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Noir106 Highlight Reel
Maggie Stough’s Highlight Reel from Noir106
There were many, many amazing things about this semester’s noir-themed version of ds106. And I want to try and capture some of them before they slip into oblivion over the next couple of weeks. I’ll start with one of the more radical moves …
Read More#ds106: A Universe in which I have Hair and a Gun
One of this semester’s #ds106 stand-outs (and there were more than a few) was Spenser Scott. He was #4life. And as he was finishing up the semester he wisely chose to do the highest form of ds106 assignment: Jim Groom Art. In fact, he not only did the assignment, …
Read More#ds106: A Universe in which I have Hair and a Gun
One of this semester’s #ds106 stand-outs (and there were more than a few) was Spenser Scott. He was #4life. And as he was finishing up the semester he wisely chose to do the highest form of ds106 assignment: Jim Groom Art. In fact, he not only did the assignment, …
Read MoreMaking GIFs with IMGUR
I’m not really good enough at making GIFs to be a snob, but for the last four years I’ve pushed the process of making GIFs with a combination of a lightweight video editing tool like MPEG Streamclip to edit and export the video clip as stills and an image editing …
Read MoreNoir106: No Stain No Problem
It’s been a very strange year at UMW for many, many reasons, but none more than the fact that one of our students was allegedly murdered by another student last week. I can’t imagine anything that could hit a community harder; it’s deeply distressing. Unfortunately, I have no profound …
Read MoreUMW Groks GIFs
Following up on my last post, Michael Branson Smith‘s Animated GIF presentation and workshop will take place at UMW from 1:00 to 2:30 PM this coming Tuesday, April 14th. Michael’s GIFs are poetry in motion, his Hitchcock Animated Movie Posters series may be some of my favorite GIFs …
Read MoreIt’s not everyday your students accuse you of cheating on your wife with a Russian hitman
I’ve been remiss on posting about all the amazing work coming out of noir106, and that is a great loss because there is so much of it. In fact, there is 4,574 posts from 70+ students in just over 10 weeks. How could any of us keep up …
Read MoreIt’s not everyday your students accuse you of cheating on your wife with a Russian hitman
I’ve been remiss on posting about all the amazing work coming out of noir106, and that is a great loss because there is so much of it. In fact, there is 4,574 posts from 70+ students in just over 10 weeks. How could any of us keep up …
Read MoreJim Groom Art #4life
There is no great predictor of a successful ds106 course than the level of Jim Groom Art it produces—a tried and true tradition of this venerable digital storytelling course. And I can now officially assure you this cohort of students is no joke. Their work invokes the ghost of Noise …
Read MoreBest Weekly Summary Post Ever!
As part of the ds106 weekly process, students are expected to blog all their various assignments and then link to everything they have done and narrate their work what we call a “weekly summary post.” There is the expectation they narrate where they are in their thinking, creative process, problems …
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