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  1. Otto Paertz

    Animated GIF: That’ll Be The Day

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    This one is a gift to Jim Groom in acknowledgement of his imaginative effort  in delivering a Keynote address at the recently completed Open Education 2011 conference in Park City, Utah. I understand Groom has a fond spot in his heart fo...
  2. Otto Paertz

    Animated GIF: That’ll Be The Day

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    This one is a gift to Jim Groom in acknowledgement of his imaginative effort  in delivering a Keynote address at the recently completed Open Education 2011 conference in Park City, Utah. I understand Groom has a fond spot in his heart fo...
  3. Otto Paertz

    Triple Trolling in Transit

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    Enroute to Davos with a layover in Kinshasa, the only contribution I can make to this Cogdog saga is Triple Troll Quote to help inspire you worthy students.The Gridiron has given countless stories of grit, determination and will over the ages. Fitting ...
  4. Otto Paertz

    Triple Trolling in Transit

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    Enroute to Davos with a layover in Kinshasa, the only contribution I can make to this Cogdog saga is Triple Troll Quote to help inspire you worthy students.The Gridiron has given countless stories of grit, determination and will over the ages. Fitting ...
  5. Otto Paertz

    TSAC: Yngwei, Ricky and Chet

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    I'm astonished to announce that the assignment idea for ds106 that Prof. Lockman devised yesterday actually has merit. The Troll Steals Axe Challenge allows all of you digital story telling students to hone your Photoshop skills (or Aviary or Gimp) as ...
  6. Otto Paertz

    TSAC: Yngwei, Ricky and Chet

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    I'm astonished to announce that the assignment idea for ds106 that Prof. Lockman devised yesterday actually has merit. The Troll Steals Axe Challenge allows all of you digital story telling students to hone your Photoshop skills (or Aviary or Gimp) as ...
  7. Otto Paertz

    A Minimalist Movie Poster from my TA

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    A Minimalist Movie Poster from my TA: Prof LockmanMy TA in Tokyo came up with something pretty good for the ds106 3rd week assignments. Unfortunately, he wasn't able to connect his blog to the ds106 syndication machine.I therefore took the opportunity ...
  8. Otto Paertz

    Otto’s Four Icon Challenge

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    To help the students in Prof. Lockman's "Cyberspace and Society" class get up to speed with the digital storytelling portion of the course, I've chosen to demonstrate one of the more popular assignments from week 3 in this semester's iteration of ds106...
  9. Otto Paertz

    Otto’s Four Icon Challenge

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    To help the students in Prof. Lockman's "Cyberspace and Society" class get up to speed with the digital storytelling portion of the course, I've chosen to demonstrate one of the more popular assignments from week 3 in this semester's iteration of ds106...
  10. Otto Paertz

    Bringing Your ‘A’ Game

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    In the previous post, I linked to some important folks in the online worlds of education and digital storytelling. I'm trusting that since you're reading this post, you intend to bring your 'A' Game for the remainder of the semester - I expect nothing ...
  11. Otto Paertz

    Bringing Your ‘A’ Game

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    In the previous post, I linked to some important folks in the online worlds of education and digital storytelling. I'm trusting that since you're reading this post, you intend to bring your 'A' Game for the remainder of the semester - I expect nothing ...
  12. Otto Paertz

    I am in charge here

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    Back when President Reagan was fighting for his life in surgery after a failed assassination attempt, Alexander Haig was Secretary of State. As Vice-president Bush was elsewhere, Haig went on TV and told the world that he was in charge. Even though wh...
  13. Otto Paertz

    I am in charge here

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    Back when President Reagan was fighting for his life in surgery after a failed assassination attempt, Alexander Haig was Secretary of State. As Vice-president Bush was elsewhere, Haig went on TV and told the world that he was in charge. Even though wh...
  14. Otto Paertz

    F is for Averaging Concepts in Flicker

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    Creating the Averaged Concept image from 50 Flickr images was made easier by following Tim's detailed tutorial. To do it, the free version of the Bulkr program is highly recommended. It works on Windows, Mac, and Linux computers and allows you to searc...
  15. Otto Paertz

    F is for Averaging Concepts in Flicker

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    Creating the Averaged Concept image from 50 Flickr images was made easier by following Tim's detailed tutorial. To do it, the free version of the Bulkr program is highly recommended. It works on Windows, Mac, and Linux computers and allows you to searc...
  16. Otto Paertz

    Visual Story Project: Averaging Concepts

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    From the ds106 website, I've chosen to do the Averaging Concepts project. I used the word "Fail" in a Flickr image search to collect 50 images. When the 50 images were loaded into Photoshop as layers and the "Mean" Special Object function was applied, ...
  17. Otto Paertz

    Visual Story Project: Averaging Concepts

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    From the ds106 website, I've chosen to do the Averaging Concepts project. I used the word "Fail" in a Flickr image search to collect 50 images. When the 50 images were loaded into Photoshop as layers and the "Mean" Special Object function was applied, ...
  18. Otto Paertz

    Neglected Onliners

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    Image offered through CC Licensing by Carol Vanhook Following up on last week's reflection on some of the early missteps and false starts encountered during the maiden voyage of the #sp711 course, I feel the need to shift the focus to an area of even d...
  19. Otto Paertz

    Neglected Onliners

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    Image offered through CC Licensing by Carol Vanhook Following up on last week's reflection on some of the early missteps and false starts encountered during the maiden voyage of the #sp711 course, I feel the need to shift the focus to an area of even d...
  20. Otto Paertz

    Persona Management System Project

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    This is tied in to the recent reading assignment. Please devise your own Persona Management System guidelines and blog about it - (Note (6/20): the article linked to above has been taken down as has the entire wiki site it was connected to, the discuss...

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