This week in ds106 we started to open things up a little bit and start experimenting with some media tools along with more in depth WordPress plugins. The easiest part for me this week was installing the WordPress plugins. The... Continue Reading →

  For our first digital story telling visual assignment we were to create a GIF that has to do with our favorite movie. See full assignment specs here: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/say-it-like-the-peanut-butter/ I used imgflip.com to create my GIF. It had a lot of tools to select the time editing and how it …

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Week Two Summary This week showed me that kind of pace I have to keep for myself to succeed in ds106. It introduced some fun topics that I got to read about, as well as a new experience by making my first gif! My favorite part of this week’s assignments were the daily creates. They […]

Comments: Rachel: http://www.missbehavior.org/uncategorized/73/#comment-20 Justin: http://www.justinhempe.com/blog/uncategorized/say-it-like-the-peanut-butter/#comment-17 Amanda: http://www.amandamotley.com/uncategorized/gif/#comment-11 This week was pretty big rise in terms of workload especially listening to the lectures by Wesch and Campbell. However, it was equally informative and help focus my blog a lot. My first challenge was coming up with an idea and putting it into action for my gif. […]

Accidentally torrented several Trojans off Frostwire, several times. 

This is my personal reflection of the presentation Knowledgable and Knowledge-able: New Learning Environments for New Media Environment given by Michael Wesch at the University of Mary Washington in 2011. I thought the presentation was very powerful, the videos that Wesch displayed... Continue Reading →

What a week, I feel overwhelmed and I hate to admit it but I am still not done with the weeks assignments but I am writing this post with all I have done in hopes I can come back and say I finished it all before midnight, but in the chance that doesn’t happen: I […]

Hello to all! As many of my fellow students have said, this week seemed to have a lot more work involved in the assignments. My guess is the tasks seemed harder because there was a bit of a learning curve–especially... Continue Reading →

Professor Wesch brought up a list of very important and under appreciated points in his review on internet culture. First, I think he did a great job in utilizing media in trying to show how media can be used. Regarding the actual content of his speech, he summarized the power of the user and the […]

For a tech confession, I feel as if everyone who has ever had a Facebook has done this. And I chose it to be my confession just because of that. Nowadays, to get someone to realize how mad you are or how upset you made them, people result in deleting, blocking or unfriending them from […]

This week was definitely time consuming and challenging. I started my week off by completing my plugins series. Although downloading the plugins and activating them was not to difficult having them show up on my blog gave me the most trouble. I struggled with the fact that the tutorials on activating the plugins looked different […]

For my digital storytelling assignment I did a GIF of my all time favorite movie Finding Nemo.I have loved this movie ever since it came out and I still watch it all the time at work in the daycare. Honestly I never had heard of a GIF, I sometimes had seen them on sites on […]

My biggest Technology confession. My phone has more friends than I do, it is kind of embarrassing!!  

Show mommy how the little piggies eat! A Christmas Story is my favorite piece of cinematic art, hands down. And fork down, face down, meatloaf masquerade. I can’t get enough of it, and TBS gets me. I decided to create an online account for gifs so I could capture this scene in all its glory. Signing […]

To say the least, the short article by Campbell and his conference presentation were informative and thought-provoking. He makes a great case in his belief that educational institutions have not properly adapted and made use of the substantial increase in cyberinfrastructure and traffic. As college students we are preparing to enter a business world in […]

Trying to get this twitter tools plug-in to work.

DS106 has been a real adventure this week. I think I have successfully run the gamut of technical problems. I have had my Twitter account hacked, been locked out of my WordPress, had Photoshop (figuratively) implode on itself, and battled mercilessly… Continue Reading →

  I start this post with the above comic for one reason: I admittedly am the monkey. To elaborate, I function well in a traditional, lecture-based, fact-fueled education system. I’ve been a strong student throughout my academic career and rarely... Continue Reading →

As part of our weekly assignments, I created a GIF. I looked up how to do it and saw a bunch of sites, but I figured the site “makeagif.com” seemed pretty promising.Two of my favorite movies are Shrek and Little Miss Sunshine. It was quite a toss-up between the two, but I went for this … Read More →

Growing up in the 90’s I frequently watched a LOT of disney movies. One of my favorite movies being Mulan (if you haven’t seen it or don’t like it, you must not have had a fun childhood, if you have,... Continue Reading →

In the podcast by Scott Lockman, I think he brought up some great points in regards to a daily radio segment and how to incorporate it in the the ds106 course. I think one of the major questions he brought up is how to create content and implement it in an interesting and appealing fashion. […]

I strongly agree with Wesch’s point about being able to discern between good and bad stimulus in media today. There so much false and unnecessary information that people growing up today have to develop the ability to sort out what is reliable and useful information. I’m also happy to hear someone talk about what is wrong with …

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Wow, I cannot believe it has been another week! This week’s work has undeniably been much more difficult and time-consuming than the previous week’s!  Thankfully the lectures and articles we were required to read were interesting-it made the work much more easy to bear! For me, the most logical task for me to tackle first... Continue reading →

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Create 1:  Just a funny picture that I think describes the relationship I have with my friends-fun and easygoing! Create 2: Rollerminton!  This would be really fun to play…Too bad no one rollerblades anymore… Create 3: A little cliche, but nonetheless the best and most important shield that belongs to every American citizen.   Create... Continue reading →

In his presentation, Michael Wesch manages to provide new answers to the age old question: how do you get students engaged? Wesch seems acutely aware of the realities of the classroom, and that many students are not stimulated by the… Continue Reading →

  The gif I created is from the movie Napoleon Dynamite which is a treasure trove of funny scenes and one liners. This scene in particular is from when Napoleon and Kip visit the local martial arts academy and are left fairly unimpressed. Napoleon Dynamite is the kind of movie you either really love or […]

Hello everyone!  I would like to start off by saying this is probably the first podcast I have ever listened to, likely because the topics usually have not been of much interest to me.  With that being said, I have to say Scott’s podcast was a great one to start with! When most people think... Continue reading →

This article addresses a real problem that has existed for a while in the classroom-students only focusing on getting a certain grade rather than actual learning.  Often times this is the fault of the teachers/schools themselves.  In Virginia public schools for example, the Virginia Standards of Learning (SOL) tests are a huge and the primary focus... Continue reading →

I just want to start off by saying that Dr. Wesch is a very entertaining speaker!  He really makes me wish I could take a course with him, even though to be honest I do not have much interest in Anthropology!  That, as well as his obvious eagerness to teach and spread his knowledge proves that... Continue reading →