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20 Questions & Answers About DS106
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I have just completed the “Audio Assignments” section of my free online Digital Storytelling DS106 course and I have learned two very important facts. Having struggled through the creation of a 14 minute radio interview, I now have the utmost respect for the technical wizards who work “behind the scenes” to craft a radio show. Secondly, I have a new-found appreciation for the power and possibilities that Audacity, the free Macintosh, Linux and Windows audio editor and recording application, has to engage students in K-12 classrooms. With its wealth of online resources and support, Audacity should be a standard classroom ...
‘The Little Caption’ flips me out!
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This DS106 Design assignment is called “The Little Caption” to differentiate it from a similar activity called “The Big Caption“. Inn this endeavour, participants are challenged to: “Take one of your own photographs, one from Flickr Creative Commons (http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/) or one from the DS 106 Flickr group (http://www.flickr.com/groups/ds-106/) and caption it.” I chose to re-take an earlier photo that I had created for The Daily Create #29 and add a caption that one might hear from a customer’s telephone call to the Dell Customer Service “Help Desk”. Take care & keep smiling
DS106 – Now Available on Blu-ray Disc!
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The overwhelming majority of individuals who are engaged in the DS106 course are doing so remotely. Today’s statistics indicate that there are 596 active DS106 members whereas less than a total 80 are in attendance in the two sections facilitated by Jim Groom and Alan Levine at the University of Mary Washington. However, if you are part of the vast majority of off-campus DS106 participants, imagine if you could acquire a Blu-ray Disc which contained the following: all DS106 lectures of both Jim Groom & Alan Levine guest lecturers including Gardner Campbell & Zack Dowell (“the Noise Professor) featured student ...
Are you looking for a career change?
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I guess it is human nature to ask yourself if you might have chosen a different career path? Educators, like many others, sometimes have second thoughts about their teaching profession during our long, cold winter. My solution for such mid-winter “blues” is to compare the tasks that others must do in order to better appreciate my own job. I attempted to capture this strategy in my “Design” assignments that are the focus for Week 5 in my DS106 course. The one I selected to begin with was named “Warning” and was described as: Lots of things today have warning labels. ...