Daily Create #tdc1581 challenged users to use online text logo design tool MarkMaker to create a personal logo. I have been so engaged in the development of my digital ego – the graphic novel librarian – that I thought it would be cool to have a loge. Playing with the MarkMarker tool was fun – it is […]

I wanted to practice with some more photo editing and decided to take on an extra visual assignment to tryout Pixlr, which I have read is a powerful free and online photo editing tool. I was drawn to Visual Assignment 559: Creep on a Movie Scene, because I love Star Wars remixes. I decided to […]

I have a little cartoon I like to draw and his name is Rex Patrick. When I saw today’s daily create challenging us to create a drawing using Triangulart I knew I would have to try to make Rex. I like the simple nature of this program and it was fun to experiment. I wish there […]

I am so excited for the new downtown to DIA train that is opening in Denver CO, on April 22nd. The Daily Create assessment tdc1530 ask to make a gif, with a caption, from the classic silent movie “The Great Train Robbery”, here is my response:   I had to make some difficult decisions for this […]

This week I decided to tackle Daily Create #1522: Make a Sign For Your Randomly Generated Ranch Name. I think using name generators then having to create something form the name is an awesome idea, I could see doing this exact activity with my students and extending the activity to having the farm be a […]

I love The Big Lebowski and one question keeps drawing me back into the movie every time I see it is – What is The Stranger doing in L.A.? Is he on the run? Does he have family in town? Is this his vacation? But I never find a satisfying answer. The ds106 design assignment […]

I have been anticipating/dreading the creation of gifs as expand my experience in the creation of digital stories. I think gifs are great ways to express quick thoughts or stories but I also think the format seem imposing to create. I saw this gif daily create and thought it was a great opportunity to practice creating […]

*I have been reading and critiquing digital comics, for my Master level studies, in a continuing series to develop my exposure to and understanding of this New Literacy Last week I reviewed Mark Waid’s talk at the 2013 O’Reilly Media’s Tools of Change for Publishing Conference, in his talk Waid discuses and presents some examples of the digital comics that he and his […]

I am a teacher – I make word problems for breakfast. So when I saw this daily create challenge to make a cowboy word problem I knew that I could nail it. I found the perfect image, font and problem to convey my western theme, and the problem itself is straight out of my lesson plans […]

I feel that I am not old enough yet to be getting spam for burial life insurance but I guess I am wrong. I when dumpster diving in my spam folder to find something interesting for an audio creation assignment, that ask I record and transform a piece of spam. Interesting I think I found: […]

I could not reset the opportunity to change the dialog in a comic for a daily create challenge. I had thought about making the Jesse James character speak as if he were the professional wrestler Jesse James. but when I looked at the comic I knew there was only one way to change the set up. I […]

I began my survey of digital comics by looking at comics created specifically for the digital world. Comics that could only exist in on the infinite canvas of the digital world. As a comic reader, however, these comics are outliers in the set of titles I read. I generally still read comics that are produced […]

I wanted to find a way to highlight the relationship between cowboy and horse for this daily create challenge. My wife suggested incorporating the  horse with beautiful hair meme, I used MakeAMeme.org to create this image and it could not have been simpler. I searched for the horse image, added text and downloaded the image. […]

Coffee is a way of life for some and is right at the beginning of many people’s day. I love to use my french press in the morning and the steps involved have very much become the foundation of my morning routine. Out of bed, grind the beans, jump in the shower while water boils, get […]

I have a lot of fun with my video assignment. I was still very pumped by the Broncos Super Bowl victory and used this as an opportunity to step out of my comfort zone by trying some new things and celebrating my favorite team.  Learning the signs needed for my message was hard, I had […]

I loved going to Beau Jo’s pizza in Idaho Springs when I was little. I still can’t resist the lure of a mountain pie whenever I am on 70 going past Idaho Springs. Hell I think the third exit-ramp into Idaho Springs is solely there for people who changed their minds and are going back for […]

I have these two Broncos helmets that I thought would be perfect for the big car little car daily create. I also am trying to expand my digital prowess with these projects, so I decided to digitally create a Payton Manning jersey for my cowboy/Manning stand-in.

I choose to try out Troll Quotes for my Visual assignment. I had a quick idea of what I wanted to mash together but the creation process was fun and I went though many versions. Here is what I settled on:

Hello, I decided, this week, to take on a daily create challenge to design a new cattle brand. I chose to make a brand with the letter D and B from my name but also the Denver Broncos! This was a lot of fun and crazy how many different attempts I made even though I […]

This guy! I had so much fun with my first Daily Create. The first challenge I saw and the one that sucked me in was to imagine a colorful cow, and the disco cow popped into my head. I did this on Wednesday but it has taken me a few days to get my WordPress blog going, […]