To do this assignment, you’re first going to need to find some distressed looking letters. You could do this in your editing software, but that would be pretty difficult and advanced. I like FreeImages for my stock photos. I’m using GIMP for this tutorial. Open up the program, and open the letter template you’re using. […]

The first thing you need to do for this assignment is to find the video you want to use on YouTube. Open up QuickTime. Click ‘File’ and ‘New Screen Recording.’ Select the area of the screen you want to record, and click start. Save the clip. Now, open the clip in iMovie, and click ‘Create.’ […]

For this assignment I recommend using iMovie. iMovie’s timeline is easy to manipulate, and there are tons of great sound effects already native to the program. Create a new project (choose movie, even though we’re just working with audio here). Listen to the sounds they have, and start to piece together your story. Drag the […]

For this assignment, first download the videos you want to use from YouTube. I installed the SaveFrom plugin for Chrome, which makes this super easy. When you go to YouTube, there will be a little download button below the video: Open iMovie, and import your videos. Now, select the sections of the videos you want to […]

I believe my work for the final project was very well done, I put many hours into it.  I woke up early every morning to work on the story, and I never left the house.  I wish I had the whole week to work on it, because I had so many character I wanted to […]

Historians don’t know a lot about Mary Washington. Here’s the basics of what we do know: She was born in Colonial Virginia, and orphaned at young age. She grew up wealthy. She married a wealthy man, had 6 children, and was widowed early. Her eldest, George, was 11 at the time. From there, she went […]

I thought that creating the media for this week’s assignment went pretty well. I was definitely much better (more efficient?) at creating the media this time around than I was when I first tried. I have learned a lot through this course about using social media and vastly improved my skills in working with and… Continue reading Weekly Summary 5

1.  Bucket List I used a program online to create the picture collage. Once you open the webpage, click create collage in the top center of the screen. Next, you can choose the layout and background color of your collage by using the toolbar that appears on the left side of your screen. Once you… Continue reading Final Project Tutorials

Week 5 Story/Project The Story of Jesse and The Order of the Stone Assignments created for the DS106 Assignment Bank (and my creation of them) The Wernitznig Family enters Looper I am Iron Man Tutorials I created How to do Family Friendly Billboard How to do Favorite Movie Quote First I’d like to say I … Continue reading This is the end of the road →

THE MAN An elvish man, long dark hair, two braids at the side of his head, tied back and braided together to keep hair out of his face.  The sound of a morning lark wakes up a man, he get’s out of bed and gets ready for the day ahead of him.  He thinks of […]

This is the second tutorial I will be doing (and its the 2nd assignment I created for the Ds106 Assignment Bank) Lets start out by visiting my favorite image editor, FotoFlexer. This a free online image editor. Once at the website upload the photo background that you will put the text over. Once you have … Continue reading How to do Favorite Movie Quote →

Once upon a time there was a baby sea turtle named Oliver. Oliver loved living in the ocean and he wanted to make the most of the 100+ years he would have there. He dreamed of traveling the deep blue, and after talking with several of his friends, he decided on several things that he just… Continue reading Adventures of a Sea Turtle

This is a tutorial on how to do the assignment (that I created) Family Friendly Billboard. There are many ways to do this assignment, depending on which image editor you may use. My favorite is FotoFlexer. Click on the link to take you to a website that is free to use. First you will want to … Continue reading How to do Family Friendly Billboard →

This is the example for the second assignment I created for Ds106. To find the assignment I created click here This was the movie that introduced me to the world of super heroes. I thought it was the coolest movie I had seen yet. to be fair I was only in 8th grade back when … Continue reading I am Iron Man →

This is the first assignment I have created. As the instructions requested, I did the assignment too. You can find the assignment from the DS106 Assignment Bank I have always loved movies. Billboards also happen to be one of my favorite forms of marketing too. I got the idea as I sat in traffic on … Continue reading The Wernitznig Family enters Looper →

Video http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/60-second-day-a-video-narrative/ I made the video in iMovie, my All Hail King Leo assignment is a good reference for this. I simply shot all the clips on my iPhone 6 and then imported the clips into iMovie. Then I just trimmed the clips and put them together to make the full video. Audio http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/a-day-in-the-life-of-your-character/ The […]

Assignments used to obtain Media Media #1 Media #2 Media #3 Media #4 The Media Story The Narrative Story The story of Jesse and his adventures with The Order of the Stone begin. This is a spin off of the video game Minecraft: Story Mode Jesse and his friends are preparing for a team building tournament, … Continue reading The Story of Jesse and The Order of the Stone →

This is a story about a poor DS106 student who did not properly heed the fair warning that was sent out by professor Polack before the start of the course. The student’s name is Stu Ped. Stu begins his first week of class by going to Dr. Polack’s DS106 course page to write down his […]

I am not sure if this weekly summary is suppose to be like the other’s but here’s what I thought of this week… I found the most challenging aspect of this week to be the brainstorming of the story that I would tell. Since most of the media forms have …

To make this story I used a variety of media outlets. Audio, Visual, Video, and Design were among the media outlets used for this story. As you may have felt, this story is slightly depressing haha but don’t be fool the making of this was full of laughs. It is …

9 year-old Isabella LOVES and ADORES her chickens. They aren’t just her pets, they are her very best friends! Every afternoon, Isabella goes outside to talk and play with her chickens. There isn’t anything in this world that makes Isabella happier than her pet chickens do. Look at that smile! …

There once was a dog named Jessie. She was part of a lovely family of 5. She was treated as if she was the parent’s own child. They loved taking Jessie on walks, to the dog park, to friend’s houses, and so much more, but little did they no that Jessie lived a very lonely life … Continue reading The Story of Jessie, The Once Lonely Dog

For the final project, I combined multiple pieces of different media and this is how I did it. First piece of media: Design: Dog Crying This piece of media came from the assignment: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/dog-it-out/ Found a picture of my dog on my computer Found some pictures of tears on the internet Uploaded the picture of my … Continue reading Media Used in Final Project

Today’s DC was a challenge to create what you want. Several ideas went through my head, first I wanted to photoshop my dog into a Jurassic Park picture. I tried once again to use the  app on my phone that I used last time. I was really struggling. So I decided to push myself I...

Well I had to get Week 5 done quite early because I have Orientation starting Thursday and I am very thankful that my supervisors gave me time of to complete my Final Project. I am very excited with how that turned out. Also this week I created two different assignments for the DS106 Assignment Bank.  I decided […]

To create this reflection in my friend Morgan’s eye I followed the steps listed below in this post. I imported the photograph I took of Morgan’s eye into Canva.com. I then went to the Elements Menu and searched for a circle. I chose a circle that allows you to insert a photograph to make it […]

To start this ad I knew I would need a good background and searched the internet trying to find one I liked.  I finally settled on this image to be used as the background sans the “aloha” at the bottom of the image.  I liked the color scheme that it would bring to the entire […]

Jon Snow had a very average life growing up in Westeros… well average for any Lord or Lady, but Jon was not really a Lord because his mother was nary a Lady but simply a peasant. Jon’s last family name was not Stark like that of his father, but Snow the mark of a bastard. […]

DS106 Word Cloud Near the end of your time completing DS106 complete a Word Cloud that encompasses the class and all that you have learned! There are plenty of different online tools to help you create a Word Cloud! Creating a word cloud can be super easy and word clouds are very useful in showing […]

Create A Game of Thrones House Create your own Game of Thrones House name and Sigil.  Jointherealm.com is a useful tool for creating your own Sigil! (3 stars) I’ve always loved the idea of creating a Game of Thrones house because I just live an breath Game of Thrones.  I’m shocked by how quickly I […]