Who is Simon?

Posted on 1st July 2015 by NomadWarMachine

Earlier I wondered what it would sound like if I played all of the embeds in this blog post of Simon’s at once by clicking play on each of them, so I tried. Interesting, I thought. So I recorded my efforts using Audacity (didn’t need something that powerful, but I had it open on my PC anyway) and uploaded the results to Soundcloud.

Next I used Kevin’s curated list of Tech Tools to choose a Gif Maker (I’d been working on my own curated list copied from here earlier, so I knew roughly what I wanted). I chose EzGif and uploaded a few pics from my hard drive.

What next, I wondered … of course, Popcorn Webmaker (sadly, dying slowly, but I will keep using it while I can). I uploaded the Gif, added a link to the audio from Soundcloud, tweeked it and published.  Here’s the result:

Who is Simon? Remix and show me what you think.

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ReMEDIAte my poem again

Posted on 30th June 2015 by NomadWarMachine

Another attempt to manipulate my poem into an image. This time I’ve used Tagxedo – another tool I’d never used before (note: uses Silverlight, so I had to use Firefox, not my beloved Chrome – hmmm, I wonder if folk will be able to view this?). You can either add a url or past in text – I pasted in the 6 words from Sheri’s challenge again.  If the first image does not load, I have taken a screen shot and added it at the end.

There’s a good selection of shapes to select – I chose a cat as one of my little darlings is peering through the window watching me. Another cool feature of Tagxedo is that mousing over words and clicking on them takes you a Google search about that word.

Now I need to think about remixing this poem further.  Any suggestions?

Tagzedo

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ReMEDIAte my poem

Posted on 30th June 2015 by NomadWarMachine

Today’s #clmooc challenge is to take something done in one media and convert it to another. My first attempt uses one of the poems written for Sheri’s challenge.

poem First I copied and pasted the text of one of them into Visual Poetry.  Then I used that to draw an image. I’m not great at drawing, especially when using a mouse with my right hand (I’m left handed, but always use a mouse in my right hand, for reasons).

The image on the left is the result. I couldn’t work out how to save it, so I took a screen shot and edited in Paint. Such skilz 😛

Think you can do better?  Show me what you can do!

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Klein bottle hat

Posted on 28th June 2015 by NomadWarMachine

I don’t know how it started, but somehow Terry promoted Susan and me to Vice President and President of all the things. I was already making Susan a hat, so I told her she’d get a badge as well. Here is – a klein bottle hat made from remnants of aran yarn left over from jumpers and cardigans I’ve made.

IMG_20150628_154344327[1] Side view

 

 

 

 

With added felt badge pinned on

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IMG_20150628_161606368_HDR[1]What the inside looks like.

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A weekend of making for #CLMOOC

Posted on 21st June 2015 by NomadWarMachine

#CLMOOC doesn’t “really” start till tomorrow but some of us were eager to get going so I guess we started early. We started by remixing some Webmaker Thimble memes, and then Greg (@jgmac106) upped the game by sharing a riff on the Star Wars scrolling theme. Kevin (@dogtrax) remixed it, and then I remixed his.

Then Terry (@telliokuwp) asked if anyone wanted to collaborate on a poem to share our thoughts about Mother Emanuel and I found some words. We’re now in the middle of recording that, and Terry is doing a wonderful job of editing it together.

Love hanging around with such creative folk – it’s infectious.

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Adding an RSS feed

Posted on 19th June 2015 by NomadWarMachine

Submit your blog to the hub, they said. So I tried.  I didn’t read it properly, coz this blog is a WordPress blog, but it’s self hosted, so the instructions for adding a WP blog are probably not for me. So this morning I realised I’d need to remember how to find the RSS feed, and that though I’d done it for #rhizo15 to add my blog to Laura’s Inoreader, I’d forgotten how to do it.  I’m bound to need to do this again, so I’m sharing it with myself here so that future me can find it. Well, assuming that future me remembers that past me did this for her…

Yet again, looking at this through a rhizoANT lens, the technology is a major player in my world. Today it jumped up and reminded me not to take it for granted – it demanded that I concentrate on IT and IT ALONE. I am sure that, as #CLMOOC progresses, I am going to have a lot more experiences like this.  As a colleague once said, using most tech is not as easy as buying an item from Amazon.  Erm, quite – and we can reflect on why that might be!

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Beginning #clmooc

Posted on 18th June 2015 by NomadWarMachine

Apparently #CLMOOC starts today – I am excite!

I’ve made a quick poster using Mozilla Thimble. Dunno how to embed it in this blog though 🙁

keep calm rhizome

 

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embed test

Posted on 17th June 2015 by NomadWarMachine

Just testing how Google Calendar embeds here. This one is for #tomereaders

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Storify for #tomereaders chat

Posted on 16th June 2015 by NomadWarMachine

Yesterday we had our first #tomereaders Twitter chat about Chapter 2 of Bowen’s Teaching Naked, which is about “social proximity and the virtual classroom”. Autumm and I found a lot of similarities between what Bowen is saying and our #rhizo15 experiences – is that just because of where our focus is?  Maybe. We all talked a fair bit about Facebook as well – I imagine @dogtrax will have something to say about that.

After the chat I used Storify to curate some of the conversations for folk (like @dogtrax) who could not join in synchronously:

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Pay it Forward

Posted on 12th June 2015 by NomadWarMachine

I’m in a lucky place. I’ve ended up with a relatively well paid job and a husband who earns more than me. We’re not rich, but we can buy what we want on our weekly supermarket shop and still have money left over.

It wasn’t always like this. Before we married both of us have had times when we have really struggled financially. Lots, actually. Folk helped each of us then and never asked us to pay them back. We really, really appreciate those folk. Once upon a time one of them told me not to pay it back, but to pay it forward.

So that is my aim. I’ll help financially if I can. Happy to help – that’s what friends are for. But I don’t need it back. My challenge, if you accept it, is to pay it forward. With love.

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