Think Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star… A couplet is a poetry form where two lines end in a rhyming word and have the same meter; write one today that fit within the 140 characters available to a tweeter. See more examples. “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Tweet your couplet …
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Time Travel. Explain Twitter to Someone Living 100 Years Ago. #ysdaily32
Write it as a blog post if it won’t fit in a tweet. This was a DS106 Daily Create in July 2014 (no peeking!) Tweet a link for your response to @youshow15 and be sure to include the hashtag #ysdaily32
Hum your first musical memory #ysdaily31
Make a recording of you humming one of the first songs you remember hearing as a child; maybe something sung to you or heard playing. This was a DS106 Daily Create from February 2013, check it out for some examples. Tweet a link for your response to @youshow15 and be sure to include the hashtag …
Into the Light: Silhouette Portrait #ysdaily30
cc licensed (BY-NC-ND) flickr photo by ingirogiro: http://flickr.com/photos/ingirogiro/84032617 Go against photography advice- take someone’s portrait where they are strongly backlist. Make an interesting silhouette portrait. Tweet a link for your response to @youshow15 and be sure to include the hashtag #ysdaily30
Make/Record Your Own Nuclear Blast Sound #ysdaily29
This clip attempts to recreate the actual sound of a nuclear bombs base on different field recordings and audio enhancements. Look at the footage, and see if you can manufacture a more “interesting” sound for the blast, maybe one that suggests less destruction. Tweet a link for your audio to @youshow15 and be sure to …
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Write a blog post that uses this image as a metaphor #ysdaily28
cc licensed (BY-NC) flickr photo by tanakawho: http://flickr.com/photos/28481088@N00/2495616276 Tweet a link for your blogpost to @youshow15 and be sure to include the hashtag #ysdaily28
Challenge us to identify where you are, based only on a 20 sec audio clip. #ysdaily27
This was a ds106 Daily Create from June 2013 (if you need some ideas)- the example above from Christina Hendricks is just one response to TDC 512. Tweet a link for your audio (post in SoundCloud, a blog post on your site, or maybe in the Soundpool) to @youshow15 and be sure to include the …
Take or share a photo that represents determination #ysdaily26
cc licensed (BY-NC-ND) flickr photo by GraceOda: http://flickr.com/photos/grace_land/3402406580 Tweet a link for your response to @youshow15 and be sure to include the hashtag #ysdaily26
Create a Selfographic – an infographic about your digital presence #ysdaily25
Use a tool such as Picktochart to create an infographic summarizing your online metrics. See Greg Mcverry’s Digital Scholar Report as an example Tweet a link for your selfographic to @youshow15 and be sure to include the hashtag #ysdaily25
Find an ambient SoundCloud track that matches your mood #ysdaily24
Explore the Ambient genre of SoundCloud and share a track that seems to match your mood today. Maybe it is… https://soundcloud.com/williamfrenchmusic/william-french-blue-heron-1 Tweet a link for the SoundCloud track to @youshow15 and be sure to include the hashtag #ysdaily24