Digital Storytelling!! Using the Web

Image: Tim Berners-Lee: The World Wide Web - Opportunity, Challenge, Responsibility by Fräulein Schiller through CC Licensing
The gist of what Digital Storytelling means for our new class project, ds106 is the usage of digital tools to tell our own real life story. I have seen and read some other work by others who are part of the ds106 community and it seems that their topics can be about anything as long as it follows the requirements of the assignment given. It reminds me of Dailyshoot--DERP--which is probably why it is called "ds106".
Although I really enjoy seeing other's designs in the Design category in ds106, I think that the Web category is really practical and probably the easiest to understand.

Using the Web can be a fun and easy way to tell a real life story.



Like this video above, you see different people with different stories. We have the capacity to make a difference in other people's lives by sharing our own experiences through the internet. I really like this suggestion for Web Assignments. As it says, "Yes, I know that these are, technically, videos but the point is that they are using a functional web tool (the search engine) to actually enact a narrative. Video is just the means of capturing the narrative."

Here is a blog of creating a literal real life story using the internet. :)

And this one is great! The author gives a wonderful explanation and interesting usage of  The Wayback Machine!

Pear Soup

This has nothing to do with CIS class but, i needed somewhere concrete where I could put up my recipe for Pear Soup! I was just hungry and didn't really have anything to cook so I made this out of the things that I had at home :P

Anyway,  I Googled "pear soup" after I had already made it just to see if there is such a thing as Pear Soup and apparently there is! And from what I can guess is that Pear Soup is originally from the UK. Of course had I known this, I would have tried to make it the standard way but I was already done cooking it before I checked.

So, there are no specific steps I think because in any order it would have come out the same. But here are the ingredients:
1 can coconut milk
half can of water
2 tea spoon dill weed
1 tablespoon chilli powder
1 whole onion
1 dash of Cummin
1 dash of Salt and Pepper
1 1/2 tablespoon of Sugar
1/2 pear wedged
Sliced ginger

I cooked the onions and  pear in a frying pan with a bit of oil and chilli powder. Once the onions were golden, I put them in side the pot with the coconut milk, water and ginger. As the soup was boiling, I added the rest of the spices :)

Pop-Culture: Gossip and Media

Connection #ds674, a photo by hughes_tuj on Flickr.    

Tumbler, Twitter, Facebook and etc...any type of networking website could be a tool to get gossip around the world. The dictionaries are used when slang comes up and the person does not know what it means. The most basic form of gossip and media get to the public by magazines, newspapers, tabloids, advertisement, and TV. 

Youtube could be used to do anything. It could be used to make fun of artists, and TV shows such as Family Guy or Saturday Night Live especially make fun of celebrities. And those who want to be like celebrities who are made fun of, are made fun of themselves. Rebecca Black has been big news...although at first people were hating on her and now people are feeling sorry for her. In my own opinion...gossip is usually negative and the media seems to just make gossip stronger or in another sense gives gossip its push that it needs to make it into the pop culture of today...I honestly don't understand what makes people want to gossip so much about celebrities etc.

On the other hand, I can understand why some people would like to gossip online. There are websites such as 2chan and 4chan which are websites where people can freely express their opinions without ANY restrictions. I guess that since it is on the internet then they don't have to state their name or show their faces, so it's a whole different world of absolute freedom for those people. I think it's great for them!

• So most of the media gossip covers big events and/or celebrities. For example the Royal Wedding of William and Catherine was a major event but it also spurred up a lot of gossip.