1. 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 …

  2. 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 …

  3. 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 …

  4. 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 “…

  5. 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 …

  6. 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 …

  7. 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.…

  8. 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 …

  9. 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..  …

  10. 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

  11. 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 …

  12. 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 …

  13. 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 …

  14. 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 …

  15. 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 …

  16. 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 …

  17. 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 …

  18. 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 …

  19. 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 …

  20. 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 …

  21. 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 …

  22. 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 …

  23. 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 …

  24. 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 …

UMW Fall 14 (Polack)

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  1. Week 15 & Finals

    Final Story Project Specs

     

    As a final project for ds106, you are asked to produce a story around a character that explores at least three of the media forms we’ve investigated this semester: visual/design, audio, video, web, remix/mashup (Please note that for this project we’re combining visual and design …

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