Yes that is right, it is weekly summary time! Man has this week certainly flown by. I must say that I let procrastination get the best of me this week as I took a few days vacation from ds106. Please, don’t take it personally, but the King and Queen were in town and I had (continue reading...)

flickr photo by ajaweston After opening my fridge I was surprised to see that I had somehow acquired a glorious amount of food over the night. The previous night of debauchery left me feeling hazy and I had no recollection of … Read More →

After watching a video explaining Kurt Vonnegut’s idea of the ‘Shape of Stories‘ and looking at the infographic that Maya Eliam made using his theory, I decided to look at the television series, GIRLS, and see what shape the first three episodes of the second season would take on. While I knew that there would be ...

For part of this week we had to look at past ds106 posts from the community and last semester’s class. I certainly was taken back by a lot of the posts on the in[SPIRE] page, but right away I was drawn to a certain picture. This really captivated me and I instantly had to click (continue reading...)

One assignment we had this week on canvas was to create 2 daily creates.  After coming up with two ideas we then has to submit them for future assignments. As you may have noticed by now, my favorite daily creates are the picture … Continue reading →

Daily Create Summary for the Week of January 28 – February 3   Monday The task: Make a blue screen of death message using type only. I didn’t do this one on Monday, and I didn’t need to do it to get the three daily creates for this week, BUT… I just had to make ...

Yes that is right, I have finally watched the Kurt Vonnegut video and I was very surprised with what I saw. I postponed watching this because honestly I thought it’d just be another person rambling on, but I wasn’t expecting to be thoroughly entertained. At first the educated princess inside of me started to think (continue reading...)

Wednesday:  Finish the sentence.  ”My biggest fear is…”  What is the story of overcoming this? Dress Up Written by Owl Be Reading on January 30, 2013 11:33 am My biggest fear is people dressed in costumes. (Who is in there? Why are they trying to hug me?) To overcome this …

Five Card Story: Lesson Learned a Five Card Flickr story created by HeyMsParker flickr photo by bionicteaching flickr photo by bionicteaching flickr photo by bionicteaching flickr photo by Serenae flickr photo by Serenae The two boys loved playing in the city. That’s how they met, after all. Then on a dreary day in September, one ...

Upon receiving the ruby gem from the King and Queen, the Fandom Princess finished writing her letter to them, and sent it back by owl, hoping it would get there within the next day. She made a quick trip to the west wing library to check out a book on … Continue reading →

Part Un I’ve been looking back at some of the “best of” DS106 storytelling pieces this week. On the in[SPIRE] site, I looked around for awhile until I found a submission that really struck me. This submission by Annie took me by surprise. I’ve embedded the video below for everyone to understand what I’m talking ...

Now, Ghost, whenever The Fandom Princess had class with Professor Greenwich who disliked dogs, would sometimes wander around the castle and search for things to amuse himself. All the students, professors, and subjects in the town knew who Ghost belonged to and would treat him like royalty as well. He … Continue reading →

Kurt Vonnegut was quite witty and funny when explaining how stories can be put into shapes.  I agree that people love to see stories about people who get into trouble and find a solution to it.  Or a situation of ...

This week we had an assignment to tell a story in five frames. For mine I decided to tell the story of my countdown to my trip to Disney World.  

Here is a look back on my daily creates for this week: 1. Make a picture of something broken. Literally or figuratively. One of my swim teams favorite things to do in the summer time is to tie dye.  Unfortunately we never … Continue reading →

This week part of our assignment was to take a look back at past digital storytellers.  I was a little overwhelmed with this idea because I wasn’t really sure what I was looking. After spending just a few minutes looking back at … Continue reading →

When I first read the question “what is storytelling” I thought that this would be an easy no brainer to explain.  But as I have tried to put storytelling into words, I have found it much harder than I would … Continue reading →

This short video of Kurt Vonnegut talking about the shape of stories has inspired this post. I took a stab at creating my own story shape for Wreck-It Ralph. Since it may be a spoiler for some people who haven’t seen the movie yet, click below to read more.     Vonnegut uses the following ...

The Fandom Princess, as everyone very well knew, loved to create stories of her own. Here is one that she told the flower gnomes in the garden one afternoon: Five Card Story: The Prodigy a Five Card Flickr story created by The Fandom Princess flickr photo by Serenae flickr photo … Continue reading →

Whilst browsing in the East Wing Library, the Fandom Princess came across an archive of books in which there were the works of the great Bloggers, something that she was only somewhat familiar with. The Fandom Princess had told her that she should further investigate the many designs and storytelling … Continue reading →

See my first 5 card flickr   This is a very cool feature.  I can’t wait to go and make more, and tag some of my pictures so I can participate in a bigger way.  I tried about 15 different versions, this is the one that really resonated with me.  I might try more than ...

The Assignment: Review the submissions on the in[SPIRE] site, a community-created collection of the best work of ds106 from past semesters and the work from last semester’s students identified as their “best” work. Pick one story from each and blog about it. There are so many talented folks out there.  Now, that’s not news really, ...

People tend to use words to tell a story, but pictures work just as well.  Who knew a bunch of random photos could create an adventure.  All you have to do is find the right ones and use your imagination.  Though is may not be the best story or the …

It is always nice to have a reference when you’re doing something new.  DS106 is no exception to that .  After looking through many blogs from The Best of ds106 Fall 2012 I found one I really liked:  Ashley’s Cooking Show 3* (Should be more!).   I love cooking, so I …

Hello fellow DS 106-ers! I am excited that this was the first week of no bootcamp! It was nice getting up on Monday and knowing I wouldn’t have to do a Word Press {see what I did there ;)} Anyways, this week, I was put to the test of investigating just what ‘Digital Storytelling’ is. ...

I see storytelling as conveying something through words, body movement, maybe pictures or movies. The first thing that comes to mind is interpretive dance. While there are no words, you still hear music and see body movement, and you still learn a story from it. It doesn’t have to be something active like that though, ...

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