Riffing Todd Conaway’s Riff of David Kernohan’s MOOCs Are People Poster: Sneak preview of tomorrows presentation #designassignment666 #ds106 twitter.com/dkernohan/stat… — David Kernohan (@dkernohan) February 13, 2013 We riff a riff a gif! Leading the riot bus! Rocking the streets of London mayhem! Why? Because we can. And it’s a ds106 Riff a Gif assignment

I feel as though this 2 star challenge is my calling. I love Valentine’s Day, I spend every Valentine’s weekend with two of my three sisters and we always watch John Tucker Must Die and eat pints of ice cream and just catch up (since out of the six people in my family we live (continue reading...)

It is no secret to anyone that knows me that when it comes to cats I am not the biggest fan of them. However, I do really enjoy my friend’s cat Frankie because she just does really weird things and so half of my pictures on my iPhone are pictures of Frankie. My favorite pictures (continue reading...)

Going off of the title of my website, confessions of a future Disney princess, I guess confessions had to come along somewhere. I’m not really sure why, but this 1 star visual assignment really interested me. The assignment calls for creating a post it note that tells a “secret” of some sort or something that’s (continue reading...)

Castles, dorm rooms, they all are the same! Well that being said, you guessed it, perfect for those drafty dorm rooms means SNUGGIES! Yes, I admit that I am an owner of the As Seen on TV phenomenon, I’ll even do you one better and tell you that mine has my name embroidered on it. What (continue reading...)

Here is my third post and visual assignment for the day! I can’t help it! I am loving Visual week SO MUCH! These assignments are too fun!! I decided for my next assignment I would choose a random one, since … Continue reading →

This image was for the optical illusion assignment. I took this picture in front of the side door of Willard Hall with a friend. At first I didnt know what to shrink but then I had a dream last night … Continue reading →

Yeh, me neither! I’m really not in a band (I have ZERO music abilities) but for this 2-star ds106 assignment I got to pretend I was in one! This was a really fun assignment and I laughed so much while … Continue reading →

To add another Visual Assignment under my belt, I completed another one star rated assignment from the ds106 Assignment Bank.  This assignment, Colorize It, called for the colours of an old photo to be adjusted.  I had to adjust more ...

For this 2 star makeup your pet assignment, I chose to torture put make up on my dog Lexi. First thing, I love my dog. I seriously treat her like a human. I’m not even kidding. My family and I...

The go vote assignment was a simple 1 star assignment from the visual assignment bank. I went to the Library of Congree website and got the picture from there. Many people have fought for the right to vote, especially for women. I think this...

When I saw the splash of color assignment, I knew that I had to do it!! I actually saw some pictures online one time that had a splash of color in a black and white picture and LOVED them. It was...

So I made a best of flickr set on flickr as assigned.  I chose these photos off of the basis of thinking they’re the best. The lighter photo with the color splash was really cool.  There’s a lot you could say about the lighter.  And then with the porches blocked off over and over going  [ Read More ]

To continue on my Visual Assignment quest, I did a one star worthy assignment today from the ds106 Assignment Bank.  I randomly chose the assignment, Winterize It!, which requires the winterizing of a photo from the summer. I wanted to make ...

For this assignment we had to turn a photograph into a sketch.  Here’s what I ended up with. I had an app on my phone called Picture Effects Magic that has various filters to change the picture.  I used the lighter picture again because it was an interesting photo.  Then I loaded it into flickr  [ Read More ]

This was a tough assignment.  We were supposed to edit a picture to change the mood of the photo.  Here’s my attempt. The one on the right was the before picture.  To change the photo, I messed around with the contrast, hue, etc.  I’m not really sure how I did it honestly, I just played  [ Read More ]

Two flavors of this story, a series of comic renderings (done via the Halftone iPhone app) or an extended storify. [View the story "#nightAtORD" on Storify] A few thoughts. The whole ideas seemed like a fun way to pass the time via tweets, photos, some audio. It actually is an fascinating experience to observe the flow of a busy place in its off hours, like going to a 24 hour grocery store at 2am. I wonder if travelers know of all the unseen staff at night on carts, pushing carts, pulling carts, cleaning waste bins, mopping, spraying, wiping the escalator walls, etc for the purpose of your passing through. Second, recently in some twitter banter I said something that probably sounded derogatory towards creating things in mobile apps. I did not express it well, but deserved the tweet slap from D’Arcy Norman. I do not imply that you cannot be ...

So this assignment was to take 3 pieces–a quote, a picture, and a name–and mix them all together.  You can read more about it here. This was my final product.  I couldn’t decide what to do for a while and ended up deciding on a Zoolander quote because it’s my favorite movie and who doesn’t  [ Read More ]

Update: After a wonderful comment from Mr. Andrew Forgrave on trying to zoom in on my pictures in the app, I am uploading edited photos plus two more (I couldn’t help myself!) Why I didn’t think to zoom in on … Continue reading →

This one was cool.  I ended up just stumbling across this assignment even though it was one of the suggested ones for the week. Really not that hard to do.  Took me a little time to think of something to take a picture of and then thinking of a good background.  I ended up picking  [ Read More ]

This is my valentine’s day visual assignment! All I did here was take the photo from the bank, and uploaded it into Gimp.  Then I just used the text tool to add it into the bottom, resized the text, moved it around so it fit, and that was it.

When I was tasked with making a bumper for ds106radio, I was straight up terrified. Before this week, I had never done any real audio work and had no idea what to do. Thankfully, I have realized that I am good at teaching myself technology so once I got a feel for what a radio ...

Vday caption assignment, a photo by klasalata on Flickr. The timing is just perfect for this 2 star assignment titled the Valentines Day caption challenge. First of all, it’s only Tuesday and I already love visual week. Second of all, I...

To continue my Visual Assignments quest, I chose a 2 star assignment called Splash the Color, from the ds106 Assignment Bank.  I used to dabble in color splashing on my iPhone (just for fun), so I already had the App to ...

Yes, that’s right. I have a man in my life, my stuffed animal duck named Quackie. Surely you would think by his name that I got him when I was very little and had zero creativity, but I got him only about two years ago and I’m obsessed. For some reason I just love ducks, (continue reading...)

This week, we’re really getting down and dirty with Visual Assignments.  We have to complete 10 stars worth of assignments before the end of the week from the ds106 Assignment Bank.  We get to choose which assignments to do, however ...

It’s another new week of DS106! This week is about visuals and photography. This week we start choosing our own assignments from the assignment bank. However, before delving into that, the whole class is starting off doing captions for Postcards … Continue reading →

Life, a set on Flickr. For my first photo set, I chose to do a set about Life. Over the summer, I took these pictures because I love the saying “Live well, Laugh often, Love much”. The ‘Live’ is a broken fence off of my road. The ‘Laugh’ is made out of beer bottle caps. ...

Have you ever wondered how to link your Flickr up with your WordPress blog? If yes, keep reading. If no, who are you kidding, of course you do – keep reading. Flickr and WordPress want to be linked together because together, they can tell amazing stories. And that’s why you’re in this class, right?? This tiny tutorial ...

This week we were instructed to watch some YouTube videos in which two radio experts, Ira Glass and Jad Abrumrad talk about storytelling on the radio and how it is different from other forms of media. As a print journalist, I really connected with what the men were saying, as there are a lot of ...