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Just because I can… I got to thinking about Morgan Spurlock’s self experiment on fast food after reading the ever rapier like Jonathan Rees Sentence First– verdict afterwards: What kind of professor “experiments” in front of tens of thousands of students? Gerry Canavan is right – one who already knows the results. And the results are, of course, that MOOCs are a resounding success (even if that requires moving the goal posts all the way back to your own ten yard line). … So for what feels like the 67 millionth time: Nobody is trying to take anyone’s MOOCs away. It’s just that some of us simply refuse to assume that MOOCs are by definition successful because they reach more people than traditional education does. Real higher education (as opposed to mere information transferal) depends upon direct contact with the professor. MOOCs may “evolve,” but unless they eschew their essential [...]

cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine Today’s ds106 Daily Create was “Take a photo of a personal object in an unusual location” — and I started the day rummaging for objects of my Dad I have around here. This is a tooned photo of the old wooden level that was in his garage in Florida. I brought it home after we cleaned out the house when Mom passed in 2011. My hammock here in Strawberry, which usually exists to catch debris from the juniper trees, reminds me of one of my earliest memories with Dad, not that I remember myself but have seen it many times in the old family (silent) 8mm videos. In the late 1980s I worked briefly at a camera shop and had the home movies converted to VHS, and later while I worked at Maricopa, I used an analog to [...]

cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine At 3:18 am june 14, 2013, the annoying presence of IamTalkyTina, documented previously in my confessed creation story, has disappeared completely. An intense Rim to Rim Grand Canyon hike, 24 miles hiked in 18 hours, 11000 feet of elevation gain/loss, did the trick. The doll is gone. I am whole. Her sing song yibber yabber voice droned on for the 7 hours of descent via the North Kaibab trail. All that talk of her “True Friends” and “Open Friends” and “People Like Me (or else)” and how offended she was by the “Nasty Mean Word” was a constant nuisance and distraction to the peacefulness of that place. The nocturnal birds, cicadas humming, the thundering sound fo Roaring Springs and rushing waters of Bright Angel Creek tried to drown her out, and yet still she went on and on, [...]

They may “Do No Evil”™ but they can “Take Away Web Stuff That Works For No Credible Reason”. There is goes. Bye bye Reader. #GoogleNot4Life pic.twitter.com/2Yt4X7xuje — Alan Levine (@cogdog) April 6, 2013 If Google cannot afford the expenditure or running a web service, how are they funding the raft of experimentation? This is but a thin veiled attempt to funnel web reading into Google Plus. That’s me paranoid theory. Anyhow, in the next two weeks I am left with finding the less than optimal platform for feed reading. You know what I'm not up in arms about GReader? CAUSE ALMOST NO ONE BLOGS ANYMORE! — Alan Levine (@cogdog) June 8, 2013 This of course is a valuable lesson in what is ours and what is theirs in the internet space. Just wait and see what happens to search, because Google Controls The Forces of Gravity

I thought I could hold out, but because of reasons I am outlining below, I am admitting right here, as the eternal truth. I invented the character, twtter account, web site named after the Talky Tina doll from the Living Doll Twilight Zone episode. It was all me. You see, the strain of managing alternative personality has caught up with me. Even after sleeping 8 hours, I wake up dead tired, only to find out that SHE was up all night, blogging, and creating badges, and taunting poor guys like Ben Rimes. @techsavvyed Look over your shoulder, bub. — Talky Tina (@IamTalkyTina) June 10, 2013 I really do not know how people like Todd Conaway manage creating these personas and sorting out themselves from their characters. Like the way Jim Groom described his conflict in 2011 playing the Dr Oblivion character, I am feeling almost a breakdown. So my therapist [...]

cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Bruce McKay When the clams and worcestershire get Scottlo too low to do his daily show, well, they can call in the Dog, that is CogDog, to lend a paw (it’s tricky fitting a pencil behind the ears). This is my first run at doing a show, and depending on how His Lowness reacts, it might be the last. LoDown Number 24 Justing coming off today’s marathon ds106 zone radio show really energized me; I am not reviewing the shows in detail, but want to commend everyone for the work down to produce the shows, and emphasize all that stuff to get there is as much the learning as the final show. I do note the ginormous magnitude of week 4′s tasks, which is actually only half of week 4 given that the first round of movie work is due [...]

cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by sharyn morrow Will the open connected web as we once knew it be some quaint artifact we will only peer at as we swipe through apps on our mobile devices? Probably not. But still… I was enamored by a nifty technology from Wibbitz that took the content of an RSS feed and rendered it as a video, and it was dynamic- check it out (while it still works). In the inbox today… they are casting off this technology to package it as an iPhone app: Hi there! First of all we wanted to thank you for using Wibbitz and for all the great feedback that you’ve sent us over the past few months. We took it all into consideration and worked hard on improving our technology. After reaching over 17M videos viewed per month and over 50K sites that [...]

Last week the third of a 3 week cross country trip by train. I was not planning to be part of a ds106 radio show project for the summer 2013 5 week madcap section Jim is teaching. But this idea got in my head, in that ds106 way that I know I will put aside almost everything else (eating, sleeping, doing productive so called work) until I got it out of my system. Submitted for your approval, To Serve Learners, done in about 2 days with audio assists from Giulia Forsythe, Brian Short, Rochelle Lockridge, Brian Bennett, and Jim Groom. This was edited completely during the 32 hour train trip from Chicago to Flagstaff, AZ. My first thought was a redo of the William Shatner freakout Nightmare at 20,000 Ft recast for my trip by railroad, but got lost on figuring out what the monster would be doing to the [...]

For no real good reason- this is based on a single photo, duplicated in PhotoShop as layers. In each layer, I selected the glass and applied different settings of the Wave Filter, just to make it seem like a strange world inside my glass. Combining two of my interests into one act. For no good reason at all, except to act out “what if…”

Jeez, anyone can wear their google glasses in the shower. The next horizon is below the hips. Get Google Ass. How it Feels What it Does How to Get One