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August 2, 2018 by Heather Mitchell-Buck Leave a Comment

DPL, meet Xia

I set myself an ambitious day today: I was trying to finish two different digital story projects. (And participate in some discussions. And help out some of my fellow DPL folks. And attend a workshop!)

Well, so it turns out that I only finished one project. The other is still in progress, and even though it won’t be done til after I’m home from Digital Pedagogy Lab, I do want to finish it and share it here!

But without further ado, here’s the challenge project I chose:

And you can find my finished project  here

A special shout-out to Nefarei on deviantart for the awesome artwork I used for Xia’s profile pic, and of course huge thanks to Jim Henson and Brian Froud. You’ll see why once you read the story. 😉

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August 1, 2018 by Heather Mitchell-Buck Leave a Comment

London soundscape

My favorite part of today’s Media Exploration Day in Digital Storytelling at DPL 2018 was this project.

I did a slightly modified version of a prompt asking us to record sounds from a particular space and create a 5 minute soundscape of that space. But here’s the thing: for storytelling to feel real and important to me, it has to be rooted in a place (or issue, memory, etc) that’s meaningful to me. Even though I’m having a great time at this conference, I don’t have enough of a connection to the University of Mary Washington to feel like crafting a soundscape here would be an authentic thing for me to do. I needed to find a different place, and I chose London.

A little online research brought me to the London Sound Survey and their Creative Commons-licensed collection on archive.org.

I’m pretty happy with the results – I’ve never really done much audio work, and haven’t touched Audacity in years. In the spirit of full disclosure, I spent about 2 hours getting myself oriented in the software, choosing my sound files, and creating the soundscape. I hope that you are able to discover some different aspects of London than you might be expecting, and to experience several different parts of the city all at once – something that can only happen through the magic of digital storytelling.

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August 1, 2018 by Heather Mitchell-Buck Leave a Comment

designblitz

Another Digital Storytelling mini-challenge: illustrate principles of design through photos taken in 20 minutes

repetition

alignment & hierarchy

contrast
(good contrast, but not-so-great photo – apologies)
space & color

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August 1, 2018 by Heather Mitchell-Buck Leave a Comment

photoblitz

As part of our Digital Storytelling course here at the 2018 Digital Pedagogy Lab, I completed a photoblitz challenge in 20 minutes in response to these prompts:

Find a grid pattern somewhere (brick sidewalk or ceiling tiles)

(bench on UMW campus)

Get close! Photograph an ordinary object from as close as you can manage.

(my travel mug)

Illustrate attraction in a photograph today.

(we need our caffeine here at DPL)

Out and about walking?

Trees come in all shapes and sizes. Make a photo of an interesting tree.

Take a picture of a word or sign that represents the kind of day you’re having.

(DPL has me feeling very open to new ideas)

Take a photo of two related objects of drastically different sizes.

(DPL sticker & big digital sign)

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