Search results for: “gif”
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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…
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Karateka – Animated Floppy GIF
If there is one videogame I’m certain that I spent a few hundred hours playing, it’s definitely Karateka on the Commodore 64. Karateka a simple fighter game, which like most games of that time was really hard to complete, as there was no option to ‘save’ and pick up where you left off. The game…
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Friday Night GIFness
A GIF mashup of My Bodyguard with White Heat. Are we cool? Not sure are we? Not cool… Bang. Bang. Bang. Bang. Run for it!
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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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Anatomy of a Murder, 1959 HTML Poster
watch the poster When looking for posters to animate, a minimalist designed Saul Bass poster was an obvious choice. Anatomy of a Murder was just one of numerous of films for which he created many of the iconic poster designs of the 60s and 70s. Bass was probably even better known for his title sequence…
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Meme Fridays
Taking place in the York College Maker Space, this is an informal extension of the Digital Storytelling Class where students are invited to workshops connected to glitch making, re-mix making, meme-making, etc.. This is a communal opportunity to engage students and encourage them to get excited about everything they can make. Projects have ranged from creating “Rage…
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CT101.us
Inspired by DS106, an open course on digital storytelling, CT101 is based on the central idea that students should a) have the ability to “own” their own online space and a “domain of their own” and b) there is value in student-centered teaching. This practice, extolled in Mary Ellen Weimer’s book, Learner Centered Teaching, has been a guiding principle…
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DS 106
DS 106 is a digital storytelling course taught out of the University of Mary Washington (UMW) which allowed anyone online to participate with officially registered students in the Spring 2011. Instructional technologist Jim Groom taught the course through a WordPress blog used by students and open participants to feed work from personal blogs often created for the class. The course…
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CUNY Academic Commons
I am heavily invested in the connectedness model of online communities and teaching students how to understand these communities as well as how their cultures operate—where and how learning takes place, ideas are grown, and collaborations begin. One example exists through the work I have done as the Special Projects Developer, and formerly as Outreach Coordinator, for the CUNY Academic…
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Day of the MOOC
In 2008, Canadian educator and researcher, George Seimens, currently at the University of Texas at Arlington; and researcher and commentator, Stephen Downes, National Research Council of Canada, designed and taught the first MOOC (massive online open course) for their class Connectivism and Connective Knowledge (also known as CCK08). Twenty-five enrolled students and another 2200 open-online participants engaged one another through…