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Turning 10

Posted on by Meredith Huffman

In August 2013 (Whois.com officially says August 28, 2013), 18-year-old Meredith sat in her first college class at Mary Washington. I was introduced to a thing called a domain name. She was asked to register a domain name as part of a class and was asked to write weekly reflections on the readings. And she created her first blog on meredithhuffman.com. Little did that version of Meredith know how much the blog would be used throughout those 10 years. From class assignments to professional development, that blog has stuck around. It's become an archive of projects, milestones, fun, and reflection....Read More

Updraft Plus vs All-in-One

Posted on by Meredith Huffman

During the discussion of the February intentional learning, Jim mentioned he started using the All-in-One WP migration plugin when working with WordPress to WordPress migrations. Through the many migrations I've done while at Reclaim, I've found the easiest option is to use a backup/migration plugin like UpDraft or All-in-One, because most of the time I don't get access to the file system of the account where I can get a copy of the files and database. Both plugins have I've used Updraft Plus in the past, and it's been very easy to use. But I wanted to do a comparison...Read More

Setting Up a Feed with Feedly

Posted on by Meredith Huffman

Working at Reclaim means I get to interact with people who do incredible work within the Ed Tech community. I was first exposed to this at #domains17 and I remember thinking that I wanted to keep up with all of these wonderful folks and the work their doing. At first, I had no idea how I could keep up with all the blog posts except through twitter. I didn't really like that idea though because I could lose tweets within my feed. I wanted a place where I could keep them all together. I don't know too much about RSS feeds but...Read More

Reclaiming my Internship

Posted on by Meredith Huffman

Hello everyone! I haven't posted in a while. But I'm really glad to get back to the blog! You'll see a lot more posts from my this semester because I am blogging for two major things happening as I begin to finish up my time at Mary Washington. I can't believe I'm set to graduate in May! I have bunch of exciting projects coming up as well so stick around to hear more about those. [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="306"] Reclaim's logo[/caption] So this post is going to be about my internship! I'm currently working for Reclaim Hosting, a web hosting...Read More

Pixel Playground

Posted on by Meredith Huffman

In London, I took a class called Pixel Playground. This class was an art class focused in Photoshop, taking a hand drawn approach to digital art. Comic Book Cover Revamp: This first project I worked with a group to create a modern take on comic book covers of marvel heroes. I chose Ironman and this what I came up with.   Scenes of London: This next project my group and I decided to pick scenes of London that we enjoyed. Half of the group drew the pictures and other half "colored" in the images, and bring them to life. I...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

Inspiration: Stringer and Avon Fight Chipmunk Style

Posted on by Meredith Huffman

My second inspiration is Brittany's post Stringer and Avon Fight Chipmunk Style. And I have to say this is hilarious! I love the Chipmunk assignment! I love how she used this scene because it is a major one, and the chipmunk effect makes it a little lighter. It almost makes if ironic. The video is on her post, but here is the original! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ibaw8vmmdEU

Inspiration: Backwards Shootout

Posted on by Meredith Huffman

I am really enjoying the inspires! For my first inspire this week, I decided to choose Amy's Backwards Shootout. I really like this! I like how she decided to use this particular scene because it was such a pivotal scene. Its an interesting spin as well because it is played in reverse, so its like a spoiler in itself. Here is the video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8UKbf6lGmE  

First Live Tweeting Session

Posted on by Meredith Huffman

Well I feel like I can now officially be welcomed to the twitter sphere. Although I've had my account since 2009, I haven't actually participated in a live tweet session. As one of our things to participate in this week, we were required to sit down and live tweet an episode of the Wire, either episode 4,5, or 6 from season 2. I live tweeted episode 5 called "Undertow," which my professor Jim Groom, was able to stream over our class radio called ds106radio yesterday (9/18/2014). I really enjoyed live tweeting the episode, it gave me a chance to connect with...Read More

Getting GIFfy With It

Posted on by Meredith Huffman

So this week, we were assigned to make 6 gifs to summarize an episode from The Wire. I decided to make gifs from Episode 9 "Gameday." The episode starts off where Stringer and Barksdale are talking about Omar. They know he's been starting his own little drug ring in their territory. But they also know that if they send someone for him, he'll know before they even get to him. So they are stuck between a rock and a hard place in regards to Omar. After the title scene the shot goes to De'Angelo and Wallace talking. This is the...Read More