Thinking
What does this new adventure hold for me?
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Looking Ahead to ds106
cc licensed ( BY SD ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog A bit earlier I looked into my rear view mirror at last semester’s ds106 class I taught online for ... -
Hello world!
by Amateur Hour January 14, 2013Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging! -
Self Introduction for ds106 Students
Just so my students who start ds106 starting tomorrow know who they are dealing with! There is still time to drop, ha ha. At 13 some minutes, its longer than I thought I was making. And this should be the last such me talking to you via a web cam video. At ds106, we don’t do lectures as video. Next out is a a post on ds106 with details for their first week assignment, and by tomorrow I hope most of them are firing off their domain setups so we can get to blog publishing my mid week. I filmed this directly into iMovie; my first try was using PhotoBooth but the video quality was horribly out of sync. I made a studio setup in my office using natural window sidelight and then bounced it to the other side with a reflector hung from my tripod. The remaining videos will ... -
Hello world!
Well, I am officially a blogger! Cheers to trying new things! -
GIF Dog GIF
Today’s Daily Create may have been the hardest one to date- “Use camera panning to blur the background behind a moving subject” – the idea is to use a relatively slow shutter speed to take a photo of a moving subject. If you pan the camera at about the same speed as the subject, you can achieve a great effect of it being in focus, but everything else is blurred. I don’t think I’ve ever really pulled this one off before, and my streak continued today. But I tried. And that’s the point. I shot about 25 exposures of Gunner, the dog I am watching. He loves to chase tennis balls, so I tried all kinds of vantage points of tossing the ball and trying to get him to run by my field of view. The first challenge is throwing a ball with my left hand and holding the camera ... -
Once Again, Are You Tough Enough for the Seven Day Daily Create Challenge?
You’ve had a week into the new year, have those resolutions to be creative already been crumpled up and tossed in the rubbish bin? We at ds106 give you an opportunity to get back in shape! Starting today we are challenging you to do seven Daily Creates in a row Like we did this past summer this is an effort to bolster the number of examples in The Daily Create especially as the UMW section of ds106 starts next week. But there is another really big reason. Tuesday marks the birthday of this site! Yes, it was a year ago we started TDC Numero Uno. It’s really not very hard to do this. You do not need to register for anything, you just use your own flickr, Youtube, Soundcloud accounts to create media as instructed. For exampled, the most recent challenge was Make a creative photo of paired opposites: Just ... -
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