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A Few Not So Good Men
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Messing with the MacGuffin
Earlier today, Tom Woodward tweeted the ds106 community a link to a blog post entitled, “8 Lines That Would Have Ended Star Wars Real Fast.” The post is a fabulous riff on script writing, imagining how a movie might turn out if the characters acted differently at a particular moment. And what makes the post…
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Animated GIFs with MPEG Streamclip and GIMP
[youtube width=”580″ height=”470″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dyEgQXLED0[/youtube] DS106 has a great screen-cap tutorial to teach you how to make animated GIFs with the free applcations MPEG Streamclip and GIMP, but I thought I’d do a quick video as well. I’ve done a number of GIFs using Quicktime, Photoshop, and Final Cut Pro but these tools are not free! I’m…
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Finding Your Professor’s Weak Spot
Training and preparing for ds106 is like no course you’ve ever taken. The regular regimen of reading books, taking tests, and “writing to your professor” will not be enough. Your well studied moves… …will fall short. Why? Because ds106 is ready for them… If you can’t break your usual course habits…and find the weak spot…
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No Digital Facelifts – Office Makeovers Encouraged
[youtube width=”580″ height=”470″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv3Is8U2Fho[/youtube] In honor of the two readings for this week’s assignment, I decided to give the desk in my office a little makeover. It’s a lovely 300 lbs. piece of public sector Feng shui that wasn’t quite right, so I made a small adjustment. Students that are still getting…
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High School Is Everyone’s Forever Ago
It’s been an interesting weekend. My wife and I made a work trip (for her work) to Amherst, MA. On Friday night we cut the trip in half by staying at my mother’s house, the home in which I spent the better part of my childhood. I hadn’t been in Wethersfield, CT for a few…
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Whose Piloting this DS106 Thing Anyway?
After much delay, I was finally able to meet my students and get started today with DS106 at York College/CUNY. And we’re hoping to have as many open participants that are interested will join in as well. Can register your blogs on Jim Groom’s site here. Last night I figured out how to use the…
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No Misbehaving In DS106
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Plumb Bob
[youtube width=”580″ height=”470″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVx4EL2YLnE[/youtube] Exciting News! Prof. Oliver has asked that I share this recently discovered video. It was found embedded in a comment from a lost blog post in ds106. It’s appears to be from Dr. Oblivion? A message from deep in the internet. We’ve spent many hours attempting to decipher it, but without success…