About raptnrent: I got the name from my keys - R Apt and R Ent for the back door to my apartment and the back door to the house. I liked that they were also words: Rapt, meaning enthralled, riveted, captivated, and Rent, meaning torn asunder, violently wrenched. I thought it made for an interesting juxtaposition, open to all kinds of interpretations.
Category Archives: weekly assignments
Week One: Bootcamp
8/27/18-8/31/18 All work is due by midnight on Friday, 8/31/18 Welcome to ds106! This first week is dedicated to getting set up: set up your domain and Web hosting; install your WordPress site; and create other social media accounts such … Continue reading
Super106 comes alive
Week One of ds106 has been posted at http://thisweekin.ds106.us/2017/08/25/week-one-bootcamp/
Final Mission: The ds106 ultimatum
For your final project, you are going to tell a story across multiple categories of media. You’ve done writing, photography, audio, video and design. You’ve remixed and mashed up. You’ve done big projects and group projects. You’ve connected different stories. … Continue reading
Week 12: Remix & Mashups
4/7/17 – 4/14/17 Make a Tutorial This week’s main focus will be on mashups and remixes, but we also need to make tutorials. You may have noticed these in the Assignment Bank. Some assignments have them, some don’t. Was there … Continue reading
Week 11: Mission: Moviemaking
We are doing a second week of video. We’re bringing it all together in these last few weeks. This is almost entirely taken from the Open ds106 Unit 10: Video the ds106 Way Focus on the storytelling aspect of your … Continue reading
Week 10: Reading movies
3/24 – 3/31 Reading movies This week we’re moving from audio to video. We’ve been looking at related aspects – photography, sound, design – all along, but now we’re going to look at cinematic camerawork, and how it all comes … Continue reading
Week 9: Broadcast and Web Storytelling
3/17/17 – 3/24/17 Everyone worked through major projects these past weeks, so we’re going to reflect on what the class has accomplished. Radio Shows Broadcasting Schedule Monday – Miami Spy Convention, Cloak and Dagger, and Group 5 Tuesday – Sexspionage, Agents on Air, and … Continue reading
Weeks 7 & 8: Radio royale
2/24/17 – 3/17/17 For weeks 7 and 8 we will be working on producing radio shows. The shows will be broadcast on ds106radio the week after they are due. Group Radio Show Guidelines The radio show will be a group … Continue reading
Week 6: Design another day
2/17/11 – 2/24/17 All work is due by midnight on 2/24/17 Thanks go out to the Design group for their input this week! Week 6 will be focused on design. For this week you will be ramping up your command … Continue reading
Week Five: Mission:Audio
Includes a portion of Secret Agent Breakdown by Tony Aldrich, licensed under a Creative Commons License. 2/10/17 – 2/17/17 All work is due by midnight on 2/17 This week we will dig into audio storytelling. That goes beyond the words … Continue reading