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Cropped Road Signs: Fallout Fan

Posted on September 23, 2014 by Reverend

I love today’s Daily Create, namely taking a cropped road sign and provide a different context. My idea of turning a nuclear fallout sign into a fan was quick and easy, although not nearly as creative as some of the others. … Continue reading →

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A Subdomain of One’s Own (with potential!)

Posted on September 22, 2014 by Reverend

The following screencast by Michael McGarry Chris Mattia provides an introduction to CI Keys platform, illustrating how to get up and running with your web hosting account in seconds. It’s pretty awesome, watch the first minute or two, your mind may very … Continue reading →

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Wire 106: Week 5 – Taking a Closer Look

Posted on September 22, 2014 by Reverend

This week we will be exploring visual elements of storytelling. And below is a quick list of things to do, followed by some more extensive resources: The Wire Episodes: We will be watching episodes 6, 7, and 8 of Season … Continue reading →

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Wire 106 Listen Along on ds106radio (#4life)

Posted on September 22, 2014 by Reverend

Its so different to just listen to an episode…#wire106 — John Meadows (@Physx28) September 17, 2014 Week four of Wire 106 was dedicated to listening to audio. Given that, Paul Bond suggested we load three episodes of season 2 of The Wire that we assigned … Continue reading →

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Catching Up with Reclaim Hosting

Posted on September 21, 2014 by Reverend

In episode 106 of Digital Campus (a.k.a dc106-coincidence? I think not) the director of the Roy Rosensweig Center for History and New Media, Stephen Robertson, gives a shout out to Reclaim Hosting suggesting how “absurdly easy” it is for students … Continue reading →

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#d&ds106

Posted on September 21, 2014 by Reverend

While playing with my kids today, I started thinking how cool it would be to do a themed version of ds106 dedicated to Dungeons & Dragons. I’ve been wanting to get back into D&D anyway so that my kids and I could … Continue reading →

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Tech Noir meets ds106?

Posted on September 21, 2014 by Reverend

Miles, his friend Andy, and I caught a rather clean, but brooding, 35MM print of The Empire Strikes Back (1980) at the Library of Congress, Packard Campus in Culpeper, VA last night. I got to thinking that Empire is very much … Continue reading →

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A New Hope in 35MM

Posted on September 20, 2014 by Reverend

A week ago I went to the Library of Congress, Packard Campus in Culpepper to see Star Wars in 35MM. It was as good as I had hoped. With a remarkably clean print of the 1997 re-mastering, there was no mistaking the … Continue reading →

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The Incubator Classroom

Posted on September 20, 2014 by Reverend

Tim Owens and I had some fun this week in our new incubator classroom that is attached to the DTLT suite in UMW’s new Information and Technology Convergence Center. It’s a completely awesome space, and we haven’t really had the … Continue reading →

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Becoming Well Known

Posted on September 19, 2014 by Reverend

It was cool to see Ben Werdmuller’s and Erin Jo Richey‘s Indieweb application Known featured in this recent Wired article. They’ve been red hot lately, with an appearance last week on an episode of “This Week in Google” dedicated to the IndieWeb. The attention is justified, … Continue reading →

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