Category: Digital Storytelling

  • I ♥ Pictures of CUNY

    Eric Metcalf and I have been working on a photography blog about CUNY hosted on the CUNY Academic Commons for a few months now. The original idea was to surface what we thought were interesting CC licensed photos that relate to CUNY and present a new one every day. I spent many hours searching Flickr…

  • Yo Adrian!

    While talking about ds106 this summer with my teacher ed students, I described how I wished to complete the five seconds five films one archetype assignment with a mashup of Rocky’s distictive ‘Yo Adrian’ across the six Rocky films. I’d recently re-watched Rocky which was released in 1976 when I was age five. I somehow watched that…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Vertigo, Dizzing Educational Awesomeness at UMW

    Yes this post is an excuse to show another Alfred Hitchcock animated poster which I made while at UMW’s Faculty Academy (with Rear Window & North By Northwest this makes three, nine to go). But I’m not going to write about the film Vertigo and the designer of this poster Saul Bass. Ok one thing,…

  • Reorienting My Compass, North by Northwest?

    It’s been over a year since I first discovered ds106 and it’s amazing to me how much creative energy I’ve discovered since then – I’ve made more work in the past year than I have in the previous ten, seriously. Ok this isn’t exactly true, I’ve made many things over the past decade, but they’ve…

  • CUNY Weeks 13 to 15 – Final Stretch

    In the last three weeks you will be working on your final project for ds106 which will be posted to your blog and presented to the class on Monday May 21, exam day. Last week you were to focus on a proposal for your final project, and for the next two weeks be sure to…