Ugh. I admit I was not crazy about today’s ds106 Daily Create, a video challenge:
Video yourself singing a verse of your national anthem as fast as you can.
Thanks Bill Smith, cannot wait to see YOUR video! Someone who’s identity I will protect emailed me and yelled …
Today’s ds106 daily create challenge is writing a Haiku- thats pretty easy, cram something into a 3 line poem, of 7-5-7 format. The prompt is:
Write a nonpolitical haiku about your nation’s head of state.
So how can you do this? You can play with the idea of who …
Today’s ds106 Daily Create was another video one, these are the kind that make the weak run for the hills crying “Mommy! Video is so complicated…”
Make a stop motion movie that brings something to life in a unique way.
I actually may have never done a stop motion …
Did you think I fell of the challenge? Well maybe I did, with guests in the last week, but I am not a quitter or a crybaby, and I am on track to pick up the pace of daily creates from the last few days.
Maybe it’s the impeding headless ds106 course coming next month, or maybe it’s just the phases of the moon, but I felt the rekindled urge to experimenting once again with making animated GIFs from a sequence of still photos. This happens in two ways: (1) I anticipate an action …
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In today’s ds106 Daily Create Challenge, we take up the writing pen and the memory box.
Describe a recurring dream you had as a kid. Give an update as if the dream comes back.
My mind …
Credit to Todd Conaway…
Today’s ds106 Daily Create Challenge was a photographic one, a low perspective one:
Take a photograph from the perspective of an earthworm.
I found the worm in a pretty special place.
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My friend Jonah and I were …
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Today’s Daily Create was a photography challenge:
Make a photo of what friendship mean to you.
Simple. We don;t let other weirdos try to define kinds of friendship, friendship is what it is.
I was not even …
We may regret the visuals, but the dog is out of the bag…
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I’v just written up a bit of information about the Fall 2013 Headless ds106 — essentially, we will be publishing a …
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Since January 2011 ds106 has been taught at University of Mary Washington (UMW) and other institutions as a course for credit but also has at the same time been open to participants from the web. …
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Please Note: This is not an official course anywhere, but an experiment in offering a full ds106 experience to open participants based on previous syllabi of sections taught at the University of Mary Washington (UMW). If …
Grim news Daily Create challenge, a writing one today:
Write Your Own Tw-Obituary (your life in less than 140 characters)
Another Hat Tip to the Urban Dictionary: “Your life’s work summed up in 140 characters or less. Just the right size for a gravestone perhaps?”
Mine is a …
More than halfway through Daily Create a Day in July, and here we are at another writing challenge, really an easy peasy one:
Write a limerick about someone famous. Like really famous.
So who do you look up to more, who could be not more widely known, than your …
Rather fitting for the idea of doing a Daily Create bootcamp this month, today’s was a video challenge (which means most people go hide under the bed):
Make an Exercise Video for a Common Every Day Activity (e.g washing dishes)
The point is to apply the genre of exercise videos, …
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Today’s ds106 Daily Create challenge is a writing one based on the brevity of twitter:
Write a story dialogue in 5 half-twits (lines that are 70 characters each)
The Urban Dictionary defines a Half-Twit as “A 70-character …
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It is going to be hard to top this headline… but that is the goal of today’s ds106 Daily Create, a writing challenge:
Write a tabloid headline for ds106 and the opening sensational paragraph
Tabloids, oh yeah. My …
I’ve just got one week’s reading and discussion in, but I am enjoying the reading group that Ben Rimes has organized as Book CLub 106 (yes the connection to ds106 may be a thread, but it works for me!).
I do not think I have ever been part of any …
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Today’s ds106 Daily Create is a Drawing challenge, for which, as usual I reach for the Paper 53 app on my iPad.
Make a detailed drawing of one of your own eyes.
My plan was to take …
Today’s ds106 Daily Create Challenge is a video one:
Uh Oh, Today is the 13th. Make a video of you avoiding a superstition.
It might not be majorly superstitious since its not Friday, which usually calls for insolent ignorant teenagers and a monster in the lake.
I decided to …
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Today’s ds106 Daily Create Challenge was a photographic one:
I’ve Been Down So Long… Take a Photo that represents the essence of Blues music
I wrote this one in myself, metaphoric challenges are some of the more …
All the news that is fit to make up…
Today’s Daily Create Challenge was writing something by remixing content from different sources:
Find 3 news stories. Use words from second paragraph of each, make 3 stanzas of 3 lines, …
This week on Stranger Than Nature, your host, Nigel K. Levine, is deep in the jungle of Hokkaido, to film the flying mythical creature rumored to live here, Felinus Poptartus…
Yes, today’s Daily Create challenge was another video one, two in a row, will the weak survive? For today the …
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Universities better get on the MOOC bus, because it is leaving the station…
Coursera as LMS. Blackboard as MOOC. Fuck this ed-tech stuff. Seriously.
— Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) July 10, 2013
"marketing was the main reason his institution …
Today’s ds106 Daily Create was a video challenge- I expect the weak to fall away. Videos are not all that big deal, and properly planned, they can be a one take shoot and upload, easily done from a smart phone.
For today we had to forecast ourselves into the …
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Today’s ds106 Daily Create was a drawing one
Today is the Eighth of July. Make an artistic drawing using only figure eights
I’m to blame for this one- wanted to avoid an American bias for July 4 so …
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Today’s ds106 Daily Create is another photo challenge – “Make a photo pairing of your neatest and messiest spaces”
These are both images of my spare bedroom/office. I keep one side neat for guests, but the desk is …
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Six days in the July 2013 Daily Create Challange, 6 done. The challenge is simple- try to do as many Daily Creates as you can. No shame or MOOC dropout apologies if you don;t do the am all. …
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U-G-L-Y!
The fifth of the #ds106 Daily Create Summer challenges was — challenging. Today’s was a writing assignment:
Write about something ugly — war, fear, hate, cruelty — but find the beauty …
I am running string for the ds106 Daily Create Summer Challenge- I’m gonna do every day! Today’s was a video challenge:
Multitask! Make a video of you doing three or more tasks at the same time.
As a note, our Daily Create site has not been able to …
