Category: This Week in ds106

Uncanny

Challenge: Change the mood or tone of a photograph by altering the contrast, brightness, hue, saturation, exposure, etc. When I found this challenge, I immediately thought of a photo I have of Notre Dame in Paris. I had created art…

The Life of a Superhero

ā€œThe Life of a Superheroā€ seemed an interesting assignment to me. I used photoshop to combine two pictures. After completing the job as a superhero, my superhero uses tablet and computer in his room and plays games. Like this: Like…

Peaceful Places

The next visual assignment I did this week was worth 3 stars and is called Places of Peace. I loved this assignment because it really made me think of the places that were important to me and what pictures could…

This week in ds106 | Writing Group

ZAP! BOOM! POW! Just like that, the writing week has come to a close. We enjoyed discovering all kinds of new characters, hearing about your learning experiences, and seeing creativity flourish all week. Weā€™ve picked five posts to highlight. The…

Poem Remix

My first writing assignment of this week was worth 3 stars, and it was the Poem Parody writing assignment. ā€œTake a poem and create a parody of it! Make a sonnet from Shakespeare into an ode to your cat, or…

Madame Polygraph

Amy Pope slid her hand out from the warmth of her bedcovers and blindly tried to locate her cell phone. It was 7:00 am and her alarm was beeping and reading the time to her over and over again. The…

Merciful Dossier

Hello all, My name is Merciful Mise en Place. You may wonder where that name comes from and means, but I will get to that soon. For now you can call me by my real name, Kate. I am 29…

Our superheroes, ourselves?

I started the week early and moved my way through the reading assignment, How Ancient Legends Gave Birth to Modern SuperheroesĀ . What captivated me most about this interview was Nevinā€™s response to whether a proto-superhero could successfully be created in…

Melinda J. Mogensen the Hero

Morph Shadow was born Melinda J. Mogensen, a shy, smart, and quiet girl who grew up with her loving parents in New England. She had few friends as she was quiet, but had a best friend just next door named…

A new thing: This Week in ds106 | raptnrent.me

#nav-above A new thing: This Week in ds106 .entry-meta We will be doing a more-or-less weekly best of ds106, This Week in ds106, this semester. Weā€™ve done something like this in the past, but now Iā€™m trying out some new…