What is Digital Storytelling?
When I hear the word “storytelling”, I immediately think back to elementary school. I think of a plot, characters, setting, theme, beginning, middle, and an end, because in order to tell a story you...
View ArticleRetired DS106-ers’ Work
OH BOY. Let me just say, when I was asked to review the retired DS 106-ers’ in[SPIRE] work and their best work, I was soo happy. I LOVED looking at all of the work that they did and that I will get to...
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The Shape of Stories
Kurt Vonnegut is known for his Shapes of Stories talk. In this video, he talks about how stories all have the same “shape” or storyline to them. I found this video pretty hilarious because I knew...
View ArticleStorytime on Air
To practice listening to stories, I chose to listen to This American Life (producer = Ira Glass) episode 476; What Doesn’t Kill You. This is a radio show that has a theme every episode. I chose this...
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Photo Pro or No?
This week in DS, it was visual week. The assignments and daily creates presented the challenge of taking various pictures of silly things. One thing that I got out of this week that I will always have...
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Design, Design Safari
Yes. The title of this blog post is supposed to be said {or hummed, which ever you prefer} in the way you would Surfin’ Safari by The Beach Boys. Because this week was design week in digital...
View ArticleThis I Promise You
Spring Break was nice and relaxing but it’s nice to get back to the daily grind. I had an DS 106 epiphany over Spring Break. And I liked it too much. So here is my promise/pledge to you: From now on, I...
View ArticleOver and Over
For my three time review, I chose to watch this clip from The Pursuit of Happyness: For this assignment, I had to watch this clip in three different ways and each time I noticed something different. 1....
View ArticleTwo is Better Than One
All films are categorized into different genres. A genre is what type of movie it is. For example, if your friend said “let’s go see The Notebook” you would say “no, that’s a chick flick…I don’t want...
View ArticleBet On It
Before we start video week next week, which I am kinda looking forward to, we had to pick some assignments that look interesting to us. When I was on this week’s DS 106 show – Reading Movies, we talked...
View ArticleFinal Countdown
We’re already thinking about the final project?? Really? Where has the semester gone? I did a lot of brainstorming of who I wanted to base my final project around. I thought of all of my favorite shows...
View ArticleCall Me Maybe {REMIX}
To start off the remix and mashup weeks, we had to review two references and three examples of what remix is. This was one of the first things I did for the remix and mashup weeks’ checklist. I did...
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