Write a blog post on your dream vacation. Why did you pick that location? Who and what would you bring with you to make this an ideal vacation. Embed pictures and videos, if possible.
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Write a blog post on your dream vacation. Why did you pick that location? Who and what would you bring with you to make this an ideal vacation. Embed pictures and videos, if possible.
Around my home you will find a growing collection of broken debris of the digital age gone awry. Examples of these include a digital camera with a stripped gear that refuses to push the lens out anymore; a 1 TB hard drive containing irreplaceable family photos that my computer no longer recognizes; my first laptop computer, a 486 Toshiba with monochrome screen that refuses to power on; my current Macbook Pro which still functions but had coffee spilt on the keyboard and now requires an external keyboard because I’ve been too busy to have it repaired; an iPod Shuffle accidentally left out in the rain, a weatherproof video camera crushed last summer by a John Deere tractor; or heck, even the iPad upon which I am typing this has a cracked screen.
My point is, over the years digital mishaps have happened. I hate to throw these things out because they were expensive, representing now literally thousands of dollars, and also because they tell stories about an ever increasing part of our lives—our digital lives. It seems that everyone has these stories of suffering digital losses. It doesn’t even have to be a hardware mishap. Sometimes things that happen with our software or with our wetware that cause us the most angst. The person accidentally deletes the school database that wasn’t backed up, a virus corrupts an operating system, a person who unthinkingly tweets an insensitive tweet that gets them fired, the grieving spouse who deletes a deceased spouse’s Facebook account without warning to family or friends—anything that connects our lives to technology has the potential to cause us to suffer loss.
For this writing assignment, please describe a time in which you felt that your life might have been better if you had never laid eyes upon a computer because of some digital loss that you suffered. Describe in detail what happened, the emotions you felt at the time, and how you worked through it towards the best resolution that you could manage. In what ways was your life and outlook changed by the experience? How did the experience affect how you interact with technology and other human beings through digital media? What advice to others can you offer?
What happens when you combine two existing movie titles to create your own movie? Movie Mate Parodies, of course. This project allows students to show off their creative side while demonstrating mastery using masking, non-destructive editing, adjustment layers, blending modes, filters, and the type tools.
Use your creative mind to meld two titles together. If you are stumped or have hit a wall – look at this version of a lesson plan for high school students in which several titles have been put together already for you to search and complete – reduce by one star if you use from the list. You will need to become an Adobe member to view resource files (free).
Increase by a star if you also turn it into an animatec GIF!
As an introduction, write a haiku about you! It’s a small, simple 3 line, 17 syllable poem that doesn’t have to rhyme. The first and third lines have 5 syllables and the second line has 7 syllables. It can be about anything, and even though it doesn’t have to rhyme some usually rhyme the first and third lines for added fun. It can be about you, a hobby or something you’re really passionate about.
Lip-syncing has become increasing popular and this is shown in the media. What was once frowned upon has now become a popular and fun way to sing along with your favorite song. Now’s your time to shine! Grab your brush mic and record yourself lip syncing along with your favorite song. You can record the video with the music playing in the background or silence the video and add the music to it in a movie maker program. Upload it to youtube or a similiar website. (If youtube gives you problems you can use a clip as long as it’s the chorus and at least 1min long). Most importantly, have fun with it!
Use the online organizational tool, Kumu, to create a web map of relationships. This can be anything: contacts, movies, your Ds106 assignments. Kumu offers a stellar way of organizing information and honing in on relationships between information. Maybe try converting a paper from another class into a Kumu map. Int his way, using Kume forces you to further explore the relationships between sources and source material.
I’m giving this three stars because the difficulty really depends on the scope of the project. Kumu can do big things. In my Adaptation class from a few semesters back, our class slowly compliled a massive list of interconnecting film, novel, comic book, etc. adaptations. We called each new entry a “textual vector.” Check out the massive web of adaptations here: https://www.kumu.io/zachwhalen/vectors
Tell a story using the free Inklewriter program found here:http://www.inklestudios.com/inklewriter/
Inklewriter is perfectly designed for choose your own adventure-type stories. It offers numerous tools to create detailed interactive fiction narratives. It is similar in concept to the popular tool twine. Twine, however, is more focused on choice complexity and gaminess, whereas Inklewriter is more focused on storytelling. Look at the examples on the webpage and start writing a story!
I’m putting this as three stars because the difficulty really depends on the scope of the project. Very complex stories with numerous choices and plotholes can quickly spiral out of managable workload here. Don’t overstretch your ambitions in terms of choice complexity unless you want to be writing for a good long while. My example piece is a perfect example of this issue.
Take any picture in the entire world and change the color hue of the picture to completely change how it looks! Then post it on flickr to show the world!
Create a track of surreal or scary dialogue. Use an audio editing program like Audacity to record your voice, then layer it with distortions, speed changes, other sounds, or anything else you can think of. The idea is to make yourself sound like something otherworldly.
Take some of your old magazines and newspapers and create a 2D or 3D collage/sculpture of words and pictures that represent a common theme (ex: color, media subject such as animals or food, things you like, etc.). Explain why you chose your theme and what some of the individual pieces mean to you.