The swap is in full swing! The first mailing went out the week of March 16th. I am still waiting for my first arrival. And waiting for my first notification of who received my cards. My blog is not just for my painting – so hoping swap participants can navigate to find this page and leave a message when they get the card.
There will be a blog hop in April of participants. I will put the links for others to follow.
Noir106 student group collaboration radio shows premiered on ds106 radio at 9pmEST M-Th this week and will continue the week of March 16. Live tweet alongs were part of the airing of the shows.
I had listened to several of the shows on Soundcloud the previous week, but the act of listening with others really makes a difference. It brought visions of old photos and documentaries about radio programs and families sitting around the radio together to listen. I even had a Walton’s flash back to seeing John Boy and all the family in the living room listening to the radio!
Back to points – it was a roller coaster of stories, genres, strategies and approaches with each show. None were the same. Tweets came in from collaborators that they had anxious moments as their show was next and they didn’t think it could hold up to the one they were listening too. A sure sign that there was respect and admiration for the work being listened too. But each was so unique they stood on their own.
I failed to keep track of which group and time, and won’t be able to comment about each and everyone. And I do not have a requirement to do a specific review – which also allows me to just enjoy each one for what it is. I looked forward to the time each night.
Groups all had a struggle point – why wouldn’t they? This is a group collaboration of individuals who have not worked together and have about 8-12 days to come together and get something produced in media that is likely new to them. The plus was even if a group had a struggle point – i.e. difficulty in normalizing audio, or a story line that didn’t quite develop as fully as intended – another area would shine so brightly that the struggle point was not as clear. Every team seemed to bring the their best to the group and it showed.
A few groups came pretty damn close to nailing it all and were outstanding. This activity was a learning experience – so there is no ranking or contests in my mind. It is finding the shining moments and seeing that the struggles were acknowledged by the participants as what to do better next time. Pure gold to hear and read. Everyone moves forward.
I enjoyed each show and found moments of sheer genius in each and inspiration – but also those moments when – “oops – that is something to remember when putting something like this together”. Outstanding bumpers, commercials, sound effects, scripts. With audio weeks this great – video is going to blow the roof!
Great work UMW Noir106. Looking forward to next week.
This is a current Kohler commercial that reminds me of the show “Noir Not the Father”. #bthrmquickie
I created an invoice for webassignment58 based on an event of my character in his freshman year of high school.
I was not aware of this interpretation of gornie until reading the book Eastside: fractured Tales of Milwaukee’s Eastside and finding my Dad’s name in it as this event. My mom was Italian. We all had a gold gornie necklace and told it was an Italian good luck charm. I still have mine on a charm necklace with some other charms and wear it on holidays. My mom wore one most of her life. This gives me a little more insight into why it was special for her and that she wore it with pride for 53 years of marriage before she passed away.
This is 3 stars – but with character development, seemed this is more of a 1.5-2 at this point. Most of the creation is in writing and connecting to a story line.
The #ds106 #noir106 back story is becoming more complicated as the weeks pass. It seems as covert assignments are undertaken by @jimgroom and @mburtis they are creating more questions and tangents. There also seems that another entity trying to cause commotion and break up the #ds106/#noir106 lead team. In the beginning of the semester, @mburtis had been portrayed as being unlikable and mean by an anonymous student.
During a #ds106radio tweet along the week of March 8, 2015, it was clear that the collaboration and banter between instructors is fuel for creativity and done with respect and in the spirit of pushing others out of their comfort zones for creative thinking. This camaraderie and connection must be seen as too strong and now the outsiders have seen it as a threat and are trying to create more cracks and a division by kidnapping @jimgroom. Challenging students to produce 5 published creations of @mburtis agreeing or complimenting @jimgroom to create the thoughts that all is not quite right.
…..and where does Black come into this? …..The mysterious location of Bond- is he next to go on assignment? Do all the assignments connect? Or are their teams within the team? Is someone else manipulating the leads and causing some doubt among them? Are they trying to find a weak link or create a weak link in a moment of chaos?
….interesting so hard to predict the next turn of events!
As the #noir106 cohort works on character development as collaborations and listens to their audio #ds106radio episodes over the next two weeks, I am opting for some creations based on the open course week 8 for this week. I am of course changing it up and adding my own little slice of the UMW Noir Cohorts to my mix.
I started using my dad as my character. He really doesn’t interact with any of the Noir characters, but the time period I am focusing on now starts during that era. As others create Twitter personas for their characters and will develop stories and interactions I realized these assignments are the updated version of ds106 and Storytelling within the Web.
I began with this first assignment – WebAssignment713. This is a 5 Star assignment.Story telling within the web. I chose an eBay page for this first attempt. I searched for 1955 and came up with some great auction items. I chose to replace the first 9 items with some of my work and other photos of Jerry across his life – just some samples. You can see the screen shot below and go to a working html page by clicking this link: Jerry Eastside on eBay
The eBay story should help in identifying different parts of Jerry’s life and things that happened to him. Marriage, activities, love, etc.
I used X-Ray Gogglesto reconstruct the eBay page. I even changed some of the text to #ds106. 🙂 At first I thought I had to change all the parts to go to a page that would just explain that this was all a story and not go to the original products. When I was finished, it produces a page, but the links do not go anywhere – so that step can be eliminated. That makes this more of a one layer kind of presentation which is a lot easier to think out than the multiple branches and side trips that could be created and make this a far deeper and complex assignment. (Update: upon another load and look – the links do work – so now the ones I changed go to a blank page of my site – oh well! – next time!)
I can see using this for different characters in search pages, IMD, and maybe even Facebook or LinkedIn so that you can tell the story but not have to create an account and set up etc. to support. It reminds me of prior to Photoshop and other remixes having a magazine cover with your own photo inserted.
Building a portfolio for a character could easily be accomplished using this method to tell a story.Threading a full trail “in” the web for a character will add dimensions and interaction for readers. This first attempt has sprouted many tangents and ideas of how to use the web as the story for telling. I want to also explore further into how to work with the CSS of a page to alter the content to my choosing.
NOTE: Listen in M-Th the weeks of March 8 and March 15, 2015 to #noir106 radio shows. 9pm EST at ds106radio and
Tweet along with other listeners and the creators using hashtags:-#ds106radio, #noir106, #ds106.
