Oh yawn, its that time of year when people start reflecting on their belly button lint and drawing out their highlights of 2010. Fair enough, it’s a worthy practice, but quite often, to me, it ends up feeling like reading those 3 page holiday letters from Aunt Edna (who you barely know) and her 13 […]
I’m cooking up a presentation for February I am calling (Not So Stupid) Browser Tricks – a ittle nod to Letterman’s shtick with pets. The premise is to show 10, maybe 12 things you can do with common web tools (or ones less well known) that do something, that, when you show someone else, would […]
In doing some prep for a future presentation (this is almost historic in my modus operendi of procastination, as it is almost 2 months away from now), I revisited a seminal 2008 Roger Ebert post on How to Read a Movie. He shares a number of ideas I am thinking might have potential for ds106, […]
cc licensed flickr photo shared by Andreas Kristensson I am stepping inside the CogDog Laboratory today to conduct some experiments in… oh who am I kidding? I am just idly watching snow fall out the window, and thinking of things to try out online. Okay, for you loyal reader of this blog (not the use […]
google image search on Brave New World I just finished reading one of The Great Books I Was Supposed to Read in High School– Huxley’s Brave New World. The catch phrase is usually along the lines of “a vision of a dystopian future.” This seems a rather ironic statement given the conversation in the latter […]
Modified from cc licensed flickr photo shared by One Thousand Words A few weeks ago I got a redemption code from Apple for a free move rental from iTunes– I chose to use it to watch Inception (I’m still resonating or reverberating with this movie, so this is not a review). It’s that “rental” in […]
I’m ambiholidayous– I’ll celebrate anything. While growing up in a Jewish home in Baltimore, we had Hannukah this time of year. At the same time, one of my Dad’s favorite activities was taking me for a walk in the neighborhood to see the decorated houses– ours never had the lights and doo-dads, but we liked […]
cc licensed flickr photo shared by crowdive At first it was just one stray. Then another. Make it three or four. Now they see each other, and its a herd, movement… stampede? cc licensed flickr photo shared by crowdive Yup, there are MOOCs on the moooooove. Okay, enough of the bovine innuendos. But what is […]
cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog My Mom is too much… too much goodness. She loves giving little presents. This big boxed arrived via FedEx; in it were some holiday gifts for a friend’s son, but Mom also stuffed it full of kitchen gadgets she claimed were laying arounf un-used in her kitchen. And […]
cc licensed flickr photo shared by Serenae You gotta like the Jim Groom strategy- run off to the good life in Italy, and let people like Tom Woodward go craxy coming up with ideas to use in Jim’s ds106 course (Tom is on FIRE, see his latest activity ideas). My, that fence is getting painted […]
