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Category Archives: digital storytelling
Video Essay Tutorial
I started a page on the ds106 wiki that takes you throw the possibilities for getting the Video Essay done. It takes you through ripping DVDs (for Mac and PC), some quick trimming and compression tools, and how to do … Continue reading
A Gilliam-Inspired Animated GIF
Emily Roberts, a ds106 alum from Spring 2010, tweeted an awesome animated GIF she did today that draws its inspiration from Terry Gilliam’s Monty Python animations. isn’t that brilliant? I love it!
Week 11: Video Essay Assignment
For this assignment you need to select several scenes from your favorite film (or one of your favorites), and edit them together and comment on some of the filmic elements of the scenes? Why do you like these scenes? What … Continue reading
Karaoke Fridays on #ds106radio
Image credit: “Karaoke Time” by Sarah Sosiak When I jumped on #d106radio Friday night Timmmmyboy had started doing some Friday Night Karaoke on the mighty #ds106radio and I couldn’t resist—and I wasn’t alone. And while my karaoke songs were god … Continue reading
Zombies and the Manshed
The Velocioraptor Variety Show group asked me to do a quick impromptu spiel on surviving the zombie apocalypse for their half hour radio show—which you can listen to in its entirety here—and what resulted was a bit of extemporaneous zombie … Continue reading
Webstories: Jesus Bales and Baby Recipes
Martha and I got started on the webstories assignment this week in ds106 in it is immediately paying some serious dividends. The assignment is Martha’s brainchild, and it is really pretty awesome. Take a site, and intervene in the CSS … Continue reading
A Tribute to the Road Dog
Yesterday was yet another special day on the mighty ds106radio, and it was in honor of the great Alan Levine who announced that he is leaving his job (apropos of Tuesday’s work theme on ds106radio 🙂 ) and hitting the … Continue reading
Weeks 9-10: Telling Stories in/on the Web
Over the next week and a half we’ll be playing with storytelling within the web. What does this mean? Well, Martha Burtis lays out the idea nicely in this post here about the idea behind this assignment (read it!), but … Continue reading
ds106 Wants Your Stats
…or Stats: the forbidden love!!! Props go to Martha Burtis for putting this together, and we are trying to get a sense of what is happening out there without pretending to be exact or suggesting we can formulate some greater … Continue reading
Anyone out there got good audio assignment ideas?
This is a quick attempt to generate some cool audio assignments for #ds106. We’re moving into a 2-3 week section on storytelling with audio, and various groups of participants will be focusing on collaboratively producing a radio show (see the … Continue reading