I created a Music Mashup (found in the audio assignment database) of two different songs that were related to monkeys.  Related to my final project and Curious George, these songs are something he’d be interested in! Immediately, the theme song from ...

An option on George’s dating site is a personality quiz. I used the web assignment Pop Quiz to create similarity quiz, via PollSnack. I made the result options as: You and George are perfect for each other! or You and George ...

George’s new dating adventure began by creating his online profile.  I used the web assignment, Storytelling within the Web, to edit an existing dating profile. I tried to edit Match profiles for about an hour, but they wouldn’t let me see anyone’s profile ...

Looking back over this semester, I don’t really know what to think.  I still view storytelling as a process that can be told in many different ways and can tell many different things.  It really is surprising the amount of ...

One day Mario, Luigi, and Peach were bored.  They sought to remedy this with something to do.  They stumbled across an ad for an electronic music festival called Tomorrowland. Electronic music being their favorite type of music–that is all they’ve ...

I don’t think this was actually an assignment listed–might have been, might not.  Anyway, I took a couple videos off of youtube that involved Mario and Luigi and Peach, kept the music playing from the festival, mixed all the stuff ...

Well it’s the end of the ds106 season and I have to say that I am certainly the princess of ds106. So to begin this post I am going to start with a mathematical proof. Karissa is the princess of ds106 ds106 is 4 life Thus, Karissa is a princess for life. QED.   Now (continue reading...)

For this part of the assignment, Mario, Luigi, and Peach are walking into the festival in Peach’s Castle.  I did everything in Audacity, blending a bunch of sounds together.  Here’s my workspace. I got all my sound effects from this ...

http://p.webremixes.org/rrecaxiu This was part of my story where Mario and Luigi buy the tickets for the festival.  I edited everything in X-Ray goggles or whatever that web editor was called.  The original assignment was to tell a story within the ...

I dream of some magic hack that retweets this classic from Audrey Watters every time someone tweets/blogs/farts about MOOCs Say “MOOC” one more time twitter.com/audreywatters/… — Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) March 19, 2013 We need more Jules. I am but a weak imitation, but over lunch could not rest (and actually forgot to eat lunch) to spin out some MOOC FiCTION “What does the future of education look like?” Say it one more time. Allow me to retort…

I made a moving poster for the festival mario and luigi are going to.  Not really the original assignment, but it works the same.  For this, I took a bunch of things to get it all together.  First, I downloaded ...

This part of my final project is the mario and luigi running to the festival in a GIF form.  I made it using the gif animator program I have.  The clip was loaded off of Youtube and then I cut ...

Looking back my reflection from week 3 about what digital storytelling is I agreed with a lot of things that I had said earlier, but I realized the digital storytelling is so much more. It’s a community that I never thought I would be a part of. I think the best way to describe what digital (continue reading...)

I guess I should say oh what a morning. I pulled an all-nighter in order to finish my final project, but it was from Monday to Tuesday, so it wasn’t due to procrastination. I just simply wanted to get it done and was on a roll and I am not one to stop academic and (continue reading...)

Hello to my fellow ds106 readers. Today you are in store for a great story telling experience, my final project. Once upon a time there was a princess named Ariel. She was just 16 years old and was a very curious child who always wanted to explore the world around her, even if it wasn’t (continue reading...)

Yes, the end is almost near for me. Especially since I just finished making my last media portion of my final project, so I just have to tell the story and put it all together, which shouldn’t be too hard since I know this story back and forth since I made it after all. While (continue reading...)

For my next assignment for my final project, I created a new assignment (yet again) which calls for creating an invitation to an event. I’m surprised that this wasn’t a design assignment already, but it doesn’t hurt to make a new one. *I suggest reading this post after you read the final blog post* So (continue reading...)

While watching The Little Mermaid to do research for my final project (life is so hard, right?) I really really wanted to do this idea. I wanted to create an advertisement for Flotsam and Jetsam Private Eyes. Why? Because I can. I just really thought the whole idea of it was crazy, they are spying (continue reading...)

I am almost always on Twitter, it’s actually unhealthy. However, when it comes to creating social media for famous or fictional characters, the Twitter tool is very lacking since it only allows one tweet at a time (I mean I tweet one time per 30 minutes). The facebook tool, while outdated still has some great (continue reading...)

cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Do you see those faces? That’s what a two hour dive into ds106 can do for you. At least that is what a group of faculty found out Friday at Wagner College a lovely campus on a hill at the tip of Staten Island. I was brought there by Robin and Neil Hayden, who have been working with the extremely dynamic Vice Provost Lily McNair on a Media Literacy in Teaching and Learning Program. I’ve known Robin for years, but never met face to face until Thursday night, and was excited to be on the bill along with Matt Stoltzfus from Ohio State (who got a dose of ds06 from having seen Martha Burtis and Jim Groom present at two different events this Spring) and Karen Cowden from Valencia College. We each had 20 minutes in the morning to ...

I am six feet tall, and don’t get me wrong I love it. However, the princesses at Disney World have a height maximum, and being 6 feet tall means that I am way over the max. The day I found that out my heart shattered. I was so upset. However, that is besides the point. (continue reading...)

The secret to my beautiful hair? The dinglehopper. Seriously, it works so well!! Don’t know what a dinglehopper is? Well here is an advertisement for it that you may see on a normal basis: Tricked you! You thought it’d be a real advertisement. Nope, believe it or not I made this masterpiece by myself, with (continue reading...)

This is a small sneak peek at my final project. I recently learned how to make my video clips have sort of an ultra widescreen appearance. This means that the edges look as if they’re so wide that they extend … Continue reading →

Womp.  This has been a steady climb down hill for me, but here’s what I got done for last week’s assignments: Mashup Assignment: I made a video showing Natalie Portman’s filmography from one of her earlier films (there were ones … Continue reading →

 I didn’t really grow up with her. But audiences were able to watch her grow up in film!  Natalie Portman has been acting since the mid/early 1990′s and is still appearing regularly in films today. For the “Growing Up With” … Continue reading →

This is so weird to think this will be my final post for DS106.  Where has the time gone? And how is it already finals week?   Here we go with my last weekly wrap up ever!!! What is Digital Storytelling? … Continue reading →

Now that DS106 of almost officially over (just two blog posts left!) I am given the task to help give advice to future DS106ers.  Naturally since this is DS106 we cannot just write and tell future students what we advice … Continue reading →

So my final project is officially done!!  I had a lot of fun making stuff for my girl Taylor (or whatever name the witness protection program has given her). My story post can be found here!! I encourage you to … Continue reading →

Hey Ya’ll, Let me start off by saying I am totally not supposed to be writing this.  To say things got out of hand quickly would be an understatement.  I’m supposed to be laying low and staying out of the … Continue reading →

For my last assignment for my final project I did Greetings from ds106 (again). I previously did this assignment here, but for the stake of my final story I went ahead and did it twice (it will make more sense … Continue reading →