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He had already been blogging with them, so he had a much better grasp on the concept of a wiki than he was giving himself credit for. swim, fishies, swim!įriday, February 10th, 11:15 AM: I spent some time working with a 2nd grade teacher who wanted to better understand wikis and figure out how he could use them to get his students working collaboratively. Just this morning I made a test connection to a school in New York for an upcoming video conference celebrating reading month, I’ve blogged about exciting things happening in the district, read a few websites and educational articles, and “Skyped” with a couple of other people in neighboring counties about some educational collaborations. Still not happy, but the day is yet young! There’s work to be done on the interwebz!įriday, February 10th, 10:00 AM: Although I work with teachers and students throughout the week, a large portion of my day is spent sending emails, communicating, and coordinating via the internet. Thanks to a somewhat steady hand, and the ability to use “ onion skinning” built into the GIF SHOP app, I was able to produce a much cleaner animated gif in an attempt to meet Alan Levine’s challenge to reduce the amount of movement in the piece. I wanted to produce a slightly different effect with the coffee machine this time around, hence the “rewinding” of the gif instead of simple looping. This morning, the tech department coffee pot had yet to be started, so I worked my way down to the central administration office’s Keurig. The magical coffee machine of plenty keeps on brewing…įriday, February 10th, 9:15 AM: Once I’m at school, it’s not long before a trip to one of the many “caffeine stations” located around the building. Thanks to the GIF SHOP app, all you have to do is touch the screen to take a shot, and it’s ready to go for the next one.

In this case, I took 10 shots in rapid succession with the click of my phone’s camera (I had one hand on the wheel for this, and didn’t attempt to line up the shots as I was focusing more on the driving). My morning commute of 40 miles reduced to 10 seconds of drivingįriday, February 10th, 7:15 AM: While my wife is certainly not thrilled that I was taking photos while driving, I risked life and limb to explore how you can illustrate any type of mundane event with a creative use of digital media. Come back throughout the day for updates on how my animated gif “journal” is going. Consider this experiment in digital storytelling an indication that I’m thoroughly lost in the labyrinthine halls of ds106.

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Cheerios, the breakfast of middle class families across America!įriday, February 10th, 6:15 AM: We interrupt this regularly updated ed tech blog for a series of animated gifs.

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