Giving Serena’s “Picturing Prufrock” assignment another go, I decided to hit up the awesome archival image site Shorpy for some shots of old school surgery rooms, and this gem titled “The Cutting Room” from The Brooklyn Navy Yard circa 1900 … Continue reading →

Serena Epstein has a fun new assignment for ds106 that asks you to illustrate an image from T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock” through the medium of your choice. As soon as I saw the assignment a … Continue reading →

Three students in Jeff McClurken’s #infoage course, Ashley Lightburn, Joe Calpin, and Caitlyn Murphy, put together a ten minute documentary about ds106. I am obviously excited by the idea that students think this course is interesting enough to make a … Continue reading →

It’s a special day for the bava blog in a couple of regards. First off, bavatuesdays turns 6 years old today. I’m pretty proud of that fact, 6 years ago today I started my job as an Instructional Technology Specialist … Continue reading →

In another lifetime I worked as a Writing Fellow through the CUNY Graduate Center. What writing fellows did (and still do, I imagine) was work with a variety of faculty from numerous disciplines to integrate writing into their course. So, … Continue reading →

Back around Halloween Michael Branson Smith asked us to share our worst educational experience as part of his #ds106 course at CUNY’s York College. Despite the deep pain and horror my story still causes me, I decided to gut it … Continue reading →

I was browsing UMW Blogs yesterday when I cam across this post about a remixed book cover of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. The post is part of professor Gary Richards’s Contemporary American Fiction course blog, and the class happening to … Continue reading →

Being a fan of Ray Harryhausen’s creature animations, the following tweet from WFMU was an immediate score. What is coolest about this is there are at least two or three films referenced here I haven’t yet seen. I started doing … Continue reading →

A few weeks back, while returning from Portland, oregon—did I mention i still have an epic post about Portland to write?—I did a little experiment on my flight back East. On the first leg from Portland to Salt Lake City … Continue reading →

This coming Spring semester two sections of ds106 will be running out of UMW, and I believe at least two more sections out of CUNY’s York College and Temple University Japan.If any other courses want to run along side #ds106 … Continue reading →

Here is my first pass at mashing up Saxon’s Crusader album cover for ds106. Next semester I will have to spend a lot more time getting better at Photoshop/GIMP because it is all too evident I still suck. Anyway, join … Continue reading →

Welcome to the resource guide for mine and Tom Woodward’s presentation titled “The World’s Craziest Educational Videos featuring ds106″ Below are a couple of quick, useful links for this presentation: The ds106.us site is here: http://ds106.us The assignment submission form: http://ds106.us/assignments A look at the … Continue reading →

Mikhail Gershovich pointed me to this crazy album cover remix of Sonic Youth’s Goo done by Juciy: And in the event you don’t know the original, here it is: After seeing it, I immediately thought of a #ds106 design/mashup assignment, and tweeted as much. … Continue reading →

The Open Education 2011 conference has come and gone, and I would like to think my keynote got a few people thinking. I don’t believe everyone will like it, and I’m not even sure it is all that cogent—but there … Continue reading →

That’s right, we came, we saw, and we kicked the big apple’s ass! An EST extravaganza that was epic in every regard, what’s better is that most of the chronicling has already happened. What I am gonna do here is … Continue reading →

And another Triple Troll Quote, this one focuses on cool cats, and perhaps the very coolest is the one behind the quote.

Let me just go on record saying how much I love the Triple Troll Quotes assignment now. I must admit when i saw this added to the assignment bank by Joe Proffitt during the Summer of Oblivion I didn’t think … Continue reading →

The entire ds106radio aesthetic has com into its own. It has always only been waiting for #occupywallstreet. Cyrus sings the rap, does the math, and gets us ready for the future. How awesome is Giulia Forsythe latest mashup? I would … Continue reading →

On Wednesday Grant Potter, GNA Garcia, Michael Branson Smith, Mikhail Gershovich, and myself will be hosting a seminar about DIY Web Radio, in particular ds106radio. It is pretty safe to say that ds106radio has been a blast for most of … Continue reading →

I love NYC. Let that just hang there for a moment. Being in NYC this past Wednesday and Thursday couldn;t have been better. The city was crackling with a powerful sense of disaffection in the face of egregious corporate welfare, the humanitarian … Continue reading →

Learn to love yourself, grab a picture of yourself in which your body language, actions, gestures, etc. suggest one thing and then play off that using a speech bubble. Ideally the result would make people laugh—but I must acknowledge there … Continue reading →

Inspired by Tech Savvy Ed‘s ds106 work-in-progress on twitter for a minimalist travel poster (see assignment here) I decided to try a quick one to keep me sharp. I am absolutely in love with the vintage “See America” travel posters and … Continue reading →

Inspired by Cogdog’s ds106 image compulsion, I decided to have some fun with a recent gem “You Cant Exit ds106.” I basically used that image as a backdrop for my own sign slighting riffing off his sign. I’m still mucking … Continue reading →

Inspired by this MacGuffin, I couldn’t resist a Friday in which Chris Tucker was the responsible, worker bee Here is the “Messing with the MacGuffin” assignment if you are interested.