The Remixer Machine
The Remixer Machine is a Visual Thinkery tool which can provide the perfect collaborative activity for creative people. You can use it to create things in the classroom, presentations, T-shirts – all sorts!
It can provide clients a custom platform to create in-house variations of a particular visual template – for example, a digital credential. Or as an icebreaker tool at the start of an online workshop. It’s also been used as a hybrid community participation tool – like sending in a postcard from afar or creating a personal media pass.
Remixer Challenge
The Remixer Machine can become quite fun for exploring a little creative cognition. In this case, producing distorted versions of iconic albums and artworks.
For a recent Visual Thinkery newsletter, our intern remixed ten different famous albums as a challenge to see how many people could guess. It was so interesting to see how the reputation of an image persevered through being reduced to just a few triangles!
Conference Identity
Capture your conference in a way which connects everyone involved! The Remixer machine allows you to incorporate a whole range of people at once, with fully customisable templates and designs unique to you.
OERxDomains21 Media Pass and Let’s Get Phygital by @visualthinkery is licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Remix’s by GO-GN, Eamon Costello, Joy McLean and Francis John Whitelaw.
Badge Press
The use of Badges can provide a special way to acknowledge the efforts of others around you and in your inner circle. No matter how niche your cause may be, we can communicate your message.
ALT Badge Press, AmplifyFE Badge Press and N-TUTORR badge by @visualthinkery is licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Remix’s by Christina Vines, ALT, Emma Procter-Legg and Francis John.
Private Galleries:
Members of the Remixer Machine Community can now create Private Galleries, which come with the following remix superpowers:
- Customise the template remix
- Share an unlisted link with your own community of remixers
- Remove any unwanted remixes.
Hat Tip
Back in the old days of social media, h/t was a thing. Being restricted for characters as was the trend then, hat tip became h/t.
Visual Thinkery was doing a little visual thinking about interpersonal recognition for a credentialing workshop with Badge guru Doug Belshaw for the N-TUTORR project. Trying to think of all the ways that humans give recognition to each other. A couple of days after the workshop, whilst talking with Alan Levine about recognition in Open Education for the OEGlobal Podcast, we contrived to build a remixer for humans to digitally hat tip.
Hat tip by @visualthinkery is licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Remix by Chahira Nouira.
X-Ray Specs
This remix was created for 25 Years of EdTech by Martin Weller, published by AU Press, which is now available to download free (PDF) or to buy as a real printed book or e-book!
X-Ray Specs by @visualthinkery is licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Remix by Karyn Wisselink.
Field Notes
Originally built for LiveSciences3, University of Göttingen, field Notes allows you to become your own personal scientist and collect research from your memories, whether it’s a favourite tree from home or a funky mug you bought on holiday, you can upload a photo and location of your choice and create your own field notes.
Field Notes by @visualthinkery is licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Remix by Stephen Downes.
Cartoon
Members of The Remixer Machine can remix the cartoon background, add and format their own speech bubbles for others to remix.
Cartoon by @visualthinkery is licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Remix by Doug Belshaw.
Badge Bloom
Use this simple tool to work through the design of your own badge.
Badge Bloom by @visualthinkery is licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Remix by Kevin Hodgson.