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 Four: Mission:Photography
2/3-2/10 All work is due by midnight on Friday, 2/10 Thanks to the Photo group for their input this week. This week we will be exploring visual elements of storytelling. Think about the Visuals of Storytelling: Review the following … Continue reading
Week Three: Writing
Sorry, no goofy video this week. 1/27-2/3 All work is due by midnight on Friday, 2/3 Thanks go out to the Writing Group for their input for this week! Below is a detailed list of what’s to be completed this … Continue reading
Week Two: Planning the mission
1/20-1/27 All work is due by midnight on Friday, 1/27 Below is a detailed list of what’s to be completed this week. Help plot the course: This is your class as well as mine, so I want you to put … Continue reading
Week One: Bootcamp
1/17/17-1/20/17 All work is due by midnight on Friday, 1/20/17 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
Week 12: The final countdown
Final Project Due Friday, 12/9, by midnight. 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 … Continue reading
Week 11: Remix & Mashup
11/4/16 – 11/11/16 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 10: Making movies
We are doing a second week of video though. 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 … Continue reading
Week 9: Reading movies
10/21 – 10/28 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 8: Broadcast and Web Storytelling
10/14/16 – 10/22/16 Everyone worked through major projects these past weeks, so we’re going to reflect on what the class has accomplished. Radio Shows Broadcasting Schedule Tuesday – Miniscule Stories, Memes Show, ds106 News Radio Wednesday – History 2.0, The … Continue reading
Weeks 6 & 7: The return of radio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzUWAC5DIiw 9/30/16 – 10/14/15 For weeks 6 and 7 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 … Continue reading