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  10. cogdog

    Week 6: It’s All Designed

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    | Spring 2013 Assignments, Station Announcements
    February 18, 2013
    We’ve wrapped up our week on visual storytelling and photography, and this week we’re diving into design. It’s not always clear where the line is, but design storytelling involves more creating and modifying in graphics software program, and focuses on key characteristics of color, form, shape, typography, etc. cc licensed...
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  17. cogdog

    10 Ways You Can Be Part of ds106 Without any Cruddy MOOC Drop Out Feeling

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    | Station Announcements
    January 31, 2013
    cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by dmixo6 For open participants in ds106, we can dispense of the entire “I dropped out of another &$*#ing MOOC” because there is nothing to drop out from. No one-pace-for-all ramming speed schedule, no weekly lectures, no multiple guess quizzes. We have a very easy to understand Getting Started Guide, itself with not one way to do this course but TWO, the Fast And Easy Way and the Blogging Way. But here are ten things you can do to be part of ds106, without even signing up. How massively un MOOC is that? (1) Do one daily create a week. Just because it says daily does not require you to do it every day, it requires us to publish one every day! Each day at 10:00 AM EST, a brand new creative challenge, none of which should take more than ...
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  18. cogdog

    ds106 Show: Week 3 Episode

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    | Station Announcements, The ds106 Show
    January 29, 2013
    Can you believe bootcamp is over? We celebrate this week on the the ds106 show with a show all about exploring storytelling, with a few special guests from the internet. Here is the full, archived show. Wow was it packed! Great discussion, student participation This week we review the accomplishments...
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  20. cogdog

    Open Lab Week 2

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    | Open Lab, Station Announcements
    January 24, 2013
    cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by tk-link Among the beakers and titrations, I will be reviewing the wordpress theme, plugin, and widget modifications students are exploring this week. Then I will crack open the dangerous chemicals and create some animated GIFs. And here is the...
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  23. cogdog

    From the Open Lab: Week 1

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    | Open Lab, Station Announcements
    January 17, 2013
    This video recording is the first Open Lab session for week 1 of ds106, Spring 2013. In the hour, I covered the set up of subdomains on UMW Domains, installing WordPress, and some basic wordpress skills of creating categories, changing the blog name, setting permalink structure, quick editing posts, customizing...
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  25. cogdog

    ds106 Show: Week 1 Episode

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    | Station Announcements, The ds106 Show
    January 15, 2013
    This was the launch of the show, not everything quite worked technology wise (see below), but the participation, discussion, idas from new students was fantastic. I had thought I could push out YouTube videos for everyone to see in Google Hangout, but it seems to require viewers to install the...
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  27. cogdog

    Self Introduction for ds106 Students

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    | Station Announcements
    January 13, 2013
    Just so my students who start ds106 starting tomorrow know who they are dealing with! There is still time to drop, ha ha. At 13 some minutes, its longer than I thought I was making. And this should be the last such me talking to you via a web cam video. At ds106, we don’t do lectures as video. Next out is a a post on ds106 with details for their first week assignment, and by tomorrow I hope most of them are firing off their domain setups so we can get to blog publishing my mid week. I filmed this directly into iMovie; my first try was using PhotoBooth but the video quality was horribly out of sync. I made a studio setup in my office using natural window sidelight and then bounced it to the other side with a reflector hung from my tripod. The remaining videos will ...
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  28. cogdog

    ds106 Work That in[SPIRE]s

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    | Station Announcements
    January 3, 2013
    This is something we usually ask our students to do near the end of the semester that we did not do for Fall of 2012… and in fact, I think its best done outside the scope of the class. It’s also something that any interested person who looks at, participates,...
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  29. cogdog

    ds106 GIFfest

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    | Station Announcements, Syndicated
    December 19, 2012
    It was two years ago when ds106 was born- and one of the most magical parts was the spontaneous combustion/eruption of people experimenting with new forms of animated gifs. With my semester of teaching ds106 ending and most others going more into goofy relax mode, I wondered about launching some sort of “event” just for people who might want to gather and do some creating of art, eh? Grant Potter shared a link to a nifty online GIF Festival, and thus, I said, why not do it around ds106? Grant has already started a GIFfestivus and has Andy Fograve. So here we go, this is how I suggest we celebrate GIFs around ds106. There are no rules. There are no prizes. Just make ‘em, blog, em, and share ‘em. Do as many as you can by the end of the year. Spend your holidays GIFwrapping. I’ve modded the ds106 assignment ...
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