How do you go about promoting an open-online course in digital storytelling that anyone can join at anytime from anywhere? With an animated GIF promo poster!
As my contribution to August 2013 GIF Challenge #3 from @IamTalkyTina I wanted my poster to promote DS106 with a creative example of digital storytelling in action. There is explicit information relayed with the text, such as a link to the DS106 website, but each of the design elements also tell a little more about the story.
- The GIF used here is the first one I ever created, “Go Daddy… Wheeeee!!”, of my grandson DJ & his Daddy playing at the park. No need to clarify this design element. The story is clear, and it is a real world example of what has been created in the course.
- The Calvin & Hobbes font at the top of the poster was chosen for its ability to convey childhood, creativity & imagination in action.
- Finally the Chalkduster font at the bottom of the poster continues the childhood theme, but also signifies a class and learning.
I deliberately chose not to include specific information for the Headless DS106 starting on August 26th, 2013 so that the promo poster could be easily used in the future. To see other examples of telling the world about DS106 go to Animated GIF Assignment 1183: Tell the World About DS106 GIF
@IamTalkyTina Slide On In To DS106: #ds106 promo poster for GIF challenge 3 posted. http://t.co/Z8xAnneEZd @johnjohnston @byzantiumbooks
I love how folk are recycling old gifts and riffs in these assignments. Hoping lots of folk slide into ds106.
This is beautiful, somewhere between a poster and and old 8mm family home movie. Cant wait ti use this for ds106 promos
Thanks Alan for the nice comment. And it’s already had one appearance in the outside world. I used it in my invitation to DS106@3M. I thought it was a great example of putting the skills I’ve learned into practice, in a way they could quickly see. It was easy to make, and I’m going to add this to the 3M project bank. The task would be to create an animated poster that could be used to advertise an event at 3M. It would be cool if I actually started seeing things like this show up in my corporate e-mail.