While brainstorming for ideas for today’s Daily Create, “Draw/Create an image that creates a positive connotation for the word “hacking”, I realized that I could combine this with our assignment to hack a website. What better way to give hacking a higher profile than to have the Oxford English Dictionary announce that hacking, in the sense of remixing, be the word of the year for 2013.…
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Loading...This assignment was to create a story of an historical or literary figure using Google Maps as the framework. My story is about Mimi and Toutou, neither literary nor historical figures, but two forty-foot long naval launches that were transported from London via Cape Town to Lake Tanganyika in 1915 in engage the Germans in combat during the First World War.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...The main activities during the past two weeks have related to the creation of the Merry Hacksters’ Radio Show. The whole experience was unique. I have done very little work with audio before and I have never worked on a group project that was organized and executed using Twitter as the sole communications medium.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Week Six is design week and has been my favourite so far. The design blitz/safari was a lot of fun and, as I was away from work for four of the five days this week, I was able to take some photos of things I don’t usually see during the week.…
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This assignment was to create a DS106 propaganda poster using a WWII poster as its basis. I chose a poster I found on the Canada at War Forum and used Photoshop to remove some of the existing text and replace it with DS106 content. …
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This assignment is to take a cover of a well-known book and re-design the cover to suggest something completely different. I scanned my bookshelves and selected Orlando by Virginia Woolf, giving Lord Jim a miss.
Orlando to most people means Disney World, so I found an image of the Magic Kingdom on Flickr by Oscar_shen (BY-NC-SA) to use as a part of the cover.…
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I have wanted to try visual note-taking for a while and have given it a couple of tries, but find that I drift to using mostly words. I bought Mike Rohde’s The Sketchnote Handbook last fall as inspiration. This week I attended a symposium on MOOCs and Libraries so decided to try visual note-taking in one of the sessions. …
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Image based on “24hr open eyes” by Mo Riza (CC-BY-2.0)
Week 5 of Headless DS106 was all about telling stories in photos. Since staring DS106 I have found that my eyes have been opened and I am now more aware of brooms that look like peacocks and the potential for found objects that can be repurposed.…
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I did my photoblitz on Saturday morning outside my house and opened the garage for some ideas. Unfortunately being under a tight deadline does not bring out my best attributes and I didn’t end up with a lot of photos.
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The Newspaper Blackout Assignment suggests that you should “grab a marker and today’s morning edition and start blacking out sections to create a new story. It could be a poem, a picture, or a novella, all drawn from the words of the latest news”. …
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