TDC 149 – Six Past the Hour
The Daily Create for Tuesday, June 5th was to take an image from wherever you were at 6 past each hour. Even though I set my iPhone alarm for 6 past each hour, I managed to miss a few during … Continue reading →
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Letter Home ; Week 3
Whoop Whoop Mommie, Made it through another week of camp. I know your missing me extremely bad. This week at camp, we learned a lot about picture, and how to make pictures better. You know how much I love to take pictures so here’s all the picture that I took this week.. (don’t worry, you’ll ... -
Making Pictures Better
Week 3 has went extremely well. Learned a lot of new things about becoming a better photographer and how to make simple changes to make a better picture. Let me share with you some of things I learned. One thing I learned was you can make a picture better by getting into silly positions. That ... -
Caught mid action
It’s been interesting to see what effects I can get to enhance a moving image. It wasn’t quite ‘caught’ mid action as this scalextrix train was evidently on the move in the pic (the idea was to freeze the face behind it instead). But by adding intelligent blur and asking the software to enhance the […]
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Demotivation, anyone?
It was great fun making my own demotivating poster using these instructions and it appealed to my cynical side. I thought that the photo I took of the archer at a medieval reenactment might come in handy at some point and here we are, the perfect metaphor. The second line was more of a challenge – I […]
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A Whole New World
This challenge is about placing members of your family in a world that’s too big for them. I chose to place my mum next to some daffodils. The two photos were taken metres apart within seconds, but in this photo they juxtapose well. I used this video from Serif’s own bank of tutorials to help […]
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Turning a photo into a drawing
Task for digital storytelling course DS106 was to transform a photo into a drawing. Here’s the original – I chose a photo that meant something to me (this is a friend’s baby) and that had plenty of light and dark areas. Using Serif PhotoPlus (don’t ask, it came with my computer), I wanted to […]
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Visual Assignment–Time of Day and TDC 149
My second attempt at one of the Visual Assignments from the DS106 repository is Time of Day, which appealed to me because of the image appearance and because I wanted to try some more work with layers and combining photographs. Take a picture of the same spot outside several times in a day, then merge ... -
TED Talk: “APOPcalypse”
I took this class, I worked with this guy. Epic. Jim Groom talks about the crisis narrative in pop culture and how it relates to education. He discusses the ground-breaking class DS106 and how students become informed, empowered citizens of … Continue reading → -
The new audience for stories
The best storytelling on the web won’t come from the author. That’s the lesson for me coming out of Bryan Alexander’s fascinating book and post on the subject of digital storytelling. When a book is published, it grows little angel wings and flies out into the world. It might have 4999 little brothers and sisters […]
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Visual Assignment 1 — An Album Cover
An Album Cover — DS106 Assignment here So here’s something fun for everyone to do, should be quick and easy, but try to make it pretty. First, go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RandomThe title of the article is now the name of your band. Swiss Emigration to Russia is my band name Next, go here: http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 Go to ... -
Troll Quotes
For this assignment, I found an image of a (fairly) well known figure, Coco Chanel. Then, I added a quote by Marilyn Monroe, one that I find mildly amusing, and attributed the quote to Audrey Hepburn. I knew I wanted to use these three women. Marilyn Monroe has a pretty distinct image, so I decided ... -
Adventures In Minecraft
I’ve been really busy on Minecraft these past couple weeks! Here are some highlights of the things I’ve built (you can see the whole “Adventures in Minecraft” album on Flickr): A myseterious pond… Won’t you throw something in? These creations … Continue reading → -
The Story Shaper App
Tweet“There’s no reason why the simple shape of a story can’t be fed into a computer.” — Kurt Vonnegut, “On the Shape of Stories” There’s no reason at all. Announcing the Story Shaper App! Here’s a demonstration. Vonnegut also mentions … Continue reading → -
Optical [head]llusion
This is an old picture I had that was great for the optical illusion visual assignment. My friend and I were finding ways to make optical illusions one night because we were just bored and thought we’d make funny pictures. I decided that I wanted to cut her head off with some scissors & it ... -
[Wear] is the Error = )
I LOVE mysteries, so I had to do the “where is the error” photo. I wanted to make it easy, just fun at the same time. I know everyone loves shoes, so I found 2 pair of my bright colored shoes and some sandals and did the photo. This probably was the more fun one to ... -
Love.Love.Love.
Love. Ha, isn’t it wonderful. This assignment was inspired by my love for my male friend that means the world to me. When I saw they had a visual assignment that allowed me to show my passionate side I had to do it. The 3 pictures above are just a few pictures of us being ... -
Give me a “D” a “R” an “A” a “W” an “I” and a “T” what does that spell >DRAW IT
This one was probably the easiest. I chose to use the picture of my cheerleading squad because people always drew pictures of us. Sadly, I do not have any of those photos, so creating a drawing from a picture was the next best thing. This is a photo from my senior year of cheer and ... -
Pop Art’N Myself
Growing up, I always wanted to be a pop star. When I seen this particular visual assignment, I knew it was a my chance to pretend I was a pop star. I ALWAYS wanted to be this famous singer and also a ob-gyn on the side (yeah, what a dream). This was very exciting for me ... -
Postcard Home: Week 1
by Abir Ibrahim June 4, 2012Dear Loving Parents, I pray that you are doing well. I hope that you did not miss me too much. I know that my presence brings joy to your lives and not being around as much is a terrible thing. … Continue reading → -
Michael Wesch Video Reflection
by Abir Ibrahim June 4, 2012I watched the video of Michael Wesch’s presentation. I have never been so inspired. It has enhanced my outlook on life. It is so beautiful to find people who possess the passion and strong well like Wesch. I aspire to … Continue reading → -
Kurt Vonnegut and Pixar
Watching the Vonnegut “Shapes of Stories” reminded me of a similar story structure that I was introduced to by Mark Benno – the Pixar “Story Spline”. It (like Vonnegut’s) is simple enough to use with my elementary students, but allows … Continue reading → -
Bryan’s Digital Storytelling
Bryan talked about numerous ways stories are created and how other perceive the storytelling mode. The one I wanted to elaborate on is “Character Blogging.” Character blogging is when the blogger is a character and their personalities are shown overtime. The story I read in detail the “The Tweeted Titanic.” ”The Tweeted Titanic is a series of ... -
Mom, I Thought You Said Camp MacMuffin!!!
Tweet Hey Mom, sorry I’m so slow writing home. At first I was pretty peeved that this wasn’t Camp MacMuffin like I thought you said. But then I started having so much fun that I didn’t have time to write. … Continue reading → -
Letter Home ; Week 2
Hey Mommie, Whew, made it through another week of camp. This week I become more accustomed to the routine of camp. We had to do 3 daily creates. The first one I did was recording a sound that I basically hated, and I did styrofoam rubbing together. You can hear the sound here : http://soundcloud.com/kavon-lechae/sounds-from-tuesday-afternoon Then for ... -
Follow the Connections . . .
Tweet“Read, read and follow the connections” was Michael Wesch’s response to a thoughtful question about how be well-versed across many disciplines and avoid the infamous silo effect. I’m sure my brain would have looked like a pinball machine had I … Continue reading → -
Starting Summer a Week Early, and Camp a Week Late
Only four days of school, and one of post-school remain this school year, along with a week of trainings and a few other commitments. My goal for this Summer is to write more, read more, and plan more for next … Continue reading → -
Bryan Alexander’s Book and Website
I really enjoyed the chapter we read from Bryan Alexander’s book. His writing style was easy to follow and contained interesting information. It also wasn’t too complicated for someone like me, who is not very advanced in the particular field of digital storytelling. I wasn’t familiar with many of the sites and such mentioned in ... -
Week 2
Dear Mom, Dad, and sissies, This week at camp was really busy! I was assigned to Bunkhouse number 3. We are working on picking out a name for the bunkhouse. The campers and counselors in my bunkhouse all seem pretty cool. I am now following them all on Twitter, so I can see their updates. ... -
Camper of the Week
I guess I started off camp well
