Week 1 Summary: Bootcamp Complete!
PHEW! Between the going-on-7 posts, 3 Daily Creates, 1 Assignment, approximately 45 tweets & retweets (#DS106 #4life), and fifty Facebook messages via which I helped out a fellow DS106er (whilst being ever so rudely interrupted by a dang fire drill ), my fingers have never gotten such a workout! But I made it through bootcamp, guys, and so did you! Of course it wasn’t without gaining a lot of new knowledge — within the span of ONLY A WEEK; WUT?!?! — and of course, coming up with a question or two (namely, WHY THE HECK AREN’T MY TWEETS EMBEDDING, DANG IT!).
Posts
- Introducing Ames
- Burt the FOBOT
- Our Little Sandcastle
- This Little Piggy
- Wordcloud
- Learnin’ ‘Bout Noir
Creations
DIY Theme Song to My Life
Making Eddie Redmayne Even More Adorable
Burt the FOBOT (ft. not the highest quality photo …)
thinking about Our Little Sandcastle
Being nostalgic as usual …
Head in the Clouds
My favorite thing that I created this week was my own personal theme song. Given how much TV I watch, I guess it makes sense that such a random idea would pop into my head.
I imported the song “Be Okay” from iTunes into my Mac’s “Garage Band” application, then trimmed it down to about 30 seconds and exported it back in to iTunes under a new title. I then simply uploaded it to my Soundcloud account and embedded it into my introductory post.
My biggest struggle this week was figuring out how to embed tweets in my posts. All the other forms of media I wanted to embed were working except my tweets, which were showing up like this, lookin’ all wonky.
The fact that it wasn’t working wasn’t what was driving me crazy; it was the fact that it’s so freakin’ easy to embed! The directions are written out for us thanks to our lovely teachers, and it’s as cut and dry as cut and paste! I went to the Digital Knowledge Center on the 4th floor of the Technology Center after my Friday Classes to get help from a tutor and Professor Burtis, and it appears correctly at first, but when I post the actual post, it’ll turn into the atrociousness found above. The good news is that a), I’m practically always studying in the Technology Center anyway so I can stop by again during the week and b), everyone there is so amazingly helpful :). So hopefully I can get this ish solved soon!
Besides the issue with my tweets, something that was way harder were the Daily Creates! I initially thought, “Okay; 10-15 minutes a day creating something totally random that’s not always guaranteed to be writing (my forté) … I can do that!” But they were a lot harder for me at first, because I would put too much pressure on myself to come up with a really cool idea while at the same time thinking too reasonably about what to make and how to make it. I learned during this first week of Digital Storytelling that there are no limits to what can be created.
What I enjoyed the most this week was learning about film noir and getting to introduce myself in creative and quirky ways. Film noir was totally new to me, so it was interesting to be immersed in this world of storytelling where I basically got to travel back in time to the Forties and see if I could make it back to this decade in one piece before the creepy antagonists got me! I will be looking forward to exploring this form of storytelling through the different outlets of media we will be using throughout the semester.
In both my written introduction and some of the supplemental projects I created, I hope that my fellow classmates learned more about me but really had to hunt for the answers to “Who is Amy?”. That’s the thing about storytelling; it should show the reader who you are or what is happening … there is no fun when you’re just explicitly told a play-by-play! (If I wanted that, I would be watching the football playoffs right now). That is something I have to constantly remind myself as a storyteller, and I think this class is a new take on storytelling that will help me do just that.
Week 1 Summary: Bootcamp Complete!
PHEW! Between the going-on-7 posts, 3 Daily Creates, 1 Assignment, approximately 45 tweets & retweets (#DS106 #4life), and fifty Facebook messages via which I helped out a fellow DS106er (whilst being ever so rudely interrupted by a dang fire drill ), my fingers have never gotten such a workout! But I made it through bootcamp, guys, and so did you! Of course it wasn’t without gaining a lot of new knowledge — within the span of ONLY A WEEK; WUT?!?! — and of course, coming up with a question or two (namely, WHY THE HECK AREN’T MY TWEETS EMBEDDING, DANG IT!).
Posts
- Introducing Ames
- Burt the FOBOT
- Our Little Sandcastle
- This Little Piggy
- Wordcloud
- Learnin’ ‘Bout Noir
Creations
DIY Theme Song to My Life
Making Eddie Redmayne Even More Adorable
Burt the FOBOT (ft. not the highest quality photo …)
thinking about Our Little Sandcastle
Being nostalgic as usual …
Head in the Clouds
My favorite thing that I created this week was my own personal theme song. Given how much TV I watch, I guess it makes sense that such a random idea would pop into my head.
I imported the song “Be Okay” from iTunes into my Mac’s “Garage Band” application, then trimmed it down to about 30 seconds and exported it back in to iTunes under a new title. I then simply uploaded it to my Soundcloud account and embedded it into my introductory post.
My biggest struggle this week was figuring out how to embed tweets in my posts. All the other forms of media I wanted to embed were working except my tweets, which were showing up like this, lookin’ all wonky.
The fact that it wasn’t working wasn’t what was driving me crazy; it was the fact that it’s so freakin’ easy to embed! The directions are written out for us thanks to our lovely teachers, and it’s as cut and dry as cut and paste! I went to the Digital Knowledge Center on the 4th floor of the Technology Center after my Friday Classes to get help from a tutor and Professor Burtis, and it appears correctly at first, but when I post the actual post, it’ll turn into the atrociousness found above. The good news is that a), I’m practically always studying in the Technology Center anyway so I can stop by again during the week and b), everyone there is so amazingly helpful :). So hopefully I can get this ish solved soon!
Besides the issue with my tweets, something that was way harder were the Daily Creates! I initially thought, “Okay; 10-15 minutes a day creating something totally random that’s not always guaranteed to be writing (my forté) … I can do that!” But they were a lot harder for me at first, because I would put too much pressure on myself to come up with a really cool idea while at the same time thinking too reasonably about what to make and how to make it. I learned during this first week of Digital Storytelling that there are no limits to what can be created.
What I enjoyed the most this week was learning about film noir and getting to introduce myself in creative and quirky ways. Film noir was totally new to me, so it was interesting to be immersed in this world of storytelling where I basically got to travel back in time to the Forties and see if I could make it back to this decade in one piece before the creepy antagonists got me! I will be looking forward to exploring this form of storytelling through the different outlets of media we will be using throughout the semester.
In both my written introduction and some of the supplemental projects I created, I hope that my fellow classmates learned more about me but really had to hunt for the answers to “Who is Amy?”. That’s the thing about storytelling; it should show the reader who you are or what is happening … there is no fun when you’re just explicitly told a play-by-play! (If I wanted that, I would be watching the football playoffs right now). That is something I have to constantly remind myself as a storyteller, and I think this class is a new take on storytelling that will help me do just that.