Assignments
Are You Feeling Artsy, Hippy?
“Are You Feeling Artsy, Hippy?” animated GIF by iamTalkyTina
UNCLE Jim Groom (UNCLE Jim Groom, @jimgroom on Twitter, on Twitter) was writing today about a GIF that Spencer Scott made of him that was a Clint Eastwood one.
But when I saw it, I was thinking about …
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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 …
Read MoreMake 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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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/
Read MoreTDC 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 …
Read MoreTutorials: 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 …
Read MoreTutorials: 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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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 …
Read MoreReflecting 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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