Category: Teaching and Learning
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CUNY Week 3 -Web 2.0 is an attitude not a technology.
Remix RSS from cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by eBlog The name of this post is a quote from Ian Davis one of the co-authors of RSS 1.0, which I think is a great way to kick off thoughts for Week 3 and Web 2.0. RSS is one of the web’s…
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CUNY Week 2 – Getting Under the Hood of Your Blog
cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by larrysphatpage ABOUT YOUR BLOG – In week one’s assignment, you got your Domain and WordPress site up and running. Now it’s time to soup-up this blog into a real muscle machine. There are a number of things to do including editing default titles, posts,…
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CUNY Week 1 – DS106 is Taking the 7 Train
cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo shared by adaptorplug The spring semester is finally starting for York College and I’m really excited to get a new group of students into DS106. Here at York DS106 feeds out of the course CT101 whcih is the foundation course for our Communications Technology majors. For students…
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The End of the Journey to the Center of the Internet
[youtube width=”580″ height=”470″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Yrway2OCEw[/youtube] Fellow friends of ds106, I am lucky to be alive. It’s been two weeks since being attacked by Prof. Oliver during the taping of my final reflection on teaching ds106 this semester. It was good fortune that despite all the blood loss, he somehow missed my vital organs. It was a trying…
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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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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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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…
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Week Four DS106 Points Everywhere – Including Japan
The fall cohort of ds106 just got a lot bigger this week with the addition of students from Japan in Prof. Scott Lockman’s Cyberspace & Society class. They are now in the ds106 feed, so welcome them by commenting on their work! You can start with this great minimal movie travel poster – The Planet,…
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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…