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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 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 [...]

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 [...]

cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine For at least 3 times in the last 5 years I’ve been fortunate to participate in the Baruch College Schwartz Institute Symposium, a rather unique event in bringing together people from both the academic and business communities to share ideas on communication. It is that mix where I get to meet people outside the usual circles, and the conversational set up up the days, that I look forward to. This year was even more a draw because Barbara Ganley was on the agenda t lead a workshop, and I had already planned to visit her home in Vermont a few days before. But ti got better when she asked me two weeks ago if I could step in to co-facilitate her workshop on storytelling as the colleague she was working with had to back out. There is no [...]

cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by craig.letourneau.photography I’ve known Cole Camplese for some time, we’ve blogged together, presented together, hung out all night after dull conferences together, drank together, I’ve dropped in and stayed at his house several times. I can remember the first time I came across his work- I was at Maricopa in the early 2000s bouncing around the web looking at the ways these new Apple things called “iPods” were being used, and came across a post of his how he had jury rigged a “consumption” device as an assessment tool. I had scoffed at twitter when I first came across it in late 2006, but it was his description of an idea how to use it for communications among his PSU team that pushed me over the edge to come back to it in 2007. With all this, I have been [...]

Playing more with the #ds106zone for the Twilight Zone episode of the Invaders. All of the screaming, banging, and destruction might is averted if Alien Lady checks her iPhone. Instead of getting zapped by laser guns and whopping spaceships with her axe, instead, Alien Lady and Jim Groom laugh at old stories over the best tacos in Virginia, perhaps the entire east coast. Messing with the Macguffin may be one of my all time favorite ds106 assignments, because technically it is pretty simple (superimpose some text on a screen capture of a movie scene): Wikipedia defines the MacGuffin as “a plot element that catches the viewers’ attention or drives the plot of a work of fiction.” For this assignment forever change the plot of a movie, tv show, etc. by changing a single line of dialogue. Put this new line of dialogue below a screen-cap of the moment in the [...]

Yahoo apparently brought in a high priced expert consultant to help them plan a rollout of a flickr update cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo shared by WilWheaton First all the change in the layouts, which I admit I like as a design- it forefronts the image. But alas, the change did again break my CC Attribution Helper script. It took a few rounds of XPATH fiddling, but there is a new update available. Yet the flaffle over what the new accounts mean is staggerling clownish. Most everyone I heard form on twitter was as confused as I what these new accounts mean for existing pro users. Most think they are being asked to choose one of the new accounts (you do not). Why would I want to switch to Free? Just because it is free? It suggests I need to do something by August. I’m staying [...]