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Category Archives: digital storytelling
Screencast tutorials for Alternative Book Cover assignment
As promised yesterday, I did two screencasts for the Alternative Book Cover assignment, one for photoshop users and one for GIMP users. What you will get from these tutorials is that 1) I, too, am a novice at these applications, … Continue reading
Remixed game Covers: The Big Lebowski
I added another new design assignment for ds106 called Remixed Game Covers inspired by this awesome remixing of a series of Atari game covers that Mikhail Gershovich turned me on to a few months back. The assignment is pretty straightforward, … Continue reading
Alternative Book Covers: Naked Lunch
I just submitted this as an assignment, and I will be doing a quick tutorial for this one in Photoshop and GIMP shortly. It is either a two or three star assignment in my mind, and the inspiration comes from … Continue reading
This Week in ds106: Valentine’s Day, Design, and Jamming (5.2)
On Tuesday, February 14, 2012 (Week 5) I introduced the Design portion of class. This is a particularly fun part of class for me, and in this video we discuss the art of jamming in ds106 (thanks to inspiration from … Continue reading
Happy Valentine’s ds106
Happy Alternative Valentine’s Day ds106!
This Week in ds106: Week 5 Preview and a Special Edition
This week introduces the Design section of ds106, which is a personal favorite. Alan and I preview what’s to come in week 5 which wiull be all design all the time. Special guests that will appear at some point this … Continue reading
A Predator’s View of Monticello
I started playing with Annie Belle‘s “Switch Up the Mood” assignment on this image of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello I took this past Summer which, unfortunately, is rather predictable and unremarkable unlike the house. So I wanted to play with some … Continue reading
This Week in ds106: Week 4 Recap (4.4)
Alan Levine, ds106 alum Andrew Allingham, and myself talk with Ben Rimes, Giulia Forsythe, and Zack Dowell (aka Noise Professor) about the Daily Creates and Visual Assignments featured thus far. Below are links to featured visual assignments: http://delicious.com/stacks/view/M3AzJF Links to … Continue reading
This Week in ds106: Google Reader, The Daily Create, and Visual Assignments (4.3)
This is the video of my course section on Thursday, February 9th. We discussed Google Reader, The Daily Create, and Visual Assignments at some length.
Hey ds106, I just thought I’d riff off you
It is starting to happen, ds106 is taking hold and folks are letting go and having fun an creating wildly. I’ve seen a ton of awesome work this week, an Alan and I are collecting as much of it as … Continue reading