Transmedia storytelling tells a story across varies platforms with the goal of engaging the audience. Air Media has provided a list of transmedia stories that have received recognition and Kevin Moloney sums up the essence and goal of transmedia journalism in his blog dedicated to the practice. The Blair Witch Project is a 1999 American horror film written and directed by ...

I wanted to touch base – As many of you know I was unable to come to class last week due to an emergency. Despite my California experience ending in a “bang” I was able to participate or attend several interesting conferences pertaining to our class. In LA I got a scholarship to go to ...

Hello Peeps, writing from sunny, sunny California. Just spent the week at the AERA (American Education Research Association) conference and saw as one might expect some fascinating presentations on technology and the future of education. The bay area breaths the internet and it makes for a very inspiring atmosphere. I was invited to go to a presentation on ...

Last night I went to a monthly meetup (anyone can register) called Storycode. This is a group of people who are interested in exploring new ways of telling stories often using digital media and transmedia storytelling tactics. Jon Vidal  was one of the presenters and he started the award winning project The Tiziano Project which goes to ...

Check out Prof Michael’s last post – Puppet Trolls including a detailed post about green screen in imovie. Check back later … Here’s another example of a digital storytelling: The New Yorker published an amazing data visualization this week - Inequality and the New York Subways . It maps the average house hold income by subway stop. Last week we began the process of creating mockumentaries. Spinning ...

Hello – I’m excited to have moved on to video – good stuff. So this week, you are once again expected to complete ten stars from the video bin including the video blitz we completed: One Archetype, Five movies, Five seconds which is worth 3 stars. I just posted another mashup idea x vs x. I ...

Jim Groom several weeks ago blogged about how stupid stuff is what engages us. He recounts a situation in which one of the DS106 assignments he had completed – a gif made in Excel – of a pong game went viral on reddit in a completely different context from the one in which it had been created. It ...

Amanda Palmer talks about alternate forms of cultural funding – crowdfunding and the art of asking for help. Sometimes when we ask we are actually including people in our artistic process – we are asking them to become part of the vision and this can create community and a sense of empowerment. The problem as ...

hi! So DS106 radio was chaos … with all the technical issues I was glad we made it on air at all. I learned a lot and think we should do it again. Maybe completely live next time! I wanted to take a moment to post some of our radio segments. It would be great to get ...

So, today was exciting! It was great to see the whole room buzzing with ideas and creative collaborations brewing – and I’m really excited to see how your radio shows come out. If you were absent please contact me and I’ll try to place you in a group … So, in addition to the clarifications and lovely, sparkly ...

So, I wanted to share some audio resources and thoughts … oh and the homework … Please do 10 stars worth of assignments from the sound bin … you may as usual do any of the assignments you wish but if you are in the mood to make me happy I’ve submitted two assignments: audio ...