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UChicago College Admissions, Indiana Jones Mystery Package We don’t really...
UChicago College Admissions, Indiana Jones Mystery Package We don’t really...
We don’t really even know how to start this post. Yesterday we received a package addressed to “Henry Walton Jones, Jr.”. We sort-of shrugged it off and put it in our bin of mail for student workers to sort and deliver to the right faculty member— we get the wrong mail a lot. Little did we know what we were looking at. When our student mail worker snapped out of his finals-tired haze and realized who Dr. Jones was, we were sort of in luck: this package wasn’t meant for a random professor in the Stat department. It is addressed to “Indiana” Jones.
#fanfiction#ds106#web2storytelling
·uchicagoadmissions.tumblr.com·
UChicago College Admissions, Indiana Jones Mystery Package We don’t really...
Annie Leibovitz – Life Through a Lens on Vimeo
Annie Leibovitz – Life Through a Lens on Vimeo
Photographer Annie Leibovitz has produced some of the most memorable and iconic images of the last 30 years, from her work with Rolling Stone magazine through to her Hollywood cover portraits at Vanity Fair. She has also recorded the horrors of war in Rwanda and Sarajevo and taken intimate shots her own friends and family, including Susan Sontag. This documentary, directed by her sister, is a fascinating portrait of a great talent, featuring vintage footage of Leibovitz in action during the 1960s and contributions from Arnold Schwarzenegger, Hillary Clinton, Mick Jagger and George Clooney.
#thruthelens#thruthe#ds106#photography
·vimeo.com·
Annie Leibovitz – Life Through a Lens on Vimeo
Leuphana Digital School
Leuphana Digital School
Leuphana is a dynamic public university in scenic Northern Germany. The Leuphana Digital School serves as a platform for the University’s online education activities and offers the prototype course: “ThinkTank – Ideal City of the 21st Century”. This new program introduces a fresh, unique approach to collaborative learning – a university project open to participants from all over the world, regardless of where they live and what they do. Participants will be working in multi-disciplinary teams. Leading scholars and experts will guide and support teams in creating their own vision of an ‘Ideal City of the 21st Century’. So sign up until January 7 and become a part of this exciting new opportunity to join people from across the world and conceive and design YOUR IDEAL CITY!
#openeducation#openedu#opened#opencourse
·digital.leuphana.com·
Leuphana Digital School
Project Management for Instructional Designers
Project Management for Instructional Designers
Project Management for Instructional Designers (PM4ID) is – as the name suggests – a book about project management written specifically for instructional designers. PM4ID began as a remix of Project Management from Simple to Complex written by Russell Darnall and John Preston. They generously published their original book under a Creative Commons license through Flat World Knowledge. Our remix, PM4ID, now also includes a significant amount of additional content created by the Authors listed below and aggregated from around the web in compliance with the open license requirements of the original textbook.
#projectmanagement#instructionaldesign#book#opencontent
·pm4id.org·
Project Management for Instructional Designers
Chemical Reaction Gifs
Chemical Reaction Gifs
This subreddit is dedicated to showcasing interesting and entertaining chemical reactions, mainly displayed as animated GIFs
#science#animatedgif
·reddit.com·
Chemical Reaction Gifs
8 Effects Every Photographer Should Know About
8 Effects Every Photographer Should Know About
Photography seems easy at first glance. You simply make your frame and press the shutter button. The reality is, everyone can take a photo but not all can master it. There’s more to photography than just simply “point and shoot.” Photography is a skill only a handful have the patience and the passion to stick with. Photography students and enthusiasts must educate themselves with many technical terms such as aperture, shutter speed, focus and exposure. You’ve probably read enough about that elsewhere, so how about a few photography effects? In this post I will share some photography tips and effects. They can enhance the beauty of your photos and they can be very fun to do, too.
#thruthelens#ds106#photography
·1stwebdesigner.com·
8 Effects Every Photographer Should Know About
45 Best WordPress Slider Plugin Collection
45 Best WordPress Slider Plugin Collection
Having a WordPress slider or simply a jQuery Slider implemented into the top of a blog or website front page, category page etc. not only looks good it also can have a significant positive effect on conversion rates i.e. getting visitors to sign up, buy products etc. This is also true for jQuery Carousel style scripts. In most professional themes for building WordPress website sliders are included but what if you have an existing WordPress website and want the benefits from a slider right now? It is actually quite simple because a bunch of skilled programmers have created plug and play solutions and provide this in the form of a WordPress Slider Plugins. They are easy to install, configure and integrate into most WordPress sites. Many of them also support multiple slider models and can be used to run multiple sliders in various spots on the same site. This post has just been updated with new slider plugins, and all links have been checked.
#plugin#wordpress
·tripwiremagazine.com·
45 Best WordPress Slider Plugin Collection
Fiona Apple's Stirring Handwritten Letter About Her Dying Dog | Brain Pickings
Fiona Apple's Stirring Handwritten Letter About Her Dying Dog | Brain Pickings
The love of dogs has produced its fair share of moving literature and art, but little comes close to the stirring four-page handwritten letter that Fiona Apple sent her fans as she cancelled the South American leg of her tour to be with her dying dog, Janet — a 13-year-old rescue pitbull with Addison’s Disease and a chest tumor.
#dog
·brainpickings.org·
Fiona Apple's Stirring Handwritten Letter About Her Dying Dog | Brain Pickings
What's a Dog For? | Brain Pickings
What's a Dog For? | Brain Pickings
It must be the season of the dog, from the recent treasure chest that is The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs (one of the the best art books of 2012) to the history of rabies to Fiona Apple’s stirring handwritten letter about her dying dog. But what is it about dogs, exactly, that has us so profoundly transfixed? That’s exactly what former New York magazine executive editor John Homans explores in What’s a Dog For?: The Surprising History, Science, Philosophy, and Politics of Man’s Best Friend (public library) — a remarkable chronicle of the domestic dog’s journey across thousands of years and straight into our hearts, written with equal parts tenderness and scientific rigor.
#dog
·brainpickings.org·
What's a Dog For? | Brain Pickings
Analyzing and supporting interaction in complex scenarios: the case of DS106 (October 2012)
Analyzing and supporting interaction in complex scenarios: the case of DS106 (October 2012)
(co-presented with Julià Minguillón and Brian Lamb, Open Education Conference 2012, Vancouver, BC, October 16-18) Interaction in such a complex scenario implies receiving information from multiple channels and maintaining a personal collection of resources, as the course has a very flexible structure so students can focus on a particular subject according to their interests (i.e. visual assignments exposed through flickr) and/or enter and leave the course at any moment. Regarding people, maintaining a network of colleagues implies maintaining multiple identities through the ds106 site in itself, but also twitter, blogs, and so. We would like to discuss how interactions in this networking infrastructure can be analyzed in order to support all the elements (students, resources, comments, assignments, etc.) so additional services can be devised and implemented without interfering with the natural flow of the course.
#2012#presentation#ds106
·prezi.com·
Analyzing and supporting interaction in complex scenarios: the case of DS106 (October 2012)
The Open Assignment Bank of ds106 and Remixing Thereof (October 2012)
The Open Assignment Bank of ds106 and Remixing Thereof (October 2012)
(Open Education Conference, Vancouver BC, October 16, 2012) ds106 is an open course in Digital Storytelling based at the University of Mary Washington. Central to the course is a collection of assignments created by participants (well over 300), each ranked by degree of difficulty. This year we added a remix generator, combining random assignments with a remix "card" detailing how to do it differently. Students are asked to use as starting material the work of other students from the original assignment. Experience these first hand at this session.
#2012#presentation#opened12#ds106
·cogdogblog.com·
The Open Assignment Bank of ds106 and Remixing Thereof (October 2012)
Building an Open Course/Community with Wordpress, Syndication, and Duct Tape (October 2012)
Building an Open Course/Community with Wordpress, Syndication, and Duct Tape (October 2012)
(WordCamp Vancouver 2012) ds106 is an open course in Digital Storytelling that leverages platforms of open source tools, syndication, and social media in a way that makes it more community than course. At ds106.us is a wordpress powered hub that aggregates and recombines input from 500+ external blogs plus a user contributed assignment bank, daily creative challenges, even a radio station. Built by a team of educator tinkerers, not coders, ds106 is as a model of a community network that is not limited to just courses.
#wordpress#2012#presentation#ds106
·2012.vancouver.wordcamp.org·
Building an Open Course/Community with Wordpress, Syndication, and Duct Tape (October 2012)
GIFing it up in ds106 (September 2012)
GIFing it up in ds106 (September 2012)
(An online presentation for Designs on eLearning Conference 2012 co-presented with Jim Groom) Who would have thought one of the most tacky of early web media types– the animated GIF of a flapping mailbox, the frantic stick-man under construction sign, the creepy dancing baby– would evolve into an art form some called “cinemagraphs”? Occupying a space between photograph and a video, this modern animated GIF rose early as a compelling form of expression in ds106, the open online digital storytelling course offered from the University of Mary Washington (UMW). In this session, we will provide an overview of how this creative process mirrors the spirit of ds106, illustrated by the work our participants have created. We ask you, dear audience to bring us your most creative power and share something that you can create as an animated GIF.
#2012#presentation#ds106#animatedgif
·ds106.us·
GIFing it up in ds106 (September 2012)
Share Me at the Dead Drop (June 2012)
Share Me at the Dead Drop (June 2012)
(Northern Voice 2012, co-presented with Giulia Forsythe and Zack Dowell) USB drives embedded into brick walls, local wireless networks hidden in lunch boxes are a few examples of low tech ways of creating anonymous peer to peer file sharing in public spaces. Come prepared to connect and share open content with a PirateBox and explore how they might used in civic action. If all goes well, we will even go outside, put a dead drop into place, and get the rest of the conference attendees to check in.
#2012#presentation#deaddrop
·2012.northernvoice.ca·
Share Me at the Dead Drop (June 2012)
Improv Me, baby. Gracefully falling off the cliffs of practice (June 2012)
Improv Me, baby. Gracefully falling off the cliffs of practice (June 2012)
(Northern Voice 2012, Vancouver, co-presented with Nancy White and Rob Cottingham) Perfection. Overrated. Certainty? You're crazy. Our participation in the (social) world cannot be predicated by "looking good" or having a perfect plan if we are to move our learning and our practices forward. The opportunity in the moment is a rich space. So prepare to be surprised. Plan and then go with the flow, even if that means abandoning your plans. Come play improv with Alan, Rob and Nancy (plus our richly surprising networks) as we explore the role of improvisation in our online lives and work. Heck, offline too. Why not? Come jump off the cliff and fly. We'll push a little. With love...
#2012#presentation#improv
·2012.northernvoice.ca·
Improv Me, baby. Gracefully falling off the cliffs of practice (June 2012)
50+ Ways toTtell a Story (May 2012)
50+ Ways toTtell a Story (May 2012)
(online presentation for Wooster College Faculty Fellows Program) It was not long ago that producing multimedia digital content required expensive equipment and deep levels of technical expertise. We are at the point now where anyone can create and publish very compelling content with nothing more complex than a web browser. The point is not that these are professional level production tools, but that the barrier of entry to content creation can be drastically low. And you should find a new mode of creativity when the tool have some limits as to what they can do-- and find that the core of the story is much more important than a widget. What makes for a "story" here consists of more than one type of media (images + text, audio + images, etc) that are assembled on the web, and can be presented on the web or embedded into other web sites.
#2012#presentation
·docs.google.com·
50+ Ways toTtell a Story (May 2012)
Using 5 Card Flickr in the Classroom (May 2012)
Using 5 Card Flickr in the Classroom (May 2012)
(University of Mary Washington, Faculty Academy, co-presented with Barbara Sawhill) Five Card Flickr (http://5card.cogdogblog.com/) is a web storytelling tool created by Alan Levine. Based on Scott McCloud’s Five Card Nancy, this online version is a place to build five image stories based on photos randomly drawn from specified tags in flickr. Barbara Sawhill will share how she uses this tool to create opportunities for students to create informal oral and written stories in a Spanish language class. We will challenge the audience to build a story on the spot.
#2012#presentation#flickr#storytelling
·blog12.facultyacademy.org·
Using 5 Card Flickr in the Classroom (May 2012)
A Digital Time Capsule (May 2012)
A Digital Time Capsule (May 2012)
(University of Washington Faculty Academy) The StoryBox is a digital time capsule that traveled over 15,000 miles around the USA and Canada. Based on the PirateBox technology (developed by speaker David Darts), it is a self-contained digital exchange that advertises itself via a local ad hoc wireless network. People in the vicinity have the ability to anonymously share and download digital content but since it is not on the Internet, the only place to interact with it is while in its vicinity. In this session you can explore the content on the box, add your own, and discuss potential ways you might use this device for your own teaching.
#2012#presentation#piratebox#storybox
·blog12.facultyacademy.org·
A Digital Time Capsule (May 2012)
The Science of Storytelling: Why Telling a Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brains
The Science of Storytelling: Why Telling a Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brains
A good story can make or break a presentation, article, or conversation. But why is that? When Buffer co-founder Leo Widrich started to market his product through stories instead of benefits and bullet points, sign-ups went through the roof. Here he shares the science of why storytelling is so uniquely powerful.
#ds106#storytelling
·lifehacker.com·
The Science of Storytelling: Why Telling a Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brains
Rosenfeld Media - See What I Mean Book Site
Rosenfeld Media - See What I Mean Book Site
Comics are a unique way to communicate, using both image and text to effectively demonstrate time, function, and emotion. Just as vividly as they convey the feats of superheroes, comics tell stories of your users and your products. Comics can provide your organization with an exciting and effective alternative to slogging through requirements documents and long reports. In See What I Mean, Kevin Cheng, OK/Cancel founder/cartoonist and founder of Off Panel Productions, will teach you how you can use comics as a powerful communication tool without trained illustrators.
#visual#ds106#comics
·rosenfeldmedia.com·
Rosenfeld Media - See What I Mean Book Site
Visualizing Stories | Langwitches Blog
Visualizing Stories | Langwitches Blog
I recently found a video of 1st graders using the iPad to visualize a poem that their teacher read to them. After students drew what they imagined, they got into pairs and explained their drawings to a partner. The teacher also circulated to listen and to ask deeper questions of understanding.
#drawing#ds106#storytelling
·langwitches.org·
Visualizing Stories | Langwitches Blog
BBC News - Photography and open education
BBC News - Photography and open education
Photographic tuition usually falls in to two camps, the hands-on, throw yourself at it kind, and the more contemplative course where class-based tuition is key. Yet there is another way - open learning, where the majority of the students interact online with the face-to-face course being taught in a more traditional manner. With this comes a chance to share in the knowledge being offered by a wide range of tutors, photographers and others in the industry. One such course at Coventry University is #phonar (photography and narrative). Run by Jonathan Worth and Matt Johnston, it can attract as many as 35,000 students as it progresses.
#opencourse#visual#ds106#photography
·bbc.co.uk·
BBC News - Photography and open education
These Awesome Photoshops Are Perfect Because They Were Well Planned
These Awesome Photoshops Are Perfect Because They Were Well Planned
These images by Martín De Pasquale are so surreal that, obviously, you know they aren't actual photos. But they are perfectly executed. And the reason for that is not awesome Photoshop skills as much as good planning. If you want to make perfect photo composites, it's not that hard if you plan in advance. Martín's examples will show you how to do it. Matching the color and lighting of all the elements of a composite image is the most difficult part of the process, so the key to be successful (and quick) is to shoot the individual elements in the same setting, with the same lighting.
#thruthelens#thruthe#photography#visual#ds106#photoshop
·gizmodo.com·
These Awesome Photoshops Are Perfect Because They Were Well Planned
worldizing - a sound design concept created by Walter Murch
worldizing - a sound design concept created by Walter Murch
Manipulating sound until it seemed to be something that existed in real space. This refers to playing back existing recordings through a speaker or speakers in real-world acoustic situations, and recording that playback with microphones so that the new recording takes on the acoustic characteristics of the place it was "re-recorded." Worldizing is a sound design concept created by Walter Murch.
#ds106#audio
·filmsound.org·
worldizing - a sound design concept created by Walter Murch
Audio Mixing Enhances a Brutal Scene in ‘Killing Then Softly’ - Multimedia Feature - NYTimes.com
Audio Mixing Enhances a Brutal Scene in ‘Killing Then Softly’ - Multimedia Feature - NYTimes.com
The crime drama “Killing Them Softly” (due Nov. 30) is set during the 2008 election season, as the economic crisis is unfolding. Directed by Andrew Dominik (“The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford”), the film uses sound in uncharacteristic ways to augment the narrative. In the scene below, Markie Trattman (Ray Liotta, center) is suspected of organizing the holdup of a mob-run card game. He is taken to an empty parking lot by two other gangsters (Trevor Long, left, and Max Casella), and put through a savage interrogation. Here Mr. Dominik and the sound mixer, Leslie Shatz, discuss their ideas for the audio, including how flash bulbs, squeegees and Norman Mailer worked their way into a beating sequence. Audio clips from the scene are included.
#foley#ds106#audio
·nytimes.com·
Audio Mixing Enhances a Brutal Scene in ‘Killing Then Softly’ - Multimedia Feature - NYTimes.com
Response: Celebrating our Students' Good Writing - Classroom Q&A; With Larry Ferlazzo - Education Week Teacher
Response: Celebrating our Students' Good Writing - Classroom Q&A; With Larry Ferlazzo - Education Week Teacher
Katie Ciresi asked: What advice can you give to help teachers be more effective in helping students become better writers? This series is a companion to last year's five posts on Helping Our Students Become Better Readers. I'm "kicking off" with guest responses from three educators: Mary Tedrow, Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey. Look for many more in the coming three weeks.
#ds106#writing
·blogs.edweek.org·
Response: Celebrating our Students' Good Writing - Classroom Q&A; With Larry Ferlazzo - Education Week Teacher