After being called out on Twitter by Jim Groom, I decided to blow off the massive amounts of serious work I have to do, and revisit my ds106 roots. I’m not going to promise a sudden flood of thesis updates; I’m not going to try and shoehorn other work into the ds106 mold. But I’m ...

So, yeah – that update didn’t happen. I wrote it out, but never finished it, and it didn’t get posted. So let’s try this again. What I’m studying this semester is Anglo-Saxon women’s place in the law. The primary period that I’ll be talking about is between about 600 and 1066 AD/CE. (The AD and ...

I haven’t used this blog in quite awhile – and yet, I’m still paying for the hosting. That seems like a waste of money, so I’m gonna fix that. The truth is, though, that I kind of miss blogging – it’s been nice to not to have to worry about it, but I really like ...

Dear Future Ds1064lifer, So, you’ve signed up for ds106. Maybe you need to fulfill the gen ed requirement, maybe Jim Groom threatened your family, maybe you even you heard it was a lot of fun from someone else. If you haven’t heard Jim Groom’s rather frightening spiel about how this class will make you crazy ...

Alright, I’m willing to admit what you all have known since day 1: I am a sick, sick, individual. And this fandom assignment is the proof of it. It’s even worse than that Einstein video I posted way back when. Warning: If you’re a Glenn Beck or Kei$ha fan, this post may offend you. If ...

Here, at long last, is my much-belated mashup! For my mashup, I chose to put together a couple of clips from the Coronet instructional film collection on the Prelinger archives on Archive.org. I initially just had a vague idea of doing something funny – putting together some of their hilariously unintentional, but inappropriate, comments into ...

Well, Jim Groom was right – this video assignment was really tough. I decided to make a video essay on the film Memento. I watched it over the weekend, and on Monday I spent about two hours on one of the Macs in du Pont to take out all the clips that I wanted. (Of ...

I was shocked to discover that there have been no web assignments submitted so far. I’m pretty sure they count for the submit-assignments assignment for the second half of the semester — and I’m gonna be mad if it doesn’t! — so I decided to get us started. My idea was to tell a story ...

I wanted to do a fairly simple website for this web assignment. Since I’d suggested Craigslist in class I wanted to do something different, and the simplest website I could think of that wasn’t Craigslist that had a lot of content and would be easily editable was the Drudge Report. For those who are unfamiliar ...

I skipped the last third or so of class last night, so I didn’t finish hearing everything about the Web Storytelling assignment, or what we’re supposed to do for it before Thursday. (I’ll clarify then.) But here’s my idea so far – please tell me if it sounds like I don’t know what we’re supposed ...

There are two big challenges for telling a story in the way that I decided to. First, you have to figure out what sort of story you want to tell. Second, you have to figure out how in the world you’re going to tell it with such a weird format. I am unfortunately still somewhat ...

This is my (Very belated) final project proposal. The basic concept is quite simple: I’m going to tell a story, but a dispersed, distributed story.   Conceptually, I’m going to tell this story using multiple platforms – blogs, image and media hosting sites, probably social networking sites – and using multiple forms of media, from ...

Our group first met Monday evening. The first, and only serious, idea that we had was of a half hour show consisting entirely of humorous or odd fake commercials. We decided to each make one commercial by Wednesday night. Brandon Robenson made an ad for an energy drink, Kelsey Conway made a commercial for a ...

The  first big section of the class — the Visual/Design section — is over. I thought it would be nice to do a bit of a recap of what’s been going on. (And not just because I was told to, either!) This period covered both the DailyShoots, plus the Visual and Design assignments that we ...

Now, it’s time to recap my own work for the last couple of weeks. I started off the DailyShoots pretty strong, I thought, but there were lots of ups and downs. Some of it didn’t turn out quite like I wanted, while others were just sort of crappy “I’m going to do this at the ...

After a rather unsuccessful attempt at making a minimalist movie poster — if I finish it, I’ll definitely post it anyway — I decided to do a different design assignment. I started by just looking through all the pictures the Big Picture  had. I found a couple that I liked, but when I saw this ...

Today in class there was a question about how to change your flickr settings so that you would get emails when people commented on your picture. I had this set up by default, but it’s actually quite easy to change. I’ve taken screenshots, so you can follow the steps below, always highlighting what you need ...

Here is my first “Submit and Assignment” assignment that I’ve done! I decided to do the playlist story assignment first, because it seemed like a lot of fun. I’m really intrigued by how there’s the potential for so much creativity in assignments like this, even as your creativity is so restrained — you can’t use ...

The first week of DailyShoots is over! All of the pictures that I uploaded, either because I used them for the DailyShoot or just because I thought they were cool, can be seen on my flickr. I actually had quite a bit of fun with this. I was expecting it to be just a sort ...

Behold — Einstein on the moon! Enjoy that creepy, creepy Einstein dance. I sure did.

I’ve never thought about web 2.0 before. Well, I have. But not really — just in a general, “Oh yeah, I know what that is, I think,” sort of way, or even more commonly, “Lol. So that’s the new buzzword people are using to make their site sound cool.” It’s not that I’m unfamiliar with ...

I set up Akismet and a subscribe comments plugin because, well, we were told to, and it seemed reasonable. Next, I added the Twitter Tools plugin; I don’t really use Twitter, but this seemed like a good idea — if I’m going to have a twitter and a blog, I might as well connect them. ...

This is the first real post for my new blog. This post will hopefully soon be buried beneath many other posts, so for those readers who have read so many to get back to the very beginning: I’m dreadfully sorry. … Continue reading →

Deliberately Snarky is finally up and running! (I actually got it working a few days ago, but I haven’t had time to try and play around with it much in the meantime) I’ll begin actually blogging shortly; this post is …