The Daily Create for today was pretty interesting. Given a prompt from an idea generator website, we were supposed to write a blog post. A couple of people shared titles that had to do with the Amish and DS106. These two things, a religious group that eschews technology and a digital storytelling course that is centered … Continue reading What The Amish Can Teach You About DS106 →

Today, out of curiosity I searched Google for ‘Kansas State University’ and the screencap shown below are the very first results I saw: Unfortunately, a K-State student was recently expelled over a very distasteful post she made on Snapchat. This student had attended K-State for three years (a pre-med student), and boom, just like that she was … Continue reading Why Mom Was Right About Internet Stupidity →

I have never had anything I put on the web quite reach ‘viral’ proportions, but I’ve had a few online successes. One thing is certain, it is hard to beat having celebrity exposure. Yesterday, a British actor called David Schneider posted a call for “Enterprise Under Attack” videos, and my digital media students obliged with our classroom … Continue reading Getting the Most Out of Twitter Tweets →

Photo Credit-Jim Richardson I just visited a website of an unnamed person doing the DS106 digital storytelling course and I experienced a classic error that my own students tend to do when I ask them to publish school work in a blog format. That person wrote for an audience of one – the teacher. There … Continue reading An Audience of One →

Fifty years ago, one of the best television shows ever made was first aired – Star Trek! We love Star Trek at my house. A few years ago I made this video of myself and I thought it appropriate for today. But then I saw this tweet: In an office? Celebrate #StarTrek50 by pretending you’re under … Continue reading Happy 50th Star Trek! →

I just loved this Daily Create by Sandy Brown Jensen, so I’m sharing it here: #tdc1703@ds106dc#ds106 To respond to other people’s blog posts or daily creates or not to, that is the question… pic.twitter.com/ivYHV7Pk69 — Sandy Brown Jensen (@sandramardene) September 6, 2016

This is a DS106 visual assignment that challenges us to remix an existing corporate logo with a bad font (or an improved font). At 4 stars, I think the difficulty rating is somewhat inflated. Granted, I’ve been doing this kind of work for a while, but this assignment only took me 5 minutes to complete. … Continue reading What A Crappy Font Will Do →

In our first week of class, the KSU Digital Media team (KSUDigMe for short) recorded a history of Clyde, Kansas to help celebrate the sesquicentennial (150th) anniversary of its founding. This coming Labor Day weekend, several thousand people from all over will attend the annual Clyde Watermelon Festival and hear this recording. We spent over … Continue reading Clyde 150th Celebration →

I haven’t been very good about making regular blog posts for a long time. I aim to work on that this semester. We have a good bunch of students in Digital Media Technology this year. My 2nd year students are studying digital storytelling with me and the DS106 community. This semester’s theme is “This Is … Continue reading First Daily Create for Fall 16 →

Syndication test for DS106

Here is a digital storytelling video assignment: Create a short video that shows a scene from your favorite TV show or movie that we didn’t get to see. Maybe because it wound up on the cutting room floor. Here is an example. It is from Star Trek TOS and depicts a red shirted crew member getting ready … Continue reading A scene we missed… →

I was looking for a quick but fun DS106/Digital Storytelling assignment to do and found it in Alan Levine‘s What They Might Have Done in Social Media project. Here is the tweet I came up with for Dr. Brinkley. The original assignment recommended using Twister for creating a fake Twitter tweet, but a quick internet search … Continue reading Dr John R Brinkley Social Media →

Well, it is week two of Digital Storytelling and the theme this week is Welcome To My Nightmare. Speaking of nightmares, last night I had one. I woke up heart a-pounding and yelling out as a zombie was eating my face. I think it used to really bother my wife when this happened, but now she just … Continue reading Welcome to my Nightmare →

Process: I found ten photos on my Facebook page I was willing to share in video form. I used Camtasia for editing. It is my go-to editor for quick and dirty, not-too-fancy video editing. I threw in a music snippet I had handy on my hard drive. Looped 12 seconds over and over for a … Continue reading Essence of Me – Daily Create No. 1328 →

For me, February 25, 1991 was an unforgettable day. It was on that day that I was stationed aboard the USS Missouri doing shore bombardment off the coast of Kuwait. Not only were we in an Iraqi minefield, but we were very close to shore. As we bombed the shore installations, the Kuwaiti oil wells were … Continue reading One Day in the Persian Gulf →

This fall, I am offering for the first time a course in digital storytelling. I have some online students and some face to face students. Since all of the activities are computer-based and shared online, I am working with the two groups together. In fact, we are collaborating with the DS106 group over at UMW. … Continue reading Tales from KSU →

This is a mash-up of six songs, one second each. In the classic sitcom episode WKRP in Cincinnati: The Contest Nobody Could Win, disk jockey Dr Johnny Fever accidentally promotes the entire year’s prize budget as the prize, instead of the $50 it was supposed to be, so they had to come up with a … Continue reading The Contest Nobody Could Win →

This is a visual communications assignment we are working on in my Digital Media 1 class. The idea is to take an ordinary road sign and reinterpret it to show what is going on beyond the sign’s borders. I love playing with negative space, so this is what I came up with on the falling … Continue reading Reimagined Roadsigns →