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cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Timitrius Tomorrow I hit the road again, actually so Saturday I can hit the rails. This is the start of a 3 week trek to the East coast and back. Having done a lot of airline travel, and in 2011-2012 going back and forth by driving, I got this idea/hallucination that it would be fun to travel by train. That way, I go at a slower pace than flying, am not squeezed into a tiny spot, but am not responsible for driving. You know, I am just sitting there looking wistfully out the window, or reading intense novels, or getting caught up in all night poker games. Standard stuff (that happens in movies). The reasons for doing this are two events, a May 21 workshop at The College of Wooster (Ohio). For the past few years, Jon Breitenbucher has invited [...]

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, [...]

I’m looking forward to doing a presentation this Friday at Scottsdale Community College on “Imptov-ing Yourself with Pechaflickr” and am hoping to have a few examples of how this improv tool is being used, be it for conference activities or (better yet) educational activities (I have your example, thanks Todd Conaway). So if you have seen it in use, can you zip me some info via my snazzy custom form? If you don’t know what pechaflickr is, call it a fusion of pecha kucha with random images from flickr, so it becomes a thing for practicing improvisation. But don;t take my word, try it yourself http://pechaflickr.cogdogblog.com/ This percolated up recently during a skype conversation with Kim Cofino about presentations I am lining up for her school this March. She mentioned they had a speaker last year who used it! So I am curious if/how its being used. I have some [...]

cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by B_Zedan Ripping the page out of the Jim Groom playbook (again), and as I did when I taught ds106 the first time last Spring in parallel to him, here I share the class evaluations from the Fall 2010 section of ds106. Frankly I love this idea- why not share and reflect on these things; why leave this stuff to some outside source? (where you don’t get much on me anyhow). First of all, I would think we have some gut level instinct how we did. And the numbers for my teaching in the Fall 2012 (online) are notches higher (0.1 to 0.3 points per 5 point rating) than from Spring 2012 (in person). Was that the difference? Probably not. Spring 2012 was my first time teaching, and I had a round of teaching summer online. You ought to get [...]

cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by YlvaS I thought I had come up with a compelling piece in writing Steve Jobs & Neil Young Jam Across Time on Internet as Radio, and i fell rather silently in the blog pile. There you go. But what makes a live radio station, like ds106 radio, different from podcasting? It’s just audio on the web right? This was somewhat of a conversation I had today with my every so gracious host here in Vermont, Barbara Ganley. Pen and paper in hand, she came walking into her library a place I was comfortably sitting in doing some work on the laptop, wanting to ask some questions about ds106 radio. She did not flinch (too much) when I asked if we could have the conversation on the radio. It’s just the way I have always thought– to explain a media [...]

This was week marks one of the highlights (for me at least as a teacher) of ds106 where we do a live radio broadcast of the student audio projects. This is where they work in groups to produce a 30 minute radio show, and is likely one of the most challenging projects. The challenge is not only the dynamics of working in groups, which is compounded by these students being online, but also because doing a good radio show is a lot of work- much more than the audio assignments we have given them for warm-up. On Monday I managed a 3.5 hour marathon to broadcast 5 groups from my section, and Martha just completed her run tonight. I’ve just finished organizing the archives. These include the posters for each group, plus 3 audio segments- the before show conversation with the group rep, the show itself, and the post show [...]

cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by giulia.forsythe DISCLAIMER: This is mostly a brain dump. Little coherent ideas emerge. Typos will occur. You have been warned. This session I participated in at Open Education 2012 was proposed by Julià Minguillón titled “Analyzing and supporting interaction in complex scenarios: the case of DS106″ – the idea as Julià outlined it was to try and find useful patterns and meaning in the large amount of networked activity that happens in this universe. I’ve been interested in this for a while but ow sure how to wrap my arms around it. Because of the syndication model set up in our site, we have essentially a copy of every blog post that the site has subscribed to since before January 2011 – over 20,000 posts (unlike those other high priced enterprise systems, our open source fueled site actually keeps all [...]

Even cats know that duct tape is useful cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by Rev. Xanatos Satanicos Bombasticos (ClintJCL) It comes in handy for PHP work on WordPress sites as well. You should know that the main internal organ that makes the magic of the ds106 site do what it does is the Feed WordPress plugin. This is what allows us to add external blogs to be auto republished inside our site, and as well resyndicate it out to our satellite sites. We have over 560 blogs that ds106 checks on a regular basis. One of the challenges is that the administration of Feed WordPress (hereto after called FWP) is really manual. The main page lists them all in one giant list. And if anyone changes their blog, we have to update it inside the interface. In fact, until Martha recently put together the magic, [...]

She did not want me to make a fuss for her birthday, I could not follow instructions. With some help from my/her friends, today we held a birthday party for Giulia Forsythe, featuring bits of art like this from Jason Toal I was inspired of the epic video Dean Shareski coordinated last year for Alec Corous. That was a lot to do! I decided for something a little more open and less work on my part, I set up an open Google Doc and invited friends and colleagues to add messages, links, media, and what a message it turned out to be! Check it out I nearly broke it from the start. When I set it up a week ago, I decided to DM the links to about 30 people, expect the first one I sent to Dr Garcia I goofed and sent it public! People were already looking, and [...]

Sigh, July somehow gobbled up my momentum from my time spent at the University of British Columbia in June, even with the fun of rebooting the old CAREO service in Brian Lamb’s [old] office. But as follow-up to my interview with UBC History professor Tina Loo I had also interviewed three of her students to get their perspective on the Wikipedia Education Program (WEP) project they did in Tina’s North American Environmental History class. It’s time I get these published! To recap, the Wikipedia Education Program is designed to provide a structure and support for teachers who have their students work on writing/improving Wikipedia articles. The Wikipedia Education Program’s vision is to mobilize and empower the next generation of human-knowledge generators to contribute to Wikimedia projects. Based on the learnings from the Public Policy Initiative, a pilot program to use Wikipedia in university classrooms in the 2010–11 academic year, the [...]