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Category Archives: digital storytelling
Jaws Alternative Book Cover
I have a ton of awesome design work to show off from the Breakfast Club edition of ds106 (a.k.a the K12 edition 🙂 ), but I want to take a quick moment and feature two alternative book cover assignments done … Continue reading
Not so 80s
The Noun Project credits: Community by Mike Endale Beach Ball by Tim Piper Cap by Oliver Guin Bicycle by Ugur Akdemir
Name that 80s movie #5
The Noun Project Credits: Football designed by Saman Bemel-Benrud Rocket designed by John O’Shea Tree designed by Saman Bemel-Benrud Palace designed by Okan Benn
Name that 80s movie #4
Experimenting a bit with The Noun Project and Illustrator before today’s Breakfast Club edition of ds106, and figured I would throw out another 80s movie 4 icon challenge because I can! The Noun Project Credits: Television by The Noun Project … Continue reading
First Time Teaching Animated GIFs
I just blogged about the animated GIF I made while showing the Breakfast Club edition of ds106 how to make animated GIFs. What struck me after writing that post was that it’s the first since teaching this class that I … Continue reading
400 Blows
I did the above GIF on the fly while showing the Breakfast Club edition of ds106 how to make animated GIFs using MPEG Streamclip and Photoshop. Today was a thoroughly enjoyable class—and the students seemed to have a blast and … Continue reading
ds106: The Breakfast Club Edition
On Monday I started teaching five students as part of the Summer Enhancement Program for high school age students. I proposed a Digital Storytelling class—surprise, surprise—that spans two weeks and what I figured I would do is have them do … Continue reading
Name that 80s Movie #3
Bear with us, we will be moving to the next level of difficulty shortly. Hopefully you are feeling appropriately confident, but keep in mind the next three will separate the parachute pants wearers from the stonewashed jeans junkies. Icon Credits … Continue reading
Name that 80s movie #2
Here is #2 of the Name that 80s movie, and don’t get cocky people, we are just warming up.  Take the lay-ups while you have the chance 🙂 Update (forgot the attribution): The keys are from here, the guitar from here, … Continue reading
Name that 80s movie #1
I’ll start this series easy, and make it harder as we go. These icons are all from The Noun Project, and the 4 Icon Challenge assignment has been neglected thus far this Summer, so I figured this might inspire folks … Continue reading