Leading up to the headless ds106 planned for this fall, it’s an August GIF-a-thon. I managed to find some time tonight to get one finished and uploaded. What you see below is a reconstruction of what really happened. We were able to get to the doctor in time to reduce the chance of major scarring. […]

Poor Mr. Smith just can’t keep his head together. Sometimes his head explodes, or disappears to another dimension. Sometimes it comes back, just not quite the same. He claims he is now enlightened.

Ok. Ok. Ok. Here I am. Losing my head.

UPDATED POST: I can’t believe I didn’t hear some smack talk with respect to my originally published version of this GIF.  What was I thinking? Not including DS106? I’ve fixed it!!!! TalkyTina Hulka has given the Headless ds106 Fall 2013 participants an animated GIF challenge for the month of August.  Her first “assignment” was for […]

It’s time to get all wide-eyed and get started on my August project- to recast the ds106 Assignment Bank into a wordpress theme that would have the functionality built into it for people to create other kinds of sites with the same features. The first step was to create the development site, which shall remain in the wide open so you can watch it grow/implode — it is live now with nothing on it at http://bank.ds106.us/. The code will go soon to github as well. The things that need to be done are: Pull out a lot of things that are hard coded (the types of assignments, etc) and turn them into theme options. This would mean you can fill in the names of things like “Pastry”, “Algebra” and have them appear as main types of assignments. Create other theme options, like even figuring out of what they are called […]

 

Hate the gif, make your own.

Back at the end of June Alan Levine posted a challenge:

See how many ds106 Daily Creates you can do in July. No prizes, badges, or any crap like that. Just the reward of getting your creativity back in shape. We are …

Though there is never an obligation to complete any particular Daily Create task (or anything else in ds106), the challenge was presented to do as many as possible during the month of July. The challenge that our drill sergeant cogdoghulka made stimulated activity and creativity.

I did notice a few …

Not a headless me, but a headless DS106. The create challenge was to make an animated GIF of yourself. Didn’t have a full-body shot of myself handy,… so I thought I’d work on the DS106 wordmark. This could also be interpreted as a headless version of me as a DS106 …

Okay. So #ds106 is going Headless for the fall of 2013. So we need a new Animated GIF Assignment to celebrate! AnimatedGIFAssignments1181, ”Show Us Your Headless Self” Show us your #ds106 #headless13 self in an animated GIF. We want to see you with – and without – your head. Post your GIF on your blog, tag it with AnimatedGIFAssignments and AnimatedGIFAssignments1181.   And here […]

So the fall section of ds106 will be starting in a few short weeks. August 26th to be exact. During my time observing and then participating in the ds106 Community, it has become apparent to me that each session of ds106 seems to be prefaced by a period of manic GIFfing by various members of […]

cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine

And like that, we are at the end of July, the last day of the ds106 Daily Create Summer Challenge, going out with an easy one, a mere photography challenge:

Take a picture of your favorite thing …

Well, Well, Hey, Hey

Even though I suggested this Daily Create, I almost skipped out on doing it (which would be ok). But, good ol’ hippie cogdog made a challenge when he created his, so I went ahead and made mine, for what it’s worth. And don’t fault me for …

Ugh. I admit I was not crazy about today’s ds106 Daily Create, a video challenge:

Video yourself singing a verse of your national anthem as fast as you can.

Thanks Bill Smith, cannot wait to see YOUR video! Someone who’s identity I will protect emailed me and yelled …

Two or three weeks ago, I was home alone, tasked with priming the new drywall in my kitchen. I decided to geek it up a little bit and film the entire process so I could come back and time lapse the work. I tried using a couple different time lapse apps, but I didn’t really […]

Along with Martha Burtis and Alan Levine as co-conspirators, I just submitted ds106 as a contestant in the Reclaim Open Learning Innovation contest. I think there’s a lot that is compelling about ds106, particularly if the folks at the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub are looking for alternatives …

Turn that frown upside down!

This one has a bit of a story behind it.

First, there was a ds106 daily create that asked us to make a photo from the perspective of an earthworm. Here’s mine.

Then there was a ds106 daily create that asked us to make a photo story with a paper cutout in it. Rockylou made this one, which inspired me to make a worm one too, relating it back to my “perspective of an earthworm” shot.

All fine and good, except then Mariana Funes suggests we make the worms mascots for the Headless ds106 course in the Fall.

So of course we play along. Rockylou pulls her worm out of the trash and puts our two worms together in a photo. Nice! Except mine shouldn’t have an unhappy face when going into ds106.

So I decided that the more it became clear to my worm that where it was headed was ds106, the happier it became!

Assignment: Combine a cat pic with an appropriate Shakespearean quotation. Now this is a DS106 assignment I am all over. Being a daily LOLcat viewer I can definitely appreciate the value of a good LOL. Buster has filled my iPhone camera roll more ...

Hangin’ out waitin’ for the Headless ds106 to begin at the end of August? Care to join me in the fun of creating a parody remix/mashup of the song “Mad World” by Gary Jules, but with new ds106 centered lyrics? You get me new lyrics, I’ll record them and then pull together media to create a video ...

Now is the time to view the lace collar. We should be finding out everything there is to know about creating this image. How in heaven’s name could we get more creative without learning all the secrets?

Task: Take a photograph from the perspective of an earthworm.Yesterday morning as I lounged in bed, work-poor on the first day of term, I heard a pattering up the hallway. Cats... yes... two of them. I went back to my book. A couple of minutes later I ...

This was captured from the TV screen when the signal went bad. And there’s lots more to know about it as well. And there’s lots more to know about it as well. And there’s lots more to know about it as well. And there’s lots more to know about it as well. And there’s lots more to know about […]