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Welcome to the Inclusive Learning Design Handbook | Inclusive Learning Design Handbook
Welcome to the Inclusive Learning Design Handbook | Inclusive Learning Design Handbook
The Floe Inclusive Learning Design Handbook is a free Open Educational Resource (OER) designed to assist teachers, content creators, Web developers, and others in creating adaptable and personalizable educational resources that can accommodate a diversity of learning styles and individual needs.
#learning#design#OER
·handbook.floeproject.org·
Welcome to the Inclusive Learning Design Handbook | Inclusive Learning Design Handbook
Paving the way toward inclusive Open Education Resources | floe
Paving the way toward inclusive Open Education Resources | floe
FLOE provides the resources to personalize how we each learn and to address barriers to learning. Learners learn differently, and today’s society needs diverse, self-aware, life-long learners. FLOE supports learners, educators and curriculum producers in achieving one-size-fits-one learning design for the full diversity of learners, leveraging the variants made possible by Open Education Resources (OER). FLOE is led by the Inclusive Design Research Centre and applies Inclusive Design to open learning.
#accessibility#webdesign
·floeproject.org·
Paving the way toward inclusive Open Education Resources | floe
Let's Learn About Waveforms
Let's Learn About Waveforms
This interactive guide introduces and explores waveforms. We'll cover how to read these funny shapes, go over the fundamental physics of sound, learn how it relates to music and harmony, and discover how to build complex tones from simple ones. This guide is aimed at a general audience–no prior knowledge is required. It may be of particular interest to musicians, producers, and aspiring audio engineers, but it's designed to be accessible to everyone!
#interactive#music#audio#ds106
·pudding.cool·
Let's Learn About Waveforms
Crying in Public
Crying in Public
An emotional map of New York City, made out of the important things that happen to us outside.
#map#social
·cryinginpublic.com·
Crying in Public
The Long, Remarkable History of the GIF
The Long, Remarkable History of the GIF
Already more than a decade old and with roots reaching to June 15th, 1987—half a decade Inside the internet's long, doomed quest to replace its most iconic and flawed filetype. before the World Wide Web itself—the GIF was showing its age. It offered support for a paltry 256 colors. Its animation capabilities were easily rivaled by a flipbook. It was markedly inferior to virtually every file format that had followed it. On top of that, there were the threats of litigation from parent companies and patent-holders which had been looming over GIF users for five long years before the fiery call to action. By Burn All GIFs Day, the GIF was wobbling on the precipice of destruction. Those who knew enough to care deeply about file formats and the future of the web were marching on the gates, armed with PNGs of torches and pitchforks. And yet, somehow, here we are. Seventeen years later, the GIF not only isn't dead. It rules the web.
#gif#animatedgif#history#ds106#netnarr
·popularmechanics.com·
The Long, Remarkable History of the GIF
These Incredible Animated GIFs Are More Than 150 Years Old | WIRED
These Incredible Animated GIFs Are More Than 150 Years Old | WIRED
More than 150 years before Buzzfeed uploaded its first cat GIF, people were already captivated by looping animations. In those days, of course, there was no photoshop or screen grabbing, no Tumblrs and Twitter to help craft and share the perfect GIF. Rather, artists relied on optical tools—things like zoetropes, phenakistoscopes, thaumatropes and other gadgets with very strange names to bring their illustrations to life. These pre-cinema devices used all sorts of low-tech tricks to make that happen, but despite their simpleness, optical tools are often regarded as the forefathers to the modern GIF. “We’re all interested in seeing movement,” says Richard Balzer. “It was a different time, but the same challenge: How do you make things move?”
#animatedgif#gif#history#netnarr#ds106
·wired.com·
These Incredible Animated GIFs Are More Than 150 Years Old | WIRED
What Was The First GIF? The Animated History of The GIF
What Was The First GIF? The Animated History of The GIF
The story of the GIF itself is one of tech lore. Today, it’s one of internet legend. The GIF, or graphics interchange format, was introduced to the world by Compuserve in 1987. The compressed format was the ideal for performing image transfers across the slow modem connections of the time. The format also allowed for color, replacing the black-and-white run-length encoding format (RLE).
#gif#history#animatedgif#netnarr#ds106
·dailydot.com·
What Was The First GIF? The Animated History of The GIF
The History of GIFs
The History of GIFs
GIFs have flashed across many a webpage, flickered within millions of MySpace profiles and glittered among innumerable Tumblrs. You've spotted them in animated advertising, email signatures, web forums and social avatars. Indeed, if I had to repurpose the acronym for "GIF" it would be "Great Internet Fun." In fact, "GIF" stands for "graphics interchange format," a mature name for an image format just coming of age in the digital space (the GIF turned 25 this year). Specifically, Steve Wilhite of Compuserve debuted the GIF in June 1987. The GIF improved on black and white image transfers with 256 colors, while still retaining a compressed format that slow modems could load easily. Using the Graphics Control Extension (GCE), the GIF achieved animation via timed delays.
#animatedgif#gif#history#netnarr
·mashable.com·
The History of GIFs
10 Awesomely Tasteful Animated GIFs | WIRED
10 Awesomely Tasteful Animated GIFs | WIRED
Over the last few years, animated GIFs have spread like kudzu–fun kudzu! But still, kudzu–to all corners of the web. They’re a staple of TV show recaps; they’re the format du jour for artists on Tumblr; they’re shorthand in Twitter conversations and can serve as a succinct riposte in a message board debate. As a whole, they perfectly capture the spirit of the slightly zany, attention-deficient internet epoch we’re currently living in: the Age of Buzzfeed. GIFs are so ubiquitous, in fact, that if you change your focus slightly, it can be easier to notice the places you don’t often see them used. One example? Illustrations. While animated GIFs have trampled over still images, Flash animations, and even in some cases video clips as a way to inject multimedia pizazz into text-based content, animated illustrations remain a rarity. It’s a bit odd. Flip through an issue of The New Yorker or open up the Sunday Review section of The New York Times and you’ll find heaps of illustrations, begging to be animated. Look at the web versions of those visuals, though, and they’re almost always lifeless. Almost always.
#gif#animatedgif#netnarr#ds106
·wired.com·
10 Awesomely Tasteful Animated GIFs | WIRED
A Silent Place
A Silent Place
A SILENT PLACE IS A PICTOGRAPHIC ORACLE CONSISTING OF ROCK DRAWINGS FROM THE UTAH DESERT. EACH DRAWING APPEARS FOR 227 SECONDS AND REAPPEARS 227 MINUTES LATER IN A CYCLE THAT CONTINUES INDEFINITELY. MAY IT BE A REFUGE AND A MIRROR.
#art#reflection#netnarr
·asilentplace.com·
A Silent Place
Stephen King's Top 20 Rules For Writers - Barnes & Noble Reads — Barnes & Noble Reads
Stephen King's Top 20 Rules For Writers - Barnes & Noble Reads — Barnes & Noble Reads
Stephen King’s books have sold over 350 million copies. Like them or loathe them, you have to admit that’s impressive. King’s manual On Writing reveals that he’s relentlessly dedicated to his craft. He admits that not even The King himself always sticks to his rules—but trying to follow them is a good start. Here are our favorite pieces of advice for aspiring writers
#writing#resnetsem
·barnesandnoble.com·
Stephen King's Top 20 Rules For Writers - Barnes & Noble Reads — Barnes & Noble Reads
The Tyranny of Convenience - The New York Times
The Tyranny of Convenience - The New York Times
Convenience has the ability to make other options unthinkable. Once you have used a washing machine, laundering clothes by hand seems irrational, even if it might be cheaper. After you have experienced streaming television, waiting to see a show at a prescribed hour seems silly, even a little undignified. To resist convenience — not to own a cellphone, not to use Google — has come to require a special kind of dedication that is often taken for eccentricity, if not fanaticism. For all its influence as a shaper of individual decisions, the greater power of convenience may arise from decisions made in aggregate, where it is doing so much to structure the modern economy. Particularly in tech-related industries, the battle for convenience is the battle for industry dominance.
#culture#psychology#ideas
·nytimes.com·
The Tyranny of Convenience - The New York Times
twohundredfiftysixcolors (preface) 2013 on Vimeo
twohundredfiftysixcolors (preface) 2013 on Vimeo
this is the first 6 minutes of twohundredfiftysixcolors, which is a 97 minute long film comprised entirely of animated GIFs. watch the entire movie here: vimeo.com/62140455 >> Crafted from thousands of animated GIFs, twohundredfiftysixcolors is an expansive and revealing portrait of what has become a zeitgeist medium. Once used primarily as an Internet page signpost, the file type has evolved into a nimble and ubiquitous tool for pop-cultural memes, self-expression, and artistic gestures. The film is a curated archive that functions as a historical document charting the GIF's evolution, its connections to early cinema, and its contemporary cultural and aesthetic possibilities.
#animatedgif#gif#netnarr
·vimeo.com·
twohundredfiftysixcolors (preface) 2013 on Vimeo
Christina Hendricks on an endless loop: The glorious GIF renaissance.
Christina Hendricks on an endless loop: The glorious GIF renaissance.
Every outdated format has its cult. In the case of vinyl LPs or Polaroid film, the cults are substantial, but even cassettes, Laserdiscs, and Minidiscs have their own collectors, proponents, and preservationists. All of these people might, to some degree, regard their pet formats as orphans—under-loved and that much more lovable for it—of technology's ceaseless forward march. As the march heads further and further into digital territory, though, a question arises: Can a similar kind of love attach to outdated online formats, which briefly saturated our daily lives but can't be handled, sought out at garage sales, and proudly displayed on a shelf? In the case of the GIF, at least, the answer is yes. GIFs (the name stands for graphics interchange format and can be pronounced with either a hard or soft G) began life in the mid-'80s, image files so efficiently compressed that sluggish Internet connections (which is to say, every connection back then) could download them speedily. When most people use the term GIF today, however, they mean it as shorthand for animated GIFs. Animated GIFs are synonymous with the Internet's mid-'90s, pre-Flash era, when individuals and major corporations alike festooned Web sites with flickering borders, banners, and graphics, all playing on tight, endless loops. More recently, animated GIFs became key chintzy building blocks in the chaotic, almost instantly passé visual architecture of MySpace user pages. Among Mark Zuckerberg's less controversial moves is that he's shunned animated GIFs from Facebook user pages, like a school principal banning "flashy and/or inappropriate" clothing from classrooms. Despite and perhaps partially because of their retro, déclassé smack, a GIF renaissance is underway. Sites like Señor GIF (by the people who brought us LolCat emporium I Can Has Cheezburger?), GIF Party, and Sweet GIFs are part of a current boomlet in online GIF galleries. Services like Gickr have popped up, allowing users to make their own GIFs with a few clicks. The music video for MIA's recent single "XXXO" was a tribute to animated GIFs at their tackiest. (Her record label also employs an in-house GIF-maker, Jaime Martínez.) And GIFs have lately become a staple of virtual water-cooler talk: "Is there a GIF of Liz Lemon high-fiving herself?" (There is.) "Someone please get me a GIF of that insane Joan Holloway shot from last night. You know the one." (Totally.)
#animatedgif#gif#netnarr
·slate.com·
Christina Hendricks on an endless loop: The glorious GIF renaissance.
Gif(T) Basket | Art21 Magazine
Gif(T) Basket | Art21 Magazine
In a special series of posts, Wesley Miller watches Bravo’s Work of Art: The Next Great Artist, frame by frame, and attempts to uncover what it all means through the medium of animated GIFs. This is his journey.
#animatedgif#gif#art#netnarr
·magazine.art21.org·
Gif(T) Basket | Art21 Magazine
Gigaom | When Is an Animated GIF Better Than a Video?
Gigaom | When Is an Animated GIF Better Than a Video?
Animated GIFs can be found on pop culture blogs and in online art galleries; they are used for film coverage and fashion week recaps. Their invasion of web culture is pretty much complete. Max Silvestri, a writer who creates animated GIFs for his Eater.com coverage of the reality series Top Chef, does so not because they offer a way to get around potential copyright issues, but because they’re eye-catching. “Embedded videos are easy to ignore. Or you watch them once and forget them. Internet content is constantly fighting for the attention of the reader, and I think animated GIFs demand it,” he said via email.
#animatedgif#gif#netnarr#ds106
·gigaom.com·
Gigaom | When Is an Animated GIF Better Than a Video?
The Affect of Animated GIFs (Tom Moody, Petra Cortright, Lorna Mills) | Art & Education
The Affect of Animated GIFs (Tom Moody, Petra Cortright, Lorna Mills) | Art & Education
How do the affects of software technologies inflect interactive online art experience? In this paper, I will specifically examine the affects of the animated GIF (short for Graphic Interchange Format), a ubiquitous graphic file format used by artists and non-artists alike. If any website contains an animated element that is self-contained, chances are high that it is a GIF. GIFs are small, simple files, easy to create and quick to download, making them widely accessible to a range of browsers and system speeds. I propose, however, that it is the affective qualities particular to animated GIFs that make them truly popular. Massumi describes affective intensity as a temporal sink, a moment of incipience before action is taken. In GIFs, such moments are looped, extended and repeated between every frame. For Amy Herzog, the suspended moment of affect is potentially political, allowing for intuitions to emerge that cut across the grain of cultural norms.[5] Do animated GIFs facilitate such agency? In order to address this question, I will discuss the affective qualities of three GIFs by internet artists Tom Moody, Petra Cortright and Lorna Mills. I will briefly delineate the cultural context surrounding GIFs and I will then analyse the three artists’ GIFs according to Richard Dyer’s theory of non-representational codes, Margaret Morse’ poetics of video installation, Brian Massumi’s notion of affective intensity as a temporal sink, concerns about affect and agency raised by Susan Buck-Morss and Sianne Ngai, concerns raised by Elizabeth Wissinger about affect in an “attention economy,” and concerns raised by Michelle Henning about the reification and standardization of persons in a technologized society.
#animatedgif#gif#netnarr
·web.archive.org·
The Affect of Animated GIFs (Tom Moody, Petra Cortright, Lorna Mills) | Art & Education
The Year of The Animated Gif
The Year of The Animated Gif
2010 is the year of the animated gif.  They are everywhere. Tumblr’s Three Frames, a site that posts only gifs drawn from movies on a daily basis is recommended to me by students virtually every time I give a lecture. Fuck Yeah Gifs, and Gif Party are also popular. Images on group artist-run blogs like Nasty Nets and Spirit Surfers have always had a keen interest in the file format and have custom software to better display them. No one does the job better than Dump.fm on the image platform front though, which likely explains the frantic production amongst their users. Notably, only three or four years ago, gif production amongst artists tended to fall into two categories — found and carefully handmade. Typically the latter were lone painstaking efforts. Yesterday, even a brief visit to the sites listed above made clear that the spectrum of approaches has vastly expanded. The casual gif maker, the careful gif, the multiple gifs arranged to make one giant gif, the artist-made authorless gif –you get the picture. There are a lot. So why are artists suddenly more interested in the file format? It’s hard to say, but one theory tabled in a recent conversation, suggested a reaction to a decrease in websites and search engines able to handle the file format as a possible explanation. Google image search recently eliminated the integration of GIF’s in their standard image searchs, Facebook never allowed gifs, and tumblr and WordPress can’t handle large gifs or display them well. It’s not difficult to make the argument that artists who use the web as source material need sites that are friendly to the file format.
#animatedgif#netnarr#gif
·artfcity.com·
The Year of The Animated Gif
So Long Animated GIFs, Hello Cinemagraph | HuffPost
So Long Animated GIFs, Hello Cinemagraph | HuffPost
Jamie Beck & Kevin Burg have been making quite a splash this year with their “cinemagraph” technique, combining still photography and video to “unfreeze” a photo in time. The results are stunning, and show that there was more potential in the old animated .gif format than had yet been realized. We caught up with Jamie and Kevin, who let us in on their process.
#animatedgif#cinemagraph#netnarr#gif
·huffingtonpost.com·
So Long Animated GIFs, Hello Cinemagraph | HuffPost
Physical GIF by Greg Borenstein — Kickstarter
Physical GIF by Greg Borenstein — Kickstarter
What if we could bring the magic of ANIMATED GIFs into the physical world? Well, now, using modern LASER TECHNOLOGY, we can. We specialize in transforming the finest in designer-crafted animated GIFs into physical zoetropes, bringing the animated glory of the old-timey web onto your actual desktop or COFFEE TABLE.
#animatedgif#gif#netnarr
·kickstarter.com·
Physical GIF by Greg Borenstein — Kickstarter
Cinemagraphs: Artists develop pictures with movement that take 'stills' to next level | Daily Mail Online
Cinemagraphs: Artists develop pictures with movement that take 'stills' to next level | Daily Mail Online
It is, in their own words, ‘something more than a photo but less than a video’. Two artists have created a new way to to record your special moments - pictures with movement. The ‘cinemagraphs’ look like still photos but actually feature a subtle area of movement designed to grab your eye and keep you looking. The effect is slightly eerie - but utterly captivating.
#photography#animatedgif#gif#netnarr#ds106
·dailymail.co.uk·
Cinemagraphs: Artists develop pictures with movement that take 'stills' to next level | Daily Mail Online
Man Bartlett — My Beef with the Animated Gif
Man Bartlett — My Beef with the Animated Gif
On the whole, it is depressingly vapid! Worse, its vapidity has been fetishized by those seeking to define and contextualize this next wave of Internet artists. Over the years I’ve seen thousands of animated gifs. I’ve spent countless minutes waiting for them to cycle through their frames so they can be experienced “appropriately.” One recent example that comes to mind is the Unknown Pleasures meets Matrix-green animated gif that Paddy Johnson highlighted in her Year Of The Animated Gif post. Beyond occasionally witty one-liners, most of these images do nothing to push how we think. Rather they tend to engage in a sort of post-hipster language. They’re stylized, abstract, and, in my opinion, just plain weak images. Of the non-abstract variety exists an Internet kitsch aesthetic which tend to be ironic, cynical and intentionally crude. Both of these varieties remind me of an article I read in New York Magazine a few months back that described Hipsters as smart consumers but whose cultural contributions were few. Or sloppy, lazy, etc. I would put 95% of animated gifs in this category. Granted the culture is arguable larger/more important than the “product,” however, the product usually leaves me with much to be desired. Needless to say this is not the type of work I want to make. While some of it is certainly entertaining, I am attempting to make work that is both accessible, challenging, subversive, and most importantly authentic.
#netnarr#animatedgif#gif
·manbartlett.tumblr.com·
Man Bartlett — My Beef with the Animated Gif
re/animating GIF’s
re/animating GIF’s
Despite its popularity, the GIF is an anachronism of networked technology. It was developed in 1987 by CompuServe as a means to compress and transmit chunks of related images over private networks. In the early 1990’s, the World Wide Web became accessible to the general public it had tight bandwidth restrictions and was unable to display video or high resolution photographs. The animated GIF was used on early websites to display motion graphics and banner ads.   Like the Kinetoscope and the Cinema of Attractions, the GIF emerged during an era of innovation and the invention of a new technology. The GIF was an experimental gesture towards the replication of motion using a new technology: the personal computer. Historically and formally, the GIF is similar to the proto-cinematic machines of 19th century in that it is a loop intended not for public exhibition, but for individual viewing. It also contains mostly static perspectives, few cuts, and seeks to titillate – not narrate.
#animatedgif#gif#netnarr#ds106
·othercinema.com·
re/animating GIF’s
TWOHUNDREDFIFTYSIXCOLORS
TWOHUNDREDFIFTYSIXCOLORS
twohundredfiftysixcolors is an experimental feature length film made entirely of animated .gif's that traces the file format's arc of increased complexity and pointed use since it was introduced in 1987. Crafted from over 3,000 animated GIFs, twohundredfiftysixcolors is an expansive and revealing portrait of what has become a zeitgeist medium. Once used primarily as an Internet page signpost, the file type has evolved into a nimble and ubiquitous tool for pop-cultural memes, self-expression, and artistic gestures. The film is a curated archive that functions as a historical document charting the GIF's evolution, its connections to early cinema, and its contemporary cultural and aesthetic possibilities.
#film#gif#animatedgif#netnarr#ds106
·twohundredfiftysixcolors.com·
TWOHUNDREDFIFTYSIXCOLORS
An Animated GIF IRL on Vimeo
An Animated GIF IRL on Vimeo
An Animated GIF IRL* springs from my boredom of all things digital and the grip they had taken on my life and work. However, this boredom was also merged with a strange sort of fascination. I got bored to the extent of wanting to escape the digital realm, but without leaving it. Could it be possible to only leave the digital part of it? I wanted it to materialize. How would it look like IRL? An Animated GIF IRL is about translating between the digital and the physical realm; transcending the digital realm. An Animated GIF IRL is a physical manifestation of its digital self, the GIF. I was drawn to the GIF because of its connotations with the repeat surface pattern. A few images are repeated in an endless loop creating a pattern that is repeated temporally by transformation and movement. Considering the GIF using the concept of spacetime,* the GIF is a repeat pattern in which the repetition takes place in the temporal dimension time while the repetition of the surface repeat pattern is taking place in the spatial dimensions. The repetition of An Animated GIF IRL takes place in the temporal dimension using the body of a physical structure. The physical GIF's are made from seed beads, acting as the IRL counterpart to pixels.
#animatedgif#gif#digitalart#netnarr#ds106
·vimeo.com·
An Animated GIF IRL on Vimeo