Digital Storytelling and Spring Break For the Spring Break of 2025, the University of Mary Washington’s DS106 class was scheduled to visit Easter Island and Santiago, Chile. The class taught us of the various elements of digital storytelling, which we then put into practice with the media gathered during our trip. We learned how visual, […]
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This post is definitely not meant to work as official guidance for anyone wishing to travel to Chile; however I do have some fun/silly suggestions to make the most out of your time there! First and foremost, MAKE AN iMOVIE TRAILER! These are such a fun and expressive way to look back on your trip […]
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I left this trip with some of the most amazing memories. It has been such an honor to go to Easter Island and Santiago for Spring Break of 2025, and while I surely cannot bring every single moment onto this post, I can certainly name a few! Cuties This is a dog I saw on […]
Read More »How to Read a Movie To start off this unit, I read on How to Read a Movie, an article by Roger Ebert. I reflected on the various points he made in a blog post of mine, which you can find here. Look, Listen, Analyze For this exercise, I examined both the camera work and […]
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For the Look, Listen Analyze assignment of this unit, I chose to examine the ending scene of Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights, a romantic comedy about a poor man falling in love with a blind woman. First, I will talk about the visual and auditory aspects separately and then explain how they work as a whole […]
Read More »To start out this unit, we were tasked with reading How to Read a Movie, an article written by Roger Ebert. This post shall go over some of the most notable lessons found within his article, which we shall use to go through notable scenes in the near future. Foreground and Background Foreground has a […]
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Ira Glass on Audio Storytelling I started off the unit listening to Ira Glass and what he has to say about his work, afterwords writing a summary of his teachings you can find here. A Radio Story About a Radio Station – Spooked Edition The next part of this unit was to listen to a […]
Read More »For the final sound assignment bank post, I turned away from nature and towards technology. More specifically, transportation. Santiago Chile holds many different forms of public transportation, and this track compiles a few of them for you! We start off as though entering a bus, as we begin a drive through town. You can hear […]
Read More »Sound assignment bank — Nature travelogue For this second assignment, I decided to focus even more on the sounds of nature than the previous post (especially since that’s the prompt of this one). To do this, I pulled audios of a couple animals we frequently encountered on our trip to Easter Island. The first animal […]
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