For this visual assignment I wanted to try something new and different from the normal pictures so I created a story map of a recent trip to Miami and Key Largo, Florida. Here is the Link to my story map. The story behind the map is that in May of this year, my girlfriend and I travelled to Key Largo for her cousin’s wedding. It was quite the trip getting down there after hours of delays due to weather and then a very dark drive from Miami Airport to the resort in Key Largo. I used Knightlab’s Story Map to create my map putting in all the different places we went on our southern adventure.

4 Stars

Okay so heres the story of the things I carry around with me on a daily basis in my backpack. First are the two largest items, my French textbook and French notebook. Those are the only two books I currently carry because French is the only class that I am taking on campus. Along with those two items I have the regular assortment of pens, some sticky notes, my wallet and a finical calculator. I took this picture on my iPhone and uploaded it to WordPress.

3 Stars

Here is my very own spubble, featuring my female Rottweiler puppy, Dixie. The story behind this picture is this was right after I adopted her and she was still getting aquatinted with me. The look on my face was me trying not to get licked but it looks like one of fear. The story behind the speech bubble is that I thought it was funny that I look so terrified of such a little, innocent dog, so I made the joke that I hope she does not eat me. I used the Aviary app on my phone as suggested on the Ds106.us page but I could no find a pre-made speech bubble so I made my own.

2 Stars

Your Very Own Spubble

Description of Assignment: “Learn to love yourself, grab a picture of yourself in which your body language, actions, gestures, etc. suggest one thing and then play off that using a speech bubble. Ideally the result would make people laugh – but I must acknowledge there are other possible emotional responses that may be just as acceptable. Think of it as lolcat, save it’s a human (namely you) and there is nothing compelling anyone to abuse the letter z in the speech bubble text. Picnik.com or Aviary.com would make this assignment dead simple.”

I created this “spubble” by first selecting a photo that I thought would fit well with a spubble. I then searched Google for websites that I could use in order to create a spubble. I found a website called Super Lame and it made making this spubble incredibly easy and fun. I uploaded a photo from my photo gallery, then was able to choose the type of speech bubble I wanted and then I simply just inserted in the text I wanted.

Even though we had to do this Visual Assignment, I still probably would of chosen it even if we didn’t. I found it very entertaining and funny to try and make the perfect spubble photo.

I chose this specific photo because I love soccer. I also thought that creating a speech bubble for this photo would be funny because I could make it say something very similar as to what would be going on in my head in that exact situation but just manipulate it a little bit to be funnier than it may have actually been.

This Visual Assignment is related to digital story telling. This is because it is a digital media photo and the photo tells a story. The story is that this is a photo of me playing soccer and in an actual game this would be pretty close to something I would be thinking in this situation, only changed to be a bit funnier (hence: my thought only in the Borat voice). Digital Storytelling is simply a “short form of digital media production that allows everyday people to share aspects of their life story” (Wikipedia) and I believe this spubble does just that!

To do the assignment, i took a selfie, then i went to the following site http://wigflip.com/saywhat/interactor?w/v/FFeO3TxSgr

I uploaded my selfie to the site, and added a spubble to it. I also updated the desired text to my bubble. Once i was finish with the picture, i took a screen shot of the image and saved it on my computer.

This assignment required us to take a picture of ourselves and to and a caption to it. My girlfriend, Diana, took this picture after making me a margarita. After downing two, I was DONE.