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ds106 Mystery Machine May Be in Motion

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Just tonight on The ds106 radio, Scottlo was scoffing at the idea that the ds106 Kickstarter could fund a bus “What kind of bus can you get for under 2 grand?” Why a groovy Mystery Machine, of course! May the hippie force roll into your […]

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Monday Teach In

This week in ds106 I am asking my students to do a 5 minute overview of a technique or trick they learned in video editing by showing one of their video projects. I’m getting a lot out of it myself as the students teach and give each other feedback in class. Tonight’s demos included: Kierra’s […]

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Driving Groovy

Continuing on a theme of tough cop genre, I made a movie mashup of Steve McQueen’s Bullitt mellowed out with the mellow sounds of Simon and Garfunkel’s 59th Street Bridge Song: Slow down, you move too fast. You got to make the morning last. Just kicking down the cobble stones. Looking for fun and feelin’ […]

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Restoring a Dead Drop

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Last August when I was travleing across Canada, Giulia Forsythe and I went searching in Toronto for the location of the one dead drop located there. Dead drops are in many ways akin to the Piratebox, publicly placed peer to peer file sharing approaches using […]

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A StoryBox Intercom (ideas wanted)

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by alexkerhead I’m toying with a new idea for a public interaction device with the StoryBox/Piratebox but the DIY part is something I could use suggestions on. The idea is to have a device out in a public space, that is within range of the wireless network […]

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Humbly Wrong: ds106 Overrun with Respect

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by Horia Varlan Not the first, not the last, but I humbly claim being dead wrong about ds106 not getting the MOOC respect. We get tons of it. Check it out, after 7 hours, the DS106: The Open Online Community of Digital Storytellers Kickstarter campaign, launched around […]

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No MOOC Respect

When I was a kid I got no respect. When my parents got divorced there was a custody fight over me… and no one showed up. MOOCs are on fire. They are a tool for democratizing education. They are crumbling the Higher Education Monopoly. And you know what hear? Stanford. Udacity. MIT. Massive. Numbers. And […]

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teh awesome ds106 video work

My wild ride of teaching ds106 has been a bit like riding a crazy horse on speed. We are in the intense part of the course where students are working in video, and while they talk about how hard/challenging it is, I am seeing in many of them that fiery drive to create.

In already two weeks, I am seeing work I am proud of from people who had never edited video before, and are doing so with little or no formal training. They are just doing it.

We are collecting many of these in a delicious stack (yeah, that sky has not fallen yet), but wanted to highlight some right here. Please send some comment juju their way.

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YouTube Genres

cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by francescominciotti From YouTube Press Stats 60 hours of video are uploaded every minute, or one hour of video is uploaded to YouTube every second. 70% of YouTube traffic comes from outside the US In 2011, YouTube had more than 1 trillion views or almost […]

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5 Cops 5 Seconds

For the ds106 assignment One Archetype, Five Movies, Five Seconds Create a five second video of one archetype from five different movies cutting together one second of each. Examples could include: Prisoners, Thieves, Beauty Queens, Kings, Robin Hoods, James Bonds, Bank Robbers, Assassins, Bad Boys, Kung Fu Masters, Femme Fatales, Sports Heroes, High School Bullies, […]