My fire and brimstone warning email to the students of the online version of ds106 at UMW. I’m looking forward to this course, but I wanted to establish both the amount of work it will require, the fact their are … Continue reading →

Image credit:D’Arcy Norman‘s ds106 Skull and Crossbones says it all One of the things I mentioned about a month ago about ds106 before I stole away on vacation was the possibility for crowdsourcing assignments over the span of the semester. It was an idea born by Tom Woodward last semester, and something that I talked with ...

One of my favorite scenes from Creepshow wherein Ed Harris delivers one of his best performances. And with this animated GIF I realized a slow, high resolution version of Ed Harris’s crazy ass dance does it no justice. It needed … Continue reading →

This may be my favorite stunt in all film and it’s from the classic Australia post-apocalyptic nightmare Mad Max, and I can’t think of a better eternal loop for an animated GIF. This is a smaller GIF, only 320px wide … Continue reading →

Here’s a GIF for all you edtech survivalists out there, keep the faith—we will rise again and slay the man Kinda surprised no one did this one yet. I actually did a few versions of this one in GIMP, and I am getting a much better handle on it. below you’s see ...

For my first experiment with animated GIFs I opted for the facial gesturing of Italian comic genius Totò in Vittorio De Sica’s The Gold of Naples. I think I’m going to do a series of animated GIFs of Totò in an attempt to try and communicate through gestures alone just how brilliant this actor is. ...

Seeing how I can bring the syndication bus into full effect for ds106. I think it can happen, I just pull my Flickr and delicious posts tagged ds106 into ds106.us using FeedWordpress—and then associate them with my admin account on the ds106.us site. And that’s the trick, I can do it pretty easily cause I am ...

Thanks to Peter Naegele for the link to the awesome Lebowski animated gif I just got off a Skype call with Martha Burtis, Tom Woodward, and Alan Levine, all of whom have very graciously volunteered to help me think about the design of the open and online portion of the course. I am unbelievably ...

nobody blogs like the bava. nobody! So, if D’Arcy Norman isn’t already doing sick mashups featuring yours truly as the “Mad Men” poster–which is brilliant!—then Tom Woodward is laying down assignment after assignment already on his bionic blog—and I quote: Make an animated gif from your favorite/least favorite movie capturing the essence of a key scene. Make ...

Image credit:Bionicteaching’s “Michael Chasen sits on edupunk Santa’s lap and hopes not to suck so much this Xmas” As I mentioned in my last post, a number of folks have offered to help with the design and execution of ds106. In fact a few have already publicly pledged their undying loyalty—and that’s a party right there! ...

Well, I am wrapping up the second iteration of the Digital Storytelling course (ds106) I’ve been teaching this semester, and I have to say it has been a lot of fun. i think I have honed my approach to the course a bit more tightly this semester, and while this run through was still ...

This is the aggregated home for the online, open course Digital Storytelling that will be starting January 10th, 2011. To have your work syndicated into this site you simply need to add your blog/site URL and site name to the form to the right. Additionally, if you’d like to filter...