How can you be #4life without over 600 blog posts about ds106?
People do get excited when things are delivered… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqqjVyOYmow @timmmmyboy Hard rain falling here. Got my #ds106 shirt yesterday. THANK YOU @jimgroom What about the socks? 🙂 — Ben (@BenjaminHarwood) September 18, 2012 @jimgroom Received my #ds106 t-shirt yesterday. Yay! Thank you! 🙂 — linda3dots (@linda3dots) September 12, 2012 #ds106 tshirt! Yay! — David Kernohan […]
We are just sampling the success we have had with not only ds106, but many other classes at University of Mary Washington, in getting students going with their own domains and web sites under Domains of Ones Own. One niggling issue is on the wordpress installer, it is set by default to install the blog […]
While waiting for Michael Branson Smith’s video stream to start, I played with that groovy photo on his splash screen: Why can’t Matt hang on to his balloon? And what is MBS glancing at? A story ro be told… Done by some layering, clone brushing, and pixel painting eyeballs in Photoshop
In prep for doing next week’s introduction to storytelling for my ds106 class, yesterday’s sequence of events compelled me to try the Tell a Story in Five Frames flickr group, making a story titled “Freed” This are an interesting challenge, it is easy perhaps to illustrate a series of events. The trick to level up […]
This is the second week of bootcamp for our online ds106 classes at University of Mary Washington; and one of the assignments this week is a challenge. We asked out students to create an animated GIF in response to the Say it Like Peanut Butter assignment— and purposely did not provide explicit instructions. What we […]
cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by demandaj One pattern I see repeated in the patterns of new bloggers (and this is aimed at my new batch of ds106 students is that they typically write posts with really general or lackluster titles. “Assignment 1” “My Introduction” “Week 1” “Daily Create #345”. […]
ds106 is ramping up, and Michael Branson Smith is going deeper in thought with the idea of the animated GIF: I’m a big lover of the animated GIF having created dozens as bits of reflection on cinematic moments, film posters and comic book covers. These animations are all fabulous homages to stories I love. But […]
My keychain is not much different from the last time I did this assignment for the Daily Create The Daily Create for August 28, 2012 told us to make a video: Show us your keychain and tell us a story about the keys or things you have on it. Yes, i still have the scuffed […]
Dear flickr, We have been friends for so long, like since March 2004. I have shared with you over 27,000 photos, and stood up for you when other people were saying you were a has been. I still love you. But you are getting weird o senile and I am getting confused. Our ds106 students […]
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by jurvetson The first day of action for my online section of ds106 could not have been more impressive. A lengthly email went out last night, and as of a little over 24 hours later, 19 out of 25 of my students registered their domains, and most […]
