Assignment #4 – There is A LOT of CT101, Digital Storytelling Assignment Flexibility..
Zoom tutorial from class on 10/5:
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Professor Michael Smith introduced me to the DS106 Assignment Repository many many years ago.. I am glad that he did!
Now that we are getting comfortable with publishing blog posts to our class website, crafting narratives, embedding media like images, GIFS, videos and hyperlinks, its time to push things further with digital tools and content creation. Its also time for you to decide on “how” you will go about it.
Prof. Smith wrote the following in a blog post from a previous semester;
“In CT-101 you will have the opportunity to create many, many different pieces of media throughout the semester. Inspiration for these projects can come from a number of places. Two sources are websites that inspired this class and are hosted by a digital storytelling class at the University of Mary Washington.
One example is their ds106 assignment repository which has project prompts that are categorized by a variety of media types to choose from – (visual, design, audio, video, mashup, writing, fanfic, and animated gifs). You can browse through and sort by most examples completed, most viewed, newest, and more..
The second is also a site known as the daily create which gives a daily project prompt to “make something” using various forms of media. Finally you can also find a particular site that has a media piece and/or project type of interest to you (Tumblr and/or Reddit can be fun for this – Photoshop Battles is a favorite of mine.
Browse through these sites and find two projects that you think you would like to do. One that you believe you already have the skills to do or you believe you could figure out on your own. And another (hopefully of a different media type) that you don’t know how to do yet and would like to learn.
*The ASSIGNMENT (#4) – In a New Blog Post – working from the DS106 or the Daily Create website select, describe and hyperlink to two assignments/projects that you like and tell us why you’ve chosen them. You will complete one of the assignments in full.
What do you think you’d need learn to do them? How many of these kinds of projects do you think you should be doing in this semester so that you might learn and build both emergent storytelling skills and use new tools to create them? Why do you think these skills are or are not important?
*Be sure to actually complete one of the assignments and add it to your blog post.*
Also, be sure to leave a comment or two on one or more of your classmate’s blog posts! Prof. Seslow will go over a example in our class time and screen record the process.
Zoom tutorial from class on 10/5:
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