I was listening to ds106 auto DJ and came across the fun I had with Rowan Peter in Melbourne as he pleaded that George Siemens go down under yo go ice skating.
I recalled us conceptualizing the entire Canadian team (Downes, Siemens, and Cormier) to come perform a MOOCS on Ice show. This seemed to deserve a visual.
Rowan Peter Promotes Skate with George
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog
For the graphic above, I had to do in Aviary, which actually provides a decent amount of editing (layers, selection tools).
And the reason for doing this? None worth mentioning.
Because I can.
Now, how do I make this a ds106b assignment?
UPDATE (Feb 4, 2012): Because Rowan Peter asked for it, I made this into a visual assignment “Play in the Big Leagues”:
It’s easy to idolize professional sports, its uniforms, its code language, its appearance of abilities above our ordinary lives. Create a visualize that inserts people you know into an image of a professional sports team or redesign a logi, jersey to represent the common person.
If you get on the ice with this assignment, and hopefully put it between the pipes, the tags are VisualAssignments, VisualAssignments338
The MOOCS on Ice by CogDogBlog, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Ha ha! I remember broadcasting my #SkateWithGeorge plea with you on DS106radio at the Icehouse! Good fun!
Looking at that photo, I now notice that I was wearing my ‘G-for-George’ cap too!
:)
Hmmm…how can we make MOOCS on ice a DS106 assignment? Not sure, but it made me think of the DS106 hockey jerseys I designed for the DS106′ers who headed off for Northern Voice 2011.
Maybe that’s the assignment, design a uniform for your ultimate fantasy team?
Done, it is called “Play in the Big Leagues”
http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/play-in-the-big-leagues/
I wonder if the Play in the big leagues concept could be applied to other DS106 assignments. Other Play in the big leagues assignments could include:
a writing assignment (fan fiction) could be written in the style of a sports review of a game your fictional team just played
an audio assignment could be a recording of a live radio broadcast from a short sequence of play from a game your fictional team is playing.
a design assignment where you design swap cards for each player of your team.