by Epting & Brubaker, from Velvet #13
Sorry, no goofy video this week.
1/27-2/3
All work is due by midnight on Friday, 2/3
Thanks go out to the Writing Group for their input for this week!
Below is a detailed list of what’s to be completed this week.
To get…
I wrote a little about my thinking with Mission106 a while ago. I remember seeing The Avengers and The Prisoner in reruns when I was very young.Those were a couple of my favorite shows. It was sometime later that I found out about James Bond. The TV shows are …
The Daily Create today was to design a philosophTEE. “Make Sartre, Dammit!” was the first thing that came to mind, making a pun off of the longtime ds106 slogan, but I basically don’t know Jacques about Sartre. Then I thought, isn’t MOOC pioneer Stephen Downes a philosopher? His …
Why do all my classes use Twitter? #ds106
— Megan Carey (@megancarey95) January 13, 2017
It’s a fair question. I can’t speak for other classes, but in ds106 it is one of our main group conversation spaces. Since we don’t meet in person, we need a forum where we can …
1/17/17-1/20/17
All work is due by midnight on Friday, 1/20/17
Welcome to ds106! This first week is dedicated to getting set up: set up your domain and Web hosting; install your WordPress site; and create other social media accounts such as Twitter, Flickr, SoundCloud, YouTube, etc. Complete introductions via posts, …
We have a new edition of ds106 starting up: Mission 106. We’ll be taking our inspiration from the spy fiction genre in all its mutations, and making of it what we will. Make art, dammit! (TM) Everyone is welcome to join in. This will be a fun project because there …
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.
One of the presents I got …
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 wolf moon t-shirt?
“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?” My wife suggested The Ionic Bonds. I have a genetic …
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 there was no way I could come close to that …
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 canvas, as the saying goes. If that’s the case, you …
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 14, 2016
I see this as a real-life information …
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 and group projects. You’ve connected different stories. Now we’re going …
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 an assignment that gave you trouble? Something that you had …
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 your video making–do not get caught up in the …
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 together.
For starters, read Roger Ebert’s How the Read a …
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 all seriousness, the show was well thought-out and well done. …
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 radio shows that were created last week will be broadcast …
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 project. You will have two weeks to complete the project, …
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. So obviously something needs to be done about this …
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 color, font, iconography, etc.
We’ve put together a page that …
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 Farm
Mother Night
Player Piano
The Wizard of Oz…
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 much more manageable. So that’s what they did, and they …
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
What we saw, so to speak, over and over again, …
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 the words and tone of voice to include sound effects, …
Penrose lego CC2007 Erik Johansson
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 a blog post (tag:…
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, 2016
I thought that would have been a great idea …
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 end. He used the Online Flag Waver to do …
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 in my head, with the canned music and …
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 of the powers of tagging posts.
from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question_(comics)
It’s …
