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50+ Web 2.0 modi per raccontare una storia

With one cut and paste, 50+ Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story is now available in 54 languages. You can do tis to any wikispaces site (or just about any other), but getting the code for the widget at http://translate.google.com/translate_tools. Copy this code! On a wikispaces site, simply click the link on your sidebar […]

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Recasting Movies as Premakes

Along the lines of the ds106 Return to the Silent Era Assignment, this set of “Premakes” by YouTube user whoiseyevan offer a fascinating approach to recasting well known videos into mashups of movies that came before them. HInt for my students- this would make a great idea for a final project. The concept is called […]

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Reading “Rear Window”

A few weeks ago Jim Groom and I watched Rear Window, a classic film on many levels- you cannot go wrong with picking a Hitchcock film to analyze. I hardly consider myself a film critic, and what I write below comes from my own perspective, not having read any reviews or Wikipedia entries. The goal […]

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Daily Create Recaps (though March 18)

So much going on lately, so little blogged, time to re-train this blog dog. The activity on the Daily Creates seems to have dovetailed a bit, likely as other people are hitting this same stretch. Yet, I want to practice what I say in that while the challenge is daily, there is zero reason to […]

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The One Worthy Session From SXSWedu

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Since I mentioned a desire to flip conferences, I have to say it was worth sitting in the front row of Jane McGonigal’s “Learning is an Epic Win” talk at SXSWedu, and frankly, it was just about the only non “Meh” session I attended. I […]

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back to W.O.R.K.

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by CarbonNYC Just short of a year ago, I blogged about stepping into the great wide open. I quit my job “in these economic times” and planned at least 9 months of rewind, as well as an epic odyssey loop of travel (which came to be) and […]

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Culture of Openness Panel (SXSWedu)

Instagram photo by David Wiley. I can only guess David would license it under creative commons as Instagram seems not to care. From the back blog department, audio recording and notes from a panel discussion I participated on at SXSWedu, Developing a Culture of Openness where I appeared with Jim Groom, Karen Fasimpaur, and Philipp […]

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Jux a Storybox

In exploring some new tools for rich media publishing, I took a return visit to http://jux.com a site for publishing magazine style media sites, that fill the screen. In many ways, it could be a blog-ish like thing, or a portfolio, or a tumblr that is not just another tunblr. Maybe I don’t know what […]