Makes Tagged "remix"

This graphic shows how an idea started by one person (Algot Runeman) and shared on a blog (at http://runelab.org/wordpress/?p=365) is then re-mixed by another person (Kevin Hodgson) and then another (Dan Bassill). Invitations are extended for others to re-mix this again, and again, using different formats. In total, the original, and each re-mix, show how the on-going participation of many different people in the #clmooc process can lead to stronger relationships, deeper learning, and perhaps conversations and solutions to complex problems.

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Did you ever wonder what a poem sounds like? This Make idea is all about taking text (your own, or maybe someone else’s) and turning those words into music. The P22 Music Text Composition Converter does the hard work for you, but you still have some choices — instrument voice, beats per minute, etc. How might you take this text-music idea a step further? Why not use the text-music download (it is a MIDI file, so you might have to do more conversion to MP3 via a site like Zamzar) as a soundtrack to something that goes deeper with the text?… Read more »

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For this Make Cycle, we invite you to consider how the media we compose within (like print, sound, still and moving image, or objects) influence how we communicate and interpret.  In this Make Cycle, we will mediate and re-mediate and reflect on how the affordances of different media impact our choices, processes, and meanings. Ryan moved from image to words in this remediation: Remediation – as we’ll be thinking about it here – is unrelated to another use of the term in education: we are not talking about “remediating kids” as in “remedy”-ing them.  Here, the focus is on media,… Read more »

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In Make Cycle #4 we invite you to “Hack Your Writing.” Maybe you do not think you’re a “hacker” and associate the term exclusively with the most skillful and renegade of computer programmers. But this week we are encouraging a broader use of this term and a more open sense of its possibilities. What does it mean to hack? Hacking is playful exploration, perhaps exploiting the “weakness” in something. To hack is to make innovative customizations. Hackers are often computer enthusiasts. Hackers often undermine authoritative systems. Hackers crack systems for “fun,” pursuing civic or collective action. It seems that now,… Read more »

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Grab a few unused toys from around the house and tools you can use to take them apart. Feel free to gather your favorite crafting supplies, as well. Disassemble the toys and reassemble them in a new way (with added craft supplies), perhaps to make a visual pun. Share out your work on your favorite social network. If you love this, try to start a chain of toy hacks, remixes of your work, or even a kitchen-table or virtual toy hacking workshop with friends. If you’d like to take this idea further, try it with electronic or mechanical toys and… Read more »

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