We may regret the visuals, but the dog is out of the bag… I’v just written up a bit of information about the Fall 2013 Headless ds106 — essentially, we will be publishing a regular scheduled series of tasks based on the syllabi on the past 7 ds106 courses taught at UMW. Anyone interested follows […]
Grim news Daily Create challenge, a writing one today: Write Your Own Tw-Obituary (your life in less than 140 characters) Another Hat Tip to the Urban Dictionary: “Your life’s work summed up in 140 characters or less. Just the right size for a gravestone perhaps?” Mine is a bit of play on the Twitter API […]
More than halfway through Daily Create a Day in July, and here we are at another writing challenge, really an easy peasy one: Write a limerick about someone famous. Like really famous. So who do you look up to more, who could be not more widely known, than your Daily Create Drill Sergeant? And He […]
Rather fitting for the idea of doing a Daily Create bootcamp this month, today’s was a video challenge (which means most people go hide under the bed): Make an Exercise Video for a Common Every Day Activity (e.g washing dishes) The point is to apply the genre of exercise videos, people overly enthusiastic doing something […]
cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo shared by Claus Wolf Today’s ds106 Daily Create challenge is a writing one based on the brevity of twitter: Write a story dialogue in 5 half-twits (lines that are 70 characters each) The Urban Dictionary defines a Half-Twit as “A 70-character message, which is half of […]
cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo shared by Leeky-Boy It is going to be hard to top this headline… but that is the goal of today’s ds106 Daily Create, a writing challenge: Write a tabloid headline for ds106 and the opening sensational paragraph Tabloids, oh yeah. My all time favorite headline was “Female […]
I’ve just got one week’s reading and discussion in, but I am enjoying the reading group that Ben Rimes has organized as Book CLub 106 (yes the connection to ds106 may be a thread, but it works for me!). I do not think I have ever been part of any kind of book club… oh […]
cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine Today’s ds106 Daily Create is a Drawing challenge, for which, as usual I reach for the Paper 53 app on my iPad. Make a detailed drawing of one of your own eyes. My plan was to take a self photo with my iPhone […]
Today’s ds106 Daily Create Challenge is a video one: Uh Oh, Today is the 13th. Make a video of you avoiding a superstition. It might not be majorly superstitious since its not Friday, which usually calls for insolent ignorant teenagers and a monster in the lake. I decided to find something other than the familiar […]
cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine Today’s ds106 Daily Create Challenge was a photographic one: I’ve Been Down So Long”¦ Take a Photo that represents the essence of Blues music I wrote this one in myself, metaphoric challenges are some of the more interesting ones to me. IMHO, this […]
