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		<title>Why *I* Tweet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just because Jim Groom already did it, and did it better, doesn&#8217;t mean I can&#8217;t jump in with my two cents.
In response to Jeff Swain&#8217;s video asking, &#8220;Why Do You Tweet?&#8221;

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		<title>This Just In: Warner Music Group Lacks Sense of Irony, Common Sense</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever since Warner Music Group pitched a hissy fit over copyright infringement on Youtube, finally reaching &#8220;a new and expanded agreement&#8221; with Youtube&#8217;s parent company, Google, it has been by far the most aggressive about protecting copyright claims on that sight&#8211;  often flagrantly disregarding fair use.
I have to say that personally, I don&#8217;t see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leisurelyhistorian.net/warner-music-group-lacks-irony-common-sense/</link>
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		<title>Haircut Redux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About a month ago, I shaved my head for a class project.
Goofing around with video editing software yesterday, as I&#8217;m trying to make a habit lately as I take Digital Storytelling this semester, I decided to recycle those photos. The result was this:

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		<link>http://leisurelyhistorian.net/haircut-redux/</link>
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		<title>Two weeks of Student Posts of the Week&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Due to a whole set of unforeseen circumstances, I didn&#8217;t post Student Posts of the Week for the week of the fifteenth, so I&#8217;m making up for that by hitting two weeks at once. 
As always, I&#8217;m not able to highlight all the blog posts I felt were particularly good or interesting&#8211; there&#8217;s just far [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leisurelyhistorian.net/two-weeks-of-student-posts-of-the-week/</link>
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		<title>My digital storytelling project pitch&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We were asked to &#8220;pitch&#8221; our final projects over in my Digital Storytelling class.
In movie-making, a pitch is usually an oral thing&#8211; the short written version is a &#8220;treatment.&#8221;  And given that the project that I want to work on would involve in me taking video of myself and putting it up on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cliff &#8220;Ukulele Ike&#8221; Edwards Video</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For Digital Storytelling this week, our assignment was to make a video with Animoto. 
I decided to do a very brief sketch about the life of Cliff “Ukulele Ike” Edwards– best known today as the voice of Jiminy Cricket, but a superstar in his own right in the 1920s.

I don’t know what to think of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leisurelyhistorian.net/cliff-ukulele-ike-edwards-video/</link>
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		<title>Pacing over time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Watching Gertie the Dinosaur in History of Animation got me thinking about pacing, especially after one student post about the relative &#8220;interestingness&#8221; of Windsor McCay&#8217;s The Sinking of the Lusitania and James Cameron&#8217;s Titanic.
It&#8217;s not a really shocking revelation to say that the pacing of animation has gotten more and more rapid over the last [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leisurelyhistorian.net/pacing-over-time/</link>
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		<title>Student Posts of the Week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s yet another really great week of student posts for HIST 389, History of Animation. To run through just a few:
Bonnie Hansen explores the business side of the House of Mouse, looking at the selling of Disney&#8217;s famous princesses&#8211; not to young girls, but to grown women. Specifically, she looks at the marketing of Disney-branded [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leisurelyhistorian.net/student-posts-of-the-week-2/</link>
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		<title>Taking the simple and making it sublime&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Because nothing encourages learning like actually doing, each student in HIST 389: the History of Animation is required to produce a short animation.
Now, a lot of students are probably going to want to do a zoetrope or another persistence-of-vision toy, because it seems like the most accessible, simple technique. There&#8217;s no software or camera concerns&#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leisurelyhistorian.net/taking-the-simple-and-making-it-sublime/</link>
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		<title>Defining Digital Storytelling&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My Digital Storytelling class was asked to try to define &#8220;digital storytelling.&#8221;  Below is my reply.


It seems to me like we&#8217;ve got one of those blind-men-and-an-elephant problems, here. I&#8217;ve been playing around with trying to come up with a working definition of &#8220;digital storytelling&#8221; for a couple days, now, and honestly, anything I can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leisurelyhistorian.net/defining-digital-storytelling/</link>
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		<title>Student Post(s) of the Week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Petrik, for whom I&#8217;m TAing History of Animation, has asked me to highlight a good student post each week, so that students who are having trouble might be able to look at some of the better examples and learn from them.
Unfortunately (or fortunately) this week, there&#8217;s too many to choose from. A rundown of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leisurelyhistorian.net/student-posts-of-the-week/</link>
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		<title>Tell a story in five pictures&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my Digital Storytelling class, we were asked to tell a story in five pictures, inspired by a Flickr community of educators trying to do just that.
Below is my attempt:






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		<link>http://leisurelyhistorian.net/tell-a-story-in-five-pictures/</link>
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		<title>Interactivity and Digital Storytelling&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NB&#8211; this is primarily cannibalized from a post I made on the class blog of the Digital Storytelling class I&#8217;m currently taking. I like to keep my stuff all in one place, though.

I have to admit that, while many of the examples of  &#8220;digital storytelling projects&#8221; that my classmates posted to the class blog [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leisurelyhistorian.net/interactivity-and-digital-storytelling/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;You&#8217;re Gerald McBoing-Boing, the Noise-Making Boy!&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This semester, I have the rare opportunity to TA a class on something I actually study. For the most part, graduate TA work tends, at my school, to be limited to general, broad survey courses&#8211; Western Civ, or American History. I&#8217;ve TA&#8217;d both and enjoyed both, but this semester has me far more giddy&#8211; I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leisurelyhistorian.net/youre-gerald-mcboing-boing-the-noise-making-boy/</link>
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		<title>Another Example of Crowdsourcing Memory&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a recent blog post, I talked about using the internet as a tool to &#8220;crowdsource memory.&#8221; A day or two later, I came across a perfect example of what I was trying to express, and it made me want to refine the notion a bit.
&#8220;Crowdsourcing,&#8221; for any reader lucky enough to not be thouroughly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://leisurelyhistorian.net/another-example-of-crowdsourcing-memory/</link>
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