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cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by Randy Pertiet I forgot my own birthday. No, not the human me, the blog me. Yesterday this pile of crud turned 10 years old. like Lorne Green would say in an Alpo commercial, “That’s 79 for you and me!”. The first blog post here was I Blog Therefor I Am… on April 19, 2003. Then this blog was run in Movable Type likely running on an Apple X-Server sitting outside my office at the Maricopa Community Colleges. The launch fanfare only I would notice was: This is the new hub for Alan Levine’s activities as instructional technologist at the Maricopa Community Colleges in Phoenix, AZ, replacing the mid 90s vintage home page, kept at: http://dommy.com/alan/ from there commencing to explain the name of the blog, ending up with connection to a favorite storyboook: C-D-Blog? D Blog S A B-S Blog. O, [...]

cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Time keeps on running past me, teasing, “Nyeh nyeh, you are BEHIND on blogging”. Dirty scumbag, that Time. Now it is closing in one a month since my 3 week jaunt to parts of Asia, and huge tracts of land remain uncharted. Like anyone is complaining. Anyhow, the second leg of my tour was a week in Singapore, a first time visit. I have to admit some super geography ignorance. When I knew of the trip invitation to go to Japan, I said, “hey I am in the neighborhood, why not go visit Jabiz Raisdana in Singapore”. cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Long time blog friend, and having met once in Shanghai, I kind of missed the fact that it was more then 3000 miles, a 7 hour flight from Tokyo to Singapore. [...]

cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog I’m back almost a week from an incredible and intense and fantastic three week trip to Japan, Singapore, and Hong Kong — all pretty much enabled by network connections among nice people. So much happened I had to make a spreadsheet to help me organize the sessions I did at least 30 workshops, presentations, consultations, and class visits. Beyond the snafus of US Failways on the trip over, catching and somehow warding off the Cog Dog Cough Wog in week 1, keeping tabs on my ds106 class– the blogging fell off the table. I’m not sure I am ready to be the Roving Presentation Dude. I’m worn flat. A number of sessions were re-purposed, but never carbon copies, and most of them evolved along the way- many variations of Web Storytelling sessions from 20 minutes to 3 hour workshops, [...]

cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo shared by Marcelo Tourne This is just a pulse on the blog o meter to let someone know I’m still out and about, now in Singapore. As usual, I have completely underestimated the toll of travel and lining up a lot of sessions. The pile of back blog material now will not fit in my suitcase. I can see a bit of breathing room in a few days, on to Hong Kong on Sunday and back to my dog house in Strawberry by March 23, where I will take a big huge nap. For my ds106 students – I’m scanning your blogs looking for the rest of audio work due end of this week. The live broadcast of your radio shows will take place starting 8pm Monday, March 18 on ds106 radio. I am anxious to hear your stories.

cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by Artbandito Between the impact of long distance travel, getting the customer service enema treatment from US Failways, and falling under the spell of plane induced cough/cold, I am overflowing with excuses not to be blogging. I’ve enjoyed two full days of doing workshops and sessions with students and teachers at Yokohama International School (a big shout out to Kim Cofino for setting this up) plus 4+ intense days of planning and helping be part of the 2013 Flat Classroom conference. Im whupped. And have a lot of back blogging to do. And I need to stop talking about that and start the process. Instead of going in order, I may jump around, there’s a lot I want to capture before the next plane leg cause it picks up fast again in Singapore next week (looking at you, Jabiz!). Today [...]

cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo shared by Johan Rd When will that MOOC[cow] finally hump over the Gartner peak and slide down to its valley of disillusionment? Is it after the last article published the cites the birth of MOOCism to the Stanford AI class? Might there actually be something out there beyond the EdXCourseraUdacity complex? Continuing the MOOC Mythology is a media created idea that it represents some sort of single entity answer, a fix for something allegedly broken. What is missing is the realization that open courses are experiments, and as Steven Johnson points out in Where Good Ideas Come From, that said ideas come from making mistakes: … error is not simply a phase you have to suffer through on the way to genius. Error often creates a path thatr leads you out of your comfortable assumptions. [Lee] de Forest was wrong about [...]

cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by MyDigitalSLR In what I’d call the semi-porous community (because we have people outside the class who can and do provide feedback to students) of my ds106 class at University of Mary Washington, nurturing a healthy amount of commenting has typically been a struggle against inertia. One might have to make a case that the act of commenting has value; frankly, I start with that as a given. If that is a question for someone, I would guess they’ve not been participating in these spaces. We would lump commenting on others blogs as part of a participating credit. As a teacher, I am pretty much at least scanning all the blogs and have a gut sense of who is being active in commenting. But the last thing I want to be doing, and asking my students to do, is something [...]

cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo shared by EMSL In the carefully controlled laboratory where I do my coding… no in actuality more like a scene from some ghastly middle school cafeteria food fight. This all started when Giulia showed me a creative commons licensed photo that my creative commons attribution script helper (for Chrome) (for Firefox/Safari) (For IE) failed to do its magic. On dissecting the page structure I found the issue. My script was assembling all th enifo properly, but the XPath pattern I was looking for was not found– up til now my code looked to insert after the “tags” block on a flickr page, but this page was one where the owner had disabled tags (why, why, he open asks in frustration). In comparing a fe wplaces, it looked like a better spot to do this was below the “Additional Info” block. I [...]

cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by dmixo6 For open participants in ds106, we can dispense of the entire “I dropped out of another &$*#ing MOOC” because there is nothing to drop out from. No one-pace-for-all ramming speed schedule, no weekly lectures, no multiple guess quizzes. We have a very easy to understand Getting Started Guide, itself with not one way to do this course but TWO, the Fast And Easy Way and the Blogging Way. But here are ten things you can do to be part of ds106, without even signing up. How massively un MOOC is that? (0) The Stephen Downes Clause Feel free to ignore all of the following and make up your own. (1) Do one daily create a week. Just because it says daily does not require you to do it every day, it requires us to publish one every day! [...]

This cartoon is on a card my sister sent me a few years ago; I have kept it on my refrigerator along with the gallery of dogs past. But I’m not that dog, I’m still at the blogging, April of this year is rolling up to the 10 year mark for CogDogBlog. I’m still figuring it out. And that is what I was musing about today for the people in the open #etmooc course/community (were I in the business of making acronyms would I be aiming for “COURSMUNITY”? No) that launched this month. My part so far has been setting up the blog hub, and in verifying the feeds for that site, I have glanced at over 450 blogs. I’ve not seen any alike. Quite a few are new blogs, maybe new for the course but also it seems some educators first efforts. That’s awesome. I tuned in for the [...]