Tag: ds106
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Happy Black Bava Tuesdays
Jim Groom marked the sixth year anniversary of his blog, Bavatuesdays today. He wanted to celebrate in a minimal way, but I decided he needs a more grand introduction to his blog, so I’m sending out a video present. [youtube width=”580″ height=”423″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C13E-wbFN6Y[/youtube] This introduction to Jim’s blog was made in reference to the Mario Bava…
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Deliverance Minimalist Movie Poster
Seeing Jim Groom’s minimalist movie poster for the The Thing finally get some love from Web Urbanist inspired me to finally take a stab at this assignment. I actually don’t need a lot of prodding to make a piece of design (especially for ds106). My poster is for the John Boorman classic “Deliverance” starring Jon Voight.…
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I Have The BuddyPress Power!
Not because Boone Gorges needs to know how awesome he is, but he does have the BuddyPress Power! Thanks to Tom Woodward for this piece of GIFness to remix.
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Mr. Groom Goes to Washington
I finally got to do some Photoshop kung-fu to encourage Jim Groom to commit to his personal call to action made during the “No SOPA For You” broadcast a couple of weeks ago. Jim described that he’s leaving ed tech to go fight corruption in Washingtion. I think Andy Rush and Tim Owens must of…
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Advanced DS106 Color Your Monster Manual
I wanted to share this mashup of the Advanced D & D Monster Manual which includes a dozen pages of monsters blown up and in a vector format (which makes them scale without pixelization.) I’ve been making these for my kids to use as a coloring book pages. Both of them are hooked on coloring…
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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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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…
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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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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…