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My favorite part of this week was EASILY tweeting with the class listening to #DS106Radio! Literally it was histerical. It was so funny my roommates ended up listening to some of the show with me. I missed 5 minutes of it because I ran to the bathroom, lol, but besides that it was SO fun. I was nervous because I thought I may have been tweeting a biiit too much, but then I was like whatever it’s better than tweeting too less. I loved reading what Lauren and Joshua were writing as well. It was such a fun night and an incredibly fun assignment.

Also this was me the whole time:

For the rest of the week, I enjoyed a lot of the audio assigmenets. I actually did the “What song am I humming?” assignment and I had a lot of fun with that. (Even though everyone guessed it right away) I also had fun with the Frequency assignment, although I spent wayyyy too much time listening to everyone else’s recordings. I enjoyed going through them, but I did get a bit overwhelmed because I didn’t want to make my recording boring- I wanted it to be cool and futuristic, which I think I did my best to do.

Overall, I think this week was a lot of fun, but I felt like I wanted to work more on some audio based projects. My resume I made for my character was also a huge highlight for me. I spent a lot of time creating my character and thinking about who I wanted her to be. At first I wasn’t sure if I wanted to make her the office space, but for me making a resume was actually a super productive assignment because it got me to think bigger and deeper about the details of my character. I’m super excited to hear what people think of her, and I enjoyed creating her resume (which may or may not look better than my actual resume lol)

I think this week was a lot of fun! I want to continue to work hard with audio, and I hope we get to live tweet more throughout the semester bc that was literally amazing..

The weekly question was “how are you feeling?” and so far, I am feeling really excited about this class. There’s not many classes you can be creatively challenged by- and this class is for sure something I have been wanting for a while. I feel more creative overall, and I love working with everything digital.

This week was probabaly my favorite week of class so far. First of all, my favorite activity was the photoblitz! I took pictures around the newsroom at my internship and it was so fun. I was running around in a hurry, and my co-workers got into the photoblitz as well! It was such a fun little activity. Taking the pictures were easy, but I primarily spent my time editing all the pictures to turn out the way I wanted them too. I edited my photos with Adobe and a cheap App I found on the App store. What I enjoyed was how we had to take the photos in 20 minutes- I think after learning more tips and tricks it was challenging because we always want to take the best picture, but the time limit made it difficult.

Here are my edited photos from the blitz!

The after shots #ds106 #theend106

A post shared by Elaina (@gramming4theend) on Feb 11, 2018 at 8:31am PST

I also enjoyed Tweeting this week for the Daily Challenges. Here is what I came up with!

Bombshell, I spoke with a whisper ALL BOMBSHELLS But I am not doing too well My friend, FBI texts are bombshells Like a fluttering butterfly in the sky Jesus has come to tell me NEW FBI TEXTS ARE BOMBSHELLS#tdc2222 #ds106 https://t.co/M2TiOOazCa — Elaina (@tweeting4theend) February 8, 2018

This seems like the type of hot pocket a zombie would eat ‍♂️ #ds106 #tdc2221 pic.twitter.com/Xu3u9uyQ5M

— Elaina (@tweeting4theend) February 7, 2018

 

I didn’t focus too heeavily on the daily creates this week unlike last week because I wanted to spend time watching Mad Max and also learning more about photography. When reaseraching and reading the tips, my main focus was learning new angles and trying to get better at making pictures not so “perfect”.

I enjoyed watching the movies for this week, and I really enjoyed doing my 6 stars. I have to say, I liked the prompts for the stars last week better than the ones this week because I didn’t feel very challenged or sparked to be creative. Last week I was really excited because I enjoyed the prompts, however I still enjoyed doing them. I actually thought of some cool new prompts that I might want to share eventually!

Do you think an animated GIF can be considered a story? Why or why not? It would be great to include some 
examples to illustrate your thoughts.

I 100% think that a gif tells a story. It’s literally a visual story lol. Gifs are so unique in the fact that they are short clips, but within those clips they are 100% a visual story. I don’t know how to more further expand, because to me it’s so obviously a story. Here are some gifs that I found that tell a story: