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Pitch it in An Elevator

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Created June 4, 2019 by Alan Levine • 92 views • 4 responses • 0 tutorials

Pitch it in An Elevator

The phrase elevator pitch, the idea started inside an elevator, right? For this activity, work out a 30-60 second quick pitch for your idea to create an arc for your course. You are going to record it, so have it well honed, and ready to say it with a ton of enthusiasm. Use whatever audio more… »

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Course Arc in Four Icons

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Created by Alan Levine • 46 views • 0 responses • 0 tutorials

Course Arc in Four Icons

Can you represent the arc of your course in four icons? One of the best sources are the creative commons licensed ones from The Noun Project (just be sure to keep track of them so you can provide attribution).  Save them to your computer and then combine into a single image using any available graphics more… »

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Course Propaganda Posters

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Created June 3, 2019 by Alan Levine • 57 views • 1 responses • 0 tutorials

Course Propaganda Posters

Historic posters from previous centuries make food fodder for re-editing into a modern context. What kind of message might you use form a propaganda poster? You can find these from collections like the Library of Congress, Wikimedia Commons or a few other collections you might find elsewhere. Look mainly for the message that you find more… »

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Color Splash

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Created by Alan Levine • 58 views • 4 responses • 0 tutorials

Color Splash

Color splash is a technique to emphasize details- you remove all color from a photo, and then restore original color to a single object, e.g. a green apple on a table. Think of the Girl in the red dress from Schindler’s List. You can do this in a number of ways with photo editing software– Google has more… »

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Photos in a Time Machine

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Created by Alan Levine • 58 views • 5 responses • 0 tutorials

Photos in a Time Machine

With some relatively simple tools, in a web browser you can bring old photos forward in time and send new photos backward. What story can you create by crossing their paths? Start first with finding and downloading a black and white photo that might be relevant to your course tying idea, maybe your own, or more… »

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Commercial it!

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Created June 2, 2019 by Alan Levine • 54 views • 0 responses • 0 tutorials

Commercial it!

Try creating an audio file that could be like an AM radio commercial for your course. Try these instructions from a student created DS106 Audio assignment: When you are driving in the car and a radio commercial comes on you might start to tune the radio out. But, if you were the person selling what more… »

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One Archetype, Five Movies, Five Seconds

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Created May 30, 2019 by Michael Branson Smith • 47 views • 0 responses • 0 tutorials

One Archetype, Five Movies, Five Seconds

Create a five second video of one archetype from five different movies cutting together one second of each. Examples might include: Prisoners, Thieves, Beauty Queens, Kings, Robin Hoods, James Bonds, Bank Robbers, Assassins, Bad Boys, Kung Fu Masters, Femme Fatales, Sports Heroes, High School Bullies, Rogue Police Officers, Brainiacs, Pregnancies, Principals, Mean Teachers, Inspirational Teachers, more… »

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GIF Your Course Tying Metaphor

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Created by Alan Levine • 42 views • 1 responses • 0 tutorials

GIF Your Course Tying Metaphor

As you work with ideas of a metaphor or a theme to tie your course together, think of a short movie scene that might work to describe it. Search for the movie in YouTube and find the web address for a video that might contain the scene. Then make a GIF of it using the more… »

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Many GIFs From One [Western] Video

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Created by Alan Levine • 44 views • 0 responses • 0 tutorials

Many GIFs From One [Western] Video

This Make is opportunity to learn how to make an animated GIF from any YouTube video using the Giphy Gifmaker. As an experiment it’s interesting to see what portion of the same clip people will isolate from the source video. To practice making GIFs, all responses will use this same clip of Blanco Canyon Sequence of more… »

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Speed Up Time With Hyperlapse Video

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Created by Alan Levine • 55 views • 0 responses • 0 tutorials

Speed Up Time With Hyperlapse Video

Make a special effect video of a journey or navigation or any kind of time lapse series. Hyperlapse is an ios app created by Instagram that changes time (On Android try the Microsoft Hyperlapse Mobile app to do the same kind of video). Use the app to record a video sequence; when saved it speeds more… »

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