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Tag Archives: gifs
It’s Father’s Day, and I want my cake!
In Italy Father’s Day is recognized on St.Joseph’s saint day, which is today. And I have to say given Joseph’s role in Jesus’s birth, there’s a strange subtext to the day here 🙂 Anyway, I spend much of both the … Continue reading
Form of a Blog Post about ds106, RSS, and more
I am getting ready to map out my goals for this month’s Reclaim EdTech’s Flex Course on Gravity Forms, and after reading Tom Woodward’s post about using Gravity Forms to pull RSS feeds into FeedWordPress I was reminded how much … Continue reading
A MBS Special Presentation at Reclaim Video
This blog is pretty much all Reclaim all the time these days, and I am so very alright with that fact. Between Reclaim Hosting and Reclaim Video, what more could a blogger want? I already wrote about the first Summer Movie … Continue reading
Reclaim Video GIFs
I put together a series of GIFs for a slideshow that was going to play in the background, between sessions, etc. at OER18. I don’t think that ever came to fruition—or at least I didn’t see it—but I kinda like it, … Continue reading
Muhlenberg College: The ‘Berg Builds
This post has sat in draft for almost three weeks while I finished traveling and decompressing from a month away. Like Cogdog, I have been a tired blogger these days, but unlike Alan I haven’t always been able to push … Continue reading
Glitching Waterfall
The above photo is of a spot along a path right below our house on the way to Anto’s mom’s house. It’s a gorgeous path, and I have photographed it a few times since I got here. About half-way down … Continue reading
What has WordPress Ever Done for Us?
Reg: All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us? PFJ Member: Brought peace? Reg: Oh, peace? SHUT UP! While WordPress … Continue reading
The Wood Beast from Flash Gordon
Thanks to a recent Tweet by Famous Monsters of Filmland about the upcoming 35th anniversary of the 1980 film version of Flash Gordon, I was inspired. The FLASH GORDON 35th anniv is coming! Buy the new @FMoF now or get a … Continue reading
The People’s Open Education Jam or, Say it with a GIF
This Friday I will be co-presenting with Graham Atwell at the Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality (TEEM’15) in Porto, Portugal.  The talk is something we kind of half-baked up at EDEN15 this past April in Barcelona, and we have been playing with over … Continue reading
Lunch with the Torrances
During a discussion I had with a group of faculty this evening about managing their own domains, one professor asked how he might approach blogging in his film class. Because I can’t help myself, I immediately mentioned to GIFs as a way to … Continue reading