Category: Digital Storytelling
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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…
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A Journey to the Center of the Internet
[youtube width=”580″ height=”470″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm-cZ4ytiPk[/youtube] To the DS106 community I bring you this message about the coming journey I will be taking with my good colleague and friend, Dr. Oliver Lindenbrook. He has exciting news to share with us about a great discovery he’s made in the DS106 website. Next week he expects a breakthrough in his…
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How Many More Lives
Without UMW hosting a registered section of ds106 this semester, Jim, Martha, and company have invited me to host York College’s Communications Technology students as registered students in a fall offering of DS106. Sadly it’s going to be a late start due to natural disasters, holidays, and a bad database in our student information system.…
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The Evil and the Weak Must Be Purged
Leaving a window open on your computer playing old, bad television while going through email can lead to one of two things – inbox zero if you maintain your focus on the email, or more likely a couple of good animated GIF ideas for ds106. Above is the fabulous Jack Palance playing the false prophet Kaleel…
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Stranded by Solar Storm
@JimGroom tweeted about a great writing assignment for #ds106 this morning which asks you to write your worst first sentence to a novel. The idea comes from the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest which ds106 alum Andrew Allingham entered and wrote about in his blog. I decided there was no reason to wait for the next section of ds106…
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It Had To Be Murder
I’ve been playing with animation timing in these two animated GIFs. I’m trying to find ways to use fewer frames and still tell the story I’m looking for. In this moment of Rear Window Raymond Burr finally realizes that he’s being watched by someone across the building court yard and James Stewart knows he’s found out.
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The Robin Hood Bunch
I was inspired this morning by Lou McGill’s post which included animated GIFs of three close-ups from the final shoot-out in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. Seeing the animated faces of Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach on a single webpage made my think of the Brady Bunch Opening with the nine…
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Dissociative Dr. Oblivion
Jim Groom was interviewed by Dr. Oblivion today and Jim plead that the ds106 community forgive him after banishing so many students during the Summer of Oblivion. It seemed to be a truly touching moment of closure for everyone that had fretted over the mental health of Jim Groom. Dr. Oblivion was retaking the helm…