cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Number of days on the road: 133 Miles Driven: 12,605 Most Recent 1000 mile marker: 12,000 miles, south of Atlanta, GA on October 30 Number of States/Provinces driven in: 24 Number of US/Canadian Border Crossings: 4 Money spent on gas: $3437 Cheapest gas price: $3.08/gallon (Fountain Inn, SC). Highest gas price: $5.64/gallon (CA$1.39/liter) (Wawa, ON). Photos posted: 2639 (that is an average of 19.8 per day) Most scenic foliage drive: Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina. Second was highway 58 in southwest Virginia Best alternative to Interstate- US 19, the Georgia-Florida Parkway. cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Number of books read: 12 (Most recent: Things the Grandchildren Should Know) Number of iPhones dropped into canyons: 1 Amount if love I have for me Android Phone: 0.0cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Number [...]
CogBlogged from ‘November, 2011’
Dear Photographs at Mom’s House
The ds106 assignment for what comes below is “Return to the Scene of the Crime”: Take a photo from the past that you took in a particular location. Return to that stop, and take another picture, “framing” the original within the current view. The whole premise is to find an old photo, return to the location, and create a new one where you are holding the photo and lining it up with the scene. It is a nifty mixing of analog in the digital space. I’d done some toying with this same technique after discovering the flickr Look into the Past grpup, which does overlays of historic photos over current scenes- I had done a few around my home town of Strawberry and neighboring Pine, AZ. First of all, a wide angle lens is essential. It need not be a DSLR, but you need a wide angle to fit the [...]
The M, The C- The Good stuff is in the Middle
cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by sea turtle MOOCs are a rumbling. For those following them or participating, so called Massive Online Open Courses might feel they are coming of age. I’d bet they are far from the horizons for most educators. I think the most important stuff about MOOCs is in the middle. Tim Owens has nicely frames some issues with MOOCs and his post is well worth a read. As is David Wiley’s series on his opinions of MOOCs (with the expected usual word matches with Stephen Downes). To me, the acronym is become a bit of an albatross or something that has less meaning than literal, and perhaps some day may just be an alias, or reference to the concept than an explanation itself. I agree with David Wiley that the “M” is rather like one of those appendages that has no [...]
