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Tag Archives: ds106
Talking ds106 design with Ben Rimes and Cheryl Colan
In today’s session Bianca O’Blivion seems a bit delusional as to her role in the class, while Ben Rimes and Cheryl Colan were kind enough to talk with me about everything from ds106 design assignments to K-12 education (which I … Continue reading
Creativity, Pop Culture, and Copyright
In today’s live broadcast we were fortunate enough to have the diabolical sock puppet Stella Meme join us. She left us with an awesome resource here with links to a number of excellent videos resources such as RIP: A Remix … Continue reading
The Search for O’Blivion: a phone call, an image, and a potential posse?
After today’s live broadcast I received a rather strange phone message which I’m not sure what to do with, take a listen below and let me know what you think. It was from this free online wake-up call service, so … Continue reading
Week 2: Design Assignments and a Skype Call with Oblivion
All, Welcome to week 2 of the Summer of Oblivion, I have to apologize in advance for the seemingly unending drama surrounding Dr. Oblivion. If we know things were going to work out like this we would have never hired … Continue reading
Dr. O’Blivion dead? Clearing my good name
Over the past week we have not only seen the disappearance of THE Dr. Oblivion, but also the emergence of another Dr. Oblivion who at first claimed to be the real #ds106 Dr. Oblivion, but then retracted this story to … Continue reading
Danger Diabolik!
Danger Diabolik is one of my favorite Mario Bava films, and this animated GIF is taken from probably my favorite scene in the film which has Diabolik tearing around in his bitchin car driving to the tune of Ennio Morricone’s … Continue reading
Averaging Flickr Visual Assignment, the new black
Last semester maybe one or two ds106 participants did Timmmmyboy’s Averaging Flickr Concepts assignment, but this semester it seems to be one of the most popular. One of the reason may very well be Tim Owen’s awesome tutorial. Interesting how … Continue reading
Got Oblivion?
There have been a few milk container experiments for the “Missing Persons” poster assignment, so I decided to try my hand at in order to help get the word out about the Dr. Oblivion’s disappearance. One thing that blows my … Continue reading
For this Smile I Stop
This is yesterday’s dailyshoot, and like Aimee I am not always thrilled with the prompts. Add to that this is my fourth time doing this process, and I am starting to see the repeats (like today’s prompt). That said, I … Continue reading