• 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Vader Answering Machine

    [soundcloud params=”auto_play=false&show_comments=true”]http://soundcloud.com/mbransons/vader-answering-machine[/soundcloud] Preparing for the audio portion of ds106, I decided to create a new assignment, “Movie Voice Machines.” This idea was inspired by a Tim Owens blog post, “This American Life Sex Tape,” which talked about an awesome audio riff on the amazing audio storytellers from This American Life. For Movie Voice Machines you…

  • Smoke, Fuel, Burn

    Rimi ‘Kookaburra’ Morita posted a cropped sign assignment a couple of days ago giving a unique interpretation of Cogdog’s Assignment. But more importantly Rimi’s post was the first post (tagged correctly) to appear in that assignment’s stream. So in the spirit of doing a ds106 visual or design assignment not ever done before I’m choosing Cogdog’s sadly…

  • 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,…