Color, lighting, saturation, contrast, and many other factors all play in to taking a decent photo and making it fabulous. This assignment is to change the mood or tone of a photograph by altering the contrast, brightness, hue, saturation, exposure, etc. You do not have to change …

Creeping on Movies

So the assignment from DS106 that I chose was “Creeping on a Movie.” We had to edit a picture from a movie and add a picture of ourselves. I chose this scene from Freddy vs. Jason. Using Pixlr I was able to “photoshop” a picture I …

The assignment was to “make a set of ten photos which take something familiar to you–a town, building, object, etc.–and defamiliarize it, make it seem foreign. Use a mix of extreme closeups, weird lighting, foreground/background focusing and odd angles and other effects to make something that you know very well …

This is my DS106 A project called When Unicorns Explode. The purpose of the assignment was to take a picture that included as much color as humanly possible. I took this picture using my Android 2 smart phone. It is of the syrup bottles where I worked at the time …

This was my initial DS106 A assignment for When Unicorns Explode. The goal was to take a picture that contained as much color as humanly possible.But looking at it now, the description says as much color as humanly possible. Perhaps that meant literally no photo editing? Oh well. I have …

For a DS106 assignment I chose to summarize a movie in 10 gifs or less. I chose the wonderful film Legend, starring TOM CRUISE and UNICORNS! If you have not seen the movie it basically is about a princess named Lily and a forest boy named Jack. Together they are …

I really enjoyed creating these gifs. My friend and me are big fans of the bad/awesome insanity of Double Team, thus we decided to make these gifs to honor its greatness. Exploring film using very specific frames is actually a very unique exercise. You are not just picking out your favorite …

My attention has always been a difficult thing to hold. While reading the Rheingold chapter on our changing attention spans, I had to force myself to stay focused on the pages, and even then I succumbed to minimal distractions such as responding to my phone and email. I believe the …

In class, we discussed how considering different rites of passage may be a good way to introduce middle school students to The Giver. We considered what it means to make the familiar strange and the strange familiar. Below are the videos we used in class to consider different rites of …

Below are two examples from Spring semester for the This I Believe Digital Multimodal Composition (TIB DMC). We have been posting more mentor texts over on the English Ed webpages.

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I thought I would jump in and create something to share/model my/a process.

For our first reading in ENGL 3241, we read the first chapter of Howard Rheingold‘s (2012) Net Smart on attention. I asked the class to read the chapter and monitor their own attention during the reading. In class, we shared our experiences with managing our attention when reading a …