Distraction
My daily create on September 15th. This is my second daily create of the week. I had to take an emophoto.
Distraction emophoto for #tdc1346 @ds106dc pic.twitter.com/FrCofVmv3b
— Ben Brady (@BBrady92) September 15, 2015
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A Self-Help Book Many Could Use
My daily create on September 14th. This is my first daily create of the week. I had to create the cover of a bad self-help book. A self-help book I think a lot of people could use. @ds106dc #tdc1345 pic.twitter.com/SQlFXevDCi — Ben Brady (@BBrady... -
Week 3 Summary
Only three hours left in week three, so it’s time for the weekly summary. Overall, I’m enjoying DS106 more than I thought I would. It’s actually turned out to be a lot of fun to mess around with different digital media. I think it will only get better as the course goes on because I’ll … Read More → -
Five Card Flickr Story – A Day in Town
Five Card Story: Driving in to Spend the Day in Town a Five Card Flickr story created by Bbrady1992 flickr photo by Serenae flickr photo by shareski flickr photo by gshupe flickr photo by bionicteaching flickr photo by bionicteaching To explore the idea of telling stories with photos, I chose to do the Five Card … Read More → -
First Thoughts about Storytelling
There are a couple things I think of when I think about storytelling. Visually, the chart taught in English classes is what comes to mind. It’s very strict. Every story follows the set path of exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. This is the one I’m talking about: I think this does a … Read More → -
Cheer @KelseyStanbro Up
My daily create for September 8th, 2015. I had to make something that would cheer up some random person named Kelsey Stanbro. I like dogs, so here’s a puppy playing with its dad. @ds106dc Dogs always cheer me up, so here's a puppy playing with its dad. #tdc1339 pic.twitter.com/okpjKrqazN — Ben Brady (@BBrady92) September 8, … Read More → -
Week 2 Summary
We’re finally at the end of week 2, so it’s time for the weekly summary! I’ll start off by going through everything I completed this week. Daily Creates I did four daily creates this week, tweeting each time I completed one. As I customized my website later in the week, it occurred to me that, for organizational … Read More → -
Reflection: Knowledgeable to Knowledge-able
In his lecture, Michael Wesch discusses the evolution that must take place in the classroom due to the availability of new communication mediums. The title of his talk says it all. How do students go from memorizing and regurgitating facts to being able to seek out and analyze information on their own? Wesch’s lecture can be watched in … Read More → -
Reflection: A Personal Cyberinfrastructure
Gardner Campbell’s article, A Personal Cyberinfrastructure, discusses how teachers and students should fully utilize the new creative opportunities the internet is providing. Rather than a simple, do-exactly-what-the-teacher-asks approach, students and teachers should be using new technologies to learn in completely new ways. The article can be viewed with the following link: http://er.educause.edu/articles/2009/9/a-personal-cyberinfrastructure Campbell is certainly on to … Read More → -
Labyrinth Tales, a #ds106 radio show
There were two open, online versions of #ds106 this summer: The Burgeron Family Fairy Tale Festival #prisoner106 Though some of us focused on one and others on the other, many of the open, online #ds106 participants came together to create a joint radio show combining themes from both summer #ds106 experiences. The result is … -
Campaign video for Number 2
It’s been quite awhile ago, but for week 5 for #prisoner106 one of the assignments was to create a campaign video because we seemed to be missing a Number 2 and we might need to hold an election. I’m treating this very belated video as a kind of final project, since for it I made: … -
Vote philosophy!
The leadership at #prisoner106 has disappeared. Number 2 hasn’t been seen for a couple of weeks. My Super True Friend I am Talky Tina filled in for a week, but now it seems to be a free for all. Participants are still making art, though, because we are #4life. During one of the recent weeks … -
Number 2 as anvil
In the episode of The Prisoner called “Hammer into Anvil,” Number 2 pretty much loses it by the end. One part that really intrigued me was when he was shown towards the end stroking the penny farthing. I’ve seen some suggestions online about what the penny farthing is all about in the series, and in … -
Village Philosopher Badge
This week in #prisoner106 we are to make a campaign video for running for office (the position of Number 2 seems to be unoccupied right now). In preparation for campaigning I created a special badge for the Village Philosopher–that’s me! I need a special way to identify myself so you know whom to vote for. … -
4 icons and I still don’t get it
Here’s a belated post for the “one story, four icons” assignment for design week in #prisoner106. I wanted to do this assignment for an episode I just don’t understand, even after watching it twice. Here are the icons … can you guess it before I explain below why I am still puzzled by this episode? … -
Week four summary
I just finished two of my assignments about an hour ago. Here is what I did this week. I spent most of my #prisoner106 time on my “I can read movies” book cover for “The Chimes of Big Ben.” I have really enjoyed seeing what else everyone is creating with these, and am going to … -
Pennyfarthing Drive
When I was out doing my design blitz in the Village the other day I discovered that there is a street called Pennyfarthing Drive in the Village. Well, of course there is. Alternate version I also did a red version. I’m not sure which I like better. the process This is really a … -
Design Blitz in the Village
It’s design week for #prisoner106, which means time to take pictures that exemplify design principles. We were to take images of things that show at least five of the following: A nice set of resources on these design principles can be found here. I’ve done a couple of design blitzes before; one was in Fall … -
I can read tv (2.0)
One of the assignments for design week for #prisoner106 was to do the “I can read movies” assignment. I have tried this one before, when I first started doing DS106 back in 2013; this was one of the first things I did in GIMP (not the very first, but I wasn’t that used to GIMP … -
#prisoner106 Week 3 summary
It’s an hour before our week 3 summary is due, I’m tired, and I didn’t do everything I was supposed to do this week. I wonder if they’ll turn off the electricity to my bungalow? Only allow me as much food as my meager credit units for this week can buy? Send me back to … -
GIFing A, B and C
For week 3 of #prisoner106, we were asked to do the “Animating The Prisoner” assignment. I struggled with this one a lot for some unknown reason. I love making animated GIFs from video because technically, it’s pretty easy once you get the tools. What I struggled with was finding sequences to animate from the episodes … -
Prisoner photo safari
For week three of #prisoner106, one of the tasks was to do a photo safari that captures at least five of the following: Here is what I found on a walk through the Village today. Authority and Imprisonment This sign seems to capture both of these themes well. There is only local traffic in the … -
Gnomes, The Moon and The Porch
It is visual assignment week in #burgeron106 and it is Icelandic week as well. That means, gnomes, elves, fairies and more. The poster could be “design” because it is a poster- but I used my own photos to create it. (well – except for NanaLou’s porch) I used a shot of the moon off my ... Read more -
Foiled escape attempt
So after my Village morning announcement, Rover came to help me. I was starting to, um, ask questions. Questions are a burden to others. Answers are a prison for oneself. That’s what I learned while I was in hospital. They treated me so nicely! Especially after, I am told, I tried to escape. I don’t … -
3 Bears, A Blonde, and a Fabulous Creative Group
Final version of Goldilocks and the 3 Bears – A group effort! Putting it at the top of the post – details follow. Within the #burgeron106 summer retreat participants, Mama Boo put a call out to recreate Goldilocks and the 3 Bears as an audio recording. Cousin Ron, Nanalou and Dr. M, and myself – Bernie Burgeron, ... Read more -
The Cows are Coming Home!
Design Week at the Bovine County FairyTale Festival NanaLou is working with her granddaughter Rochelle, Cousin Ron, and the famous Headless Inkspots of #ds106 to pull together a Celtic musical performance on “The Porch”. “The Porch” is where the adults gather at sunset after the children have had their story time and are settling in ... Read more -
Art is Information: Announcements
Audio Week! I have a love hate relationship with audio. I love the creativity, the possibilities, the small details covered. Good audio is a powerful springboard to visuals and video added. I hate the unlimited possibilities, the small details covered and that I forget that I can use my voice no matter how much I don’t like ... Read more -
Village Philosopher morning announcement
For audio week during #prisoner106, one of the assignments we were asked to do was to create a morning announcement for the Village like in The Prisoner. Since I’m the Village Philosopher, mine had some philosophical content. Do you know what the Ship of Theseus is? The process coming soon… Sounds Mostly made … -
Old School Press Release with How to Embed in Blog
I am following my path on assignments – which is the #ds106 way isn’t it? I should be working on design and audio this week but keep getting sidetracked – but all with good outcomes. I am still using the assignment bank or creating them as new assignments to add to the bank. #Burgeron106 Family Story ... Read more -
How I came to the Village
A belated video introduction to the Village philosopher for #prisoner106. The process This was a new one for me–it’s very simple, but I had never done a video that had both still images and moving video footage in it. Video is the one thing in #ds106 that I feel least adept at. I used iMovie …
