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    Wedding Day Animated Gif

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    I was looking through some pictures I took at my daughters wedding and a pair caught my eye. I haven’t done an animated gif for a while, so here it is. Notice the head movements: he says “yes”, she says “no”. That’s my girl.  
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    I’m a Flickr Fan

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    I like using Flickr for sharing photos. There are several similar services that I’ve tried, but Flickr remains my favorite so far. It integrates well with my Android devices and it allows for easy sharing. I especially like that I can send out links to
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    All my daily creates #ds106

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    Earlier this week we observed the 1-year anniversary of the Daily Create, one of my favorite parts of DS106. In honor of the momentous occasion, I posted a collection of all my daily creates. Feel free to check it out here: All My Daily Creates
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    More Flickr Fun

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    A follow up to an earlier post: Flickr Fun. This may be old news to some, but I just learned about Flickr RSS feeds for Flickr groups and tags. If you’re not familiar with RSS maybe you should check it out.  If you like to
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    The Day After Album Cover #ds106

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    While the ds106 video weeks have gone speeding by like some kind of super-luminal neutrinos, I’m still trying to wrap up my account of the audio radio project. Here’s the summary of my project. The DigiOuijas (Bunk 5 group) decided on a theme of the
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    #DS106 Design Safari

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    Ack, here we are near the end of Design week in DS106 and I’ve still got unfinished work from last week to do. But I really liked this Week 4 Design Safari idea, so I jumped ahead of the other work especially since it gave
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    3d wiggler animated gifs for #ds106

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    I find these 3d wiggle stereoscopy animated gifs really fascinating, so I tried it. I took a lot of pictures down at Lake MacGuffin this past weekend, so I found some shots that looked like they would work. If you haven’t seen them before, here’s
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    Summer Camp at #DS106

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    Hello campers. This summer the DS106 summer session is organized around a summer camp theme. Camp Magic Macguffin opened up last Monday for a ten week run and who knows what is in store. This this is my “camp letter” for the first week. Well
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    Test Post #ds106

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    I didn’t see my last post in the Magic Macguffin stream. So I thought my tagging was messed up. (Anyone know if the tagging is case-sensitive?) This is a test post to see if I can get it right. As long as I’m testing, I’m
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    #DS106 – Occupational Therapy?

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    I’ve been on and off the fence about writing this post for about a week now. I decided if I don’t write it this weekend, I might as well give up on it. So here goes.   In early April I was in a nasty car accident which left me with some injuries and temporarily
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    101 Daily Creates (and Daffy Duck) #ds106

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    Today’s Daily Create tag is tdc100 and it’s also Daffy Ducks 75th birthday and that seems like a good enough reason to write about the Daily Create today. If you’re not familiar with The Daily Create (TDC), it’s part of the UMW Digital Storytelling class, also known as DS106. The idea is that each day, ...
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    Macguffin-Waldo remix #ds106

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    I haven’t done a DS106 assignment for a while, but I found some time to try out the Remix Generator. It gave me a pretty easy assignment  (Thank you) – Add Waldo to an existing Macguffin. I picked the Star Wars MacGuffin from the assignment page, which I found here. Then I just erased Luke ...
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    Redub the Audio video assignment #DS106

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    I submitted this project in the ‘Redub the Audio‘ video assignment. That may be a bit of a stretch, since I didn’t have to rewrite any dialogue. But I did change the soundtrack and change the meaning or intent of the scene. I came up with this while trying out some of the tools introduced ...
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    Funny, Sad, True Story. #potcert11 #ds106

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      This really has nothing to do with DS106 or Pedagogy First, but if you care to read on, you’ll see the connection. The family cat, Zander, had adopted the ottoman in my home office as his personal bed. He snoozed there constantly, and when I was working at my desk, he’d watch me. Sometimes, ...
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    One Story / Four Icons for #ds106

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    When I saw how many people had done this assignment, I figured my DS106 experience would not be complete if I didn’t try it myself. So here’s my Four Icon Challenge.  I chose a book rather than a movie.   What follows might be construed as a story spoiler, though a pretty mild spoiler, but ...
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    #DS106 Assignment – Mission: Defamiliarize

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    DS106 Assignment  – Mission: Defamiliarize Make a set of ten photos which take something familiar to you–a town, building, object, etc.–and defamiliarize it, make it seem foreign. Use a mix of extreme closeups, weird lighting, foreground/background focusing and odd angles and other effects to make something that you know very well seem like something you’ve ...
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    Another splash of yellow #ds106

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    I wasn’t planning to do the Splash the Color assignment at first. Then I saw this car this morning and took a quick snapshot. As I drove on I thought it would make good color splash, so here it is. I just followed the tutorial on the assignment web page, using the online picnik.com. After ...
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    Flickr Fun

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    Working with Flickr I’m trying to do two online courses right now, The Program for Online Teaching and DS106. We are talking about images in both classes now, so I thought I’d blog about Flickr this week and share it with both courses. This is a tutorial style post. (That means it’s long) In the ...
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    An animated gif(t) for #ds106

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    When I first heard the distant sirens of ds106, it was just an amusing buzz, and easily ignored. But each time they came back, they grew louder and more alluring. Soon I began to search for them, to make them stop the distracting noises, or so I thought.  After I found them though, I began ...
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    Too much technology?

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    Some recent bloggers and commenters have expressed concern about becoming overly reliant on the technologies we’re talking about here. It makes me wonder though, is it really any different than other things, like electricity, fresh water, supermarkets, cars, phones, and TV. It’s funny really, while we become more dependent on these things, they liberate us ...
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    DS106 Week 2 – Cyberinfrastructure

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    Getting on with #DS106   If today’s students are anything at all like I was, then there’s probably some eagerness to get past these first two weeks of boring, complicated preparations and introductions   Let’s get on to the real meat and potatoes of the course. “Let’s make some art dammit!” However, I hope that the ...
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    DS106 Week 1 – Twitter Search and RSS tutorial

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    Twitter & RSS I’m not writing about setting up my web hosting and blog because I did that a long time ago and don’t remember how. However I like the suggestion to write tutorials for this class and I’ve been playing around with Twitter searches in RSS feeds so I thought I’d tell you about ...
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    Winter Tanning

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    Here’s my first foray into DS106.  While the course doesn’t start for a few more weeks, I see many who are warming up with a few stretching exercises. So I thought I’d take a shot at the photo word translation assignment. I went to the Random Words with No English Translation tool which gave me ...

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