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For the first week of DS106 Goes to Work, I’ve asked students to be on the look out for things in their world that might benefit from a “storified” approach. This was deliberately left vague, and I …
A road is a rich visual metaphor, a path, a sense of adventure, leading you someplace, openness… but in the case of Cormac McCarthy’s book, it is also one dark view of the future of our quite/unquote civilization. The tale is usually described as grim. post-apocalyptic– and the setting …
This internet can be so recursive on itself. Nada Dabbagh, Professor & Director Division of Learning Technologies at George Mason University (she is the person who invited me to teach a DS106 class for GMU starting now) emailed about an ironic event in one of her classes. She has an …
Once upon a time not so long ago… or this week, there is a new course in digital storytelling. You are now in it.
As a guide to these weekly assignments posts, they are meant to provide everything you need to do for this unit, especially important for registered students. …
If you have been looking for a DS106 experience to join, your boat comes in March 18. That is when an online course I have been invited to teach in DS106 style starts. EDIT 572: Digital Audio/Video Design and Applications is part of a graduate certificate Instructional Design and Technology …
… set up a demo WordPress Blog for the new class of DS106 I am teaching, and informally theming as “DS106 Goes to Work”
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This is because the students in the George Mason University course I am teaching, are …
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For today’s ds106 Daily Create, Got CAPTCHArt? the challenge was to make some art out of those crazy “prove you are a human” devices.
Captchas are not quite as easy to find any more with interesting words. I …
This blog has been rekindled in preparation for the next ds106 class I am teaching, this time for George Mason University. The class is EDIT 572: Digital Audio/Video Design and Applications:
Provides basic knowledge of the range of capabilities of available audio and video design applications. Students learn to …
How do the elements of storytelling factor the communications and practices of business and industry?
This is the place where weekly assignments will be created for an online class I am teaching for the George Mason University Instructional Design and Technology Program (IDT). Students are full time workers in …
Todd Conaway created a masterful animated GIF, riffing from John Johnston.
I am concerned for Todd’s safety as seems to be not aware of the consequences of erasing history!
I think we’re gonna need a bigger GIF.…
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We were excited that SourceFabric asked to stream 2 hours of ds106 radio for their program for World Radio Day.
I got a smattering of suggestions interest in the google doc, but a big gold star sticker …
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February 13 is World Radio Day and ds106 is on it! Check it out! Tweet it Out! Broadcast it out!
It’s your internet! Keep it Free!
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Created by John Johnston for a Daily Create — see more details on the making of this video.…
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GNA had a good idea for the ds106 Daily Create scheduling…
@cogdog just rappin here… How would it be to have the daily create bot tweet out more than once a day? For multiple TZs (lifestyles)?
— GNA …
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To cap off a full weekend, after attending the SCC Tech Talks on Friday I headed north to Flagstaff to catch the show by Ira Glass at Northern Arizona University. The great irony is that I found out …
You may not have known this, but #ds106 has an automated help desk. https://t.co/W1gsQ4FFMX Thanks to @brlamb and @cogdog for inspiration
— Todd Conaway (@Todd_Conaway) January 29, 2014
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February 13, 2014 is World Radio Day a UNESCO Project aimed at making the world aware of the power of radio as a platform for change. Via our friends at SourceFabric (makers of the open source Airtime software), ds106 radio is going to be part of the SourceFabric Radio …
Click the little kicker to see her kick bigger
Don't Rage around Miss Cicely Alexander! This is a response to the Tate’s call for their 1840s GIF party — they have made images available from selected pieces of art from their 1840s room and inviting anyone to remix as a …
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Can You Dig It? (the original call sign)
January 23 marks the day in 2011 when a blog post from Grant Potter announced ds106 Radio. I hope people who have been part of the community before, or …
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But for a curious link click among the flow of twitter
Transom » Ira Glass: http://t.co/L3K9xKGU9a
— AWooldridge (storyt) (@storytellin) January 16, 2014
As my friend Darren Kuropotwa asked, I do not even know who “AWoolridge” is …
Of Course We’re Open, from a shop in Toronto
The Headless ds106 experiment we set up August-December 2013 had many successful points. Most was in the new influx of active participants, but the ending group project (not planned) was in terms of rich collaboration one of my peak ds106 …
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Two years ago today the ds106 Daily Create was launched with its first challenge, TDC1, “Create a Photograph that features a repeating pattern”. In honor of that, this is one of the rare times we repeat …
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Today’s ds106 Daily Create comes from Wikipedia’s page on surrealistic techniques:
“Create a Self Portrait Cubomania Style — Cubomania is a surrealist method of making collages in which a picture or image is cut into squares and the …
The GIFaChrome Party House Band, the music genius of David Kernohan and Vivien & Rolfe
I have no idea how to even blog what culminated today for headless ds106. Maybe it was because what was in the boxes. Trying to write this up sells it short. But one ought …
It’s almost here; a double headed blow out event that brings together 2 strands of Headless ds106 together. It’s a GIFtastic camera and a campfire! And we burn some old media!
You can tune into these LIVE on ds106 Radio.
The emergence of the GIFaChrome phenomena and its interest …
