The first mashup assignment I chose was the Buffalax one.  The most obvious foreign programming to me is Telemundo so I chose a court case TV show called Caso Cerrado and subtitled it as a spelling bee.  The way I think this worked as a mashup was that it took the original meaning and completely gave ...

Through DS106 I created 3 assignments for the world to complete. How I See You http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/how-i-see-you/ First one was a visual assignment called “How I See You”. This was a task in GIMP where people took a picture of somone … Continue reading →

After a failed attempt to find a suitable maiden from the tributes under the bakery, the Fandom Princess and Harold continued to the last place the Princess felt certain she would be able to find someone who would be able to help them. They arrived back at Mercury but did … Continue reading →

The next stop on The Fandom Princess’ journey to find Harold a maiden was to stop by the Hunger Games fandom hide-out. Ironically, they were located beneath the village’s largest bakery. The Princess walked in the bakery, thriving with people looking to buy goods and the smell of fresh bread … Continue reading →

Yesterday was week 14 for ds106, the last week of classes for my UMW students, and also the last of my semi regular live Google Hangouts pitched as a weekly “show”. Thanks to Brian Lamb, Todd Conaway, and stalwart student Nancy B for showing up. The whole series is right here! The viewership on the series is lower than the video for Aunt Bertha’s Toenail Clipping tutorial, but that was not the point. What was the point? Oh yes, since ds106 really has now scheduled classes nor weekly lectures via video, I wanted something that was “live” as an least an opportunity to offer at least some together moment in the class. Oh, I made it a participation requirement for my students to cohost / be present for at least one show a semester. This provided me a way to ask them about the class and give them a platform ...

So this was a new fun little assignment, I clicked around for a million times looking at all the possibilities, especially cause I knew we had to do 6 stars worth later on.  I settled with A Place I’ve Never Been Remixed: Mood Swap.  So I had no idea where to start with it but ...

The day was still young as the Fandom Princess rapped her knuckles against the wooden door in a specific pattern; three knocks, pause, four, then two. “What is this place?” Harold, the frog prince, asked from the Princess’s warm palm. “Home of the Padawans, my darling Harold. We may find … Continue reading →

So for the tutorials I chose, I was just gonna do the assignments I recently created (fresh in my mind, and might as well show how I did my own).  So for the first one “Imitative Polyphony,” all I did was go to GarageBand as we’ve seen many times in the past.  So first step ...

The first reference I checked out was Everything is a Remix Part I by Kirby Ferguson, which showed how remix evolved mainly through music.  He begins by stating the definition of remix as a way “to combine or edit existing materials to produce something new.”  This is essentially how I would’ve defined it as well, ...

These past two weeks, we have worked with remix and mashup. I have learned a lot about what remix is. I have found that explaining something to someone else is the best way to comprehend and show comprehension. I explained...

I can honestly say that I have put off this last assignment like no other! I don’t know why…maybe because this is my LAST WEEK of classes as an undergrad!!!! That could have been it… The For The Remix assignment had...

Make an Imitative Polyphony An imitative polyphony can best be described as when you were younger in music class and the teacher would have one side of the class start singing “row row row your boat” and then part way through the song have the other half of the class start singing from the beginning. ...

Tell a story using only numbers at the top of your keyboard and the line below it (q,w,e,r,t,y,u,i,o,p). So, throughout the course of the semester I chose to do a lot of the writing TDC because to me it’s the easiest way to tell a story (probably because it’s the main way I feel most ...

To complete my 6 stars of mashup assignments this week, I decided to do the 2 star assignment “What Color is your world?” In this assignment you had to take pictures of one specific color throughout your day. In addition, … Continue reading →

This semester, we had to create and complete two brand new assignments, whether they be visual, web, video, etc. I created and completed one visual assignment called Song Lyric Photo. I also created and completed one design assignment called Crown ...

This semester, we had to complete two tutorials for assignments from the ds106 assignment bank. Luckily, I followed past ds106 student’s advice and did my tutorials during the semester. Tutorials: My first tutorial was my post, Colourize It, where I ...

The remix generator created a brand new assignment for me to do:  The Big Caption [Remixed].  I had to use someone’s existing media (i.e. a product that someone created based on the old assignment) and remix it by adding Waldo to the ...

A few weeks ago, we had to give up our recycled media to be added to a large class file found here and this week, we had to complete the assignment, Recycle the Media.  Using the old media, I created a ...

For my other mashup assignment, I chose to do Actor Transformation {****}. You always see actors/actresses on television and movies that you say “wow, they have really grown up”. When I was reading this assignment’s details, one actress came to my mind....

One of the required assignments of remix week was to remix an existing DS106 assignment. To do this, you had to use the Remix Generator. The Generator picks and assignment and a “Remix Card,” but the assignment isn’t fully remixed … Continue reading →

For this class, we had to create two tutorials and two assignments. Based on the advice from previous DS students, I created my tutorials throughout the semester. The previous DS students advised us to do the tutorials when you do...

We had to create two assignments for digital storytelling. I was really excited to do this! I could create an assignment and pick my favorite topic to create one in! Obviously, I picked visual! LOVE visual!!!! My assignment is called...

Ok. This post fits into a lot of categories. First of all, I created it. Secondly, I am using it for my final project. And lastly, I had to add the tags for it. Whoah! How cool is that?? The...

This week we had to complete 6 stars worth of Mashup Assignments. The first assignment I chose was “Growing up with Drew Barrymore.” It is a 4-star assignment and the purpose was to find a real actor/actress that has been … Continue reading →

I swear I’m gonna be swimming in copyright strikes by the end of this course. This is a mashup of the 2 songs “Paralyzer” by Finger Eleven and “Take Me Out” by Franz Ferdinand. This was made for the Vocal … Continue reading →

For one of my mashup assignments, I wanted to do the What Color is Your World {**}. I always feel like the color yellow is a color that is forever in my life. Also, yellow is proven to make people happier....

I was born in Dixie in a boomer’s shack Just a little shanty by the railroad track Freight train was it taught me how to cry The holler of the driver was my lullaby I snapped a series of photos of this freight train going by out on the Santa Fe tracks behind La Posada (a true western gem and proof that there is much more in Winslow than a tacky corner). The quick series was in hope of doing an animated GIF, as I fiddled in Photoshop, I wondered about applying filter effects on each frame, maybe trying to make it flash like an old movie. Well that did not happen, but a combination of the black and white adjustments and some edge filters gave it a surreal effect. No real message here, just making a GIF. And in a few weeks I will be headed in this direction ...

What do you get when you cross a Japanese cartoon with an English band? You get a remixed album cover! This cover was created for the Remix an Album Cover remix assignment. This image is a parody of the Gorillaz … Continue reading →

A couple weeks ago we were required to submit a few pieces of media that we had no used for a specific ds106 assignment. However, since this week is Remix week we were told to take these old media pieces … Continue reading →

Alright, so if I’m reading this correctly, the character I’m gonna choose is Tony Soprano from the TV show The Sopranos.  The story that I wish to tell is going to revolve around him going to jail for a long amount of time, lets say 10 or so years, and coming out and trying to ...