Skip to Main Content
You Show You Show

Narrating and Demonstrating the Work We Do

  • News Letter
  • Twitter
  • Contact Us
  • About
    • Portfolio Showcase
    • Front Stage (Intro Videos)
      • Watch All Videos
    • Back Stage (Making Of)
    • Updates
  • Get Started
    • Participate
    • Sign Up
    • Guide Book
    • Props
  • Units
    • Unit 0: Building Your Set
    • Unit 1: The Shapes of Story
    • Unit 2: Saying It With Visuals
    • Unit 3: It’s All By Design
    • Unit 4: The Beautiful World of Audio (part 1)
    • Unit 4: The Beautiful World of Audio (part 2)
    • Unit 5: Beyond The Blog
  • Events
  • Blogging
    • Highlight Reel
    • List of All Blogs
    • TRU Posts
    • Open Participant Posts
    • Random Post
  • Useful Stuff
    • DS106 Open Course
    • UBC DIY Media
    • WordPress Lessons
    • Alan’s Storymaking Resources
    • The Daily Challenge
    • TEN Ways to Improve Your Camera Craft
    • Flickr CC Attribution Helper
    • Image Pool
    • Learn Design Principles
    • Freesound
    • Sound Pool
  • About
    • Portfolio Showcase
    • Front Stage (Intro Videos)
      • Watch All Videos
    • Back Stage (Making Of)
    • Updates
  • Get Started
    • Participate
    • Sign Up
    • Guide Book
    • Props
  • Units
    • Unit 0: Building Your Set
    • Unit 1: The Shapes of Story
    • Unit 2: Saying It With Visuals
    • Unit 3: It’s All By Design
    • Unit 4: The Beautiful World of Audio (part 1)
    • Unit 4: The Beautiful World of Audio (part 2)
    • Unit 5: Beyond The Blog
  • Events
  • Blogging
    • Highlight Reel
    • List of All Blogs
    • TRU Posts
    • Open Participant Posts
    • Random Post
  • Useful Stuff
    • DS106 Open Course
    • UBC DIY Media
    • WordPress Lessons
    • Alan’s Storymaking Resources
    • The Daily Challenge
    • TEN Ways to Improve Your Camera Craft
    • Flickr CC Attribution Helper
    • Image Pool
    • Learn Design Principles
    • Freesound
    • Sound Pool

Author Archives: cogdog

The Making of You Show Episode 3
28 Jan 2015

The Making of You Show Episode 3

by cogdog | posted in: Back Stage (Making of), You Show HQ | 0

If you thought our series of videos was a bit strange, this one goes way off the rails and down the canyon, into another dimension. Maybe. Episode 3 introduces our Unit on Visual Design. In the video, hosts Brian and … Continued

Today’s #OneWord
28 Jan 2015

Today’s #OneWord

by cogdog | posted in: From All Blogs, From TRU Participants, Syndicated | 0

Today’s The Daily is form the creative universe of Amy Burvall who does, among many amazing things, iconic sketch style drawings, making great use of lines and metaphors (plus I […]

The Dailies
On Theme Shopping
28 Jan 2015

On Theme Shopping

by cogdog | posted in: From All Blogs, From TRU Participants, Syndicated | 0

“What’s the best theme for my WordPress site?” Is there a equivalent to the “Best Camera is the one in your hand” assertion? Probably not. In our work on The […]

Portfolio Building, Reflections, Syndicate This, themes, wordpress
Building a Portfolio By Not Trying to Build a Portfolio
27 Jan 2015

Building a Portfolio By Not Trying to Build a Portfolio

by cogdog | posted in: From All Blogs, From TRU Participants, Syndicated | 0

Doth I blog in riddle? I doth do. Any assertion made here is a squishy subjective question. But I’ve been coming to grips with this in the first weeks of […]

Portfolio Building, Reflections, Syndicate This
The You Show Episode 3: Talking Design in the World of Nancy White
27 Jan 2015

The You Show Episode 3: Talking Design in the World of Nancy White

by cogdog | posted in: Cutting Room Floor, Front Stage (Announcements), You Show HQ | 0

Brian and Alan’s adventure this week is visiting Nancy’s Sketch Pad, the world of imagination and creativity of online facilitator, community builder, and sketch note artist Nancy White. We asked Nancy to elaborate on the ideas of what design means … Continued

Reversing Course Again, Doing it Dudley Right
25 Jan 2015

Reversing Course Again, Doing it Dudley Right

by cogdog | posted in: From All Blogs, From TRU Participants, Syndicated | 0

In a post on my approach to building The Daily site am not thinking I was wrong about being wrong… does that make me right? And in a process of […]

Behind the Code, Syndicate This
Vera’s Mushrooms
24 Jan 2015

Vera’s Mushrooms

by cogdog | posted in: From All Blogs, From TRU Participants, Syndicated | 0

Today’s You Show Daily calls for combining images to find something to represent a random John Cage poem– Determine an image for a random John Cage Indeterminancy #YSdaily11. I landed […]

The Dailies
The Making of the You Show: Episode 2
23 Jan 2015

The Making of the You Show: Episode 2

by cogdog | posted in: Back Stage (Making of), You Show HQ | 1

In the video that introduces Unit 2 we emphasize the topics covered that week, especially the use of photographs. As part of the evolving opening credits, the design went photographic, with the title just in text (using iMovie animated text) … Continued

Theme Settling
23 Jan 2015

Theme Settling

by cogdog | posted in: From All Blogs, From TRU Participants, Highlight Reel, Syndicated | 0

I’m starting to settle into this Moesia Theme (you can see it in action on the Mickey test blog, this is one I set up to allow switching of themes). […]

design, Portfolio Building, Portfolio Thinking, Reflections, theme, wordpress
And Thus, Dog Food Shall Be Eaten
23 Jan 2015

And Thus, Dog Food Shall Be Eaten

by cogdog | posted in: From All Blogs, From TRU Participants, Syndicated | 0

Sure it’s cliché. And I have a dog house full of metaphors. But it seems a tad hypocritical to be asking participants in the You Show to be creating portfolios […]

Portfolio Thinking, Reflections, syndication

Posts navigation

« 1 … 3 4 5 6 7 8 »
Where you are the show and you show what's behind the show

Announcements

  • The You Show Episode 7: Bonus Extra (We’ll Entertain You) November 26, 2015
  • You Blog Me, You Really Really Blog Me March 11, 2015
  • The Making of You Show Episode 6 March 3, 2015
  • The You Show Episode 6: Beyond the Blog February 23, 2015
  • The Making of You Show Episode 5 February 20, 2015

Units

  • Unit 0: Building Your Set
  • Unit 1: The Shapes of Story
  • Unit 2: Saying It With Visuals
  • Unit 3: It’s All By Design
  • Unit 4: The Beautiful World of Audio (part 1)
  • Unit 4: The Beautiful World of Audio (part 2)
  • Unit 5: Beyond The Blog

Recent Happenings

  • Moving from Assessment of Learning to Assessment For Learning using ePortfolios
  • Introduction to Audacity: Making a Single Sound Composition
  • Introduction to Audacity: Making a Sound Effect Story
  • SoundCamp Comes to the You Show

Guide Book

  • Concepts and Ideas
  • The Narrative Process
  • Tech Skills
Tweets by @YouShow15

See #youshow15 activity

Guidebook

  • Concepts and Ideas
  • The Narrative Process
  • Tech Skills

Studio Lots

  • Cutting Room Floor (1)
  • Highlight Reel (90)
  • Syndicated (500)
    • From All Blogs (500)
      • From Open Participants (195)
      • From TRU Participants (305)
  • You Show HQ (17)
    • Back Stage (Making of) (7)
    • Front Stage (Announcements) (8)
    • Updates (2)

The Vaults

Seek? Find?

RSS The Daily

  • Draw an Inspirograph That Represents Your Way of Thinking #ysdaily53
    Inspirograph is a web based version of a classic drawing toy. See what you can create with it- make an image, download it, and show it to us. Tweet a link for your response to @youshow15 and be sure to include the hashtag #ysdaily53

About The Show

The You Show is an 8 week open, mostly online, mostly self-paced ~seminar hosted at Thompson Rivers University geared at helping narrate the process of showing your work (read the full pitch...)

Updates By Email

Free, painless, and hopefully not annoying. Get the weekly updates and know what's happening at the You Show.

powered by TinyLetter

You Show is a TRU project • web weaving by @cogdog • Unless started otherwise, all content as licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.