Curse you Google calendar with your accurate reminders. Curse you for being so prim about it. Especially when I really need to just get a night of sleep longer than 5 hours. Curse you.. Well, I cannot really go down that route. But I just got a little pop up message and it says it […]
The video assignments are a ton of work, we know it. The pace continues this week (and we have some room to relax the deadlines, so stop fretting). While the assignments are intensive, do not forget to do a detailed write up in your blog post with your assignment work: Include the name of the […]
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by woodleywonderworks Hypertext the Lingua Franca of the Internet The Web wouldn’t be there if Tim Berners-Lee did not design webbrowser and webserver software, invented HTTP and defined URL. Also not less important if his bosses of CERN wouldn’t have had the insight of allowing to have […]
I was asked a few weeks ago by Julie Lindsay and Vicki Davis to create a keynote video for their current round of Flat Classroom projects. While I’ve done plenty the last few years on storytelling, I was interested I trying something new. Being immersed on ds106 and the starting point of having our students […]
Wow, I needed a does of ds106 creativity, so I set out tonight to do the very assignment I submitted, Return to the Silent Era: The dawn of cinema had no audio; silent movies created an atmosphere with music and the use of cue cards. Take a 3-5 minute trailer of a modern movie and […]
Below are some resources likely to me mentioned/shown in class tonight when we spend time reviewing (and doing) video. Classic and Modern audio/video from the Internet Archive It’s all free, and the collection is vast. Try browsing the collections or searching. Note that there may be some variety in the types of video formats available- […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
In which I open a blog post with the worst grammatical title of the… wek? cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by stevendepolo In the ds106 classes here at UMW, we’ve just moved past week 8, and one of the grueling stretches for students in their projects to produce 30 minutes of an […]
