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Today’s Design Activities

Some notes, links, and goodies for tonight’s class.

Tracking Participation

• Blog Comment activity: find your method of tracking. Try Liz’s idea to star in Google Reader
• Flickr Activity: Monitor your own comment activity http://www.flickr.com/activity/replies/
• Twitter Activity for UMW Section 2: https://twitter.com/#!/cogdog/umwsp122
• Your own Twitter ds106 Activity: Advanced search on your user name and #ds106 hashtag

ds106 Cat Craziness: Idea of Riffing

• Fat Cats Make Art Better Assignment
• Something weird… Cat Breading (WTF?)
• … Becomes a ds106 Assignment!
• Seriously, where are the dogs?

  

• They can be just as bizarre

  

  but this is just wrong!

• Jim Groom Breading
  
• Noise Professor’s #jimgroomart
  
• John does Jim Groom versus Haters
• Rapid Creation+twitter sharing = equivalent of Jamming?

Rapid Design Challenge: Valentine Cards

Valentine Day’s ds106 Design Challenge

1. Pick a card from the set: http://flickr.com/photos/cali4beach
2. Use any software to add a caption to make this a “sorry I forgot your valentine’s day card”
3. Post to flickr and tag ds106valentine
4. Send a tweet with your flickr image URL and the #ds106 hash tag

Something Different: The StoryBox

http://cogdogblog.com/storybox

1. Join the wireless network “Story Box: Share Yours”
2. In your web browser, go to http://piratebox.local
3. Explore! Upload at least one image that has not been posted on the internet.

You can find your coupon for sharing something inside the StoryBox.

In Class Design Challenge

Create a postcard for a place from a movie or work of fiction. See as an exmaple the LOTR ones created for Mordor & More… by Spring 2011 student chaiPhotos

• Form a team of four people.
• Quickly decide on a movie to use and send this out on twitter (include #ds106 hash tag).
• Decide how to represent the movie’s location as a postcard.
• Figure out how to divide up the work. One person might create the front graphic; one might do the stamp, one might develop the text and content to be written on the back, and one person might put it all together as a blog post.
• Send a link to your final work via twitter (do you know what hashtag to use?) and include the names of your team mates.

This has actually been created as a new Design Assignment, Postcards from Magical Places. If you write a blog post about it and detail your portion of creating the group project, you can earn an extra 1 star of work credit this week.

Schedule Conferences

It’s the time in the semester where I need to meet with you individually to review your work and progress. Please use http://tungle.me/cogdog to schedule a 15 minute slot to meet between Monday 2/20 and Wednesday 2/29. This is mandatory.