Storytelling Within The Web:   Youtube it Your Way!   What They Might Have Done in Social Media:  Daily Creates: My Summary of this week’s Daily Creates Create Your Own Assignment: Check out my blog post on... Continue reading →

For the Web Assignment What They Might Have Done In Social Media, I chose to create a hypothetical Twitter Page for the 13th Century Mongolian warlord Genghis Khan.  Genghis Khan has always been a fascinating historical figure to me due to the sheer vastness of his empire, as well as the fact that he is still... Continue reading →

The Youtube video that I chose to “hack” for the Youtube it Your Way Web Assignment was a video of two German men performing the “invisible rope prank“.  This prank is popular among children, and is usually harmless fun.  Performing this prank can also be dangerous however, as to perform the prank one has to be... Continue reading →

For this week’s Daily Creates, a new twist was added to the assignments: they had to tell a story.  My Daily Creates tell the story of a family’s preparations for Christmas. Create 1: GIF of the Earth/Earth Emojis.  In this GIF, I combined pictures of my globe with pictures of the globe iPhone emjois.  The GIF... Continue reading →

The Ds106 assignment that I created for the assignment bank is called Clever Candy Wrapper Combinations,  and is under the Design Assignments category.  To complete this assignment, two or more “wrappers” need to be combined in a way that creates a new word or meaning.  I used the word wrapper loosely: any word printed on a... Continue reading →

This week every DS106 student was required to create a tutorial for an assignment in the DS106 Assignment Bank.  The assignment that I decided to create a tutorial for was the Storytelling Within the Web assignment that was required for this week.  I had trouble with this assignment at first, so I created this video tutorial... Continue reading →

For one of the web assignments I decided to do the Three Moon Wolf Stories assignment. This assignment really stood out to me because I saw how wacky people were with it and that really appealed to me. What the goal of the assignment was to use the X-ray goggles and edit a product’s reviews […]

Original Assignment I went onto Amazon and I decided to play around with the PS3 product page. I also played around with some of the default promotional tabs on the page as well. I downloaded the X-Ray Goggles to help me this task and it was pretty fun playing around with it. Here is the […]

Daily Create 1 Like all Freshmen, upon entering high school I was determined to reinvent myself and make the next four years amazing. I obsessed over my first day outfit, because it was also picture day. And I got a… Continue Reading →

Week 9- was actually fun!! When I was in High School someone messed with my computer while I was not looking and changed everything around so that it had my name all over it. It was really cool but I had no idea how they did it. I have been confused by it for like […]

For those of us doing the Storytelling Within the Web assignment, I wanted to create a comprehensive tutorial for how to go the extra step and upload the finished creation to WordPress. The directions given said that we should download the… Continue Reading →

I had absolutely no idea what I wanted to do for my website storytelling assignment. The examples given were all really well done, and I may or may not have spent several hours reading Amazon product reviews. I was flipping… Continue Reading →

Step 1: Choose a search engine (yahoo, bing, google, etc.) Step 2: Decide on either firebug or x-ray goggles (I’m demonstrating using x-ray goggles) Step 3: Start Editing, take over the search engine hover over something if you want to change it -the funnier the better Step 4: Save it!! Click on Publish, Publish to […]

I chose to do the peace sign emoji because it is one of the ones that I use most frequently and I thought it would be fun.

Daily Create Story: There is only 59 days and 11 hours left till Christmas. I hope you are as excited as I am! It is by far my favorite time of the year. It is a time of wonderful, peaceful and joyful music. The sounds of soft bells ringing while people are caroling. A time […]

So ready for Christmas, winter, and snow!!  

When I was reading over the description for this drawing daily create, I immediately thought of christmas lights. My room and living room is completely covered in lights, the only thing missing is a tree with lights. So I drew it in. Im a little excited for Christmas if you couldn’t tell!!  

I was a little bummed about the radio shows being delayed, but oh well, sh!t happens. This weeks web assignments introduced me to some new online features I was unaware of. X-Ray Goggles was one of those tools that allowed me … Continue reading →

Mobile phone Jingle. The title itself made me think of church bells, and peaceful music, so that was my inspiration behind the combination of sounds that I used.

You are a very Pinteresting Character. The first book was released in 1926 written by A.A. Milne. Although the name as slightly changed over the years and the story has developed this character is very popular and loved my many. He is the reason for many popular quotes : “There are friends, there is family, and there […]

My Story I choose to remix the Facebook login in page. I turned it into a website for staking people, because often times social media is used as a means to creep on people. I made everything very personal from  having to put in your address to your social security number. I did this because […]

Original Assignment (3 stars) The historical figure I chose was none other than the mafia boss known as, Al Capone. Who would have ever thought that mafia guys would interact with each other through social media? That would not be … Continue reading →