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Wedding Invitation

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  • Submitted by: Amanda Peregory

We are currently in the middle of the wedding season. With this being said so many people out there are tying the knot! For this assignment, I would like you to create/design your own wedding invitation as if you were going to be getting married soon! What would it look like? You could include pictures, date, time, place, or anything else related to this topic that you think would be fun to incorporate! Use your imagination! Be creative! To create this assignment you should use Canva. Upload your invitation to Flickr and tag it DesignAssignments. 

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Storied Press Release

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  • Submitted by: KOnarheim

News releases have a long history and follow a specific format used by media outlets for organization and prioritizing. Search for news release templates and formats and then create a news release that adds to the story line of your ds106 iteration (i.e. Noir, Prisoner, FairyTales, or your personal theme of direction). 

Publish on your blog and TWEET the news release as if it was real for others to build upon your story.

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Celebrating Too Early

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  • Submitted by: Thomas Fairbank

Make a GIF when someone celebrates too early. You can use Make A GIF or any software to help you trim the video that you find into a five second or less GIF. Make sure you embed your GIF into your blog post.

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Good Morning Message for The Village

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  • Submitted by: @iamTalkyTina

It is always such a wonderful thing to hear a bright cheery voice delivering the Good Morning Message in The Village. Why don’t you bring some joy to the day and to your fellow Residents by creating and recording a wonderful message of community and cheer. Share your audio via Soundcloud and tag it appropriately. 

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Animating #Prisoner106

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  • Submitted by: Andrew Forgrave

In celebration of the Summer 2015 Prisoner106.us edition of #ds106, let’s develop a repository of animated GIFs featuring Number 6, Rover, the various Number 2’s, and other elements of life in The Village. 

#BeGIFfingYou !!

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GIF 4 Giffiess…

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  • Submitted by: Usman Khalid

Pick your favorite movie scene, and trim a clip containg about 20-25 images out of it. Software such as MPEG StreamClip can help to trim a particular scene that you desire to cut out of the video. Next, use software such as gimp to turn the photos into GIF. Following link can help you to do the assignment: http://ds106.us/docs/Creating_Animated_GIFs_with_MPEG_Streamclip_and_GIMP

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Tattoos 4Life

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  • Submitted by: Usman Khalid

Create a tattoo that can represent your personality type. Tell us about your tattooo, and what does it means to you. If there is any thing supersticious about your tattoo, share it with us. You can hand design your own unique tattoo on a plane paper, or you can use any photo editing software to design your tattoo. Once you design your own unique tattoo, make mutiple copies of that, and add different color effects to each copy. Each Color is unique, and can depict different mood. Use different effects and colors to represent the mood of your tattoo. Finally, make a collage of all the copies of tattoo you edit, and save it as jpg or png.

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That Bucket List Though

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Have you ever made a mental list of things you wanted to do or try or jokingly said “That’s going on my bucket list!” Well, now is the time to stop messing around and actually make a bucket list. Write down a list of at least five things that you want to do or try, but do not stop there! Give the world a reason why those things are on your list regardless of how crazy or lame it may be. 

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Signing Words

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  • Submitted by: Roylando Toliver

This assignment requires you to take a video of yourself or someone else and finger spell a word or a phrase in Sign Language alphabet and let others guess what you have spelled. Make sure you do a word that is bigger then 5 letters so you can learn some of the letters.

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Compilation Video!

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  • Submitted by: Victoria B

Pick a theme and download multiple videos from Youtube that fit the theme. Cut them up and create a compilation video by putting the clips to music. 

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