Yes, I do realize that I just dated myself by bringing up “Designing Women” so let the judgement begin…I brought it on myself.

Week 6 was much easier for me to get through than the week of sound. As usual, my phone was my best friend when it came to completing this week’s assignments. From pictures, to digital drawings, to following more of my ds106 peeps and commenting on their posts, and watching 3 more episodes of “The Wire” , this week was filled with all kinds of creating and building community.

15 stars of Design Assignments this week is what I started with first. The work for the week doesn’t seem as overwhelming if I knock out the biggest chunk of work early so that was what I did this week. The assignments I chose to complete were the Website Logo assignment (worth 3 points), What They Did After The Wire (2 points), No Bond Like A Dog Bond (3 1/2 points), Bumper Sticker (3 1/2 points), and The Childrens Book Cover (3 points) with 8 points worth of those assignments being based on “The Wire”. I changed the header on my website to show my new logo and blogged about each assignment on my Known page and tweeted them as well.

I got all 3 of the Daily Creates required this week completed. Empathy Map, Trace Yourself, and I Feel Like... were my picks. I posted them all to Flickr and tweeted them via Flickr as well. If I can find an app for Known that would do that for me I would be set. And after the hockey season is reaching just past the halfway point, I absolutely feel like a broken down car umpiring hockey games from high school through Division I college six and seven days a week.

My favorite assignment this week was the Design Blitz. I enjoyed learning about the different design elements and then trying to find them all around me. Nothing was off limits to use for me. From my curtains to the ordinary street sign that gave my son some trouble on his driving test, I really tried to mix it up. In addition to uploading all of my design blitz pix into their own album on Flickr, I also blogged all about it on my website.

Flickr is where I connected with my classmates for the most part this week. I began following Nicky, Lauren, and Algot in there this week. I also left comments on pictures posted by Nicky, Lauren, Algot, and Sandy. I also left a comment on Chris’s Design Blitz blog after she posted the link on Twitter. I also favorited and commented on Twitter from my phone but once I got home I couldn’t quite remember who I had posted on to go back and copy the links. I’ll work on a better system for that next week.

The Wire was off the chain this week with Ziggy shooting Glekas and Frank agreeing to become an informant as well as Omar and Bell coming to an agreement that benefited them both. The thing that stuck out for me the most though was Ziggy’s duck dying of alcohol poisoning. Wth??…lol.

 

I also finished the last few assignments that I didn’t quite finish last week including my Photo Blitz, the Humanizer, Color Splash,  What is it?, and the Post “Secret” visual assignments and shared them via Twitter and blogged about them on Known.  As I always say, better late than never. Kind of like me finishing college at my age…lol.

That about wraps up this week. If I forgot anything I’ll be sure to add it to next week’s weekly summary. Until then…