Warning

_cokwr: Lots of things today have warning labels. Create warning labels for things that exist only in movies or your imagination. Examples, _cpzh4: Design, _cre1l: http://superpunch.blogspot.com/2011/02/science-fiction-danger-awareness.html, _chk2m: Tom, _ciyn3: 87, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3:

Merit a Badge

_cokwr: Badges. Badges are the future of education. With a badge, you can express your skills in a visible and authentic way. Without a badge, you're just another worthless drain on society. Better get yourself a badge., _cpzh4: Design, _cre1l: http://flic.kr/p/arw9aW, _chk2m: leelzebub, _ciyn3: 174, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3:

Tell me a story

_cokwr: Everything has a story. So, find an item that you have an extreme emotional attachment to, take a picture of it, and tell the story! Convey all the emotion and feeling, and let us know why the item is important to you! , _cpzh4: Writing, _cre1l: http://blog.thecrazyleghero.info/2011/02/22/tell-me-a-story/, _chk2m: Patrick Connelly, _ciyn3: 88, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3:

How I Made It

_cokwr: Create, edit, and submit a video tutorial for the creation process for one of your ds106 assignments. From start to finish, include any interesting bits of information, why you selected some of the artifacts used in the assignment, and any other interesting bits of information about equipment or the process that people might need to know. Bonus points for including family members in the video! http://vimeo.com/29935341, _cpzh4: Video, _cre1l: http://www.techsavvyed.net/?p=1909&preview=true, _chk2m: Ben Rimes, _ciyn3: 176, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3:

The Contest Nobody Could Win

_cokwr: Take six very short fragments (less than one second each) from six different songs and ensemble them into a single piece. Expect others to guess which six songs you have used. Basic rules: 1) do not repeat songs 2) do not use covers (unless the cover is much better than the original, sh*t happens) 3) John Cage's 4'33'' is not a song!!! , _cpzh4: Audio, _cre1l: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxxEab7nHfE, _chk2m: procsilas, _ciyn3: 89, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3:

Multipersonality

_cokwr: For this audio assignment, pretend that you are three to four persons having a regular conversation. Pick any scenario that you are comfortable with but make it convincing that there are different people within the conversation. ie: at the dinner table you have a little girl, a hick father, with an Asian mother talking to each other: create those voices. and HAVE FUN with it!, _cpzh4: Audio, _chk2m: anagahama, _ciyn3: 91, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3:

A Life in Two Minutes

_cokwr: Create a 2 minute audio story inspired by the "My Life is True" series produced by KQED of Northern California. KQED works with people "to explain, in their own words, a significant moment or stubborn problem." Work with a friend or tell a story about yourself that describes such a moment or problem. Be sure to keep it at two minutes or less! Thanks to GNA Garcia for posting a link to this awesome site on Twitter and inspiring assignment ideas for DS106., _cpzh4: Audio, _cre1l: http://www.mylifeistrue.org/, _chk2m: Michael Branson Smith, _ciyn3: 184, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3:

Name that single!

_cokwr: Create a design for a favorite song by using just simple designs and NO WORDS...Basically a design assignment with the rules in charades. IE: for No Doubt's "I'm Just a Girl" I would just have a symbol of a girl. , _cpzh4: Design, _chk2m: anagahama, _ciyn3: 94, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3:

Troll Steals Axe Challenge

_cokwr: A famous guitar player appears in an image using a guitar that is belongs to another famous guitar player (bonus points for embedding audio from a riff by yet another famous guitar player. This is a relatively simple project that will help improve superimposing mixed images in Photoshop (or any other image editor with layers). It is similar to the Troll Quotes assignment in that it involves bringing together disparate elements into one place and asks readers to figure who's who and what's whose. The technique used is similar to that described in this tutorial on changing faces on a movie poster (http://pinkzap.com/tutorial/how-to-replace-faces-on-movie-posters/). The new image will consist of a famous guitar playing or holding the guitar of another famous guitar player. My TA went added an additional feature to the assignment by embedding an mp3 clip of a riff by yet another famous guitar player. , _cpzh4: Visual, _cre1l: http://cis0835-fa11.blogspot.com/2011/10/troll-steals-axe-challenge.html, _chk2m: Otto Paertz, _ciyn3: 188, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3:

Celebrity Radio Interview

_cokwr: You may have seen parodies in which the camera cuts between an interviewee in a real interview and a fake interviewer, for example The Soup's interview with Miley Cyrus about being a vampire (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldNycG-IATY). The nice thing about doing this with audio rather than video is that you're not restricted to using responses from a single interview since you don't have to worry about making it look real. Record yourself asking questions to someone famous, then use audio clips of the celebrity from real interviews as the responses., _cpzh4: Audio, _chk2m: Matt Martin, _ciyn3: 95, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3: