I have recently established a new venture around digital storytelling. The service hopes to support individuals, community groups and small businesses to get their messages across to their different stakeholder groups effectively. From identifying their different stakeholders, understanding their key messages and finding methods and tools to tell their stories well to evaluating feedback and [...]
This video was made as an alternative to powerpoint slides to support a conversation between myself and Frances Bell at the JISC Innovating e-Learning Conference. We held a session in Elluminate on Friday 18th November and had a great conversation with the audience. I have made a text version of the audio 0 available as [...]
Although I have been banished from ds106 I know that Jim Groom will one day forgive me. I am only fighting for ds106 and when his sanity returns he may even thank me... in the meantime I have completed my second audio assignment - a musical interview with Jim Groom about the ds106 course. Interviewing [...]
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. Henry David Thoreau Love Henry David Thoreau quotes but using this as my excuse for not keeping up with the daily shoot [...]
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night. Edgar Allan Poe done for the daily shoot - monochrome shot taken with a lensbaby which creates a dreamlike feel I think. I love my lensbaby. Converted to black and white in lightroom. If you don't have [...]
Dr Oblivion has either gone into hiding or may have been abducted but we must keep his virtual profile alive or he may fade into nothing. We can't let that happen. Dr Oblivion Exits... I made this by lazily taking the graphic from the poster on the blog post linked to above. I cut it, [...]
I've just remembered a photo story I did years ago so I thought it would be worth revisiting for the ds106 digital storytelling course. I am also hoping to produce some more as I get inspired by the course.... The set is called to have and have not... anticipation.... She remembered the first caress [...]
We are about to join a MOOC (massive open online course) as one of our home learning experiments. The course is run by Jim Groom for his students at UMW University of Mary Washington but he has made it open and global. I became aware of the Summer of Oblivion Digital Storytelling course [...]
