Draw a picture of the best present you ever gave or received. A little watercolor and graphite action for this daily create.   In the spirit of that…I searched out this –> circa 21 January 2013 Take a photo of the ONE thing you MUST see, do, eat, hear, etc. everyday! My Stone Cold Fox ...

Dexter-deeper. Dexter kinda falls into a few genre categories.  I can see it fitting well into (in order of importance) Crime Fiction   Drama–”serious, plot-driven presentations, portraying realistic characters, settings, life situations, and stories involving intense character development and interaction” (via)   Suspense– “known to promote intense excitement, suspense, a high level of anticipation, ultra-heightened ...

The assignment: …identify two video assignments that appear interesting to you, and just do the set up work that will enable you to complete the assignments next week. DO not start editing, just identify and assemble the media you think you will need. the two assignments that look the most interesting to me are Return ...

Youtube, like any movie, TV Program, book, or story in general is full of Genres.  Classic ones like thriller, drama, and comedy abound, but there are some less recognized genres… Here are some of the genres DS106′ers of the past have come up with: Parodies Everyday life as art Everyday life as a musical Musicians ...

There came a week where the Fandom Princess returned to her home castle to celebrate a decorated holiday. Adorned in pastel dresses, the Princess and her younger sister were granted new crowns this same week each year. The holiday was called Easter, and the Princess loved to, as soon as … Continue reading →

Yeah, I said it. While I may be a rare kind of lefty, I still consider myself to be one. I write with my left hand, but all sports are done with my right hand or foot (which was good since I had four injuries on my left side of my body this past volleyball (continue reading...)

The clip I chose is from Rounders. Camera Work When watching the scene without audio, the crafty camera work was much more noticeable. The scene begins with the camera setting a 180 degree view of the table. To get a full grasp of what is going on at the table the camera continues to pan slowly ...

The assignment: …analyze the clip by watching it three times in different ways…Write up a blog post that includes the embedded clip, and the notes you made in the three views of the scene… The Clip:  (My clip came from this list on youtube:  #33 http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAE4410DF71EC2BC2) I LOVE Dexter. Michael C. Hall couldn’t be more ...

What a week! Reading that this week was what most DS106ers consider the most challenging week on DS106, made me a bit nervous. I did have a few moments of drama with deciding what to do and how to do … Continue reading →

March 26th- Rewrite a Classic movie scene so that its plot is related to DS106. I played off of the “Just keep Swimming” scene on Finding Nemo and came up with “Just keep Searching.” I cut a few minor parts … Continue reading →

So I picked Al Pacino’s speech from Any Given Sunday My first view without the sound, I noticed a lot of camera angles switching, mainly to emphasize the attitudes of all the players in order to display the emotion of the locker room.  One thing I did pick up on, not too sure on why ...

This week we are setting up everything we need to do to create two Video Assignments. We were given free reign on all video assignments, we just had to choose something that we were interested in. For my first assignment … Continue reading →

Every minute, 72 hours of video are uploaded to Youtube!! WOWZERs! One can go to Youtube and look up just about any sort of video they would like. All videos on the site can be categorized into different Genres. For … Continue reading →

Upon further analysis of The Pursuit of Happyness, I found: When the movie came out in theaters, the mayor of Chattanooga, Tennessee held a showing for all the homeless people in the area to help inspire and encourage them (Wikipedia). … Continue reading →

Side Note: Depending on when you looked at my blog, you might have seen that I analyzed a different movie. I’ve since then removed the post from my blog because as I did further research into the movie, I found … Continue reading →

It’s the end of week 10 already?! Where does the time go? This week’s topic was ‘reading movies’. If you think this sounds too fun to be a school assignment, you’re right. It was a lot of fun. I would...

Tuesday’s DC - Rewrite a classic movie scene so that it’s plot is related to DS 106. {submitted by yours truly :)} I recreated my scene from this scene in the popular romantic movie The Notebook. Here is what really happened...

Before we start video week next week, which I am kinda looking forward to, we had to pick some assignments that look interesting to us. When I was on this week’s DS 106 show – Reading Movies, we talked about...

One of the first assignments of video week is to analyze a video clip in 3 different ways: no volume, listening to audio only, and looking at the video and listening to the audio combined. In reviewing the video this … Continue reading →

All films are categorized into different genres. A genre is what type of movie it is. For example, if your friend said “let’s go see The Notebook” you would say “no, that’s a chick flick…I don’t want to” {but who would...

I’m bringing ds106 to the 2013 TCC Online Conference (the 18th Annual “Technology, Colleges and Community” Online Conference). This keynote session (look at my along side Terry Anderson, I cannot wait for some of his trademark jokes) is listed as Dim the Lights: The ds106 Show. My original thought was to build a presentation metaphor around the weekly live Google Hangout shows I have been running for my ds106 class at UMW. Dim the lights, cue the music, roll the open credits… but the ds106 show is not one where the audience just sits quietly in their seats. You will not only learn how this open online course in digital storytelling works, but have a chance to try a few of the creative challenges and assignments we give to our students. Digital storytelling 106 (ds106) offers a versatile opportunity to create a learning community. This open online course in digital ...

I could not pass up this tweet LuLu Hypermarket doesn’t have Grape Nuts but they do have Scottlo Porage Oats. #WhatToDo?? twitter.com/scottlo/status… — scottlo (@scottlo) March 28, 2013 to customize the box of oats I cannot get enough of these. Dig the Saudo kilt on that dude.

I think that How to videos are a youtube exclusive thing (aside from gaming guides).  For example, I learned how to tie a bowtie on youtube. There are many other examples of this concept, from how to get a six ...

So I’ve taken a class on movie analysis (Intro to Film Studies), so I’ve done this before.  I ended up choosing the scene in The Dark Knight where Batman interrogates the Joker.  I was torn between that and the opening ...

In my three time review post, I reviewed a scene from the movie The Pursuit of Happyness. I looked the movie up and found some interesting bits on the production and filming of this movie on Wikipedia. Because this movie...

YouTube would be a chaotic and hectic mess if the movies weren’t divided into genres, or categories.  Ds106 is attempting to create genres for the videos of YouTube in a google document.  So far, there are 20 genres and counting, including ...

Something to unclog the CogDogBlog Blog Clog… both of these were made on the long trip back from Hong Kong. I wish I had talked more to the guy who makes the naan at United World College East Campus in Singapore, or at least, gotten his name. Every day, blissfully, he whipped together these luscious slaps of soft Indian naan. Each day of the three I visited school I had this for lunch. If you did not get there before the rush, the line was loooooong. Gotta make the naan, gotta make the naan, gotta make the naan… This one was a short video clip captured on my iPhone imported into Photoshop as a .mov – I reviewed the imported 34 frames and reduced it to 15 to try and keep the file size lower. I added the text layer in frame 11. By default Photoshop makes it visible in ...

I submitted two new assignments to the Visual Assignment Bank! Hangin’ with Hockney and Looking at yourself

I chose the battle scene from Anchorman to analyze 3 different ways.  Before even watching the clip, I had to read over what 3 ways I would be analyzing it: 1. Analyze the camera work: Before watching the first time, slide ...

This week, we finally premiered our Digital Dynamite radio show, and I couldn’t be happier with the result. You can find my evaluation of the show here along with my evaluation of the show from The Fifth dimension, both of which can be listened to in this post on the ds106 main site. I was able ...