Tag: Alan Levine

  • 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…

  • CUNY Week 5 – RRRRRRRRR Design

    cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by Nick Sherman This week is probably my favorite week of DS106 as we get to spend time making art while thinking about images, type, and layout. We had a great start yesterday in our face-to-face class yesterday despite the ds106 site being down for…

  • I’m Still Chewing on that Over-Branding of DS106 Comment

    I’ve been thinking a lot about the over-branding conversation that Stephen Downes started on Alan Levine’s blog post I Want You to Make Art (Dammit). Downes did not like the use of ‘DS106’ in propaganda, and called it “over-branded.” After Alan tried to defend the work as students celebrating the class, Downes continued that it…

  • 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…

  • 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…