Yesterday’s serene country side drive to Blacksburg was the perfect set up to attend the 7:00 pm talk by Jon Udell — who is here as the first Virginia Tech Distinguished Innovator in Residence. I was invited down by Gardner Campbell, who first connected many of us in education to Jon’s work. As that story […]
Web-based timeline tools have come a long way… since last year. I have a bunch (among like 30 tools) to update into 50+ Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story (not to mention a plan to yet redo the site a new way) (how do you like the run on parentheticals) (?).
I am keen to try out the Verite Timeline tool, which seems to offer a json type interface for creating media rich timelines right in your web page, or to generate the source data in Google Spreadsheet. That is a post for another day.
This morning I came across Jill Walker’s blog post mentioning memolane as a new “scrapbook” type tool (jill/txt is one of the earliest blogs I recall coming across when I started in ed tech, she has had some long running blog power).
So memolane creates “memory”? lanes? from your tracks in social media spaces. You get to add your accounts, not by entering username/passwords- that is so 2008 — but by authenticating into those systems.
I added twitter, flickr, youtube, soundcloud, instagram (OH NO IT IS NO LONGER HIP?), and my own blog’s RSS feed.
It’s a good set of services, and I would not be surprised to see more added.
What memolane does elegantly is to create a timeline from the content from these sources:
Where the info is put into those little boxes, each of which loads when clicked so you can wiatch a video, see a photo, listen to an audio, etc:
cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo shared by freshwater2006 Tonight we unleashed a new piece of the ds106 fleet of sites- the Assignment Remix Generator. This is an idea that was spawned by Tom Woodward way back in December 2010 as a way of instigating remixes of creative work by the playing of […]
Today is the 25th year since my older brother passed away, at that he had been alive 34 years, and I knew him not even for that long. I’ve not known him besides dim memories, black and white photos, I can only grasp at; in some alternate universe he is my 59 year old brother […]
cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by Viktor Hertz In the video section of the course we have already entered into the fray of video remixes and discussed abut the notion of everything as a remix. For this week, we are going to experiment with a new appliance in the ds106 […]
It’s not quite the ds106 Speed Up Your Work Day assignment since I only grabbed 1 minute of video, but it was fun to play with speed up effects: I grabbed this from the Dedon Road overpass of I-95 during yesterday’s bike ride. It would have been better if I had propped the camera on […]
The internet giveth and provideth the truth. Need I say more? Via the stream of creative flow of b3ta which came my way via a message from @dkernohan who I only got to know via the network of ds106 which has so many via’s into I better stop.
I’ve been carting around this novel since randomly plucking it from the shelves last December, found at a used book shop in Hobart, Tasmania. The story by Khammaan Khonkhai is set in Thailand, and for me, the draw was its setting in a culture I knew little about. Piya, a newly trained teacher from the […]
so…. @jimgroom @timmmmyboy a gentle reminder, in case you need design help with this is.gd/7kCbd5 #ds106 #pleeeez — Lisa M. Lane (@LisaMLane) April 6, 2012 You may feel ignored as you have been asking a while, but it has not gone unheard. I’ve spent an afternoon climbing around the underbelly of the ds106 WordPress database, […]
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by DonkeyHotey Today marks the 89th day of the ds106 Daily Create site. The TDC has been a typical ds106 roll as we go grand experiment, but it has more than rolled, it has rocked too. Below is a little bit of what has happened between tdc1 […]
