ds106zone Lodown #27

ds106zone Lodown #27

by Reverend

| Syndicated
June 15, 2013

ds106zone Lodown 27

Image Credit: CogDog, of course

This is the second installment of the Lodown in the post-Scottlo era. I was joined by Mikhail Gershovich on #ds106radio early this morning to theorize about some of the unspoken possibilities behind Scottlo’s resignation from the Lodown. We cover every potentiality …
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ds106zone: Experimenting with Video

by Reverend

| Station Announcements
June 13, 2013

Thanks to Michael Branson Smith below are three ideas for experimenting with video. They’re all pretty straight forward, and they give you a specific focus and set of limitations to work through—which can be helpful. If you are looking to … Continue reading →
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ds106zone Week 4: Intro to Video

by Reverend

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June 11, 2013

Today I recorded an hour long ds106.tv broadcast framing and introducing week 4 of the ds106zone. This week is dedicated to reading an episode of Twilight Zone closely and working through 15 stars of video assignments. You can see the … Continue reading →
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ds106zone Week 4: Video Killed the Radio Star

by Reverend

| Summer 2013 Assignments
June 10, 2013

cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by Frans Persoon Special thanks to Alan Levine for doing all the heavy lifting for this week’s assignments, much of this is based on the work he did last semester. First half … Continue reading →
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ds106zone LoDown 018 (talking smack with Jim Groom)

by Reverend

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June 6, 2013

Given the state of exhaustion Scottlo has found himself suffering under, Rochelle and I have done the heavy lifting these past two days. My show clocked in at a cool 32 minutes (sorry Andrew Thomas Experience) and it may be … Continue reading →
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Week 3: Radio, Radio, Radio Show

by Reverend

| Summer 2013 Assignments
June 3, 2013

Hey all you ds106zonies! It’s time to get serious in the 5th dimension of teaching and learning online. I have already laid the groundwork for week 3 in the pre-assignment post that sets up the radio groups, structure, and a … Continue reading →
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Fire and Ice

by Reverend

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June 2, 2013

Inspired by Claire Patrick’s Art Invitation for “The Midnight Sun” Twilight Zone episode, I decided to take Robert Frost’s poem “Fire and Ice” and place it on top of Norma’s painting from that episode. I love that the poem maps … Continue reading →
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ds106zone: The Fifth Dimension of Teaching and Learning

by Reverend

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June 1, 2013

Audio from the talk This past Thursday I delivered the above presentation to the kind and awesome folks at the University System of New Hampshire’s 3rd Annual Academic Technology Institute (a.k.a #usnhati on Twitter). The event is an intensive, 4-day intensive … Continue reading →
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Week 3 Preparation: The Radio Show

by Reverend

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June 1, 2013

This email precedes the Monday announcement of Week 3′s assignments a bit because it’s will prove such an intensive week. You all will need to get a head start to get your groups working together and to devise a topic … Continue reading →
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A special darkness all my own

by Reverend

| Syndicated
May 31, 2013

One of the things I really love about the classic “The Eye of the Beholder” Twilight Zone episode is the tension built up during the scene wherein the doctors and nurses unwrap the gauze. Everything was working towards this moment, … Continue reading →
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Don’t wait until the end of the world to…READ!

by Reverend

| Syndicated
May 29, 2013

I created yet another design assignment for ds106 because I’m just that good. This one is based on the Read poster campaign that started in 1985. Here is the description: Since 1985, the American Library Association (ALA) has tried to sell … Continue reading →
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“TIme Enough at Last” Minimalist Book Cover

by Reverend

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May 29, 2013

I am really happy with how this one came out, and it was a mashup of things, and let me run you through them quick. I started out thinking about using the iconic symbols in this episode of Twilight Zone, … Continue reading →
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The Invaders in 4 Icons

by Reverend

| Syndicated
May 29, 2013

In today’s “Introduction to Design” session Tim Owens and I demonstrated how to approach a few design assignments. One in particular was how you could use The Noun Project and GIMP to do a 4 Icon Challenge. A number of folks already … Continue reading →
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Giffing Anti-Intellectualism in “Time Enough at Last”

by Reverend

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May 29, 2013

The following three GIFs capture one of Rod Serling’s recurrent themes in the Twilight Zone: anti-intellectualism. While “Time Enough at Last” is about many things, I can’t help but read Mrs. Bemis’s sadistic defiling of her husband’s books as anything … Continue reading →
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ds106zone: Introduction to Design

by Reverend

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May 29, 2013

After some introductory admonishments from yours truly to start the episode, Tim Owens and I sat down to introduce the design portion of ds106 in some detail. We started off the discussion around the idea of what makes an artist, … Continue reading →
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ds106zone week 2: Design, Audio, and Twilight Zone, oh my!

by Reverend

| Summer 2013 Assignments
May 27, 2013

This Week’s Twilight Zone Episodes This week you will be required to watch and create around three Twilight Zone episodes: “The Eye of the Beholder,” “The Midnight Sun,” and “Time Enough at Last.” You can find “Eye of the Beholder” in bits and … Continue reading →
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The Invaders now available for Atari 2600

by Reverend

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May 26, 2013

I have a new assignment I’ll post to the repository sometime later, but for now I’m going to give it a preliminary star count of 4 and a half because that’s how many I need right now I’ll … Continue reading →
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Creeping on The Invaders

by Reverend

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May 26, 2013

To round out my Visual Assignments for the week, here is a younger me creeping on “The Invaders” inspired by the Creep on the Movie Scene assignment by Jack Mulrey, an old gold #ds106er . I always liked the idea of … Continue reading →
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Make it Stop in Stereo

by Reverend

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May 26, 2013

One of my favorite scenes in the Twilight Zone episode ”The Invaders” is when Agnes Moorehead freaks out at the high pitched noise from the flying saucer. I played on this scene a bit in my with my comic effect assignment … Continue reading →
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Trolling TV SciFi: the truth is out there?

by Reverend

| Syndicated
May 26, 2013

Above is an instance of one of my all-time favorite ds106 assignments, triple troll quotes. I grabbed this image of Serling with the trippy Twilight Zone background and then added the quote and the author text in GIMP. The one thing … Continue reading →
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Make it stop!

by Reverend

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May 26, 2013

Because I love Scottlo! We all know nothing could be further from the truth given the cool, mellifluous tones of the great Scottlo, but I want to poke fun. This is the Comic Book Effect assignment, which is pretty straightforward. I … Continue reading →
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The Invaders Meme: Misunderstood Diskman

by Reverend

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May 26, 2013

I love this assignment by Brian Short (which he blogged here) inspired by this assignment by UMW #ds106 internaut Charles . So I tried a few, and I am giving myself two more stars cause I can I wonder who … Continue reading →
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ds106 Zone Animated Trading Cards: The Invaders

by Reverend

| Syndicated
May 26, 2013

Inspired by Andy Forgrave—as I so regularly have been recently—I tried my hand at an animated ds106zone trading card. I cooked up a quick 4 star example of the animated movie trading card assignment for the beginning of many ds106zone trading … Continue reading →
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The Invader with Warhol Effect

by Reverend

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May 26, 2013

This is an easy on inspired by Katy Chase, who did an Invaders-inspired version of the Warhol Something assignment. I haven’t done it yet, so I figured what the hell! I simply cropped out an image of the “alien” from … Continue reading →
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Classic Twilight Zone Animated Vintage Clipart

by Reverend

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May 25, 2013

Riffing on Brian Bennett’s awesome version on the “Graphic Gift” assignment, I downloaded his template and put in the reveal moment for of the classic “The Invaders” episode for a quick three stars (recommended): This was pretty simple (standing on the … Continue reading →
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ds106zone: Organizing your work for the Weekly Summary

by Reverend

| Station Announcements
May 25, 2013

Week 1 We have almost reached the end of week one, and I know it has been a tour-de-force, I would like to say things get easier, but that would be a lie. Below are some details I want you to attend to to make you weekly summary work that...
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Real-life 8-bit Art

by Reverend

| Syndicated
May 23, 2013

I’m just sitting down to catch up on the 20 stars of visual assignments and the 10 stars of design assignments I have to do by Sunday. The first week of #ds106 is always a tour-de-force, and I’m just getting … Continue reading →
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ds106 presentation for the College of Wooster

by Reverend

| Syndicated
May 22, 2013

Earlier today I fired up ds106.tv to share my thoughts about ds106 with the 2013 Faculty Fellows program at the College of Wooster. The timing was right because I just started a Summer session of ds106 this Monday, and my … Continue reading →
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The ds106zone Broadcast: Overview of Photo Editing Tools

by Reverend

| Station Announcements
May 21, 2013

Link to video. In this broadcast of #ds106zone, Tim Owens and I sit down to talk about some basic concepts behind photo editing, such as layers and various other tools, as well as specific tools available, GIMP and Photoshop being the … Continue reading →
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The ds106zone Broadcast: Introduction and Syllabus Review

by Reverend

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May 21, 2013

Link to video At 2:00 PM (EDT) this afternoon, I sat down for a live broadcast at ds106.tv to give the class a rough overview of what to expect more generally from #ds106zone, as well as the specifics requirements for the … Continue reading →
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