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  1. How we stopped worrying and learned to love the GIF

    How we stopped worrying and learned to love the GIF (#etmooc) from umwnewmedia on Vimeo.

    This is a session that aired live on Tuesday, February 5th, 2013 for Alec Couros's #etmooc. The session is a discussion of how the animated GIF came to define an online digital storytelling class back in the Winter of 2010, and eventually take the internet by storm. The question asked an analyzed in this 1 hour and 10 minute session are why the GIF? Whence it came? How is it storytelling? Why the cultural fascination? And where to next. Variety shows participants include Tom Woodward, Michael Branson Smith, Brian Lamb, and Zack Dowell.

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  1. Website Manipulation

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    So this week we had to choose a website and change it to tell a story. I chose ebay.  Now if you’ve read all the Harry Potter books or at least seen the films you might see where I’m going with this. If you remember the sixth and seventh books, Half-Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows, ...

  2. Week 6 Summary

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    --Originally published at ds106 – cosmic collection
    I enjoyed the assignments this week sooo much more than last week’s audio projects. Design and it’s principles have circulated in all aspects of my academic life and personal interest. This first assignment was fun, especially when I decided to turn it into a gif. I wanted Kaleidoscope’s tattoo to[Read more]
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