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Poor, Disobedient, Over-Adventurous Fievel

Ever heard of  Kurt Vonnegut.  Yeah, me either.  Well, until this week. I’ve talked with friends and my husband before about how there are no original stories, how all stories are the same old same...

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Predecessor Appreciation

This week, in my ds106 class, we’ve been diving into the world of storytelling in all sorts of ways, in an attempt to better understand what it is, what it means, and what it can do.  One of the most...

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The Power In A Sound

Learning to Listen. The irony of a title like that does not escape me.  This is the entire focus for ds106 this week, and yet, how do I approach the media? By trying to play it in the background while...

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Bringing the Ghost to Life

As I mentioned in a recent post, I recently listened to my first episode of This American Life – specifically, the story of a little 4-year-old boy who went missing in a Louisiana swamp in 1912 named...

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The Live Experience

So, I’ve tuned in to ds106 radio a few times before, but never for quite as long as I did today. Okay, so honestly, last time I listened, it was because my husband had turned it on from his laptop, and...

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One Sense at a Time

For the Week 10 Look, Listen, Analyze assignment, I chose to use the clip from Scent of a Woman – Women.  I chose this mostly because I have never seen nor heard of this movie.  I really wanted to see...

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Exploring Women

I began looking farther into the movie Scent of a Woman the way any self-respecting college student begins their research – I checked out the Wiki article.    If you read my prior post, you’ll remember...

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Multi-Media Mayhem!!!

Wow.  The Final Project, huh?  (yes, capitalized.  It’s that important.)  Well, then. I think this calls for Spongebob Squarepants. I have to admit here, and give credit where it is due.  While I was...

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Researching Remixes

For ds106 this week, we were required to do a bit of study on remixes, mashups, and as a result, copyright and fair use laws.  This week’s material we had to review was probably one of the most...

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Advice – from someone who’s been there ;)

I decided to do this a little differently than my classmates.  I wanted a simple, easy-to-read, at-a-glance poster full of the main tips that I hadn’t seen in the advice videos I’d viewed coming in....

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