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Final Video Assignment + Weekly Summary
This class has been very fun. I have enjoyed being able to do research into the digital world. Going to the Digital Knowledge Center has been fun to do to learn more about the digital world. I will look to continue learning more as I feel there is still so much to learn. I liked how we we able to do an assignment like this as I was able to get more creative opposed to a boring test.
AT Conference – The Finale
Let’s get started with the finale and then I’ll head into the details and process of this afterwards. I also wanted to start off saying that I have been having some connection issues and I have been trying but am unable to download my video from Canva and upload it to YouTube since it’s not making it past the processing stage. Therefore, I have attached the shareable link to my video from Canva and if that does not work for some reason either, I have screen recorded my video and will upload that here. The downside to the screen recording is the audio becomes slightly lower. My apologies but I’ve been trying my best and included a backup!
In this video, you can find my character Chuckles discussing the two prompts and why Aggressive Technologies should support DS106. My thought process behind this was to have a last moment with my character. I portrayed this through a radio talk journey of Chuckles heading out, similar to us students leaving for summer break/graduating!
For the first prompt – What is the best thing you saw in the course? The best thing in this course is Dr. Oblivion, he perfectly tied in this AI theme and fit perfectly with the course in general in how he would answer all our questions about AI and more. I also enjoyed how it was interactive and social while being a fully online course. For the second prompt – What was the best thing you made in the course? The best thing I made in this course I would say is my coffee video for one of the assignment banks. I got a potential business opportunity out of it. I am thinking of selling coffee in my neighborhood! Then I went in and discussed why Aggressive Technologies should support DS106.
My Process:
The very first thing I did was write up my script so that everything is organized. I then used Canva to make my video, a text-to-speech generator to get my character’s voice, Pexels for the car ride video, and lastly, Pixabay for the background music playing in the video.
That wraps up this final week as it was our only assignment! I absolutely loved this course once I got a hang of it, it was so refreshing to interact with students and their work every week. I hope you guys have a great summer break and if you are graduating, congratulations!
The Best of ds106
Pretty easy and straightforward week this week! This semester went by fast for me since it was pretty busy. I enjoyed this class and working with some of you. All I did this week was our one video assignment. Check out below what I thought was good about this course:
AT Conference:
by Greta Hammen
At the beginning of the semester, I would read the weeks assignment list and count the number of tasks that needed to be fulfilled. Some weeks that might be nine things, such as three daily creates, read an article, watch a video and make a video or an audio. It seemed like a lot at that time, but once I began doing the assignments, and the blogging, it was an enjoyable experience that added value in my life.
To make this video, I first created an avatar on www.d-id.com, with the prompt of blonde lady with blue eyes on a university lawn. I used text-to-speech generator on www.elevenlabs.com to share my summary of a favorite project by another student and one that I made as well. The ending brings in our class theme. Then on d-id.com, to create the video, I selected the “create a video” prompt, and the avatar I you wished to use, and uploaded the saved mp.3 audio just created. The website syncs the two files and makes a mp.4 that is downloadable. I then uploaded the video to YouTube, copied the link and embedded it in the blog.
Last Week!!!
It seems so crazy to be writing my last blog post! I had such a fun time with this class. I felt like I was struggling a lot in the beginning with trying to understand all of the assignments and what to do but I quickly got the hang of it! I think my favorite part about this course was daily creates and audio assignments. I didn’t know much about audio and mixing sounds and learning new tools and how to use it better with videos. I can’t think of one assignment I thought I did the best in but I know all my daily creates were SUPER thought out. I loved having a prompt and doing things what I think it means and A LOT of daily creates were so much fun to make or do. I loved learning new tool and websites to use and play with. I did think in the beginning was hard for me to do so many blog posts and I tried to separate them but I was working 25+ hours a week on top of four other classes. So I think what I would have done different would to look at the assignments and each blog assignment a week before and set personal due dates for each blog post throughout the week. Overall, I had a fun time in this class! I have been wanting to take this class since my freshman year and I am glad I was able to take it before I graduated!
HAGS!! lol!
-Reese Kubricki
The End of a Great Story!!!
This week was the final week for the class and so we were tasked with creating a short, less than two minute video that allowed us to reflect on the class as a whole and individually. We were asked to talk about what the favorite thing that we saw in the class was along with what our favorite individual assignment was. For the class in the general, I talked about the radio shows and how they represented the creativity in the class and the opportunity for people to come together to create such an appealing project. It added a nice touch to the class since at the beginning it was all by yourself and to allow groups to come together and work together and allow themselves to experiment with different ideas with the different course characters and the various topics that were discussed in class was nice to see. It also allowed the students to create fun and creative projects out of it. For the individual part, I talked about how my day in the life video was the best thing that I did all semester. This is because it was my first assignment in which I needed to use various visual applications that did different things. I had to use all of these different applications for the first time and so I was proud of how I was able to steer myself through the creation of the video and allow myself to create a final product that I was happy with. I really enjoyed how it was so open ended and I got to choose what was and was not included in my video and so I enjoyed that part as well. Finally, we had to include a section that talked about why Aggressive Technologies should support DS106 and so I chose to talk about how DS106 is working to make the world a better place for everyone and allows the world to become a better place with the incorporation of AI as well. I argued that with both the help of DS106 and Aggressive Technologies, we can change the world for the better and ensure that everyone is better off. Another reason they should support us is that we have done nothing but good for the world and so there is no reason not to trust us and we would put in a good word with the public for them so that they reputation does not continued to be ruined. I enjoyed my time in this class over the course of the semester and would recommend it to anyone that is thinking about taking this class. For the final time, Rishi signing off! Have a great future everyone!
there goes my weekly summary: #14
For my final project, I made a blog for my course character Andrea which you can find here. While I have created subdomains before, this one made me use all of the skills I learned during this class.
First I came up with the concept of what she posts about, the pages she has, and the comments that would have to be under each one. I made a resume for her and rebuilt the business card I made for her earlier. It then took me forever to find a blog theme, font, color scheme, etc. that worked for Andrea’s personality I built over the semester. Sadly once I found things that worked there were of course many problems with how they looked that I had to fix. This is where what I learned this semester really was used.
A lot of the time making this site went into the CSS coding on the backend. First I had to solve the problem of the post slider. Whenever you reloaded the site or just opened it for the first time there was a huge glitch where the photo size was normal but there was double the white space beneath it that wouldn’t go away until the next post came in. This disrupted the flow of the site and since Andrea is a software engineer I couldn’t just leave that error in. So after many hours over a few days of troubleshooting, I figured out how what element was causing the problem, how to override the original code (since I couldn’t find the line in the actual theme files which there are many), and then I added specific code to fix it based on the device you were on. The mobile device especially needed this slider fixed as the original theme cut off the image and the text was unreadable without this fix. Next, to really sell that this blog has been posting for a year I had to get rid of the comment post dates because, unlike post dates, those could not be changed. I then added a hover effect like I have on this blog to reduce the static look of the home page. Finally, I edited the size of the site’s title and description because they were way too small to read, and I added a bit more space between the top of the site and the title. The images below show how I did all of this and you can also see the difference between how it looks on different devices.
Obviously, it is not the smoothest fix as I am nowhere near becoming a computer programmer, but over the weeks of this course, these are all the skills I learned in CSS coding so that my site can look exactly how I want it to. After all I’ve done this semester, this project took the most time and frustrated me the most (especially the individual comments I had to do under different names) but in the end I really enjoyed the final product.
Weekly Summary: (Week 14) + Video Project
For this week our main goal was finishing this video project. It was great to work with Andrew Poon and Andrew Johnson. Collaborating with Jonathan and Leo Storm once again was amazing. I think they are a great addition to Himothy. After working on the radio show with these partners I thought it would be nice to run it back with them because we worked so well together. I am excited to hear what everyone thinks about our video. For this assignment we used the voiceovers on iMovie. Since we are not able to work on iMovie on multiple computers, we just used Andrew Johnson’s computer. We ran into some issues during this assignment due to the audio. There was multiple overlapping with the audio’s as well as lost audio. We had to do multiple retakes when doing this. Another issue I ran into was uploading this video to my computer. Due to the file being so large, I will link Andrew Poon’s assignment where the video is linked.
In the end it was great working with these partners. We worked through our issues in a timely manner through our busy schedules to get this project done.
Week 14 Summary
This week I finished up my final project! I decided to do a long format interview show like 60 Minutes with ads in between different interviews. This project showcases what I have learned this semester, which is way more than I thought I would ever be able to digitally comprehend. I built off of my group radio show the last two projects and I’m happy with how it turned out.
My process was pretty simple. First, I wrote scripts for the entirety of the show and the advertisements in between the segments. Then I recorded the parts I needed to and had some AI voiceover for others since I couldn’t convince my friends to help me out.
I was hoping to create a video with the audio as well, but I ran into many difficulties putting it together and decided to spend more time making sure the audio was as good as I could make it with what I have learned this semester.
Overall, I think this represents what I have learned pretty well since I was able to incorporate AI voice recordings, Freesounds, my own recordings, Audacity, and my newly acquired audio editing skills into this final project. I feel as though I took an audio focused approach to most of the assignments in the course, but if I did it again I would probably work more on video editing so I could have included that in the final project. Unfortunately, my skills aren’t advanced enough to incorporate that aspect, but I am really proud of the work I put in to use all of my skills in this final project.