The Daily Create (tdc021): Scottloesque Daily Upate

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Reverend

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!

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The Daily Create (tdc19): Tell a Joke

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Reverend

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.

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Bill Gates Shilling for Subway

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Reverend

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.

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DTLT controls the Vertical and the Horizontal

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Reverend

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!

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This Week in ds106: Tune in Tokyo

Posted on January 28, 2012 by Reverend

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/

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Basket Blur

Posted on January 28, 2012 by Reverend
Basket Blur by snakepliskens
Basket Blur, a photo by snakepliskens on Flickr.

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 🙂

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This Week in ds106: Gardner Campbell on Personal Cyberinfrastructures

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Reverend

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.

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Patty Pioneers: No Turtle, Chicken!

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Reverend

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!

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ds106 and blog experimenting

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Reverend

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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This Week in ds106 (Episode 1)

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Reverend

Hope your first week went well and was not too disorientating in terms of ds106.  I wanted to send you a quick note to remind you of a few things.

Week 1 Assignments:

1) For the first week you have two assignments due: getting your web host and domain up and running as well as installing a WordPress blog

2) Doing at least 3 daily creates (required for registered students of section 1 at UMW) on the day they are due. You can find the daily create site here: http://tdc.ds106.us

This is laid out more specifically in the assignment post on my personal blog here: http://bavatuesdays.com/week-1-assignments-domain-webhost-the-daily-create-and-tuning-into-ds106/

Important: when you have setup your domain please send me the URL so I can be sure it syndicates into ds106.us and that it is set up correctly. This is due by Sunday, January 22nd. This takes time, don;t wait until the last minute.

Tuning into ds106
Keep in mind that not every ds106 face-to-face course will be streamed. I will stream as many as possible, but in general I will try and only stream the one’s where there is a guest speaker or specific lecture. If you would like me to stream the workshops too let me know. Also, I have no problem if you decide to join the workshops that will happen on a weekly basis in person, but this is not required.

As I mention in the above assignment posts, you can tune into ds106 when it is live through live video stream here: http://dtlttoday.com/livehttp://dtlttoday.com/live or on the radio station which is linked from the front page of ds106.us.

This Week in ds106
Finally, the other instructor and I, Alan Levine, will be doing a weekly video on Monday getting everybody set for what’s in store for the coming week as well as wrap-up of the week on Friday. This series will be called This Week in ds106, and hopefully will help you stay on track. You can see the first episode we did this afternoon below:


DS106 Week One Review from umwnewmedia on Vimeo.

Some important reminders and technical advice
A few reminders. Be sure to have your twitter, flickr, soundcloud, and youtube accounts setup as soon as possible Additionally, be sure you add at least 5 images immediately to your flickr account so it is recognized and they activate the feed. Accounts with less than 5 images do not have their feed activated right away.

Also, a number of UMW students have been reporting that the hosting page at Hover is caching on the local network so that it shows that your domain and webhost are still parked at Hover when in reality anyone from a different access point or on a different network can see your site, or at least the index page of your site. If your site has been stuck at your domain register for an inordinate amount of time have someone from a different location check your URL and have them tell you what they see.

CPanel and File Manager
In last night’s face-to-face class we spent some time talking about CPanel, File Manager, Add-On Domains and PHPMyAdmin as a kind of overview to your web hosting account. I would love it if someone took the initiative to do an overview of any one of these elements of CPanel. One of the things I really encourage you all to do is explore and tinker with the web hosting account you have. See what you can do, try and break it eve, get a sense of what it means to manage your own little piece of the web.

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