Busy Busy Bee
Hello again! This week is making me miss bootcamp. That’s right. I said it. We had so much to do this week, and I feel like there wasn’t enough time to do it! I really love that we can choose what...
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Audio. That word brought with it so much terror and hesitation this week. To ease my fears, I listened to what professionals Ira Glass and Jad Abumrad had to say about audio storytelling in terms of...
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Photography! When I saw what we were doing this week, I was so relieved! Not that audio wasn’t fun, but I’m much more comfortable with taking photos. To start off the week, I joined a Radio Show...
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This week, we moved on from photography to design! This word has so many meanings in my mind, so I wasn’t too worried about not being able to complete 15 stars worth of design assignments from the...
View ArticleWhat a Burden Lifted
The past 3 weeks in ds106 have been crazy hectic. We got back into audio and had to complete 5 stars worth of audio assignments from the ds106 assignment bank, 6 daily creates, a bumper, commercial,...
View ArticleUp, Up, and Away
I’d first like to say that while writing this weekly summary, I’m feeling very sick with flu-like symptoms, so please don’t expect a great performance! Curling up in my bed and falling asleep sounds...
View ArticleLet Us Move On & Step Out
This week was the dawn of a new era: Video editing. Well, sort of..I learned the basics of video editing, such as the tools to use, and then I attempted to create a montage. I’ve already used MPEG...
View Article3..2..1..Action!
For the last two weeks, we had 16 stars worth of video assignments to complete from the ds106 assignment bank. To do this, I did 5 assignments: Then & Now (3 stars) Stripes Everywhere (3 stars)...
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The past two weeks included so much to do on remixing and mashing. First of all, what is a remix? I watched some videos and examples of remixes to get a better understanding. Then, in my blog post,...
View ArticleGoodbye DS106
Storytelling At the beginning of this semester, I talked about what I thought storytelling was. I used to think that it was just oral storytelling, like when my dad would tell me stories as a kid....
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