Category: ds106

ds106radio Chats

Posted on by Meredith Huffman

One of my favorite things to come out of this time of social distancing has been the revival of ds106radio. Its been such a treat to jump online to listen to music and conversations! I was first on the radio back in 2014 when I took wire106. Classmates and I create a group project to produce/record/edit our own radioshow. These episodes were all centered around the Wire. I've got an archive of the class (sans images which is a whole other story) but it's worth a look through! So as Jim's been streaming he started brining on each of us...Read More

Finishing Up!

Posted on by Meredith Huffman

This is so bittersweet! My last post for wire106 and ds106 (hopefully not ds106)! This semester was so much fun and its all thanks to this class! Ds106 was my favorite class I've taken so far here at UMW and I'm really glad I decided to take it. I was on the fence over the summer and whether or not I should take it but I don't regret that decision at all. I learned so much from this class and its helped me learn about what I potentially want to work with as a career. I can't recommend this class enough!...Read More

Move Away From the Cookie Jar

Posted on by Meredith Huffman

"Stop! Move away from the cookie jar!" Everytime some one opens me, I say this. Every. Single. Time. Its so ANNOYING! I wish there was something else I could say, Like "here have a cookie" or "today's a good day for cookies and milk!" "Move away from the cookie jar" just sounds forbidding. Cookies shouldn't be like that. They should be treats! Feeling guilty having a cookie is no fun. I know contrary to popular opinion, my favorite food is not a donut. I actually hate donuts. Cookies are my favorite! Some might say I could be a cookie monster!...Read More

Finishing Up!

Posted on by Meredith Huffman

This is so bittersweet! My last post for wire106 and ds106 (hopefully not ds106)! This semester was so much fun and its all thanks to this class! Ds106 was my favorite class I’ve taken so far here at UMW and I’m really glad I decided to take it. I was on the fence over the summer and whether or not I should take it but I don’t regret that decision at all. I learned so much from this class and its helped me learn about what I potentially want to work with as a career. I can’t recommend this class enough!...Read More

My Favorite Assignment

Posted on by Meredith Huffman

Hiya! So for today's Daily Create we were tasked with writing about our favorite assignment we did this semester: My all time favorite assignment was the Swede it! It was a video assignment and we were tasked with recreating an episode from the Wire. We also got bonus points if we made it in a group. So I teamed up with my group from our radio show and we got right to it. We decided to recreate season 3 episode 11, which was a really pivital episode in the whole series. We made the choice to use teddy bears instead...Read More

Beadie's To-do List

Posted on by Meredith Huffman

Hi! So for one of the final assignments I decided to make a To-do list for Beatrice! This was worth 3 stars. I had  a lot of fun with this! It was really cool to actually sit down and think about what Beatrice might need to do during the week. So I got inspiration from Allison's To-do list for her final project. So I first decided to use the Stickies app that comes with the Mac operating system.  I added the different stickies one at a time then changed the color from the default yellow to give the cluster some contrast....Read More

Video Remixmas

Posted on by Meredith Huffman

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! This week was fun! I had a rough time with the mashups but once I sat down and completed them it was much easier than I thought it was going to be! I also liked the remix. I was tasked to over exggerate a photo, and that was a lot of fun. I just went crazy with the filters. The Motivational epigraph was a lot of fun too! So here's what I did this week: Assignments: Fox News Remix Epigraph Motivational Poster The Frozen Dead   Final Project posts: Beatrice's Dream Vacation Honey Ham Haiku   Comments:...Read More

Beatrice's Dream Vacation

Posted on by Meredith Huffman

Hiya! For part of the final project, I decided to make a Pinterest for Beatrice. One of the web assignments was to make a pinterest board for her dream vacation. Now Beatrice works very hard so I decided to pick something that was still in the states for her, and DisneyWorld is a great option. So from there I just found some good tips and trick on what to pack while flying down to Orlando. Luckily there is transportation provided to and from the Disney owned resorts, so I didn't included a rental car. I picked Animal Kingdom Lodge for...Read More

The Frozen Dead

Posted on by Meredith Huffman

Hiya! So another mashup down! I decided to do the trailer mashup because it really stuck out to me when I was brainstorming ideas for the mashups. So I was thinking of different movies/tv shows that I could mash up and Frozen was the first thing that I came up with. Then I was thinking of something else that I could pair it with. Walking Dead came up as well and I thought I would give those two a try. I grabbed the trailer for Frozen and converted the YouTube file to an MP4 file to import to iMovie. (Here...Read More

Epigraph Movtivational Poster

Posted on by Meredith Huffman

Hiya! So for a mashup I decided to make a motivational poster but I wanted to incorporate the Wire as well. So I thought back through some of the assignments that I completed and I found the alternative epigraphs assignment. I knew that this would be perfect! So I found a picture that I took over the weekend, and tried to find a good epigraph that would go with the theme of the picture. And the epigraph from season 4 episode 8 "Corner Boys" fit the bill perfectly! We got our thing, but it's just part of the big thing ~Zenobia...Read More