“Straight down the line”

“Straight down the line”

by paul bond

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December 29, 2016

For today’s Daily Create, the challenge was to make a movie quote infographic. My initial thought was “We’re gonna need a bigger boat,” but the output would end up being as inelegant as some of the examples from Flowing Data. … Continue reading →
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Bark at the moon

by paul bond

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December 21, 2016

I had never heard of a MoonTubeShot. Props to @NomadWarMachine for making it a Daily Create. It’s a cool effect, and I especially like the low-tech angle. I think a moon needs context though. And what better than the three … Continue reading →
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Anatomy of a Daily Create

by paul bond

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December 14, 2016

“What would the name of your band be?” Paul’s rule number 1 for the Daily Create: If you don’t have an idea, ask someone else. Today’s challenge was, “If you were a musician, what would your debut album look like?” … Continue reading →
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The good years

by paul bond

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December 8, 2016

Yesterday’s Daily Create challenge was to make an infographic of a song. I had seen people do this before. My personal favorite was the flowchart for Devo’s Whip It. Unfortunately I don’t know who gets credit for this. I knew … Continue reading →
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That’s the idea

by paul bond

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November 18, 2016

So far, only a few people have blogged about their project ideas. It is possible that people are just putting it off, but it could also be that people are struggling for ideas. Nothing is more intimidating than a blank … Continue reading →
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ds106 sets the record straight

by paul bond

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November 14, 2016

Someone in my Twitterverse retweeted a Washington Post article on the fake news problem that’s been going around. Google’s top news link for “final election results” goes to a fake news site with false numbershttps://t.co/tlYX4eJWTq — Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November … Continue reading →
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Week 12: The final countdown

by paul bond

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November 11, 2016

Final Project Due Friday, 12/9, by midnight. For your final project, you are going to tell a story across multiple categories of media. You’ve done writing, photography, audio, video and design. You’ve remixed and mashed up. You’ve done big projects … Continue reading →
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Week 11: Remix & Mashup

by paul bond

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November 4, 2016

11/4/16 – 11/11/16 Make a Tutorial This week’s main focus will be on mashups and remixes, but we also need to make tutorials. You may have noticed these in the Assignment Bank. Some assignments have them, some don’t. Was there … Continue reading →
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Week 10: Making movies

by paul bond

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October 28, 2016

We are doing a second week of video though. We’re bringing it all together in these last few weeks. This is almost entirely taken from the Open ds106 Unit 10: Video the ds106 Way Focus on the storytelling aspect of … Continue reading →
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Week 9: Reading movies

by paul bond

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October 21, 2016

10/21 – 10/28 Reading movies This week we’re moving from audio to video. We’ve been looking at related aspects – photography, sound, design – all along, but now we’re going to look at cinematic camerawork, and how it all comes … Continue reading →
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Radio shows – round one

by paul bond

| Syndicated
October 19, 2016

Our first round of ds106 radio shows went very well. We started off with ds106 News Radio, which covered a number of important and highly relevant topics #ds106 Oh god not the clowns — Maureen (@gingerchic21) October 19, 2016 In … Continue reading →
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Week 8: Broadcast and Web Storytelling

by paul bond

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October 14, 2016

10/14/16 – 10/21/16 Everyone worked through major projects these past weeks, so we’re going to reflect on what the class has accomplished. Radio Shows Broadcasting Schedule Tuesday – Wednesday – Schedule will be updated after the shows are in. The … Continue reading →
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Weeks 6 & 7: The return of radio

by paul bond

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September 30, 2016

9/30/16 – 10/14/15 For weeks 6 and 7 we will be working on producing radio shows. The shows will be broadcast on ds106radio the week after they are due. Group Radio Show Guidelines The radio show will be a group … Continue reading →
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Clown Stoppers

by paul bond

| Syndicated
September 29, 2016

I heard today that the clowns have migrated all the way up to upstate NY, which is only 3 hours from most of my family. Last week I heard about a school going to lockdown due to a clown threat. … Continue reading →
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Week 5: It’s all by design

by paul bond

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September 23, 2016

9/23/16 – 9/30/16 All work is due by midnight on 9/30/16 Week 5 will be focused on design. For this week you will be ramping up your command of image editing as well as closely considering design elements such as … Continue reading →
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Listen to the Limetown, part III

by paul bond

| Syndicated
September 21, 2016

In listening to Limetown over the past few evenings, I’m struck by the references to other works. I wrote about three movies earlier. Off the top of my head, I remember these: The Little Foxes City Lights Double Indemnity Animal … Continue reading →
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Limetown listen-along, part II

by paul bond

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September 20, 2016

We’ve been listening to Limetown during our ds106radio tweet-alongs. So far, we’ve heard: The show is very cinematic. This makes sense, since the creators are two film school grads. Making a movie takes major money, but making a podcast is … Continue reading →
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“You put the lime in the coconut…”

by paul bond

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September 19, 2016

We had a great first night of live-tweeting #ds106radio on Monday, with 13 listeners at one point. #ds106radio is the #citizensband internet radio space – love seeing folks use it still #ds106 pic.twitter.com/Nso9bgLARj — Grant Potter (@grantpotter) September 20, 2016 … Continue reading →
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Week 4: Audio

by paul bond

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September 16, 2016

Just a little audio experiment I did a while ago, thinking about the changing sounds of the web. 9/16/16 – 9/23/16 All work is due by midnight on 9/23/16 This week we will dig into audio storytelling. That goes beyond … Continue reading →
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Week Three: Photography

by paul bond

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September 9, 2016

9/9-9/16 All work is due by midnight on Friday, 9/16 This week we will be exploring visual elements of storytelling. Think about the Visuals of Storytelling: Review the following materials about photography and using visual elements to create stories. Write … Continue reading →
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Awesome moments of spontaneous creativity

by paul bond

| Syndicated
September 8, 2016

Sometimes they happen. ds106 is fertile ground for them. This morning I saw this tweet: In an office? Celebrate #StarTrek50 by pretending you’re under attack and all falling to one side then another. pic.twitter.com/hY2kjfjOrf — David Schneider (@davidschneider) September 8, … Continue reading →
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Now let’s take over the world.

by paul bond

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September 7, 2016

One of the many awesome things about ds106 is the way the community’s creations become a constant source of inspiration. Evan posted a great Inkscape tutorial on making a flag, and added an animation of the flag waving at the … Continue reading →
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“It’s the logical thing to do”

by paul bond

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September 5, 2016

As I was reading “A Logic Named Joe,” I thought there should a marketing campaign to promote this product. I thought of a commercial jingle: For anything you need to know You can ask Joe! and I can hear it … Continue reading →
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All the questions…

by paul bond

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September 4, 2016

One of the things we did this week was come up with questions about the Internet. Below I’ve pulled together most, if not all, of them. If people tagged their posts correctly, finding their questions was fairly easy. That’s one … Continue reading →
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Adding the Hypothesis plugin

by paul bond

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September 2, 2016

You can add a plugin to WordPress for Hypothesis. To do that, go into your WordPress dashboard to add a new plugin: On the following screen, search for Hypothesis: Use the Install Now button to install the plugin. Then click … Continue reading →
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Why the Internet?

by paul bond

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August 25, 2016

Why are we using the Internet as a theme? I started thinking about this idea a few months ago, when I came across the article “The true promise of Interactive Computing: Leveraging our Collective IQ.” I started thinking about how … Continue reading →
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“Blackbird fly…”

by paul bond

| Syndicated
August 20, 2016

For today’s Daily Create we had to “Remix the Twitter Bird into an unusual location.” The bird led to The Birds, naturally, and no doubt inspired by gifmaster Michael Branson Smith’s Hitchcock effort. When I googled the Twitter logo and … Continue reading →
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test assignment post

by paul bond

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August 16, 2016

test assignment post
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ds106 Fall 2016

by paul bond

| Syndicated
August 16, 2016

The syllabus for the Fall 2016 ds106 course is now online.
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Internet 106

by paul bond

| Syndicated
August 2, 2016

ds106 is right around the corner, so I better start blogging about it again. I had a bunch of ideas about what to do this semester. I thought of using a superhero theme, something I still might run with at … Continue reading →
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