And we are done! Everyone from ds106 Section 2 at University of Mary Washington, take a bow. Here are the final project highlights. If a project is missing please let me know (at least 2 I know of are not able to be viewed due to YouTube blocking)

Rick Santorum Bad Lip Reading by Matt

Blog post on project

Good Morning by Annie

Blog post on project

Super Secret Super Silly Spy Sisters preview video by Samirah

Blog post on project

Left-Handed Twitter by Ross

Blog post on project

Bedtime- A Case Study on Distorted Memory by John

Blog post on project

Young Me / Now Me by Rachel

Blog post on project

I Used to Know by Keelin

Blog post on project

Lucidity by Liz

Blog post on project

Into Infinity and Beyond by Alex

Blog post on project

Bits and Pieces by Hannah

Blog post on project

The Secret Life of Felix by Christie

Blog post on final project

Love Lost: A Story Told Through Google Images by Kierra

Blog post on project

Map Crunch Story by Stephanie

Blog post on project

Diabetic Fitness Site by Colin

Blog post on final project

Blog post on project

Kennedy 64 by Briana

Blog post on final project

Future iView by Saad

Blog post on project

By Justin

Blog post on project

Continuing from Monday’s start on archiving and semester wrapping up.

• Schedule your final meeting (Monday – through Friday; 4/30- 5/4) via http://tungle.me/cogdog
• Complete class evaluations (in your email, came from Taiwo Ande)
• See full details on archiving, mapping domains, and migrating
  • In class- export a snapshot of your blog Tools–>Export
  • Later – import this data into your umwblogs archive site (in class demo).
  • Migrating to Hippie Hosting (coupon code provided in class or my email)

  OR

  • Mapping your domain to UMW Blogs
  • Complete google form summarizing your archiving

The Storytelling We Did Not Cover

• Fan Fiction
• ds106 Fan Fiction Assignments
• Lizzie Bennet Diaries
• Famous Inboxes
• Yelping with Cormac
• Google BBS Terminal
• Flux Machine
• Disney Face Swap
• Supercuts
• The Johnny Cash Project
• 3 frame.es
• Meta Games
• Pizza My heart
• Alice and Kev
• Stringtheory

• Video Game Openings as Stories e.g. Bioshock

What needs to be done this week. All items must be done by midnight Sunday, April 29 You must write up 3 blog posts, detailed below, one summarizing all things done on this checklist, one for your final project, and one for a final reflection.

• Schedule a 30 minute block of time to review your ds106 portfolio Between Monday April 30 and Friday, May 4. Use the tungle.me calendar or contact me directly. Provide at least 3 options for times to meet. IF YOU DO NOT MAKE AN APPOINTMENT, YOU CANNOT PASS THIS CLASS. Is that clear?

• Organize your blog to be able to show Assignments by type, examples of course participating, daily creates, tutorials written (4), assignments created (4), best of work.

• Archiving Your Blog
  • You are required to create a backup on UMW Blogs We will do an export/import process on Friday. Tonight, we will create a holding spot; as a suggestion use the domain for your blog as its name.
  • Edit Your profile on the ds106.us site to indicate the URL for your UMW archive.
  • Options for future of your blog- let go, or migrate for free to Hippie Hosting service (details provided Thursday).

• Final Projects Post At least 5 paragraphs, including embedded/linked media, and web links to sources as appropriate. This post should fully explain your project to someone not familiar with it. Suggestions to include the idea behind/inspiration behind it; what does it mean to you? what is the story? what makes it storytelling? Describe the process for the making of, including links to all source media.

• Final Reflection Post Again, at least five paragraphs inwardly reflective on this course experience. Cite yourself by links to previous work. These are items you might consider; this is not a list of questions to ask, but ones to guide you. This is your reflection.
  • Return to your original post on personal cyperinfrastructure, and write a response/update after your course experience.
  • What does storytelling mean to you now?
  • What did you gain the most from this course?
  • Talk about your best work on assignments and dailycreate- talk about why you picked them.
  • What would you say to future students about this class?
  • If you were in charge of this class, what would you change?

On Archiving

Ego Surfing – google your full nam ein quotes – who is me? https://www.google.com/search?q=%22alan+levine%22

Personas: How Does the Internet See You?

UMW Archiving Course

The history of a wikipedia page Jon Udell’s Heavy Metal Umlaut

Internet Archive Wayback Machine – look up http://umw.edu – why does it only go back to 2004? What happens if you put the wayback machine url in the wayback machine?

Google recursion or tilt

Video of other class section class on archiving

Two more weeks to go for ds106; we are done with doing assignments for stars. This week and tonight’s session (detailed below) is:

• prepping for having your blog organized to showcase your work (see below)
• in[SPIRE] a participation effort to share the best of ds106
  • Between now and end of semester, add 4 examples of classmates work to http://inspire.ds106.us
• Pair/Share on final projects (in class activity)
  • Find a partner.
  • Each takes 7 minutes to describe their project and progress, and ask for feedback.
  • Write a blog post with what you said / heard.

Blog Prep and Course Syllabus Grade Requirements

Review the Grade Breakdown for this class from the syllabus. Start working to make your blog is able to point to these areas as means to showcase your stuff. You will want to use WordPress Categories and/or Tag links, and add them either to custom menu (if your theme supports it) or create Links and use a widget to add to your sidebar (to be reviewed in class).

Your assignment for the last class will be a reflection post on your ds106 experience, and should be able to point to your wok in the areas covered by the Syllabus. Your ability to have this organized so you can reference in a final blog post

Participation (15% of Grade)
Be able to provide examples of your class participation (create a blog category or tag), including, but not limited to:

• Comments on other blogs (not a complete list, but examples)
• Contributions to twitter (class list) – use twitter advanced search for your username and the #ds106 hash tag https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23ds106%20from%3Acogdog
• in[SPIRE] contributions (see below)
• Be creative and let people know other ways you have participated outside of class time

Daily Create (15% of Grade)

• You should have or add a Category/Tag that points to your work.
• Add new Assignments (keep track)
• tag or categorize your “Best of” Daily Creates

Digital Storytelling Assignments (30% of Grade)
These should already be tagged as you have been doing them, verify all your work is tagged properly

• Predifined tags: VisualAssignments, DesignAssignments, AudioAssignments, VideoAssignments, RemixAssignments
• Pick at least 5 to organize as “Best of” by tag or category, e.g. BestAssignments

Creating Assignments (10% of Grade)
This is earned by creating 4 new assignments and blogging about each one.

• Submit an Assignment
• Define a tag/category for your assignment submissions.

Creating Tutorials (10% of Grade)
This is earned by creating 4 assignment tutorials and blogging about each one.

• Define a tag/category for your assignment tutorials.

Final Project (20% of Grade)
Define a tag/category to document your work on the final project.

In the video section of the course we have already entered into the fray of video remixes and discussed abut the notion of everything as a remix. For this week, we are going to experiment with a new appliance in the ds106 cupboard- a remix of ds106 assignments.

Here is how it works, go to the new ds106 remixer site at http://remix.ds106.us/ – yes it is a bit ragged and raw. The new tool we have created is called the Remix Generator. When it loads, it will randomly choose one of the hundreds of ds106 assignments; as well it will serve up one of what we call “Remix Cards” which is a certain twist or variation to apply to the assignment.

Your task is to then interpret this as a new assignment- and do it. Not only that, we want you to look at the examples that were done for the original assignment, and use media from one of these as your starting point.

For example, one combination is combining the Wiggle Spectroscopy (visual assignment) with the Go Emo remix card – so the challenge there would be to create a wiggle visual that features an emo type character. To do this I might download the GIF created at http://www.generousworld.net/?p=101 and try to edit it to change a character.

It’s tricky, and perhaps not possible. We are not as interested in what fabulous creations you can make, but how you can write up your and justify your interpretation of the remix assignment.

The stars are compounded for remix- it is the sum of the original assignment’s rating and the rating for the card, so you can score upwards of 8 stars per remix assignment.

As such, your task for week 11 is to complete 15 stars of Remix Assignment, blogged, and tagged with the tags provided by the remix assignment.

As well, keep blogging about your progress on your projects- the end is near!

More STUFF

For some interesting perspective on art and remix, see Austin Kleon’s Steal Like an Artist a book based on a compelling blog post

Two Gentlemen of Leobowski mashing up Shakespeare and the Big Lebowski

Comic Strips Mashups

Datamasher create interesting combos of data, rendered as visuals

Overlooked ReMIX remixing video game music

Make your own Obamaicon and read more about the issue of copyright claims on this well known design

30 Classic Music Albums Recreated With Lego

RIP: A Remix Manifesto

Remix vs Mashup, can you sort them out? Does it matter?

Tonight’s demos included:

• Kierra’s Movie Trailer Mashup mixing The Prphan and Annie
• Tiffany’s Lesson’s with Movie Maker Live for the 5 second / 5 movies Kissing Archetypes
• Stephanie’s Day at Work watch ehr camera track the store where she works, the effects make it.
• Christie’s Silent Bourne (“character was easy since he does not say much”)
• Matt’s Hugo meets Inception mashuo (the pacing and timing are impeccable)
• Keelin’s Educational Tutorial (how to print paper made so easy, great retro effects)
• Saad’s King Kong in the Silent Era uses great effects in Sony Vegas as well as use of layered audio for effects.
• Liz’s Silent Blade Runner nifty editing and gritty look with After Effects.
• Danny’s How to do a Drum Cover done with iMovie and Jing screen casting software
• Hannah’s Alice in Silent Land another with great old effects and music.

What I learned is I want to try my hand at After Effects (a ha, I actually have a full copy on my old laptop). A lot of students are making great progress with Movie Maker; Keelin found a link to the older 2.6 version that has more features than the current ones. Hannah used and shared a free Windows video editor that looks like it had a lot of good built in effects- check out Videopad. Quite a few students took advantage of the incompetech site for old style silent era music as well as the Internet Archive’s 78RPM collection.

From YouTube Press Stats

• 60 hours of video are uploaded every minute, or one hour of video is uploaded to YouTube every second.
• 70% of YouTube traffic comes from outside the US
• In 2011, YouTube had more than 1 trillion views or almost 140 views for every person on Earth
• 500 years of YouTube video are watched every day on Facebook, and over 700 YouTube videos are shared on Twitter each minute
• More than 50% of videos on YouTube have been rated or include comments from the community

How do we understand it?

Michael Wesch, Kansas State University approaches as an anthropological study, see Ethnography of you tube

Precursor: JenniCam

JenniCam
Forgotten Web Celebrities: Jennicam.org’s Jennifer Ringley

Is It Real? Lonelygirl15 and fandom

my parents suck

Getting Viral

More info

Current meme suggested in class- Surprised Kitty

Locally Produced thoseguys.tv Meet The Girl Who Lost Her Feet to Video Games

Group Activity

• Form Groups of 3-4
• Pick number between 1 and 10
• View and analyze viral video for that number from http://www.squidoo.com/best-youtube-memes
• Tweet out your video.
• Tweet it out: why is it popular? what works? what does not?
• Tweet out 2 variants found in related videos, how is it related?

YouTube Genres

Explore and add at least 2 examples and one new genre to http://bit.ly/youtube-genres

While the assignments are intensive, do not forget to do a detailed write up in your blog post with your assignment work:

• Include the name of the assignment and link back to the original on the assignments site.
• What is the story behind your work? Why did you chose the subject, topic? What does it mean to you?
• What is your process? Describe the tools used, steps to create the piece, sources of your media.

This is really to me a minimum of what makes a good assignment writeup. A strong post includes your own reflection, not just a narrating of the facts. It has a meaningful title, not just “Design Assignment”. If you are referencing movies, songs, characters, places- a stronger post includes hyperlinks to information web sites- the web is built on links- write for the web not just on it.

This Week’s Assignment

The 15 star goal is raised again this week – more work in the Video assignments category- (see the full post for weeks 9 and 10 on the ds106 site)- one of them needs to be the Movie Trailer Mashup assignment (note this is listed in the Mashup section but it is done as video). In this one, you should take the trailer of a movie you are familiar with, say the one you did for the essay assignment, and mash it up with content, or audio from something completely different- the goal is to use the trailer to completely change the plot or genre of the original.

Keep At the Project Thinking

I’ve been hearing and reading your ideas. Be writing on your blog and/or contacting me about the thoughts for your projects- I want to see a well crafted pitch for your concept completed by end of this week. Some things to gel your thoughts:

• Past ds106 Projects Archive
• Try and thik of a way to combine / mashup Items in the assignment bank
• Look at some outside creaive exercises in the ds106 Idea Machine.
• Talk to me if you would like to build some stories out of the content in my StoryBox, media not seen elsewhere on the web.

Other Stuff

• If your YouTube video is blocked, you might want to try vimeo or this strategy for under fair use law disputing a takedown
• Free Screencast software (Mac or PC) Jing or screenr
• Other options for screen capture on Windows used by students in this class – Microsoft Expression Editor or Fraps.

Resources and Examples for Video Mashup/Remixes

• Kind of Screwed – Andy Baio’s tale of trying to do everything right in doing a derivative work and still getting sued. Opens many questions on copyright, fair use, derivative works.
• Let Us Never Speak Of This Thing Again resources and audio from a ds106 session in 2011 from Brian Lamb
• Everything is a Remix – Kirby Ferguson’s documentary series
• A Fair(y) Use Tale recut of Disney films to explain copyright.
• RIP: a remix manifesto a documentary on mashup culture featuring the work of Girl Talk

Just a few samples…

• Buffy vs Edward: Twilight Remixed – two different sources re-edited to be coherent story
• Don’t Tase Me Bro/MC Hammer – news event mashed up with music
• Scary Mary (recut movie trailer – family movie reversed to Horror)
• The Shining Recut (recut movie trailer – horror movie reversed to be love story)
• Star Trek Meets Monty Python – redubbing
• Kel McKeown: Instructional Video – creating new sounds from recut instructional videos
• Hitler Downfall DMCA Takedown – retelling via captioning
• Literal Video Versions – music videos form literal interpretation of lyrics
• Odd Kid – lip sync and remix
• Sweded Films – low/no budget remakes of hollywood films
• Weird Al Yankovic Bob parody plus a twist, lyrics are palindromes

Classic and Modern audio/video from the Internet Archive
It’s all free, and the collection is vast. Try browsing the collections or searching. Note that there may be some variety in the types of video formats available- your best choice will be mp4.

Internet Archive Moving Image Collection
http://www.archive.org/details/movies

Prelinger commercials – old time ads
http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger_commercials

RCA 16mm sound projector (sample video entry)
http://www.archive.org/details/RCA16mmS1958

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Lego Version- hey here is a project idea!)
http://www.archive.org/details/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrailInLegoFlv

Internet Archive Audio Collection – look for the old time radio shows and live music collection
http://www.archive.org/details/audio

78 RPMs and Cylinder Collection- useul for the silent movie era assignment
http://www.archive.org/details/78rpm

Alexander’s Ragtime Band (sample audio entry)
http://www.archive.org/details/AlexandersRagtimeBand

Other Audio Sources
ccMixter
http://ccmixter.org

Jamendo
http://www.jamendo.com/

Video Tutorials

Apple iMovie tutorials
http://www.apple.com/findouthow/movies/

About.com Desktop Video
http://desktopvideo.about.com/od/imovietutorials/iMovie_Tutorials_Learn_How_to_Edit_Videos_in_Apple_iMovie.htm

Windos Movie Maker Live: Getting Started
http://explore.live.com/windows-live-essentials-movie-maker-get-started

7 Tutorials
http://www.7tutorials.com/windows-live-movie-maker

Andy Rush, resident DTLT expert, creator of our video resource site just showed me a helpful tip for MPEG Stream Clip.

I’ve previously suggested using the Export – MPEG-4 option for saving your files, but he showed me that you will get a better quality video (and often a smaller file size) if you simply use the File -> Save As… option. This will keep the file in the same format it was, as it is not having to encode the video, it is also faster than converting.

Also, I’ve heard from one student that Windows Movie Maker may have trouble importing the downloaded internet video files. Dr Andy recommends the K-Lite Codec pack which will add support for playing most video types (but might nag you to edit your Windows Registry, ugh).

The other option is to convert the videos you downloaded to AVI, which Movie Maker can open- you can use MPEG stream clip to export to AVI – or google around a bit for free avi converters (there are online tools and downloadable ones).