Those of us who have experienced DS106 and understand the #4lifeness of it have a responsibiity to inform the world of the benefits of participating in the DS106 learning community. Pick one of your favourite aspects of DS106 and create an Animated GIF poster to promote DS106 to the world. Bonus points for including mention of the start date of the next DS106 session. Be sure to include the DS106 URL so folks can follow up!
Okay. So #ds106 is going Headless for the fall of 2013.
Show us your #ds106 #headless13 self in an animated GIF. We want to see you with — and without — your head.
Combine a cat pic with an appropriate Shakespearean quotation. Based on the work of Laura Gibbs.
Record two parts with any instrument. Make it interesting rather then perfect. Record the first part. then use your headphones to listen to this part and while listening employ your microphone to break in the second part. Think also of using your voice or tapping with your hands on the table or …
Try to tell a story about your day in just 60 seconds using one-second clips of video. Tell us a love story, your mundane daily routine, a low day, a high day, or any other kind of day.
This is some sort of variation on Katy Chase’s The Contest That Nobody Could Win assignment, but instead of clips from a TV show or movie, do clips from your favorite songs and see if anyone can guess what they are. Or atleast the artist. Do two or three second clips using 4 or 5 songs. Make them all different. Use soundcloud to post!
Think of a historically significant event, and write a journal entry as if you traveled back in time to take place in it.
Visualize what would be your greatest fear outside your window at night.
Okay, this one should be fun. All you have to do is show off your trademark ‘look’. Just like Zoolander. So, the goal is to try and do it four times, while talking seriously about the looks as if they’re all different. You can call them what they’re called in the movie (blue steel, le tigre, ferrari, magnum) or whatever you want. Make sure you use vide editing to zoom in on your face and try to get some sound effects layered into the scene to emphasis the ‘look’. Five Stars(video with acting, video editing, and audio layering). Here’s another video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D519hT7-ytY it has awful audio, but whatever. Try to have fun with it!
Take a music video and edit in the Techno Viking dancing as if it were part of the original video.
The original video can be found here.
Make sure that the dancing syncs well with the music and original video.
