The assignment was to create a GIF from your favorite/least favorite movie capturing the essence of a key scene. I chose a scene from Blade Runner which is one of my favorite movies. The scene I chose is when Roy delivered his famous “like tears in the rain” speech minutes before he dies.
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Evidence that learning cannot be contained within the boundaries of a course, I’ve taken a couple double takes reading both Audrey Watters’ and Mike Caulfield’s excellent critiques about Sugra Mitra and his Hole in the Wall project in India.
Caulfield also tweeted a link to this excellent essay by Morozov touching on the topic of his book about solutionism,: which is “an intellectual pathology that recognizes problems as problems based on just one criterion: whether they are solvable with a nice and clean technological solution at our disposal”
This harkened me back to last year during #Change11 week 24 session hosted by Geetha Narayanan. I was totally blown away by her live session (of which I can’t seem to find the archive). I took many notes. Even on paper!
I still don’t feel my final version did her work justice, but it still works for me as an excellent memory anchor of her wonderful thinking about deep, meaningful learning which she describes as slow learning.
cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo shared by giulia.forsythe
This short clip George Siemens recorded after Geetha’s keynote at the Global Summit 2006, summarizes her perspective very succinctly.
Paraphrased:
Slow learning can best be understood in counter position to fast knowledge.
Slow food movement, we enjoy the flavours of the food. We appreciate cultures, traditions, food making and world making that comes with it.
You must understand that food is a complex phenomenon. You can’t just eat it while doing something else
This is what is happening to learning.
Learning is happening very much on the run. Many of the discussions have been to destabilize the school structure. We are asked to do more and more and more in less and less time, such that students don’t understand flavour of their learning.
Slow learning is about the first person consciousness. It’s the primacy of experience, to make learning directly embedded in your first person consciousness.
We’re finding the major patterns and trends in teaching and learning are memetic; composed of fashions and fads, rather than search for true value inherent in learning.
There is a place for technology. In fact technology will be at the core of new learning and will contribute to a lot of change. But not as long be wary of policies and corporations eager for a marketed product.
You can’t put learning in an information kiosk.
The current mantra of the government of India, “have kiosk, will learn.”
Learning Kiosk
This was just a random gif I made of a tutorial hair video made by a young girl who accidentally burned off her hair. It’s pretty funny.
Unfortunately I have been absent for too long due too extreme illness, and I haven’t been on top of my work. So dragging myself out of bed this morning, I have managed to make it into class where I was able to work on assignments that were past due.
Above is my Gif assignment. I used ilivd to download my video, which I found to be very easy to do. Afterward, I had to think back to the last class I attended on how to make Gif’s and I remembered to use photoshop, and I kind of taught myself how to use it, and import my video. When I attempted to do this project weeks ago, I did not understand how to trim my video so that it can be animated. I thought to myself, “I do not have time to be stumped, I need to catch up, and I need to do it NOW”. So I did. Afterward, I was not sure how to export my finished project, so I did ask for help. I uploaded it to my media files, so that you can view it there. Now I am trying to figure out how to link my Gif to my post so it is more visual. The last thing I remember is to hyperlink photos, so I have hyperlinked my media. That’s not exactly what I wanted, but it is a start.
After figuring out that it actually didn’t work, I asked for assistance from a very helpful helper. She taught me that if it is not a certain size it will not post correctly. So! I hope you enjoy my very first Gif! & I will be posting more, just for fun throughout the week. On to the next assignment!
While working in class, I decided to go back and do some more Gif ideas to make my page a little more live, and have personality. Kevin Hart is one of my favorite comedians. So of course I had to add him to my page.
In this gif image, Tyler is seen looking for his hidden bone. The inspiration for this gif. arrived from realizing that Tyler forgot where he hid his bone. From this, I decided to animate the scene and created âWhereâs my bone?â
For Homework Assignment 1 – Creating Gifs Django is one of my most favorite movies of 2012/2013, I cut these scenes using adobe premiere 6 and then using photoshop to make a gif. The third gif however is made purely in adobe premiere 6
David Bowie as “Jareth, the Goblin King”
While creating GIF’s seem to be fairly commonplace, especially a couple years ago when Myspace banners were littered with glittering and flashing images, this week was something of a new project for me. While I’ve always known how to create a GIF, I had never actually created one for my own site or my own personal use before. This assignment for creating the GIF was to take your least/most favorite movie and create a small GIF. I chose my movie Labyrinth, a Jim Henson film from the 80′s starring David Bowie as Jareth the Goblin King (right) and a teenaged Jennifer Connelly as Sarah Williams. This film pretty much defined my childhood (along with The Dark Crystal, another Jim Henson film) and this also was the film that sufficiently made me both question David Bowie’s sexuality and fall in love with goblins. The GIF I created was from the scene where Jareth had stolen Sarah’s baby brother, Toby, and is singing to his goblin minions about the magical power baby Toby possesses. I can’t get over how awfully amazing this song/movie/script is. It’s pretty fantastic. Below is the GIF:
“Power of Voodoo. Who do? You do. Do what?”
For the rest of the week, we were to create 3 daily creates from the ds106 website. For this week, I did 3 more photos:
All Dressed Up No Place to Go
For the first daily create, we were required to take a picture of someone wrapped cozily in a blanket. Given the freezing temperatures these days, that wasn’t very hard. My radiator has been on the fritz these past few weeks, and once the snow rolled in, it just decided to act like a devil and only work during the hours of 2-3 in the afternoon. So, throughout the day, whereas I should be feeling a difference between outside and inside temperatures, I usually have resulted in me in front of the TV wrapped in my huge down comforter. This picture was actually taken by my boyfriend when we woke up and the temperature inside our bedroom was a teeth-chattering 45 degrees. Good news, though: the radiator’ has since been fixed.
Poor lamb had no clue what was comin’ to him.
For the second daily create, we had to take a picture of “something you created”. Now, I could have easily have taken a picture of the ridiculous bracelet I attempted to make at an Arts & Crafts night in a Brooklyn gay bar, but I actually feel a bit too proud to show off my faults so early in the course. So instead I’m showing off how messy I can make my home.Last week, I had come home from an excruciating day of interviews and also having to spend an hour at the DMV only to realize I needed to order a few forms out of state before getting my driver’s license. So I came home, and in a fit of rage and hunger, butchered a rack of lamb and had a dinner party.
For the final daily create, I took a picture of something, then had to cut it up and rearrange it to create something different. I actually shuffled through quite a bit of photos and even thought of rearranging my apartment (as a double whammy to also see how it would look with the couch and tv in a different space). But instead I found a picture of an art/architecture installation at the MoMA that I went to over the summer. It was intensely boring, so I thought this would make me appreciate having gone to it a bit more.
This is the original image:
Original MoMA installment
And this is the rearranged image (I actually had a real fun time rearranging the letters and making it into something COMPLETELY different). The sign now reads “Politics are (4) the lonely, A Nu Way of Being”.
Acting “Political”
