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I ♥ Pictures of CUNY
Eric Metcalf and I have been working on a photography blog about CUNY hosted on the CUNY Academic Commons for a few months now. The original idea was to surface what we thought were interesting CC licensed photos that relate to CUNY and present a new one every day. I spent many hours searching Flickr…
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Is There No Sanctuary?
So a freedom fighter of fair use got smacked in the face a couple of days ago. The Youtube copytright scanners… took him out. Why? Because he dared to look copyright holders in the face with this, this, this, and this? (pingback bonanza!) Groom had doggedly dodged and weaved against claims of copyright violations. But they simply reminded him of…
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Yo Adrian!
While talking about ds106 this summer with my teacher ed students, I described how I wished to complete the five seconds five films one archetype assignment with a mashup of Rocky’s distictive ‘Yo Adrian’ across the six Rocky films. I’d recently re-watched Rocky which was released in 1976 when I was age five. I somehow watched that…
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Apopcalyptic Start to the Summer
This past June I was able to teach a York College course for K12 pre-service candidates, Teaching With Technology during the summer session for the first time. We used a blog I created for the four week session which adopted a thematic title for the class, based on Jim Groom’s Educational Apopcalypse TEDxNYED talk. The site was named Why…
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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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My Pants, Flowers, and Bit of Burn Out
This is a repost for my summer course with teacher education students. I’ve been playing along asking them (and myself) to be makers, recognizing there will never be exactly what they want in the classroom. So far my favorites ‘maker projects’ by my students are a jello mold of a cell and a very cool…
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Electronic Games Animated Magazine Cover
As soon as Jim created this assignment and seeded it with his terrific Famous Monsters of Filmland animated magazine cover, I knew I had to do it. This is cover of the first issue of the fan magazine Electronic Games published in the Winter of 1981. Nightrob has a great set of EG cover art in his Flickr…
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Fat Cats Make Better Art History Assignments
Originally posted in my summer teaching with technology course, but it’s a new fat cat so I had to get it in the ds106 stream! Today we are going to play with digital storytelling as a tool for teaching and learning. In one of Alan Levine’s talks about digital storytelling, he included a slide…
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@dkernohan Visited My Class Yesterday
This summer I’m teaching a York College class for teacher education students about integrating technology in the classroom. And one of the first assignments asks the students to watch Michael Wesch’s video A Vision of Students Today and then blog about their college experience so far. One student described hers as “not terrible but having a lot of…