Comments for CogDogBlog http://cogdogblog.com Alan Levine's space for barking about and playing with technology Sat, 26 May 2012 17:11:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Comment on Faculty Academy 2012: The Canadian Invasion by Linda http://cogdogblog.com/2012/05/25/faculty-academy-2012-the-canadian-invasion/comment-page-1/#comment-133840 Linda Sat, 26 May 2012 17:11:00 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/?p=8907#comment-133840 Sounds like the faculty academy was a success! Thank you for including the links to the videos. You got some great photos! I especially like the first one at the top. Just to let you know, I got a 50mm f/1.4 lens as you recommended, and I LOVE IT!! A few others told me that f/1.8 would be just as good, but I'm glad I went for the 1.4. Thank you!! :) Sounds like the faculty academy was a success! Thank you for including the links to the videos.

You got some great photos! I especially like the first one at the top.

Just to let you know, I got a 50mm f/1.4 lens as you recommended, and I LOVE IT!! A few others told me that f/1.8 would be just as good, but I’m glad I went for the 1.4. Thank you!! :)

]]> Comment on Jumping from one ds106 class to the next by Alan Levine http://cogdogblog.com/2012/05/21/jumping-ds106-class/comment-page-1/#comment-133804 Alan Levine Fri, 25 May 2012 14:40:50 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/?p=8893#comment-133804 This feedback is helpful, the loading of the assignments was a new element this time around with the introduction of the star weightings. And in hindsight the load for video was high (though compensated by extending the timelines). Leaving out the writing and web assignments was a choice to open more space. What I could have done more of is activity, prompts, discussion for connecting the work done to the higher level ideas of role of storytelling, relation to concepts of Cyberinfrastructure (most did grok this). The Daily Creates grew into a chore for some, the t weeks of doing it 7 times was intense. I'd agree the remix was valuable in that it led students to explore each others work- there might be ways to include that as a regular element along the way. The experience in the spring is going to be factored into the summer as well. This feedback is helpful, the loading of the assignments was a new element this time around with the introduction of the star weightings. And in hindsight the load for video was high (though compensated by extending the timelines).

Leaving out the writing and web assignments was a choice to open more space.

What I could have done more of is activity, prompts, discussion for connecting the work done to the higher level ideas of role of storytelling, relation to concepts of Cyberinfrastructure (most did grok this).

The Daily Creates grew into a chore for some, the t weeks of doing it 7 times was intense.

I’d agree the remix was valuable in that it led students to explore each others work- there might be ways to include that as a regular element along the way.

The experience in the spring is going to be factored into the summer as well.

]]> Comment on Jumping from one ds106 class to the next by Ben http://cogdogblog.com/2012/05/21/jumping-ds106-class/comment-page-1/#comment-133802 Ben Fri, 25 May 2012 13:35:28 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/?p=8893#comment-133802 The syllabus does have a lot, but I think what gives the sense of overload is how far the instructors push. This last semester was rough for me (as an open online participant) as each week the amount of work was progressively larger. I understand that as the tools become familiar and comfortable, it's expected that the students should be able to produce more, but I like the way that the large syllabus seems to be a "pick your own course" smorgasbord of options. For example, I haven't seen the web or writing assignments happen in the last two iterations of the course, and the introduction of the "remix" assignment helped to keep things fresh. The syllabus does have a lot, but I think what gives the sense of overload is how far the instructors push. This last semester was rough for me (as an open online participant) as each week the amount of work was progressively larger. I understand that as the tools become familiar and comfortable, it’s expected that the students should be able to produce more, but I like the way that the large syllabus seems to be a “pick your own course” smorgasbord of options. For example, I haven’t seen the web or writing assignments happen in the last two iterations of the course, and the introduction of the “remix” assignment helped to keep things fresh.

]]> Comment on I WANT YOU TO MAKE ART (damnit) by 106 drop in » Blog Archive » flickrSounds for #ds106 http://cogdogblog.com/2012/02/17/make-art-damnit/comment-page-1/#comment-133772 106 drop in » Blog Archive » flickrSounds for #ds106 Thu, 24 May 2012 14:53:37 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/?p=8491#comment-133772 [...] busy widget into the webpage, the default search is dog, my example plays off the ds106 4life meme. Stephen Downes suggested in a comment that ds106 might be being over-branded I love ds106 but I think it’s being over-branded, this [...] [...] busy widget into the webpage, the default search is dog, my example plays off the ds106 4life meme. Stephen Downes suggested in a comment that ds106 might be being over-branded I love ds106 but I think it’s being over-branded, this [...]

]]> Comment on This Little Hobo by Jabiz Raisdana http://cogdogblog.com/2012/05/22/this-little-hobo/comment-page-1/#comment-133753 Jabiz Raisdana Wed, 23 May 2012 13:22:29 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/?p=8904#comment-133753 Northern Voices and UnPlugged. Man, I am jealous. Have fun, learn and say hi to all the peeps that I would want to say hi to. Northern Voices and UnPlugged. Man, I am jealous. Have fun, learn and say hi to all the peeps that I would want to say hi to.

]]> Comment on This Little Hobo by Pat http://cogdogblog.com/2012/05/22/this-little-hobo/comment-page-1/#comment-133752 Pat Wed, 23 May 2012 10:11:33 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/?p=8904#comment-133752 Sounds like wonderful plans! I love following you along your travels!! Have fun and be safe! Sounds like wonderful plans! I love following you along your travels!! Have fun and be safe!

]]> Comment on Sometimes You Just Have to GIF Yourself Out of a Jam by Cris http://cogdogblog.com/2012/05/22/gif-yourself/comment-page-1/#comment-133750 Cris Wed, 23 May 2012 07:54:30 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/?p=8896#comment-133750 I think Jerry nailed it with "self-renewal system." My last self renewal was after I completed my doctorate and I wanted to take myself much less seriously so I began improv classes. DS106 is a different kind of improv with a much greater range of possibility. And so is The Daily Create compared to The Daily Shoot. More space, more freedom, more possibility. And, yes, more challenges in bite-size pieces. TDC #4Life! Thank you! I think Jerry nailed it with “self-renewal system.”

My last self renewal was after I completed my doctorate and I wanted to take myself much less seriously so I began improv classes.

DS106 is a different kind of improv with a much greater range of possibility.

And so is The Daily Create compared to The Daily Shoot. More space, more freedom, more possibility. And, yes, more challenges in bite-size pieces.

TDC #4Life! Thank you!

]]> Comment on Jumping from one ds106 class to the next by Sandy Brown Jensen http://cogdogblog.com/2012/05/21/jumping-ds106-class/comment-page-1/#comment-133724 Sandy Brown Jensen Tue, 22 May 2012 20:02:57 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/?p=8893#comment-133724 Alan, As I am writing curriculum for a DS 106 knock off for Fall 2012, I watched all of you instructors and the class pretty closely. It is my humble (but trained!) observation that your syllabus is overloaded. The students have to have time to absorb new techniques and to create art dammit, and it needs to fit into their already full schedules, as does the art you and I do. I say dial it down and everyone will still play, and nobody will get hurt. Just my 2 cents... Sandy Alan,
As I am writing curriculum for a DS 106 knock off for Fall 2012, I watched all of you instructors and the class pretty closely. It is my humble (but trained!) observation that your syllabus is overloaded. The students have to have time to absorb new techniques and to create art dammit, and it needs to fit into their already full schedules, as does the art you and I do. I say dial it down and everyone will still play, and nobody will get hurt.
Just my 2 cents…
Sandy

]]> Comment on The ds106 Remix Machine by Jumping from one ds106 class to the next - CogDogBlog http://cogdogblog.com/2012/04/09/ds106-remix-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-133711 Jumping from one ds106 class to the next - CogDogBlog Tue, 22 May 2012 06:37:58 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/?p=8773#comment-133711 [...] have ben creating the assignment remix generator, riffing off of the ideas of Tom Woodward for a mechanism for creating different “card twists” to change up a randomly selected assign.... The unplanned gem was in asking students to go back to the original assignments and identify media [...] [...] have ben creating the assignment remix generator, riffing off of the ideas of Tom Woodward for a mechanism for creating different “card twists” to change up a randomly selected assign…. The unplanned gem was in asking students to go back to the original assignments and identify media [...]

]]> Comment on Plus 20 by Bryan Alexander http://cogdogblog.com/2012/05/20/plus-20/comment-page-1/#comment-133695 Bryan Alexander Mon, 21 May 2012 17:39:03 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/?p=8889#comment-133695 What a pair of decades, Alan. A lot of history, both yours and the world's. And a neat photo. What a pair of decades, Alan. A lot of history, both yours and the world’s.
And a neat photo.

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