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Assignments

Make a conspiracy board

You know those conspiracy boards you see in the movies.  Well now you can make one for yourself!  Come up with a story.  It can be anything, but make sure it involves a conspiracy.  Then take all the people, places, and events in that story and make a picture of …

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Make some spooky dialogue

Start by recording your own voice.  You can say anything, but make it long enough to have interesting shifts throughout the clip.  I recommend using Audacity to do this, because its minimalist interface really streamlines the process of voice recording and editing.  Once you have your clip, select sections of …

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Assignment Ideas

My first assignment idea was an audio assignment where you put together an audio clip of you talking, but change it to make it spooky.

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/spooky-dialogue/

My second one is that you design any kind of conspiracy board.

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/make-a-conspiracy-board/

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TDC Ideas

My first Daily Create idea that I submitted was to draw a circle, then expand outward on that circle to draw anything you can think of.

My second Daily Create was to photograph the next animal you see.  It can be anything from a pet to something random you see …

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Tutorials: Emotions Through Sound

For this assignment the main focus is audio and putting sounds together to send a particular message.  For this assignment I used audacity and a website called freesound.org as the main source for all of the sound effects used.

In audacity each sound will be open as a new sound …

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Tutorials: Haiku About You

This first tutorial is on one of the assignments I created for this class.  This particular one is for the writing assigment “Haiku About You”.

To do this you first have to be familiar with the rules of writing a haiku.  These poems are short, 17 syllables in 3 lines.  …

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Assignment Ideas

When creating the assignments I wanted to do something similiar to the daily creates. The only exception is these require a little bit more effort and creativity.  But not to worry, the level of fun is still there!

The first assignment uses video as the medium. The assignment itself can …

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Reflecting on DS106

Well this was interesting.

This has been more than kind of a crazy last semester of school for me, and I certainly wasn’t expecting quite the rigor or required level of involvement that this class calls for, even with the warnings. This is the kind of work I like to …

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