cc licensed flickr photo shared by brianjmatis Working on my taxes today got me started on trying a hand at a ds106 playlist assignment story (plus the Beatles “Taxman” showed up near the top as I scanned my music in iTunes. I could not help but try yo play in some flickr photos as well […]
For ds106 Visual Assignment Four Icon Challenge Reduce a movie, story, or event into it’s basic elements, then take those visuals and reduce them further to simple icons. I am a horrible free drawer, so I set up a set of frames in PhotoShop, imported some images found (somewhere on the internet), and did some […]
cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Are you scared yet? No? Well you should have tuned in to our late night live radio show on #ds106radio — with Bryan Alexander visiting me here, it was the perfect plan to hatch. Sadly he seems to have been adbucted […]
Trying out One Shot from the set of the Visual Assignments in ds106. Take a single photograph. Chop it up comic book style to create tension and narrative This original is from my 2008 visit to Iceland, with the horse Nonni in the background laughing (or yawning at me). cc licensed flickr photo shared by […]
There is a lot of new stuff happening with web technology every day, hour, minute, and then there ones that just make you stand back, like Neo, and say , “Woah” I just had that after playing with the BBC Dimensions site http://howbigreally.com/ – it describes itself well: Dimensions takes important places, events and things, […]
“Twitter is a waste of time” — yeah, time I could better spend reading dull emails, clipping my toenails, filing my taxes. Pfooooey. Yesterday, I got caught up in a mini burst of twitter spontaneity that was pure fun… and is still gurgling along today. IOt was the opposite end of the tail from trending, […]
cc licensed flickr photo shared by 尽在ä¸è¨€ä¸ There might be other things to blog about, but nothing seems as exciting or interesting as the Mad Camp Adventures of Digital Storytelling Open Course aka ds106. There is a rive of creativity shared via the distributed blogs, the free form ds106 radio (by the people, for the […]
cc licensed flickr photo shared by x-ray delta one This image is not exactly relevant, but was so bizarre I could not resist- who would not want a “Dual Head-mounted listening Device”? It looks like the perfect audio set up to enjoy radio ds106. I’ve been spending a chunk of time combing through the projects […]
cc licensed flickr photo shared by John Kannenberg A few weeks ago we had author Kevin Kelly appear as a guest on the Connect@NMC webinars to talk about his book “What Technology Wants” (a full archive is available). In his work, Kelly uses a broad umbrella to include what is technology, and suggests an ecosystem/evolution […]
cc licensed flickr photo shared by Jacob Whittaker UPDATE (Sep 21, 2013): These instructions are a bit dated– see the updated instructions. Last year I used for the first time a nifty AppleScript that allows you to embed a code in the notes of your Keynote presentation that will trigger a twitter message with the […]
