For my final paper in EDUC 206, I have been tasked with reflecting on the past quarter and the work that I have completed in the course.  For those of you who don’t know, the EDUC series are classes taught at Lake Washington Technical College that are aimed at developing instructor’s abilities.  I took the ...

Let me just put this out there and let everyone know once and for all that I am a total Disneyland nut.  And while I am not ashamed of this fact, I will also be one of the first to say that I know the reasoning behind this is deeply psychological.  Disneyland holds a great ...

This week for EDUC 206, we were assigned the task of integrating copyright free or open resources into one of our classes.  The class that I decided upon was my Film Studies class.  Right now in the class, I do not use a text book.  Film Studies text books can be dense and expensive, and ...

It’s tough to write about my own work that I’ve created in this class, because I’ve mostly been blown away by the other work that I have seen in the class.  It is truly great to see so many people putting their time into often non-required material.  I think we are all here to develop ...

Dailyshoot Feb 13th "The Story of the Sky", originally uploaded by robnyland.

Dailyshoot Feb 11th "Subject Out of Focus", originally uploaded by robnyland.

Dailyshoot Feb 12th "Tell the story of a subject today in a photograph by photographing one specific detail of it", originally uploaded by robnyland. “Tell the story of a subject today in a photograph by photographing one specific detail of it”

Here’s the new episode of the Post Post Show.  I’m not sure what time it airs, but I just need to put it up for organizational sakes. I’m really growing to love this process of creating these shows.  Just so you know, I create all of my shows in Garageband — which is the reason ...

Dailyshoot Feb 10th "Unusual Point of View", originally uploaded by robnyland. Today I was tasked with creating a photograph with an unusual point of view. I always wanted to try the Fridge shot that you see in movies, unfortunately, it doesn’t translate as well into a still image. Have fun figuring out all of the ...

If any of you have not seen the movie Primer you really need to get on Netflix right now and watch it.  For the design project, I decided to do the minimalist Movie poster.  I did the poster in illustrator, because I thought it would be relatively easy to build a box, but I spent ...

Dailyshoot Feb 8th "Preparedness", originally uploaded by robnyland.

Daily Shoot Feb 7th "Door or Window as a frame", originally uploaded by robnyland. A last minute shoot with a willing subject. The colors remind me of a the dining room scene from E.T.

Dailyshoot Feb 6th "Electical Plug", originally uploaded by robnyland. Today’s challenge was to take an artistic photo of an electric plug. Once again my 50mm came in handy. The shallow depth of field gives it an almost tilt-shift like quality.

Dailyshoot Feb 5th "Go Abstract", originally uploaded by robnyland. I like to think of this as Mark Rothko meets an elevator….I hate this elevator by the way.

Here is the track list for Episode 3 of The Post Post Show: Godspeed You Black Emperor! – “Gathering Storm” Pelican – “Untitled” El Ten Eleven – “Sorry About Your Irony” Mogwai – “Burn ...

Even episode 2 of the Post Post show already aired on ds106 radio.  I have not as yet put up the set list.  Overall, I didn’t love episode 2 as much as episode 1.  But the process of creation is really fantastic.  Once again, I pulled most of my samples from freesound.org.  The music tracklist ...

Feb 4th Dailyshoot “Depth”, originally uploaded by robnyland. Today’s challenge was to shoot something that has “depth and dimension”. I love this photo the more times that I look at it. Its depth and dimension work for...

Howard Gardner by The Aspen Institute A few weeks ago in my Teaching and Facilitating Learning class at Lake Washington Technical College, we discussed the work of Howard Gardner.   Gardner is a Harvard professor whose research work focused on the theory of multiple intelligences.  In the classroom, this translates into the fact that we must ...

Feb 3rd — “Low Horizon”, originally uploaded by robnyland.

So I just finished my first half hour set for DS 106 radio.  I love what the radio project has become, but I think about it way too much and probably devote too much time to thinking about what kind of things I can devise for it.  So, I’m telling myself that after this, I ...

Here’s a couple more bumpers.  One more from Freaks and Geeks and a little techno ditty I put together in Soundtrack Pro.  Enjoy! Tuba Girl Bumper Techno Bumper

It’s been a little hard to do the actual work for ds106 because all I want to do is create bumpers and programs for the ds106 radio station.  Anyway, here is a bumper that I created, incorporating some good ol’ Freaks and Geeks into it. Bu...

After completing (maybe skimming a bit) this weeks readings for ds106, one of the things that popped out to me most in terms of what defines web 2.0 is the idea of microcontent.  The matter and substance of web 2.0 is small chunks of information, that we knowingly scatter across the web in the form ...

When I started this class and bought some additional commodity web-hosting one of my projects was to redirect the content from a previous now-defunct mp3 blog/podcast — gentletyrants.com.  That site was an experiment for my 26 year old self who was obsessed with indie-music and hipsterdom and at the time mp3 blogging seemed to be ...

Right now I am taking Jim Groom’s open course DS106- Digital Storytelling.  I am excited for the challenges that the course will offer me.  Oftentimes as a teacher I feel hypocritical for making my students create digital media around certain parameters while I feel like I don’t rise to the same challenge.  Our assignment this ...