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Buzzfeed Personality Quiz
So far, 37 people have completed this assignment and it has 3858 views.
Have you taken one of those fun personality quizzes on Buzzfeed? Now make your own! Sign in with Buzzfeed to create a community account (you can use gmail). Then start making a quiz for people to find out which character they are. Use any characters you like. There must be at least 3 results with descriptions and at least 6 questions. Be sure to include photographs as well. Once you have made the page publish it and share.
Inklewriter Storytelling
So far, 7 people have completed this assignment and it has 2791 views.
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 ...
Go Back in Time
So far, 3 people have completed this assignment and it has 1127 views.
As you probably know, you can use the Wayback Machine from the Internet Archive to see what websites looked like years ago. Take a look at what several different sites looked like in the 90s to get a feel for the style of the times. Then, create a website that mimics that style, so information should be historically accurate but creative. For example if you choose to style your website after websites in 1998, you could talk about the your new discman or do a movie review of Armageddon, maybe create an AOL chatroom page.
Storytelling Within the Web
So far, 105 people have completed this assignment and it has 6156 views.
From the Spring 2011 ds106 class came the idea of changing up an existing web page to tell a new story " you will be intervening in the code and design of a website of your choice to tell a story. You are not to photoshop the design of the site, but rather intervene in the actual html and CSS of the site—though you can photoshop particular images on the site. Essentially you alter the content of a web page (content, images) to make it tell a new story. Originally we recommended doing this using the Firebug extension in the ...
Find a Digital Tool!
So far, 20 people have completed this assignment and it has 2166 views.
Find a cool, easy to use digital tool online! Write up a brief tutorial on how to use it, and what it can be used for.
How it All Began
So far, 17 people have completed this assignment and it has 2222 views.
Create a page on your website that goes into detail how a group came together. Talk about the motives behind joining forces, real or fictional. This can be serious or comedic, have fun!
Email! Email! Read All About It!
So far, 4 people have completed this assignment and it has 2027 views.
For this assignment, use the website Vertical Response to create an email newsletter for a fictional agency, company, organization, etc. After you sign up for a free account, Vertical Response allows you to choose from newsletter templates, into which you can insert text and images. You may tell the story of how your entity formed, give background information on the members/employees, and/or provide viewers with current happenings. Once completed, send it to at least 5 people in the DS106 community, so they may share your exciting news! Since there is no shared embedding link for this website, please screenshot or take a ...
Harness Relationships: Make a Map with Kumu
So far, 12 people have completed this assignment and it has 3458 views.
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 ...
Personal Search Engine
So far, 5 people have completed this assignment and it has 1696 views.
Create your own search engine! Make it personal, funny, interesting. I recommend using either x-ray goggles, or firebug through firefox. The downside of using firebug is that it is more difficult to use, easier to loose your work, and you have to download firefox and firebug. So I strongly recommend using X-ray goggles. You simply drag it into your bookmarks and start editing. When you are finished click publish, and copy the url that it generates for you.
Nike Run GPS Map Art
So far, 4 people have completed this assignment and it has 2186 views.
Have you ever looked at a GPS map of your run? It looks like a bunch of... well nothing. The objective of this assignment is to make "running art." Download the Free Nike Run app on your smart phone. Then go for a run (any length of run will do) and try your best to create a GPS image of where you ran. It can be as simple (heart, star, etc) or as you want or as crazy. You can try looking at the roads on Google Maps before going running to decide what image you are going to create. ...