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Tag Archives: ds106
First Time Teaching Animated GIFs
I just blogged about the animated GIF I made while showing the Breakfast Club edition of ds106 how to make animated GIFs. What struck me after writing that post was that it’s the first since teaching this class that I … Continue reading
400 Blows
I did the above GIF on the fly while showing the Breakfast Club edition of ds106 how to make animated GIFs using MPEG Streamclip and Photoshop. Today was a thoroughly enjoyable class—and the students seemed to have a blast and … Continue reading
ds106: The Breakfast Club Edition
On Monday I started teaching five students as part of the Summer Enhancement Program for high school age students. I proposed a Digital Storytelling class—surprise, surprise—that spans two weeks and what I figured I would do is have them do … Continue reading
TerrorVision Animated
One of the craziest and most memorable films of the 80s is the ultra-camp, TV alien invasion film TerrorVision (1986). I kind of think of it as the b-film alter ego of Videodrome. I wrote about TerrorVision back in 2008 when … Continue reading
Aftershocks: MOOCs Arrive at UMW 18 Months Late(r)
I think you know MOOCs have arrived when the aftershocks of the University of Virginia fiasco (an excellent article summing it up thus far in the New Republic by Kevin Carey here) reverberate on your home campus so quickly. UMW’s … Continue reading
John Cage’s 10 Rules for Students and Teachers
Martha Burtis tweeted this bag of gold a day or two ago from the great John Cage. I am posting it here for posterity, it very much describes the way in which we have tried to approach ds106, and I … Continue reading
Name that 80s Movie #3
Bear with us, we will be moving to the next level of difficulty shortly. Hopefully you are feeling appropriately confident, but keep in mind the next three will separate the parachute pants wearers from the stonewashed jeans junkies. Icon Credits … Continue reading
Name that 80s movie #2
Here is #2 of the Name that 80s movie, and don’t get cocky people, we are just warming up. Take the lay-ups while you have the chance 🙂 Update (forgot the attribution): The keys are from here, the guitar from here, … Continue reading
Name that 80s movie #1
I’ll start this series easy, and make it harder as we go. These icons are all from The Noun Project, and the 4 Icon Challenge assignment has been neglected thus far this Summer, so I figured this might inspire folks … Continue reading
GQ’s Newest Man of the Year Abides
It’s bad form, I know, but I can’t stop doing my own awesome assignment for Animating Magazine Covers. Although I blame this one on Paul Bond, whose animated cover of Parenting featuring a heart-to-heart between Jack and Danny Torrance inspired … Continue reading