MICHAEL BRANSON SMITH

Month: June 2012

  • Slide Guy Collection – Stanley Cup, Surfer, Bronco, Duck Tour

    I caught the DS106 Slide Guy! assignment bug early on but only Tweeted them out. Jim Groom gave me some flack for by not feeding the assignment stream with a proper post. So here’s my collection in the order in which I made each Slide Guy. In honor of game six of the Stanley Cup finals, which NJ lost. So…

  • Giant Ants at Work Animated GIFs

    This time I didn’t do any damage to the mobile phone microscope as I did for the animated burning candle. I shot these on my walk from the car to campus, which I did basically with my head down looking for ants. So of course you start to notice things you don’t normally including these…

  • My Pants, Flowers, and Bit of Burn Out

    This is a repost for my summer course with teacher education students. I’ve been playing along asking them (and myself) to be makers, recognizing there will never be exactly what they want in the classroom. So far my favorites ‘maker projects’ by my students are a jello mold of a cell and a very cool…

  • Electronic Games Animated Magazine Cover

    As soon as Jim created this assignment and seeded it with his terrific Famous Monsters of Filmland animated magazine cover, I knew I had to do it. This is cover of the first issue of the fan magazine Electronic Games published in the Winter of 1981. Nightrob has a great set of EG cover art in his Flickr…

  • Fat Cats Make Better Art History Assignments

    Originally posted in my summer teaching with technology course, but it’s a new fat cat so I had to get it in the ds106 stream! Today we are going to play with digital storytelling as a tool for teaching and learning.   In one of Alan Levine’s talks about digital storytelling, he included a slide…

  • @dkernohan Visited My Class Yesterday

    This summer I’m teaching a York College class  for teacher education students about integrating technology in the classroom. And one of the first assignments asks the students to watch Michael Wesch’s video A Vision of Students Today and then blog about their college experience so far. One student described hers as “not terrible but having a lot of…

  • Norman the Peeper

    I’m working on my next animated GIF Hitchcock poster, next up is Psycho, and right now I’m thinking of deviating from the original poster dramatically. The featuring of Janet Leigh in her skivvies to advertise the film doesn’t do it justice in my mind. Maybe it got the audiences in the theatre back in the 60s? But…

  • The Birds – Animated Movie Poster

    This is my fourth effort at animating Alfred Hitchcock film posters, and this one took a lot of time. I’m not sure if I’m going to make it all the way to my desired dozen posters by the end of the summer. This GIF is based on the 1963 theatrical release poster for The Birds and is…