For my second DS106 assignment this week, I decided to choose the Web assignment “You’re a Pinteresting Character” and portray The Wire character, D’Angelo Barksdale, using Pinterest.
Although I’m currently not active on Pinterest, I do have an account and am familiar with the process of “pinning” images, links, quotes, …
For this assignment, I changed it a little and did a lesson in general rather than to a child. I picked the scene where Valcheck learned who is in charge. This is when Carver reveals how Baltimore is ran by power. He was ordered to have squads go to …
This assignment was a little challenging for me, due to the fact I had to paste a face onto an animal. I picked to do Stringer Bell based off of how he was in Season 2, Episode 1. Since Avon went to jail, Stringer has become the dominant one of …
The Facebook site “The Wire” at the time I viewed it appeared little more than a few scraps of advertising and contest entry invitations. The only impression I picked up here was one of stale yesteryears. Merchants selling mugs and DvDs, no story here for me. Facebook can be an …
I normally approach reading assignments with some dread. It’s not that I dislike reading, I actually quite like it. But when it becomes an assignment with a due date attached to it, it suddenly goes from a fun way to pass time to a job with a deadline. So it …
While browsing through the assignment database, I was inspired when I found one about making movie trading cards. Not only that, but as a casual player of Magic the Gathering, I decided to go ahead and make some Magic inspired cards of some prominent new characters of season 2 of …
I guess I should have read the previous chapters of this book because I didn’t know there was a web storytelling 1.0. But, that’s not the point. What is important is my reflection on this information-loaded chapter from Bryan Alexander’s novel The New Digital Storytelling. Before I started reading, like …
What is the “digital” in Digital Storytelling?
It is definitely not just the fact that the storytelling is taking place on the Internet. After reading Bryan Alexander‘s “Web 2.0 Storytelling” chapter from his book The New Digital Storytelling, I came to the conclusion that digital storytelling is similar …
