CogBlogged Tagged ‘dailycreate’

Week 3 of ds106 was full of action, from digging out of the rubble that hacker Emre5807 caused to working through the readings of Tim O’Reilly on Web 2.0 and Bryan Alexander on Web storytelling. The flow of activity in The Daily Create has been impressive, especially now that we have our students in the mix. I’m liking the bit of doing a weekly recap, as a way of mini reflection on what one did with these in a week.

Because the new ds106 Daily create is so distributed, and sometime the tags fail to bring content into the main site, I am requiring my students to either blog their efforts as they go (which some are doing), or post a summary at the end of the week. This will not only make it easier for me to track, it will, more importantly, provide them a way to organize all their DCs in one place. I have already created a screencast on how to do this with WordPress Categories but one can also do it with tags. This week is not over, but I wanted to create a demo. On this blog, I am tagging all my posts for this as dailycreate which becomes likable via http://cogdogblog.com/tag/dailycreate The other thing I want them to do is to embed their content in the blog, not link to it or upload it. [...]

The ds106 classes at University of Mary Washington are underway this week- I had my first class last night (with assistance from the Reverend), and I have set up a new blog for ds106 teaching posts (and just to go through same steps I am asking students to do) see http://106tricks.net/. I will next start pulling in those posts using FeedWordPress. Maybe. But I will continue to do my assignments here. My students are charged with doing 3 Daily Create assignments a week, and given this first week’s timing, I am having them do only one before Monday. What is this about? Why do this? Doesn’t this speak for itself: 1 Take Tongue Twister: Below is the tongue twister you will recite. Record a video of you reciting it in one take (honor system of course) and upload it to YouTube with the tag tdc011. Remember: BE CREATIVE! Thanks to [...]

cc licensed (BY) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Yesterday, within a few hours driving, I went from seeing the highest elevation in the lower 48 states, My Whitney (14,505 feet) to standing at the lowest surface elevation, Badwater Basin in Death Valley (-282 feet). These two points are about 100 miles distant on a map, from glacial above tree line alpine to desert (It was not today, but in 1989 that I stood at the top of Whitney How do I measure up to such extremes? Life will tell. This is for today’s ds106 Daily Create – "Merge two photos of contrasting place together" Originals: www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/6713415929/in/photostream www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/6713478105 I stretched the Death Valley to try and align the ridge lines, and the foreground scenes. This trip was necessary for some reasons not needed to blog about, but ended up being just shy of 2000 miles of travel in 6 days- almost [...]