Via Flickr:“Like father like son like hell.”
Toay’s Daily Create: Take a photo of two related objects of drastically different sizes.
I love the image Antonella took of me and Tommaso, our expressions are both natural and serious at once. What’s more, the relations come in places that are unexpected like the look, the hair, and the sens of a third relation taking the picture. I am getting excite for the photography portion of class, it should be fun.
Today’s Daily Create asks that you record a quick video of yourself doing an update that includes the date, time, weather, and a rating for the day. Scott Lockman has been doing these for what seems like months, and they intrigue me to no end because each and everyday you got a sense of where he is, what his life’s like in Tokyo, and how he’s feeling. That is a lot of information in a 20-30 second video, but that is also the power of the medium—it can communicate many powerful things in a short blast of creative energy, just take a look at the describe what’s on your key chain assignment, truly amazing how much I learned about so many people in just a few seconds. Wow!
I did a bunch of jokes for Friday’s Daily Create, (as did a lot of other people, many of which aren’t showing on the TDC site) an I have to say The Daily Create (TDC) is a total blast. I get to see or hear the fully online students as the do their daily creates as well as see the open online folks. It connects me with people exploring the class in ways that weren’t nearly as immediate last Spring. And while Bagman has stole the hearts and minds of ds106, and is now running for president—I want to see that campaign unfold—it’s the quotidian process of creating across various media that the TDC has made an ongoing staple of the course. I’m digging The Daily Create even more than I thought I would, and once all the students Flickr an YouTube feeds activate and start pulling in it will be even more beautiful than it already is.
So, the TDC joke I did that I want to feature on the bava is actually not my joke. Shannon Swanson (Shannotate) told it to me at work and I freaking loved it. It is a Sean Connery joke, and given Sean Connery may be my least favorite actor of all time, I relished the opportunity to laugh at his expense. So anyway, here is the joke with special thanks to Shannon.
Bill Gates during a more modest career moment as sandwich board operator for Subway.
Process: Using GIMP, I simply layered this image of Bill Gates on top of this city scape image. Finally, I scaled each layer to fit the scene and then added in this Subway advertisement for the sandwich board. Another Patty Pioneer assignment in the bag.
Two weeks ago the DTLT group presented at the Educause Midatlantic Regional Conference in Baltimore, Maryland. The panel discussion covered ds106—what else is there? Martha Burtis provided an overview of the course, Tim Owens the technical framework, I featured the radio, and Andy Rush closed with our experiments with live, streaming video. It’s not only a great overview of ds106, but it is also a great overview of the chemistry that drives the creative, innovative machine that is DTLT. #4life!
This afternoon I caught up with Scott Lockman to talk about the awesome work his students over at Temple University, Japan (TUJ) have been doing thus far. Over the past week one of the TUJ students submitted this Patty Pioneers assignment and it has taken off throughout the ds106 community since. Scott and I spend this special weekend edition of “This Week in ds106” talking about the frame for Scott’s class, the power of creative assignments, the possibility for student work going viral, as well as a look at Scottlo’s Glengarry, Glenn Ross-inspired pep talk to his students titled “Always Be Tweeting.” A-game!
Below are a list of Patty Pioneers we feature (or should have featured) in this episode of T.W.i.d.
Neopessimist23’s “Weiner eating a wiener” http://neopessimist23.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/41/
TUjournal’s “Ted Nelson: He did more than share a burger” http://tujournal.com/?p=47
TechIntersect’s “Microchip Inventor has a snack” http://billgx.edublogs.org/2012/01/24/kilby/
WritingDegreeZero’s “GNU Pioneer devours DQ Special”http://writingdegreezero.com/archives/825
LockmanTUJ’s “Tim Berners-Lee receives honorary chicken basket” http://cis0835sp12.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/sir-tim-berners-lee-receives-honorary-chicken-basket/
Noise Professor’s “Babbage Says Hell Yeah Carne Asada Fries” http://www.noiseprofessor.org/?p=841
RaptNRent’s “Fries n’ Chips” http://blog.raptnrent.me/?p=32
jmster88’s “Alan Kay’s Burger Conundrum” http://jmster88.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/alan-kays-burger-conundrum/
The Rimes Times’s “Who Invented the Internet” http://www.rimestimes.net/archives/1935
RI12211’s “Patty Pioneers” http://ri12211.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/patty-pioneers-1st-assignment-of-cis-ds106/
Giulia Forsythe’s “Ada Lovelace” http://gforsythe.ca/patty-pioneer/
Via Flickr:The Daily Create for 1/28/12: “Take a photo where movement of the camera creates an interesting blur effect.”
Antonella suggested I post this one (of the 80+ I took), but I am still not satisfied with it. I’m gonna try to take another shot at this assignment sometime today—why can’t I take a good blurry image when I want to? It always seems to come so easy when I don’t even try 🙂
ds106: Gardner Campbell talks Personal Cyberinfrastructure from umwnewmedia on Vimeo.
Once again this semester we were privileged to have Gardner Campbell, the inspiration for the ethos of ds106, join us via Skype to talk about everything from his essay on Personal Cyberinfrastructures to Milton to the future of education (that last 20 minutes was a beautiful riff). Gardner brought his A-game an more, an if you have a bit of spare time you might consider locking into this one, it’s a brilliant talk with some heavy, heavy riffs on the poetry of the possible.
Seymour Papert excited for some of the Colonel's finest.
I just couldn’t resist the Pioneer Patty assignment that the Tokyo ds106ers are rocking out to. How cool to make an assignment that turns a series of innovative computer mavericks into fast food fanatics in order show how much you care. My take on the assignment has Seymour Papert with a bucket of the Colonel’s finest. I took this image of a young Papert with his wireless Turtle robot and replaced the technology with the “patty.” I used Gimp to make the KFC bucket of chicken black and white, I scaled the layer down and added it to the image of Papert. Pretty simple, and too much fun. Scottlo breaks down the origination of this assignment here, and I have to say it has been a blast to see others take a shot at this assignment like Bille Genereux’s Jack Kilby and Joan Shaffer’s Richard Stallman. Awesome!
ds106 week 2: Blog Experimenting from umwnewmedia on Vimeo.
During this evening’s session of ds106 we went over some wrap up from week 1, the importance of commenting, and let everyone know it is high time they start blogging. To that end we discussed them taking ownership of their blog space through working through the details of WordPress, exploring different themes, experimenting with plugins, and getting used to CPanel. All of this is part of the assignment for week 2 and I figure this video might be helpful for any one who wants a sense of where we are and where we are going. I ran into issues with the streaming live server because I waited to the last minute to get the credentials, but I promise that the stream will be live here and ready to go for Gardner Campbell’s presentation/discussion this Thursday, January 26th at 6 PM EST.
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