When I first met Jack Matson, back in April on Maui, I never realized that I would be embarking on such an amazing creative journey.  Six months later, I am … Continue reading →

ds106 Daily Create: Play a game with someone. Make a short video of an interesting interchange. Well, I have to hand it to ds106. I’m doing pesky things that I haven’t done before such as embedding a YouTube URL into my own … Continue reading →

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ds106 Daily Create: Write the first paragraph of this novel:The Sky is Never the Same? The sky is never the same when the sun drops beneath Church Mountain on a cool fall evening. Every night we charge up the stairs for the … Continue reading →

Hmm … my first assignment for ds106. Draw an image that creates a positive connotation for the word “hacking?” A lot to ask of someone to complete before midnight—someone who had spent the previous 48 hours sifting through 100′s of … Continue reading →

ds106 Daily Create:  Draw yourself reaching a goal as if you were a superhero saving the world. 20 minutes? A Marvel Comic? My friend the blob brush in Illustrator was the tool of choice. The assignment inspiration was my trusty … Continue reading →

Week 9 was a week for listening to the Headless DS106 Radio shows and for experimenting with hacking the web. Radio Show Critiques Finally I have listened to all of the Headless DS106 Radio Shows.  I am amazed that they are all so different in format, genre and theme and all so accomplished.  I found […]

We know a lot of things – or, at least, we think we do. Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that studies knowledge; what it is, and the ways we can come to have it. This week, we’ll look at … Continue reading →

The sky is never the same on Mars now that we have started terraforming. The light changes throughout the day, and seems to interact with the landscape much more now that the land reconfiguration process is over. Standing in the lab at sunset, watching the thin Martian light refract off all of the nutrient-dense water […]

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My next MOOC has just started. It is called Introduction to Philosophy  by by Dr. Dave Ward, Professor Duncan Pritchard, Dr. Alasdair Richmond, Dr. Allan Hazlett, Dr. Suilin Lavelle, Dr. Matthew Chrisman, Dr. Michela Massimi. It is another course from Coursera again from … Continue reading →

While brainstorming for ideas for today’s Daily Create, “Draw/Create an image that creates a positive connotation for the word “hacking”, I realized that I could combine this with our assignment to hack a website. What better way to give hacking a higher profile than to have the Oxford English Dictionary announce that hacking, in the […]

This assignment was to create a story of an historical or literary figure using Google Maps as the framework.    My story is about Mimi and Toutou, neither literary nor historical figures, but two forty-foot long naval launches that were transported from London via Cape Town to Lake Tanganyika in 1915 in engage the Germans […]

Well, I've participated in creating a radio show for the very first time. And it won't be the last. In fact, I'm hoping to create something in time for Halloween as Ben Rimes suggested (tight deadline!) So I've emailed the Talky Team and sent out a rou...

You say, “What?” Yes, ds106. It’s time to dig in and expand my digital storytelling skills, and it looks like ds106—headless at University of Mary Washington—might be just the place to do it. Stay tuned.