1. ashleighengels

    Dream Vacation? More Like Dream Job

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    Create Your Dream Vacation On Pinterest!  3 Stars Web Assignment A HUGE part of Brooke preparing for her time on the runway, she had to think of what outfits she wanted to show off, what hair styles she wanted the girls to have and how their makeup would be done. These were all the thoughts […]
  2. ashleighengels

    C/B Website Banner

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    Website Banner 4 Stars Design Assignment The website banner was the start of something new for Brooke Davis. She had a website before the big news she received from the invitation, but nothing that could be shown to the fashion world. I chose pictures that would represent what Clothes over Bros, as a company, is, […]
  3. ashleighengels

    Who’s Invited…YOU ARE!

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    You’re Invited! 3.5 Stars Design Assignment After reminiscing on the postcard from here past, I thought it was a great idea to have an invitation in the mail a few days later that would change Brooke’s life…forever. I created an invitation  to none other than the world famous New York Fashion Week. The thought of […]
  4. ashleighengels

    When I Grow Up…I Want To Be Famous

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    What I Want To Be When I Grow Up 2.5 Stars Design Assignment Using a postcard from the past was a great opportunity to spark Brooke Davis’ motivation to fulfil those dreams of hers, and to never give up. I made the postcard a lot about what my final project story was shaping into because […]
  5. ashleighengels

    What’s your love?

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    Love: In Three Frames 3 Stars Visual Assignment I chose three pictures that I thought summed up a relationship that summed up Brooke Davis. Honestly, this was completely easy. My final project was going to be about Brooke fulfilling a lifelong dream of having her own clothing line, making her own clothes, and presenting them […]
  6. devangel426

    Part #3: Refusal to Confront Issues/Legal Problems

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    The next chapter of this adventure revolves around Popeye’s refusal in answering the world’s questions about the global crisis regarding spinach shortages. I searched into the vast areas of the assignment bank, and I finally found one that I thought was appropriate enough for my theme. It is called “Cartoons on Trial“, where I basically […]
  7. devangel426

    Part #2: Major Problem

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    In Popeye’s next part of his adventure, he encounters a major obstacle that was shaped in the form of a web assignment. How dangerous right? The web assignment that immediately came into my mind is the “Storytelling Within the Web” and revisiting this assignment provided some great creativity for me. For this assignment, I had to […]
  8. devangel426

    Part #1: The Promoter

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    For my final project, I decided to choose Popeye the Sailor as my central character. I used the “Advertisement Using a Cartoon Character” assignment for this post. Since I am using Popeye, I thought it would be fitting for him promoting/endorsing his favorite food, spinach. I started off by finding two pictures, one of Popeye, […]
  9. aalmberg

    Post it Note

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    This assignment was worth 4 stars. I opened a notes app I have on my computer. Filled out a few of them with information that I wanted to pass on that has to deal with my story. These notes are supposed to represent where Roscoe left off and what selene is walking into.  Once I […]
  10. aalmberg

    Wanted Poster

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    This assignment was worth 2.5 stars. I completed this assignment earlier in the year. I thought it was really interesting and really cool to complete. I just followed the given online creator. It was very simple to use. Just input the information Then click submit and out came the product.
  11. aalmberg

    Newspaper

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    This assignment was worth 3 stars. This was an easy template and online creator to use. The hard part was finding one I liked online. There were a lot of creators that were complicated and were over the top. I wanted something simple and classic. The other hard part was narrating the story with this […]
  12. aalmberg

    ID for Final

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    This assignment is worth 2 stars. It was fairly simple and the options/directions where easy to follow. I went to an online ID creator. Filled out the information I wanted on my ID badge for my story.   Then I submitted it to produce this..  
  13. cifax

    Part 5: Rounding the Troops

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    In the second to last installment of Winnie’s great adventure we see him visiting some old friends before his final confrontation with the bees. For this assignment, I re-completed a project that I had done earlier this semester in the form of audio. Many may remember the Sound Effects Story which was a personal favorite […]
  14. brittanybrown

    About Me

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    First and foremost, I’m an English major. Go ahead, pity me. “First I’d like to thank alcohol, coffee, and reading glasses.” I’m also a Digital Studies minor because my adviser recommended it to me, I had no idea what it was or what I was getting myself into, and now there is no looking back. …
  15. kbarnes2

    Final Project Summary!

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    The first digital media to start off my Narrative is a VideoAssignment that I created and added to the assignment bank. The assignment was to create a short video about a minute thirty seconds to two minute’s long about a character. Give the viewer an idea about what this character is like using about 3-5 […]
  16. kbarnes2

    Elf 2: Buddy Meets the Grinch

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    Once upon a time there was an Elf named Buddy. Now for most of you I will not need to go any farther on Background about Buddy the Elf. But just a brief overview, Buddy the Elf is a human who was adopted by Papa Elf, and grew up in the North Pole. Buddy first […]
  17. cifax

    Part 4: Wanted

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    In Part 4 of the saga, we edge ever closer to the climax and confrontation that has been looming. For this one, I ended up going with a Visual Assignment which I had not completed before in the WANTED poster assignment. With the tension building between Winnie and the bees over the honey crisis, things […]
  18. cifax

    Part 3: Making A Statement

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    For part 3 of Winnie’s saga we see a more political and media savvy version of the pooh bear. I searched for quite a while to find an assignment that would fit the bill but in the end I decided to create something new. This was another jump into design assignments with my photo edited […]
  19. ashleighengels

    B. Davis Making Dreams Come True

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    This Is How To Make Dreams Come True   Love: In Three Frames 3 Stars Visual Assignment These frames show who Brooke Davis was towards the end of the series, One Tree Hill. Her love was for fashion; not only fashion but her own clothing line, “Clothes Over Bros.” She took that fashion line that […]
  20. cifax

    Part 2: The Crisis

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    The second part of Winnie’s journey involves a very serious crisis in the form of a web assignment. For this, I revisited Storytelling Within the Web and made a few edits to the front page of CNN. As you can tell, there this a worldwide honey crisis which has been brought on by the bees […]
  21. cifax

    Part One: The Endorser

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    This is the first part of my final project! To begin my tale on Winnie the Pooh, I decided to be creative and make my own assignment to represent the narrative. For this design assignment, I came up with an Advertisement Using a Cartoon Character. Since the overall theme of my project follows Winnie the […]
  22. amotley

    Final Project Ds106

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    The story of “Tangled” is a great one. We watched as Rapunzel went through many trials and tribulations to get to the end of her story, finally get away from her evil step mother, and find true love. BUT what happened when that was all over? That is where I come in. I am going to tell what happened after… Read more →

  23. amandamotley

    Weekly Summary 13 &14

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    Remix: Make it p! no remix Assignments:  Emoji mash-up Sims: Mario Kart Edition A Toy’s Life: movie poster remix Tutorials and created assignments: Tutorial on making cut outs Create your own collage Make a holiday card These past two weeks have been extremely hard because I was dealing with a lot in my personal life. Along with juggling school, work and DS106… Read more →

  24. amandamotley

    Make a holiday card

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    For my second make-your-own assignment I chose to do a holiday card. I felt like this was appropriate since we are so close to the holidays. However, you can make this card for almost any celebration. I chose my favorite design and remixed the colors to create a colorful, holiday design. There are many media platforms that allow you to… Read more →

  25. amandamotley

    Create your own collage

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    For my assignment that I create I am doing a tutorial for a collage. My collage was made for The Blue & Gray press. This is a collage or list of different things that you can get someone for Christmas. It was supposed to be used as a guide for people. Collages are often seen in magazines as a list… Read more →

  26. amotley

    Tutorial on making cut outs

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    For my tutorial I am going to show you how to make a cut-out. This has been one of the most valuable tools for this class. Almost all of the design assignments have required us to make a cut-out of some kind. To make a cut-out on my computer I am using the program Photoshop. I am going to give… Read more →

  27. amotley

    A Toy’s Life: movie poster remix

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    A Toy’s life is a movie poster that I remixed for this Ds106 assignment. It is a combination of two of my favorite Pixar movies. In “A toy’s Life” the toys are going to be become part of “A Bug’s Life” world. I chose both of these stories because when I was a child I used to watch both movies… Read more →

  28. amandamotley

    Sims: Mario Kart Edition

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    One of my favorite video games growing us was Mario Kart. I used to sit with my brother and play it for hours. In fact to this day I still my Nintendo 64. My brother and I fought for hours on who would take the Nintendo when we both moved out. That is one reason why I jumped at the… Read more →

  29. amotley

    Emoji mash-up

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    For this assignment, the task was to mash up emojis and real people. It was super easy and worth the two stars that it was worth. In this day in age, it is so easy to find emojis because they are right our phones. I asked my friend Evan to choose an emoji to model. The one below is the… Read more →

  30. amandamotley

    Make it p!nk remix

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      For my remix generation I got the pink remix. I love the movie “Pretty in Pink.” It was fun to remix a “history postcard” with the movie. I literally made my post card pink so it looked a little bit like a love letter. I wanted to make it tacky, so I added the lips. I also made the… Read more →

UMW Spring 2024 (Bond & Groom)

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

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