Reflection on “Web 2.0 Storytelling” and “Shapes of Stories”
Bryan Alexander’s chapter on Web 2.0 Storytelling brought to light something I never knew blogging and other social media was used for. The Internet tends to become overloaded with news about the world, politics, celebrities, and more. It’s refreshing to see …
Well, here we are at the end of week 3. I feel a lot more proficient in a lot of things than I did at the beginning of this week. I figured out how to easily screen shot and save things as pictures, something that I figured out this week. …
Well….. Well! That’s just it! Week 3 is hard to describe. I don’t feel like there was MORE work but then again, I don’t feel like there was LESS? I don’t even think it was the same amount…. what DO I think? Who knows. The Assignments were pretty simple, 3 …
Maybe it’s just me, but this week felt like things had really leveled up in this class. There seems to be more work of a higher caliber that’s asking us to really get creative. While the list of things to do this week seemed daunting at first, as I began …
This weekend, I am not going to be able to do any work for the ds106 class, so I made sure to get as much done early in the week as I could. So to start of, I organized my posts into categories, and then made a menu with different …
According to Alexander in The New Digital Storytelling chapter we read for this week, there are many different outlets for webs storytelling. My personal favorite, and the most simplistic, is blogging. Alexander goes into great detail about blogging and discusses the notion of blogs as internet diaries, which I found …
The spectrum Vonnegut creates is so simple yet so applicable to so many different stories. The curve spectrum is a newer and simpler version of the story plot we learn in grade school (exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, conclusion), but the curve somehow easily represents an entire story in …
So this week wasn’t too great, as far as Wire106 is concerned. I really fell behind on my work. I have no excuse for why I fell behind but all I can say is that I am definitely learning from this mistake and I will try my hardest to get …
The Wire
Season 1, Episode 13: Sentencing
Finally the day has come when Avon Barksdale gets put away in jail. About a dozen or so of Avon’s men also get sentenced and put away. However many of the dealer’s sentences are not nearly what they should be. Avon has a …
