For my final project, I will be working on the character Mario, for several reasons.  First, Mario is my theme for my website.  Second, Mario is a very popular character and branches out to many different forms of adventures, be ...

In an age where artificial intelligence is becoming more and more prominent, we must become weary of those who walk among us. Who is real, and who is a machine? As the decades go by, it will become more difficult … Continue reading →

  Ron Burgundy is the ultimate 1970′s man’s man.  He drinks obsessively, thinks little of women, and constantly shows off his masculinity.  His relatively low level of intelligence, his horrible social skills, and his incredibly inflated sense of ego are … Continue reading →

While reading the requirements for the final assignment, I was so overwhelmed with all of the possibilities that I had. Which princess would I choose? The possibilities are endless. Cinderella has been over done with this blog, so I wanted to go for a princess that I haven’t  really done too much. While looking at (continue reading...)

This week I got to combine two of my current favorite pieces of media, Neil’s Puppet Dreams and Macklemore’s music. These worked well together, I discovered, when doing the Four-Star Watching Movies With The Stereo On assignment. To do the assignment, I used KeepVid to download NPH & JOE MANGANIELLO crash DAVID BURTKA’S DREAM BUMP ...

For my final project, I’m proposing doing “NPH and the Search for the Rainbow,” which will be an examination of color in a storytelling narrative. I want to use NPH, aka Neil Patrick Harris as his is portrayed through various media including as a character in Neil’s Puppet Dreams, as well as in some film ...

I had a lot of trouble deciding on a character to use for the final project. It seemed as though each character I chose I could find a a problem with. Eventually I decided on Abraham Lincoln, with a twist, in that he will be living in modern society. There are endless possibilities of assignments ...

Two ideas for my final story — a little something like this: ————————– I really enjoyed working on the audio story that involved the diary entries—->  I Found Your Diary I have been reading through many many entries and have been trying to weave one story from many different entries (each by different authors). I ...

I am planning to center my final project around Rapunzel (specifically the one from the Disney movie Tangled) The story I am going to tell is Rapunzel’s plan to leave the tower in hows of seeing the “lights that fill the night sky” on her birthday each year.  This will …

I have been going through all the characters I can think. I’ve been trying to think of stories and challenges I can create for them that would not only lend themselves well to assignments but also be interesting for me to create. I’ve finally decided on Alice in Wonderland. I want to continue her story ...

First off I cannot believe that we already at the point of the semester to be talking about final assignments.  Where did this semester go (and where did my four years of college go).  While it’s hard to believe it’s … Continue reading →

A proposal for how my final should be proposed. Does that make sense? Well hopefully it will by the end of this post! Step 1: After lots of searching, and going through my favorite movies, ranging anywhere from Rango to Moulin Rouge until I settled on the ever beautiful Disney Princess, Rapunzel from Tangled! I chose Rapunzel because ...

For my final project I was thinking on doing a remake of a Disney classic movie, I do not think that I should call it a classic movie though because I do not think it would end up like that. For my character I am going to pick Pocahontas because she was nice and kind person with ...

Why he read all of the ancient and modern parables of the Wise One, especially borrowing attributes of those who took on Empires, like Jedi Yallow, for later training. He than sought out The Boing Boing Being in the deep depths of Hainault Forest, spending weeks at his feet, taking notes on his iPad. This is a quick remix example for an exciting ds106 project, where our students are among the first to get a crack at remixing the portrait photos of Cory Doctorow that Jonathan Worth is sharing with the world for open remixing. Jonathan described it for us and as well visited with me and my students during this week’s ds106 show. To be a base for the site, and knowing the flood of action once Cory announces this on Boing Boing, I suggesting hanging the web site on wordpress.com- with the name borrowed from internet speak and ...

This week, we were tasked with remixing some of the previous work of ourselves and other students from the Chaplin Foley assignment from weeks 6-7 and using them to remake the Charlie Chaplin clip for the Charlie Chaplin Foley Artist assignment. I chose to remake the clip using a mix of sounds from my classmates, trying ...

We all know him.  That extremely curious monkey who always gets in to trouble: Curious George.  But, as far as we know, George has never had ANY curiosity in those cootie-givin’ gal monkeys…until now! So George is setting off on ...

As you may or may not know (and if you don’t know, all I ask is WHY?) there is a Royal Baby on the way! Yes, William and Kate are having a baby! Now I don’t know about you, but … Continue reading →

After 3 days of thinking this week, I’ve finally discovered what I wanted to do for the final project! Throughout my 13 weeks of being apart of this class, I believe I’ve mentioned something My Little Pony related a good … Continue reading →

In the early days of the their courting, The Prince and the Fandom Princess would spend many a nights together. There was one specific night that the Princess cherished in her memories. It happened during her second year at Mercury. The Prince was visiting her for the moon cycle, and … Continue reading →

One night, while the Fandom Princess was asleep in her chambers, she heard a noise that made her turn in her slumber. This noise also caught the attention of Ghost, who was curled up comfortably next to her on the bed. The Princess turned to go back to sleep, but … Continue reading →

“How odd!” The Fandom Princess exclaimed as she looked down at the Prince’s hands. “Aren’t they exquisite?” The Prince asked, a smile plastered on his handsome face. The Princess nodded. “That they are.” Her gave remained looking down at the Prince’s hands, in which he held three large eggs. The eggs … Continue reading →

For remix/mashup week, we had to remix an already existing piece of media from a DS assignment and use a remix card to make it our own. To remix it. In order to do this, you have to click the...

One assignment we had to do this week was the Recycle the Media. This assignment did not count towards our six stars of mashup/remix that we need for these two weeks. A couple of weeks ago, each DSer had to...

UPDATE APR 18, 2013: The archive lives! Watch the insanity! A bit of shtick I used in today’s TCC World Online Conference keynote was an idea that settled in my noggin and would not shake loose. The session was billed as: Dim the lights, cue the music, roll the open credits… but the ds106 show is not where the audience just sits quietly in their seats. You will not only learn how this open online course in digital storytelling works, but have a chance to try a few of the creative challenges and assignments we give to our students. Digital storytelling 106 (ds106) offers a versatile opportunity to create a learning community. This open online course in digital storytelling is part of a networked architecture built of participants’ own blogs to which our web site subscribes and shares back content published by individuals. Special features of ds106 include an open ...

Reduce, Reuse, RECYCLE! I’ve taken 5 pieces of unused media from the Ds106 junked media bucket and created this…I don’t know what it is, but it seems like an awesome party to be invited to!! I mean penguin suits?? Sign … Continue reading →

One tool that was suggested to us when remixing and mash-uping was Mozilla Popcorn Maker. In order to experiment with this, Alan created a video for us to remix. He left spaces open where we could add new media. Here...

To start off the remix and mashup weeks, we had to review two references and three examples of what remix is. This was one of the first things I did for the remix and mashup weeks’ checklist. I did this...

Last week was a major embarrassment for me and I completely forgot to work on this stuff over the weekend.  So I’m really not sure if I will be getting credit for anything I post today, but I’m posting anyway. … Continue reading →

This week I made a ‘supercut it‘ video featuring Agent Ziva from the television show NCIS.  Her character is originally from Israel and English is her second language.  She is constantly trying to use American idioms and butchering them.  I … Continue reading →

This was the first assignment I did on moviemaker, and so it’s a little rough.  I chose to do the sports mashup, which involved piecing together clips of great sports plays, but they were supposed to also tell a story. … Continue reading →