Category Archives: digital storytelling

The Horror of Dolls

Posted on September 10, 2015 by Reverend

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=251&v=-rK1WyAIvps This week in Tales from ds106 Paul Bond and I discussed a couple of classic horror stories focused on dolls: The Twilight Zone’s “Living Doll” and Richard Matheson‘s episode “Amelia” from the TV movie Trilogy of Terror (1975). One of the questions we … Continue reading →

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From the #ds106 Valley of the Shadow of Death

Posted on August 26, 2015 by Reverend

Paul Bond and I are collaborating on yet another iteration of ds106 this semester: Tales from ds106. Like Noir 106, this class is inspired by a specific theme, namely horror. Early on we’ll be using some of the 1950s EC Comics Tales from the Crypt to explore … Continue reading →

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Lunch with the Torrances

Posted on July 31, 2015 by Reverend

During a discussion I had with a group of faculty this evening about managing their own domains, one professor asked how he might approach blogging in his film class. Because I can’t help myself, I immediately mentioned to GIFs as a way to … Continue reading →

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I’m One of the Greatest Animated Comic Book Artists! Well, actually…

Posted on July 30, 2015 by Reverend

Paul Bond tweeted out a link to this post featuring 25 of the greatest animated comic book covers of all time—which means the last three or four years when they became a thing. Check out 25 Greatest Animated Comic Book … Continue reading →

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ds106 is not a cult, it’s a ~club

Posted on July 22, 2015 by Reverend

Back in March Tim and I went to the IndieWebCamp at MIT.  Part of the two-day event consists of proposing something to build and hoping others are interested in participating. During lunch on the first day Tim threw out the idea of … Continue reading →

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List Remote Comments

Posted on July 17, 2015 by Reverend

I already blogged about Mark Luetke‘s awesome Motherblogs Made Easy plugin, and I promised there was more. Well, here’s more. Martha Burtis already experimented with Mark’s List Remote Comments plugin on the aggregator blog she is working on for Freshman Seminar she … Continue reading →

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Big in Japan or, Our Course Could be Your Cult #4life

Posted on July 14, 2015 by Reverend

This just  in from the “I love Me” department. Last month I spent five days in beautiful Barcelona presenting at the Annual EDEN Conference and watching 2001: A Space Odyssey in glorious 70MM at the phenomenal Phenomena theater. It was a blast, and … Continue reading →

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The GIFs that Keep on Giffing

Posted on July 12, 2015 by Reverend

A couple of weeks ago the inimitable Martha Burtis both conceived and engineered a brilliant workshop for the freshman orientation. The session was titled “The GIFs that Keep on Giffing” and the mission was pretty straightforward, show 16 incoming freshman how … Continue reading →

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The Un-education of a Technologist: From EDUPUNK to ds106

Posted on June 11, 2015 by Reverend

Below are the slides and a transcript of the text I planned to follow when I delivered my talk this morning at the EDEN Annual Conference in Barcelona. That said, I didn’t keep to the script because I get too excited … Continue reading →

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On Maelstroms and Syndication Buses

Posted on June 9, 2015 by Reverend

I am preparing a talk for Thursday that revisits a journal article Brian Lamb and I wrote in late 2008, early 2009 for the Universities and Knowledge Societies Journal (RUSC) titled “The Education of as Un-Artist…or is that the un-education of the technologist?” It’s … Continue reading →

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