As part of the Make/Hack/Play mini-course I have been participating in, I wrote a song and then created this reflective video of my writing process. Well, a friend from the summer’s Making Learning Connected MOOC — Bart Miller, who is also a musician — took my song and remixed it with some composition software. I […]

... Ripping Up a Shredder head remixed by johnjohnston ...

If you paid very close, detailed (ahem) attention to the Triple Dog Dare — this is RULE 2 for the current ds106 Headless open course activity of remix– it’s time to break out for creativity in a big way, and remix some photos of author Cory Doctorow. He’s given us his blessing (e.g. boing boing permission). All of the information, details, photos to remix, exmaples, instructions are on the site I cobbled together from Jonathan Worth’s idea. Here, let him say it. Jonathan’s phonar students are on to it now. Hey are we going to let those phonar kids out remix the mighty ds106? (cheap shot appeal to competition) (I’ll resort to any tactic to draw you out of what else you spend time on beside ds106). A few words about the site– when Jonathan and I planned this last Spring, we wondered about thousands of Cory fans, Boing Boing […]

A Fair(y) Use Tale - TeacherTube: I love stuff that explains boring stuff in a fun way! 

It has nothing to do with the Mothership Google, but Googley Eyes are useful for sock puppets. Via the Firehose of Links Known as Alec Courous, I found myself diverted "Add googly eyes to a GIF" http://t.co/76z5EKhIoX — Alec Couros (@courosa) November 18, 2013 I find Googlify is a sophisticated technological tool (free of “Big Data” and pivoted moocs) for adding this effect to an animated GIF which you cannot enjoy since this is a snapshot. But the site allows you to add this effect to any published animated GIF I decided to give it a go with one I made of axe wielding Bryan Alexander when I visited him in May 2011 Loading the URL for this GIF in the Googlify site, and the site deconstructs the GIF into frames, each allowing you to add a googley eye and change its location, spacing, size, etc. and it re-renders as […]

I loved the title Song Visualization for one of the ds106 video assignments, which simply is making a music video. Still, music video is more associated with Rock, Pop and other music associated with watching cool and crazy peo...

A few years ago I read Arthur Phillips’ novel, The Egyptologist. He tells the story through letters and diary entries, and at several points in the novel I realized that what I thought was happening wasn’t what was going on … Continue reading →

Major kudos to Jonathan Worth and  Alan Levine whose cross-course re-mix assignment was picked up by BoingBoing. Alan and Jonathon have been synchronizing and collaborating on certain assignments between Phonar and ds106, and the assignment to remix Corey Doctorow portraits taken by Jonathon himself put Phonar on the BoingBoing map. What’s … Continue reading →

A while ago Rochelle suggested we had a conversation about the addictive nature of DS106. She was...

There’s a lot to report out about this year’s Open Education Conference (#opened13), George Siemens already blogged about David Kernohan’s remarkable documentary keynote which I was lucky enough to catch. I was sorry to miss Siemen’s keynote, and almost equally sorry … Continue reading →

UPDATE 12/06/13: Check it out we were featured on the GIFaChrome Connects blog. Another fun aspect of DS106 being an open online course that attracts global participation is that you can go to bed at night (usually way past a healthy bedtime because you just “had” to finish one more thing on that project) and […]

DS106 Headless 13 is in the middle of 2 weeks of video. I have managed to create a couple of videos...

DS106 Daily Create assignment in photography (#673 for 11/11/13). Details: Bonnard said, “You can never have too much yellow.” Prove it in a photograph. Learn more about Bonnard’s reasoning with his painting of The Yellow Boat (from the Tate). For this Create, I … Continue reading →

A few weeks ago, after we aired our Merry Hacksters Radio Show for DS106, my colleagues and I agreed that we would also release most of the individual radio files and segments so that in the spirit of the show — which is about hacking for change and remixing for good — anyone could take ...