Look for Aliens!
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Annotating a Connected Song
The other day, I shared out my tribute song to my various communities, in the form of an animated music video of sorts. It is my way of saying thanks to people who inspire me all year in various online homes. I decided to show a bit of where the song writing came from, and […] -
CH–CH-CHILLED!
Christmas Dinner is already coming together in both fridges...
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Words Upon the Wall: A Gift of Song
For everyone who is in all of my various online networks and communities and adventures, I thank you. Here is a song, with some animated words, as my humble thanks for all the inspiration and support you give me throughout the year as I write and explore and learn. Peace (with words on the wall), […] -
Tom’s Fantastic cookies
Tom’s been making cookies for my cookie exchange at work and for the girls to bring to school.
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Cubicle Decorating Craziness
We’re celebrating the 12 Days of Christmas at work. Today was the judging for the Cubicle Decorating Contest. Every year there are more competitors and the competition gets harder. Here are some of the entries. The Math, Arts and Communications branch won first prize with their Whoville display My branch, Citizenship & Career […]
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Happy holidays everyone. The DS106 Shrink is back on January…
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Guinea-pigs in a maelstrom!
The Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) Conference 2014 I was very excited to be presenting at the SRHE conference last week, if a little intrepid. As a scientist who dips her toe into the world of social science … Continue reading → -
Call-for-papers “Design-based research for online learning environment development”
Call-for-papers “Design-based research for online learning environment development” The International Journal of Social Media and Interactive Learning Environments (http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijsmile) aims to provide an avenue for researchers to share experiences and research finding on the use of technology for teaching and… -
Long Time Friends Are New True Friends
Well. It has been a long time coming. But I haven’t had any new badge people for a while almost since That David (@dkernohan) was bugging me to make the badge that I kept forgetting for Viv (@VivienRolfe) and then I did, plus one for Tom (@twoodwar) and Gardner (@GardnerCampbell) so tonight while I am listening […] -
Gifadog and I are trying to learn how to restore old classic…
Gifadog and I are trying to learn how to restore old classic cartoons.
It is hard! I asked the Interwebz for help and bionicteaching helped with a Photoshop Tutorial and advise that it is slow work. It seems that my dream to find a way to clean up a whole video is now about learning to clean video frame by frame. stefaniesophie suggested learning painting technique. As I understand this, it is to learn the nature and type of different types of painting to enable you to restore old frames accurately.
So I turned to the animated gif for help. I took an original classic cartoon from the public domain, edited in a movie editor to get only the scenes that I wanted to improve and then started to make animated gifs of the frames and clean them up.
There are an incredible number of parameters that can be adjusted in post processing with Photoshop and Premiere Pro. I have little idea of where to start. Above are our early attempts. I must admit to feeling a little like the proverbial dog with too many balls.
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Snap-shot of the SRHE 2014 Conference
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Live Session from Hollow Wood — A great band from Boise
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An Evening of Light, Sound and Motion
Tom, Paris and I were at a fantastic Make Something Edmonton (#MakeSomethingYeg) event last night at the Windspear Centre. The fun started as we arrived at the front door with a light installation. When we arrived inside for An Evening of Light, Sound and Motion we were greeted by a pair of fairies on stilts. […]
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Inanimate World
A moody French themed tour through "My Inanimate World"--as if!
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Not Just Another Face in A Hole
WELL! I am NOT just another Face in a Hole. But sometimes I think that someone (La kisha Mahone (@LKMahone) not saying any names) is just stuck on trying to make a monkey of me. Because when I woke up this morning, I was another face in a hole of me and of monkeys from her. […] -
Exploring Open Education
This week I am helping facilitate a 5 day course about Open Educational Resources. The course started yesterday with an introduction to open educational resources (OER). The next few days feature case studies of OER internationally, in post-secondary and in K-12. I’ve been working with Verena Roberts to create the introduction to OER and K-2 […]
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Spreading the Twitter Chat Love
I really enjoy Twitter chats. They are a great way to connect with the people in my PLN and to explore different educational topics. For the past two years I’ve also been hosting Twitter chats, participating as myself and using the PostEtmooc Twitter account. I enjoy hosting Twitter chats even more than I enjoy participating, […]
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Tapas Dream
Tiny olives glistening in oily brine; Marcona almonds salty in the sultry shade...
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Birding
It didn't take a crow translator to understand the thousand rowdy shades of "Trouble, Will Robinson!"
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Instructional Design and Technology, Educational Technology, Distance Education & Online Learning Conferences 2015
This original list of Educational Technology and related conferences was prepared by Clayton R. Wright, crwr77 at gmail.com, November 12, 2014. I have shortened it — focusing on a select number of conferences that interest me each month. Please refer… -
Writing Digitally: A Comic About Connections
I had this urge to create this comic as a sort of reflection point, drawing in connections that have me pushing my own ideas about what it means to be a writer in this digital age. Think of it as a token of gratitude for all those who are helping me along on this journey. […] -
Call for Chapters — What is it like to learn and participate in MOOCs?
What is it like to learn and participate in MOOCs? Special Issue – Call for papers Educational Media International Scholarly Peer-Reviewed Journal published by Taylor & Francis Overview While during 2011-2012 the mass media were largely exuberant about MOOCs… -
Agents of Social Change
It was my birthday on Friday. It was a great birthday. I had meals with friends, Maureen took me to Hyperthinking by Phillip Weiss at Grant MacEwan. The girls were at camp with Pathfinders so I had a romantic weekend with Tom. And I took the weekend off, barely touching the keyboard, checking my Twitter […]
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Author Beth Camp
Beth Camp, Writer of Forgotten Worlds
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Jet-lagged Gifs
What better way to overcome jet lag than with making some art. (Big fan). Visited New York on a rainy day last week and the ‘High Line‘ was spectacular. A planted-up disused railway line provides an amazing splash of colour … Continue reading → -
Joyce Seitzinger: Ascilite2014 The Networked Professional
I like how Seitzinger differentiates between the role of presence and curation: Ascilite2014 The Networked Professional from Joyce Seitzinger -
A Story in Icons
Telling a story of a day in only visuals is tricky business. Today’s Daily Create suggested we use the new icon library that Google put together, and so I tried here to represent my morning as I continue an interesting dialogue with my friend, Simon, about writing and stories and all sorts of interesting odds […] -
WCET 2014 – Mobile Learning Presentation
WCET 2014 from Patrick Lowenthal
