Alan Levine on Traditional analyses of story structure focused on a story having an arc, a trajectory that in Hollywood is a formula (the 3 act structure). But as we saw last week with bots and generative poetry, and this week with netprov, the shape of networked narratives may be more …
Alan Levine on Here is a digital power alchemy tip that you may find useful in other ways.
Let’s say you want to share a specific moment within a YouTube video, wouldn’t it be useful to make a link that starts the video right at that moment?
We are doing this for our …
Alan Levine on Alan Levine on This week we embark on our first Studio Visit, learn about E-Literature, and get our web annotation skills into full gear. And more Daily Digital Alchemy… Our First Studio Tour We had our first studio tour visit with Leonardo Flores– please try to review the video archive before class and take note of the resources added to the event page. Our in class activity Wednesday will involve using a web annotation tool to have a real-time discussion of the tour. […]
Alan Levine on Comments. They are some of the magic sauce of a connected blogging community that knits participants together.
Writing comments is not that difficult to do, but in the rush of all the activity, creativity, connectivity, it sometimes gets lost in the rush. Plus, to give a good comment you need …
Alan Levine on Our live video events (Studio Visits and Virtual Bus Tours) will make use Google Hangouts on Air.
This enables up to ten people to participate in the conversation from where anywhere in the world- the large center image automatically switches to show the active speaker. Viewers can watch the …
Alan Levine on This week we continue finding our way, sorting out our blogging, tweeting, meet a new web annotation tool, start taking on daily creative challenges, media creation, and exploring the “real” alchemy via a live twitter chat.
Yes, this post is gonna be a long scroller, but includes everything you will …
Alan Levine on One of the simplest to use and most powerful means of storytelling without text, is with a camera.
You may go from someone who takes a lot of snapshots or quick mobile photos to one who thinks more about composition, framing, and being more intentional with your photography. Even if …
Alan Levine on We’ve opened the box on the idea of Alchemy. How much do we know about it?
Our Kean University students are diving in the questions with their first week’s posts (check them out!) (comment!). I don’t know about others, but my appreciation and understanding is like maybe the …
Alan Levine on You have set up your blog, connected it to this site, and maybe now you are staring at the empty composition screen. What do you do?
There is no shortage of web sites, books, articles with tips on how to write blog posts. Many are wrapped in goals …
Alan Levine on Are you ready for your first adventure?
We have setup an exploratory choice-based path (a.k.a Choose Your Own Adventure) to walk you through options for setting up twitter and your blog for Networked Narratives.
These are the first two devices you will set up in your own digital alchemy …
Alan Levine on And so it begins. Welcome to Networked Narratives.
In The Matrix Morpheous offered Neo only two life choices in red or blue form; we have here a full rainbow of options to explore storymaking with digital media in the networked space of the internet. Your choices, participating here may …
Alan Levine on We have been shrouded in mystery. That’s by design! But today we are releasing the Networked Narratives “spine” that defines the shape of the open course that starts the week of January 16.
Typical courses will have a familiar syllabus or schedule, but as you will see unfolding soon, nothing …
Alan Levine on We know so many of you are eager to get news of our project sooner than as soon as possible (ha ha).
Very soon we will let you know how you can add your blog to this site if you wish to plug into the project.
But who remembers to …
Alan Levine on An anchor of the open course experience we are designing is having one (and hopefully more) on the ground courses that are running concurrently.
This is right out of the ds106 playbook, and like that, there is not a singular replicate course, but overlapping ones. And then a swirling …
