New blog post: “ds106zone: You are About to Enter Another Dimension” bavatuesdays.com/ds106zone-you-… #ds106 #ds106 #soitbegins — Jim Groom (@jimgroom) May 13, 2013 When Jim Groom lights up #ds106 you can feel the energy waves transmorgify. I for one am darned excited because I now get to be a humble open participant in ds106, and the 5 week may summer session of the #ds106zone already has that giddy feeling as people are riding the momentum. When jim had first described the idea of re-writing/producing classic twilight Zone episodes with a modern slant, one that jumped out me was the last one from Season 1, A World Of His Own. Writer Gregory West apparently is so good at character creation, he can actually conjure them up in real peace just be describing them into his microphone. His wife, Victoria, is not pleased to see the blonde vixen Gregory creates to talk to, [...]
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A Year of Breadlike Syllabus Making for ds106
cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by Little Wide World During a presentation last month for the TCC World Online Conference a participant noted in the chat with some irony, that despite the unconventional form and function of ds106 I pointed them to a traditional (long) syllabus for my 2013 class. I said that it was a university course at UMW, so it needed a syllabus. Somewhat later (like yesterday while sitting on a beach) it struck me that it’s another case of Korzybski’s line of the map not being the territory – the syllabus is not the class, the experience, but some representation of it. In wrapping up a year’s experience teaching ds106 I was thinking of how the syllabus was like a mode of bread making, following someone else’s recipe, but changing up the ingredients and the process, iteratively, and getting one’s hands in [...]
(see the full barking...)How Do You Think Yoda Got So Wise?
Why he read all of the ancient and modern parables of the Wise One, especially borrowing attributes of those who took on Empires, like Jedi Yallow, for later training. He than sought out The Boing Boing Being in the deep depths of Hainault Forest, spending weeks at his feet, taking notes on his iPad. This is a quick remix example for an exciting ds106 project, where our students are among the first to get a crack at remixing the portrait photos of Cory Doctorow that Jonathan Worth is sharing with the world for open remixing. Jonathan described it for us and as well visited with me and my students during this week’s ds106 show. To be a base for the site, and knowing the flood of action once Cory announces this on Boing Boing, I suggesting hanging the web site on wordpress.com- with the name borrowed from internet speak and [...]
(see the full barking...)Turntable Booster
cc licensed (BY) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Before I could listen to the old school turntable I got shipped by Jason in Vancouver (and it came to him via Grant Potter) I needed to get some audio equipment, namely an amp with phono inputs and some new speakers. Gardner Campbell gave me the ultimate recommendation, but I’m not quite ready to plunk the money down (I will Gardo, one day soon!). But for now, to listen to the sound via my Harmon Kardon Sound Stix (you can see the nub of one bottom left), I needed a phonograph pre-amp. I researched and ended up with this Pyle PP444 Mini Pre-Amp — for $15 it was worth a try. I got this model because it had the necessary grounding screw, to reduce static from the table. The comments on Amazon suggested this one can pick up radio interference, but I [...]
(see the full barking...)US Airways Makes Me as a Customer Feel Showered in Warmth
public domain image from Wikimedia Commons I strive not to be one of those travelers who whine about their travel woes. On a return trip a month ago, a delay out of Buffalo left me with an unplanned overnight stat in Chicago, and I played it out as an adventure game. That was a return home from a pleasure trip. But it’s a bit different when you are outward bound for another country, for doing some income raising work. And as much as I think that eventually all service providers, airlines will fork you over, it does not make it acceptable to be treated like crap. My recent experience with US Airways is that when they screw up, you will pay your own money for their f***ups and they will blame it on someone else. I did not even book my travel with US Failways, it was with United, but [...]
(see the full barking...)A Lesson on How the Open Web Works
cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by World Bank Photo Collection The dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information. Its universality is essential: the fact that a hypertext link can point to anything, be it personal, local or global, be it draft or highly polished. There was a second part of the dream, too, dependent on the Web being so generally used that it became a realistic mirror (or in fact the primary embodiment) of the ways in which we work and play and socialize. That was that once the state of our interactions was on line, we could then use computers to help us analyse it, make sense of what we are doing, where we individually fit in, and how we can better work together. – The World Wide Web: A very short personal history [...]
(see the full barking...)Jamming with Light My Fire
As it happens, I had just finished lighting the fire in MY woodstove, when I clicked over to Alan’s post and listened to his rockin’ version of Light My Fire. I retreated to basement, found the tenor guitar, used the Guitar Toolkit app to find a few chords and a Dorian scale in Am. I […]
Seeding ds106 Connections with Comment Groups
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 [...]
(see the full barking...)Guitars I Don’t Have
Somehow I managed to do my homework ahead of time, since my intro video included the story of main main guitar, an acoustic I’ve had since age 15. I thought I would turn this inside out and talk about 2 guitars I do not have, since they have stories too. Once in a year or […]
CogDog’s Guitar Hello
It’s really late and I need to wake up stupid early, but when I saw Jabiz’s tweet, and his video, and his stack of papers.. I said I’m in. I blabbed a bot in the video, compeltely leaving out that I live in a tiny town in Arizona called Strawberry (yes its real, look it […]
