Write about your favorite historical figure, it could be anyone famous or not so famous from the past. Do more than just giving some biographical details however, describe WHY they are your favorite, how and why you relate to them, and why they inspire you.
1. Using a timer, write what you’re thankful for in just 10 seconds! Anything and everything that you can think of being thankful for is fair game, but stop at 10 seconds.
2. Share what you’ve written on a blog, wiki, or some other digital space that others can comment on.
3. Bonus! Complete a 10 second drawing of yourself to accompany your writing, inspired by the November 19th, 2012 Daily Create!
Take an existing movie or television show and change the writing of the synopsis in a way where it’s still factual correct, yet the storyline feels drastically different.
Sometime the photographs we choose not to take are the most powerful images- in this assignment choose not to photograph a subject but write out the image in text (or maybe describe in audio), and share why this is a more appropriate representation.
This is based on the Unphotographable site : “….a catalog of exceptional mistakes. Photos never taken that weren’t meant to be forgotten. Opportunities missed. Simple failures. Occasions when I wished I’d taken the picture, or not forgotten the camera, or had been brave enough to click the shutter.” and see also examples done by the phonar participants
Write a blog in which you tell us something, anything, about either your given names or your blog name(s).
Create a ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ styled demise in a single blog post. The You Chose Wrong tumblr blog – http://youchosewrong.tumblr.com/ – gives a number of great examples of single pages that describe ‘your’ death after having picked the wrong path for the next page in your adventure.
From Wikipedia – “Choose Your Own Adventure is a series of children’s gamebooks where each story is written from a second-person point of view, with the reader assuming the role of the protagonist and making choices that determine the main character’s actions and the plot’s outcome.”
Take a screenshot of the current Twitter Trends (on web) and use the words and hashtags to make a lyric or poem.
Talk about the best assignment you have ever completed in ds106. Why do you think it was the best assignment you have completed? Was it because of the response you had from the community?
Basically, it’s assignment that asks about five of the most influential albums of your life thus far. It would be anything from how it made you feel to just simply the fact that it had a catchy track. I’m asking that at least the album art is included in the post (if not actual sound samples from the album; I would ask, but blogger isn’t so kind about that sort of thing).
Take a scene from any movie (that includes more than one character) and rewrite it from the perspective of a different character. Write about the emotions and thoughts the character is having without acknowledging what you know from the original scene. For example: You could write on the scene from Titanic using Jack’s perspective while they were in the water and Rose was on the door. Be creative the possibilities for this are endless.
