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Word Diversity in Top Grossing American Films
**Updated with final visualization and repo I’m back in the classroom as a student for the first time in over twenty years! I’m taking a course at the CUNY Graduate Center – Interactive Data Visualization – and I’m really enjoying the structure and accountability the classroom brings. We’ve been learning the fundamentals of D3.js to…
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Bevin Kacon Alpha a Movie Trivia Game
I’ve been working on this project with my students in Web Devleopment 2 this semester. And it’s time to see if it makes sense or is at all fun and note tons of obvious bugs! “Bevin Kacon” as I’m snarkily calling it, is a movie trivia game based on Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon – just find…
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Code Summer Camp
This summer I’m going to be hosting a code summer camp for my students at York College. I’ve been honest with them in that it’s as much for me as it is for them. It’s been an unusual year in which I’ve started teaching web design and development for the first time. Though I’ve built websites…
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Animating Transit
Platform – Creative Musings on Mass Transit is an exhibition series created by The Transit Museum which invites artists, writers, and performers to reflect/respond to NYC transit and the innumerable emotions and stories that arise when New Yorkers think about the subway. If you’re not from NYC, one way you might be able to appreciate…
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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…
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DS106 as RPG, part 1
Today was the start of the summer section of DS106 Digital Storytelling a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) taught out of the University of Mary Washington (UMW) and conducted through their open site ds106.us. If you’re not sure what a MOOC is then watch this video to get a little perspective, but in a nutshell…