Brilliant Prezi on Storytellers’ Secrets

Brilliant Prezi on Storytellers’ Secrets

by Cheryl Colan

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January 21, 2016

So check out what was waiting for me in my email inbox this morning – this gorgeous presentation on The Storyteller’s Secret by Carmine Gallo (or view at the source): How could I not share this bag o’ gold with … Continue reading →
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A study in one-eyed fat man motion

by Cheryl Colan

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January 18, 2016

Let’s make a #western106 GIF today. Inspiration A Western that I do really like is True Grit. I like the 1969 film and the 2010 version. There is a scene where Mattie and LeBoeuf watch from a cliff as “Rooster” Cogburn takes on Ned … Continue reading →
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Western-Challenged: Starting from Nothin’

by Cheryl Colan

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January 18, 2016

Because I have a need to reignite my creative self, I saddled up with the Western106 folk. Then I promptly blew off the first week because work was busy, my feline companion is having health issues, and mainly because when asked to … Continue reading →
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Our Bunkhouse Is a Treehouse

by Cheryl Colan

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June 8, 2012

Just a quick screenshot from #mONkEyhouse106 in Camp Magic MacGuffin. I’m still mostly hopeless in Minecraft but my bunk mates built an entire tree house. Not everyone came to tonight’s social but those who did learned a ton! Led by … Continue reading →
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A Family Legend

by Cheryl Colan

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May 24, 2012

I recorded this just before hitting the bunk bed in my cabin at Camp Magic MacGuffin, a family legend about my dad. I saw him pick up a handful of dirt and crush it into a rock. I have the … Continue reading →
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Potential of You and Me

by Cheryl Colan

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May 23, 2012

This is what I see on my keyboard while listening to #ds106radio from work. Tripper Harrison is spinning some lovely today through the Magic Macguffin PA system.
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The Daily Create: Tell a Joke

by Cheryl Colan

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January 27, 2012

Instructions: Record a video of yourself telling a joke. Don’t read it – tell it. Fortunately this joke arrived in my inbox two days ago courtesy of my mom. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have had a joke to tell!
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How to completely freak out your spouse

by Cheryl Colan

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December 31, 2011

Buy some black rice because it’s as good for you as brown rice and higher in antioxidants. While making it for dinner, accidentally spill a few uncooked grains on the floor. Looks like rat turds. There will be panic! What … Continue reading →
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My Own Forever Ago

by Cheryl Colan

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September 19, 2011

Michael Branson Smith kicked off the Fall 2011 #ds106 with High School Is Everyone’s Forever Ago. It’s his beautiful self-introduction, well thought out, great story, and includes a photo of him from the 80s, and a portion of a passed … Continue reading →
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Introducing the York Biscuit

by Cheryl Colan

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July 7, 2011

Most of the students within our Study Abroad program are in Paris right now. Two students, my mother being one of them, chose not to go to Paris, and it was my duty to stay behind and lead them on … Continue reading →
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Deadline

by Cheryl Colan

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June 30, 2011

@DailyShoot – #ds592 – What’s the first thing you think of when you hear the word “deadline”? #ds106 This is actually the second thing I thought of, July first, my imminent departure for the United Kingdom, and all the things … Continue reading →
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Illlustrated Design Principles

by Cheryl Colan

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June 29, 2011

These design principles are found in Molly Bang’s book, Picture This. This book not only gives design principles and examples, but also presents them so you can visually understand what is communicated to the viewer through pictures. I recommend this … Continue reading →
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DS106 Radio Bumper, Students

by Cheryl Colan

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June 29, 2011

I made a #ds106 radio bumper, my first (already have an idea for the second)! I kind of cheated, because most of the audio was recorded and mixed by a professional at a real studio back in 2001 (backstory and … Continue reading →
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My Exquisite Corpse

by Cheryl Colan

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June 29, 2011

This is an exquisite corpse made up of different images representing important parts of my life over the last several years. It represents my development over about the last four years. Among other things, I started growing my own food, … Continue reading →
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Required Viewing

by Cheryl Colan

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June 28, 2011

Well, required unless you are easily offended or prudish I guess. Maybe this would be best when we hit video assignment week. But because #ds106 is having this discussion about what media can be, I feel strongly that you should … Continue reading →
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I can read American Beauty

by Cheryl Colan

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June 28, 2011

Here’s my take on the #ds106 “I Can Read Movies” design assignment. I tried to riff off of the work and aesthetic of spacesick as instructed in the assignment, and to me that meant bring in a simple pattern and … Continue reading →
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Three

by Cheryl Colan

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June 28, 2011

@DailyShoot – #ds589 – Make a photo around the number three today. So what are the three? Well in my mind, they are the Devil’s Claw (an Arizona plant I’ve always loved), the dried gourd, and the eye of the … Continue reading →
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My Head Is Exploding

by Cheryl Colan

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June 27, 2011

I really love Tim Owens’ We Are All Artists post and audio discussion, for so many reasons. How long you got? First, YES. Accept that creativity is a skill, not a genetic or divine predetermination, and that with practice you … Continue reading →
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Reimagined Road Sign Tutorial

by Cheryl Colan

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June 27, 2011

I know we are past the visual assignments week in #ds106, but since I submitted the Reimagined Road Signs visual assignment, I should provide some how to. I am also using this post to submit my fourth visual assignment, which … Continue reading →
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Monochromatic

by Cheryl Colan

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June 27, 2011

@DailyShoot – #ds588 – Make a monochromatic photo. My mother-in-law’s embroidered rendition of basil.
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Attraction

by Cheryl Colan

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June 26, 2011

@DailyShoot – #ds587 – Make a photograph today that illustrates attraction. My big fluffy cat is attracted to the lap of anyone wearing black.
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Bear with me, this is a journey

by Cheryl Colan

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June 25, 2011

I have fallen in love with Tim Owens’ Averaging Concepts using Flickr visual assignment. I liked it so much I did it before #ds106 Summer of Oblivion even started. Then today came Lou McGill’s post Layers, which took the idea … Continue reading →
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Album Cover Visual Assignment

by Cheryl Colan

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June 25, 2011

This image is a derivative work based on Chinese New Year by Brian Yap, available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license. Here is what the original looked like. My random wiki page gave me “Tellef Wagle” as the band … Continue reading →
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I’ve got your inspiration right here

by Cheryl Colan

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June 25, 2011

My friend Valdez of Wreck and Salvage is a genius and a quintuple black belt ninja in the art of remix. The #ds106 community needs to know he’s out there (if they don’t already). Be inspired, this is so very … Continue reading →
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Digital Storytelling Field Notebook

by Cheryl Colan

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June 24, 2011

@DailyShoot – #ds586 – “Make a photograph of two complementary objects arranged to show their relationship to each other.” My daily shoot today isn’t all that visually. I admit to being tired, cranky and possessed of a terrible headache. But … Continue reading →
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Auspicious

by Cheryl Colan

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June 24, 2011

How auspicious is it that this video was posted the day #ds106 began? Everything is a Remix Part 3 from Kirby Ferguson on Vimeo. Creativity isn’t magic. Part three of this four-part series explores how innovations truly happen. To support … Continue reading →
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Have You Seen This Man?

by Cheryl Colan

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June 23, 2011

Please download and print this flyer (PDF) and post. The #ds106 course must go on. Update (June 23, 2011 8pm MST): I noticed earlier that Teddy Broosevelt appropriated the image I made for this poster design in his design assignment. … Continue reading →
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Plugin Advice

by Cheryl Colan

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June 23, 2011

I don’t think Dr. Oblivion (wherever he may be) or Jim Groom mentioned having a plugin to back up your WordPress database. Ideally you’ll want to know how to do it via your cPanel or php mySQL but the wp-db-backup … Continue reading →
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Bleepity Bleep Booop

by Cheryl Colan

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June 23, 2011

In case you’re confused by the post title, that’s me swearing. Back in April sometime, this site suffered one of those evil eval(base64_decode hacks. I cleaned up as best I could but today I realized I had left some of … Continue reading →
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A Pair of Things

by Cheryl Colan

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June 22, 2011

@dailyshoot – #ds584 – Make a photo of a pair of subjects today. Why these Things? I’m thinking about taking them to the United Kingdom with me as my travel buddies for July. They don’t eat much and they fit … Continue reading →
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