I have a confession to make. I’m … a Millennial. I grew up with the internet, I learned how to use AOL as a kid, I have had private email since I was ten years old, and I can maintain 4-5 separate chats like a boss.…
Author Archives: Emily Strong
Stereogranimator: Makin’ GIFs With Some Old School Pics

A stereogram courtesy of the Boston Public Library: http://flic.kr/p/4zNi8E
The New York Public Library recently introduced one of the niftiest tools I’ve seen on the web in a while. It allows you to take “stereograms“, those side-by-side images that look almost exactly the same and when viewed together create a sense of depth, and turn them into animated GIFs.…
Making GIFs makes me feel like …
Just watched the GIF Variety Show for #etmooc and felt inspired to make this. I call it How Making GIFs Makes Me Feel. Based on this clip from the British version of The Office, and created using PwnYouTube, MPEG Streamclip and Photoshop’s Animate feature.…
Rhizomes vs. Games

Remixed from http://flic.kr/p/kz79f and http://flic.kr/p/b2FDZt
I finally had the chance to do some catching up in #etmooc and watch David Cormier’s session on rhizomatic learning. Lately I’ve also been doing a lot of reading on gamification and educational games, and it struck me that these are two completely opposing approaches to teaching.…
The Adventures of Bob the Cat
I used to have a cat named Bob (he had a bobtail and the name was supposed to be a placeholder, but then he started answering to it, c’est la vie). Last summer he sadly ran away and I moved a few months later.…
Social Curation Socially
During a recent workshop on using Instructure’s Canvas, we were discussing the web services that you can integrate with your account – things like Google Docs, Twitter, Delicious and Diigo. In looking at the list of possible integrations, one attendee asked, “What’s Delicious?”…
#etmooc Self Introduction
Hi there! I’m Emily Strong. I work in academic technology at Emmanuel College in Boston, and I’ve been in this field for about seven years now, beginning with a work study job back in college.
Once upon a time I took a graduate course in ed tech.…