It’s time to relive your high school memories. Create a video that will take you back to your days of high school and those times that you may have forgotten. We all have them, so why not document them and share them with the world. Add videos, pictures, and audio that will relate to your story. Have fun reminiscing your high school days. Never forget those memories and times.
Everyone has a talent, why not show it off? Why not show the world what you can do. Take a video of something that you can do. It can be either what you enjoy, have a passion for, or even a crazy talent that you think no one else can do. Have fun with it! You are showing not only us but the world what you can do. I did it. What can you do?
Are your photo editing skills up to the challenge? Create an animated GIF with at least 3 seperate animation zones. [See example here] I suggest starting with a simple movie poster, photograph or greeting card. You’ll be becoming best friends with the lasso tool and layers, so you may want to brush up on those. This is definitely a 5-star assignment.
Can’t stomach all those glowing self-reflections about what’s so great about DS106? [Assignment1119] Then why not have a iittle fun and make a parody? Record a 3-5 minunte “self-reflection” from the point of view of a disgruntled student, teacher, or open-onliner, etc. responding to the questions: Why are you here? What brought you to DS106? Why are you still here? Start by creating an obviously fictitous name and location, then let ‘er rip. Maybe use a different voice, and some strange background music. Provide a thumbnail image that will grab the reader’s attention when they scroll down the list. Here’s an example of a self-reflection you can poke fun at. You can submit your parody here for consideration to be added along side the other DS106 self-reflections.
Why are you here? What brought you to DS106? Why did you stay?
Share your DS106 impressions by creating a short 3-5 min audio self-reflection. Add background music to personalize it even more. Want to meet others and hear what they’ve done? Pop on over to the DS106 Community Self-Reflections.
To add your name, information, and completed audio file to the ever growing ds106 community complete and submit this submission/contact form.
Create a commercial featuring an item that you have invented that would be extremely useful to your favorite movie or TV Show character. Try to be as creative and abstract as possible. Must include sound effects or background music and be at least 20 seconds in length.
Find an audio clip from a show or movie outside of the Twilight Zone. See example from the Everybody Loves Raymond episode, “Standard Deviation.”
Everyone who has heard the scottlo podcast loves it, but not everyone has heard of it before. You need to fix that. Create a advertisement for the scottlo podcast. Make an audio advertisement (Or any media you want) that gives some basic information about the podcast. It needs to include where people can find the podcast also. If doing audio, add background music and sound effects. Upload to soundcloud and share it with everyone.
This assignemt was inspired by the audio assignment. “Puncuate like Victor Borge” submitted by ampersanddragon.
Narrate a story using Inflationary Language. Becareful, be sure that your story contins enough “numerical” words to make the assignment worth it. The inflation should occur in just about every sentence to get full effect. Remember to give tribute to the genius of Victor Borge by using some lines from his skit on Inflationary Language.
Since 1985, the American Library Association (ALA) has tried to sell reading books as cool by showing celebrities reading their favorite books. You can read about the history of this promotional campaign here. Experiment with this tradition, introduce a celebrity with a book who hasn’t been recognized yet, but should be. Or use the poster you create to poke fun at a public figure, or do something else all together. have fun.
