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Category Archives: digital storytelling
Animated Comic Book Covers
I could have swore I already linked to these awesome animated comic book covers by Kerry Callen on the bava blog, but searching through my archives I can’t find the post I was sure I already wrote. I do this … Continue reading
Bill the Butcher
I spent too much time on this not to post it here. I used the beta version of MPEG Streamclip for the Mac which seems to be working beautifully still in terms of allowing you to pull in YouTube videos … Continue reading
I Can Read Alien
One of the assignments I have been dying to do for over a year, but have never been brave enough to try is the I Can Read Movies design assignment. My first attempt at this assignment is rather derivative, I … Continue reading
The ds106 site: a few notes and a wish
We’re hard at work on a number of elements with regards to the ds106 site, and this post will take you through some of the upgrades we’ve done, possible new features, and even a wish or two. A lot of … Continue reading
Etherized upon a table
Giving Serena’s “Picturing Prufrock” assignment another go, I decided to hit up the awesome archival image site Shorpy for some shots of old school surgery rooms, and this gem titled “The Cutting Room” from The Brooklyn Navy Yard circa 1900 … Continue reading
Mist-ifying Prufrock
Serena Epstein has a fun new assignment for ds106 that asks you to illustrate an image from T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock” through the medium of your choice. As soon as I saw the assignment a … Continue reading
ds106: We’re open and you’re invited!
Image credit: CogDog’s “Open is Welcoming” That’s right, ds106 is running again in the Spring of 2012. If you have no idea what ds106 is, read more about it here. We’re still ironing out the syllabus for … Continue reading
ds106: Stories In Our Digital Age
Three students in Jeff McClurken’s #infoage course, Ashley Lightburn, Joe Calpin, and Caitlyn Murphy, put together a ten minute documentary about ds106. I am obviously excited by the idea that students think this course is interesting enough to make a … Continue reading
A minimalist bava anniversary
It’s a special day for the bava blog in a couple of regards. First off, bavatuesdays turns 6 years old today. I’m pretty proud of that fact, 6 years ago today I started my job as an Instructional Technology Specialist … Continue reading
ds106 Across the Curriculum
In another lifetime I worked as a Writing Fellow through the CUNY Graduate Center. What writing fellows did (and still do, I imagine) was work with a variety of faculty from numerous disciplines to integrate writing into their course. So, … Continue reading