{"id":644,"date":"2013-02-21T12:42:43","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T19:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/?p=644"},"modified":"2013-02-21T12:42:43","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T19:42:43","slug":"digital-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/2013\/02\/21\/digital-apocalypse\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jim Groom opened<\/del> kicked down<\/strong> a door at the end of 2010.\u00a0 DS106<\/a> was the apo kalupsis<\/a><\/em> which tore away the veil that had concealed the sumptuously rich, and often darkly funny nature of digital storytelling from my perception.\u00a0 Prior to yanking the covering from my eyes, video documentary was all I could imagine when I heard the term.\u00a0 Lost as I was amid the ’80’s pop-culture references in the course, and even though I had to drop active participation after a few weeks, I still caught the ds106 virus badly enough to forever inoculate me against any concept of boundaries to digital stories.<\/p>\n

Enter etmooc 2013<\/a> with a second chance.\u00a0 To my great dismay, the weeks of Digital Storytelling with luminaries Jim Groom<\/a> and Alan Levine<\/a> conflicted with my College’s in-service, and once again I’m struggling to just skim a little cream off the minimal interaction I can afford.\u00a0 Here are a couple of new ventures for me.<\/p>\n

When I stumbled upon Dean Shareski’s “My Amazing Story of Connectedness”<\/a> in a\u00a0 tweet to @cogdog (Alan Levine)<\/a>, I surrendered to the urge to do one of my own – although I failed miserably at the challenge to complete it in 5 minutes.<\/p>\n