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Category Archives: digital storytelling
Danger Diabolik!
Danger Diabolik is one of my favorite Mario Bava films, and this animated GIF is taken from probably my favorite scene in the film which has Diabolik tearing around in his bitchin car driving to the tune of Ennio Morricone’s … Continue reading
Averaging Flickr Visual Assignment, the new black
Last semester maybe one or two ds106 participants did Timmmmyboy’s Averaging Flickr Concepts assignment, but this semester it seems to be one of the most popular. One of the reason may very well be Tim Owen’s awesome tutorial. Interesting how … Continue reading
Got Oblivion?
There have been a few milk container experiments for the “Missing Persons” poster assignment, so I decided to try my hand at in order to help get the word out about the Dr. Oblivion’s disappearance. One thing that blows my … Continue reading
For this Smile I Stop
This is yesterday’s dailyshoot, and like Aimee I am not always thrilled with the prompts. Add to that this is my fourth time doing this process, and I am starting to see the repeats (like today’s prompt). That said, I … Continue reading
Thanks ds106
having the open, online students contributing to #ds106 is really what makes the experience that much greater. And this semester we have a bunch of awesome folks who are more than up to the challenge. I mean look at the … Continue reading
Dr. Oblivion Day 4: “Dr. Oblivion is missing!”
In a strange twist, T.A. Jim Groom is left stranded by Dr. Oblivion and left to do all the work of ds106 in his absence. The doctor’s daughter, Bianca O’Blivion gives us all the details. Meanwhile a discussion on visual … Continue reading
Dr. Oblivion Day 3: Personal Cyberinfrastructure and Knowedge-able
You can find Dr. Oblivion’s Discussion Notes (with all relevant links) here. Also, here is a copy of the Livechat Transcript from today’s live broadcast. Additionally , Dr. Oblivion asked me to thank Abbie Boaduwa Yirrah for calling into the … Continue reading
Dr. Oblivion Day 2
Dr. Oblivion responds to a few blog posts and comments in the live chat and Twitter feed and takes the time to talk about WordPress and getting started with themes and plugins. See the assignment for experimenting with plugins and … Continue reading
The Purpose of Animted GIFs discovered
Stellameme has figured out the real purpose of animated GIFs, use them to interpret a reading or video you watched for #ds106. These are brilliant response to Gardner Campbell‘s “No More Digital Facelifts” presentation. Brava, this is genius—and builds geniusly … Continue reading