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Category Archives: digital storytelling
The Formative Five: Movie Scenes that Changed My Life
Annie Belle submitted an assignment suggesting you talk about 3-5 movie scenes that changed your life. That is right up my alley and I couldn’t resist. In fact, about four years ago I started a formative 10 film series on … Continue reading
This Week in ds106: Brief and Imperfect Video Tips
This Week in ds106: A Brief and imperfect overview of some video tools from umwnewmedia on Vimeo. This is a short video outlining some uses for MPEG Streamclip, a short discussion of DVD ripping tools, a look at basic editing … Continue reading
From the ds106 Video Archive: Andrew Allingham’s The Saragossa Manuscript video essay
In honor of video week I am going to pull a ds106 classic video essay from the archive done by the great Andrew Allingham. This may be one of the most compelling video essays I have yet to see, right … Continue reading
This Week in ds106: A Video Intro tour de force
Tonight I introduced my section of ds106 to the video section of the course. The assignments, videos, and resources referred to above can be be found in the assignment post for weeks 9 & 10 here. I had a good … Continue reading
We Want the Airwaves: ds106 Radio Shows, Pt 1
This past Tuesday night, section 1 of ds106 here at UMW (i.e. my section! 🙂 ) aired three group radio shows on ds106radio. As with the Spring 2011 semester, the shows were amazingly produced given  how little experience the students have … Continue reading
ds106: We put the Commie in Community
Image credit: Jack Mulrey’s ds106 Propaganda Poster I’ve been thinking a bit about the power of an open community to change the nature of a class taught at a brick and mortar institution given the work I’ve been doing with … Continue reading
The GraMar of Film
As we get ready to transition from audio to video in ds106 for weeks 8, 9, and 10 I can’t help but start thinking about what examples from various films I can use to demonstrate the grammar of cinema. What … Continue reading
Behind Every EDUPUNK is a Miserable Sysadmin
I’m not sure the title of the post is exactly what Zach Davis said back in October of last year at the OpenEd conference, but I think Brian Lamb can confirm it’s pretty close in spirit. Zach Davis and Lucas … Continue reading
Animated Comic Book Cover….I’m Free at last!
I’ve been reading a bunch of 1980s Hulk comics thanks to my time with Zach Davis out in Portland, Oregon—which I am still gonna blog! What’s more, I’ve started re-watching the Hulk TV series from the late 70s and early … Continue reading
Eduglu Revisited: The Syndication Bus 2012
It’s been more than a year since I’ve really thought, no less written about, the syndication bus as it relates to ds106. For any of you who might be new to the idea of the syndication bus, it’s an approach … Continue reading