Category: Digital Storytelling
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Advanced DS106 Color Your Monster Manual
I wanted to share this mashup of the Advanced D & D Monster Manual which includes a dozen pages of monsters blown up and in a vector format (which makes them scale without pixelization.) I’ve been making these for my kids to use as a coloring book pages. Both of them are hooked on coloring…
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Final Projects – Every DS106 Student Has a Story…Just Tell It.
I’ve been watching some classic Wile E Coyote shows recently and have been thinking about why the coyote’s efforts to catch the roadrunner makes for a good student learning model. Why would a coyote that regularly blows himself up and/or falls off of cliffs make for a good role model for ds106 students? The coyote…
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Week 9 Learning Mashup from One of the Best – – Monty Python
[youtube width=”580″ height=”470″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSilMe2sHDo[/youtube] Friend and colleague, Daniel Phelps took some time last week to talk to us about his Introduction to Motion Graphics course at York College and the amazing mashups his students are doing. His students spent some time looking at the magazine cut-up styled animation created by Terry Gilliam for Monty Python’s Flying…
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New York Rock City
Grant Potter, Mikhail Gershovich, GNA Garcia, Jim Groom on their tour through NYC Fall 2011. Inspired by Grant’s amazing retrospective of his tour of NYC last night on DS106 Radio, I decided the NYC Jam deserved it’s own album cover. This is my second album cover mashup made in response to Jim Groom adding a…
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Week 8 – Prof. Oliver Is that Really You?
It’s been almost six weeks since we’ve heard any real word from Prof. Oliver, our digital storytelling historian that was teaching ds106 at the start of the semester with the intention of taking us on a Journey to the Center of the Internet. He had a bit of a rough start, quiet confused about how…
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DS106 York Student Mid Term Evaluations
It’s been great to see all the York students work in DS106 as well as a number of you taking the time to comment on each other’s work. Below is a link to a spreadsheet with a number of slots for appointments with me for your midterm evaluation. Please put your name in one of…
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Week 6 – The Horror, The Educational Horror
This Monday is Halloween which also happens to be the day that my class at York College meets up. I’ve noticed over the past couple weeks that the two sections’ time slots of 10AM-12PM and 2PM-4PM have been Auto DJ on DS106 Radio, so we’re planning an DS106 Radio Educational Horror Show. It’s going to…
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Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do.
I’ve been meaning to do a triple troll after seeing the explosion of triple trolls across ds106. I figured the “last breath” deserved a triple troll. The three characters I chose all fall from the heights of corrupt power. Colonel Kurtz arguably is a corruption out of corruption, but I felt he still figured well…
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DS106 Radio Is The Thriller!
Preparing for the Monday’s Halloween themed ds106radio event, “The Horrors of Education,” I created this Vincent Priced themed ds106 radio bumper sticker and bumper. Looking forward to here your most scary experiences in education, as well as any other spooky stuff you can think of. [soundcloud params=”auto_play=false&show_comments=true”]http://soundcloud.com/mbransons/ds106-radio-is-the-thriller[/soundcloud] DS106 Radio Is The Thriller I edited…
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Week 5 – DS106 What’s that I Hear? – Can You Dig It!
This week starts our introduction to using sound for digital storytelling. We’re going to be learning some new tools, finding audio samples, recording our own sounds/voice, and use them to work on some projects from the ds106 audio assignment bank. And most awesomely we will consider broadcasting our projects and experiences on ds106 radio. To…