Week 13 was really light. The main focus for this week was our final project. I decided not to do any daily creates this week, as I wanted my focus to be on the final project. Not that I don’t love doing daily creates, I just wanted to really focus on working on the project. For the final project I am going to be working on it with Jackson Beale and Andrew Johnson. We worked really well in the past and I believe we can produce a great final project. As far as what we are going to do we have a few ideas. Our favorite idea is we are going to discuss the opinions on the pros and cons of using AIs from the perspective of Dr. Oblivion and our created course character. As far as the process for creating our project, we have met once to talk about ideas we wanted to do. We also have started to outline our video we’re going to do. I’m excited to see what our finished product will look like. I’m also excited for y’all to see as well. Until next time!
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Week 13 Summary
It was nice having a lighter posting week. I am grateful to have had enough time to properly come up with a finally project idea that feels well fleshed out, and this will definitely make next week a lot easier. I am very excited for the idea that I’ve come up with and am excited to share the final product. You can find my project report here. I decided to work individually this time around as trying to coordinate a group project towards the end of the semester while everyone is super busy can be really challenging.
Week of PG-13
This week is all about preparing for the finals which will take place next week. I was happy to hear that we were given two weeks to complete the final project for this class. I am excited to see how my show will turn out but only time will tell.
If you would like to see what my show’s plot is going to be you can click on the button below.
Next, I dove a little bit deeper into the start of the video making. Clicking on the picture will take you that post.
As for the daily creates I decided to opt out this week because I have been doing so much for my other classes and I am starting to feel overwhelmed. Part of me wishes that I did at least one because they are still my favorite thing but I am hoping to do some of them next week.
Weekly Summary 04/19
by Andrew Johnson
Final Project & Aggressive Technologies.
What’s New?
- To start off this week I wanted to get working on my final video project as ds106 comes to a close. My group has met and talked about continuing where we left off on our original radio project including our AI characters that we created. Jonathan will make a return to our viewers in his journey with Aggressive Technologies and intense work. I may even decide to incorporate Dr. Oblivion into the project to see what he thinks about Aggressive Technologies and the progress Jonathan has made at the company. My classmates and I have put together some ideas we want to input into the daily activities our AI characters do. However, we have not fully come to a conclusion on what exactly we will cover so stay tuned!
Weekly Summary: (Week 13)
This week I have been very stressed in my other classes and having some sort of break from completing work in this class was awesome. As much as I love DS106, a break from the assignments helped a lot. I was able to catch up on a lot of work in other classes. However I still took a dive into planning this final project.
I was able to talk to Andrew Poon and Andrew Johnson about our assignment. We decided it would be best to work together as our radio show was certainly a hit, we might as well run it back! I am really excited to see what we have in store for this final project.
After doing some brainstorming we have come up with a few different ideas. We have not fully decided what we are going to do but aggressive technologies or including our course character would fit well, however we were thinking to branch off into something different and becoming more creative with this final project.
Stay tuned for our final project because it is going to be a good one.
Week 13 – Final Project Progress
This week was pretty easy, just focusing on the final project that’s due next week! I opted out of the optional daily creates to give myself a little break since we’ve been doing them all semester long.
My thought process for this project is to make it interactive, incorporate various digital media tools, and discuss more about AI.
Here’s a breakdown of the project that I hope to follow through with:
Tools: Canva, Audacity, GoogleForms, SoundCloud, Pinterest, Pixabay, YouTube, and potentially more.
Topic/Discussion: I want the main focus of my final project to be on some of the Pros and Cons of AI.
Pros: innovation, efficiency
Cons: ethical concerns, job displacement
Plan: I will be incorporating video clips, images, sounds, and voiceovers to discuss AI throughout my video. First it will begin with a brief description of AI then move onto the pros and cons. For the interactive aspect, I will incorporate a GoogleForm in there where viewers/listeners can give their opinion. Lastly, I will end in a conclusion to wrap everything together.
That’s kind of my outline/plan for the project and hopefully everything goes smoothly. Currently, I’m just gathering data for it and what I want to use in the video.
Would love to hear some feedback and opinions on this! Hope everyone had a great week, can’t wait to see everyone’s final project next week!
Week 13 Summary
This week’s assignment was to just plan out our final project and document progress on it. I had a lot of work piled up for this week and I wasn’t able to start putting the video together, but I’ve done a good amount of brainstorming about the idea I would like to delve into.
For my final project, I would like to deviate away from my course character idea and make a video essay. I’ve always been an enjoyer of video essays on a variety of topics from sports to video games. Planning out a script and analyzing the pros and cons of AI appeals to me as something I would make myself if I ran a YouTube channel.
I’m envisioning a 5-8 minute video with a variety of graphics on screen, different backtracks based on the topic at hand, as well as segments of me talking on camera to bring a more human aspect into the project. I still need to think more about which aspects of the analysis I would like to hone in on, but I’m most likely going to talk a lot about how AI is too powerful in the scope of college assignments, ranging from Daily Creates and other DS106 assignments, as well as some insight into the problems of AI in Computer Science courses as well.
The Flu – Week 13 Summary – 4/12-4/19
Nothing could have prepared me for how I felt this week. I woke up Sunday sick because my sister was sick (and then my brother and then my sister in law and then my sister’s boyfriend and then my grandma and then my grandpa . . . like it never stopped it was a terrible domino effect of people getting sick) and so I had to cancel work, and then it just kept getting worse and worse . . . I have been in bed literally all week and that’s all I’ve done. I’ve missed all of my classes and this is so unlike me but guess whaaaaat my whole family has the flu!
The flu is not fun . . . I’ve felt miserable and half alive this entire week. So, because of that, there really is nothing to say during this weekly summary. There isn’t even a song for the week because I didn’t play music once, I just rotted in my bed and watched Impractical Jokers and drank water until I exploded.
But, here is my progress update for the final project!
I talked about it in the post, but I plan to be working on my parts of project this weekend, as I’m now finally feeling better and less dead! As for where we’re going, I’m excited to be working on this with my group. We all have some cool ideas and I’m excited to see what it all looks like put together.
Otherwise, that’s all for my weekly summary, because I really didn’t do much this week outside of getting on our document and adding like a sentence every other day and apologizing in the group chat for being ill (they understand and sympathize, so I’m not beat up over it)
Thank you for tuning in!
Week Before the Last Summary
Pretty easy week for this class, but again not one overall school and life wise. I enjoyed having this week to just incrementally work and brainstorm on the project. I pulled a few videos and clips and wrote one idea of what I think I want to say in the commercial. I also looked for software’s to deepfake and some tutorials. Over the weekend I will probably dive more into the script then next week what it’s going to look like more. The most work will get done next Tuesday-Wednesday probably. I’m going to do my best and that’s all I can ask for from myself. Weekly work below:
1 Week Left?? ~ Week 13 Summary
Hi! Unfortunately, I was only able to put out one post regarding my final project this week due to my busy schedule with tennis and other classes. For the final project, I decided to collaborate with Rishi, and we worked on the video and audio projects together. I enjoyed working with him, which is why I’d like to work together again on the final project. We decided to make another audio show, this time without including our course characters and instead focused on a review of the advantages and disadvantages of AI. For our new show, we named it “Tech Insights”. We intend to include bumpers and commercials similar to the prior audio show, which we will most likely begin working on within the next day or two. This time, I believe we will use AI voiceover instead of our own voices, as we have seen other groups do in their audio shows. I also believe that incorporating AI voices will improve the concept of AI throughout the show. I’m sure we’ll incorporate some form of text, image, or video for more content so it’s not just a copy of our previous assignment. So far, we have prepared the script for our show; next week will be spent putting it all together. Our plans for next week include using Audacity to create audio files such as bumpers/commercials and background music.
I think everything went well this week, and I enjoyed prepping for the final project. Rishi and I spent a lot of time this week designing the final product, which was my favorite part. From the project idea selection to script creation, full planning is required for the best potential final project. I believe we planned everything this way; we only need to put the final product together next week. I’m confident everything will come out amazing!
Honestly, I would not change anything. I believe I accomplished each task to the best of my abilities. I do not have any questions right now. Right now, everything is completed correctly, thus my work is not facing any serious challenges.