{"id":540,"date":"2014-04-24T22:40:38","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T22:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marianafun.es\/ds106\/experimenting-with-a-new-toy-by-john-johnston-we\/"},"modified":"2017-01-29T19:06:28","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T19:06:28","slug":"experimenting-with-a-new-toy-by-john-johnston-we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marianafun.es\/ds106\/experimenting-with-a-new-toy-by-john-johnston-we\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Experimenting with a new toy by John Johnston<\/a>:<\/p>\n

We are designing a new #DS106 Assignment and wanted to experiment with the tool. Here was the brief we discussed on the twitter:<\/p>\n

Play the PechaGif once only and record video\u00a0<\/span>
Think of a topic for a presentation<\/span>
Improvise.\u00a0<\/span>
Record and audio track of the ‘presentation’\u00a0<\/span>
Use the animated gifs you recorded as your slides to talk from!<\/span>
Have fun!<\/span><\/p>\n

The worst part of it is that I have been plagues with techno glitches today. It has taken forever to get the video on YT. I tried to upload to Tumblr and failed. I recorded the voiceover and it did not record. Blah!<\/span><\/p>\n

All that said it should not take long to do.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I set the delay in PechaGif to 5 seconds. Promised myself I would use the first take – no cheating. Used Quicktime Player to capture video. Imported to iMovie. Created the voiceover as an improvisation exercise – the idea was think of a topic and wing it using the animated gifs that appeared as your slides. Todd Conway<\/a> made an awesome example. John Johnston kicked us off with this example<\/a>, where he used the tool to explain the tool! Get him all meta meta \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Awesome tool to engage our creative improvisational brain!<\/p>\n

“Wake up! Use Pechagif the best tool there is for a DS106 assignment” says John. Thank you for making it, John. I do not think it is silly at all.<\/p>\n

Those of us who understand the psychology of creativity know that the type of exercise this tool forces on us is a desirable difficulty if we want to keep our creative muscles toned. Improvisation is not joke, says CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(Source:<\/span> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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