21 Posts from May 2014

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On The Cover

Material for an eventual True Story of Open Sharing, my photo is on the cover of Beautiful Wreck a novel by Larissa Brown. In a bleak future built on virtual reality, Ginn is a romantic who yearns for something real. She designs environments for people who play at being Vikings. But when her project goes […]

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Whomever is Responsible…

creative commons licensed ( BY-NC-SA ) flickr photo shared by bigcityal … for planning my schedule shall be fired. What was I thinking? I returned home from London after two weeks in the UK attending the OER14 conference and a visit to the Open University (plus a nice weekend in Bristol With David Kernohan and […]

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Mesh Networks of People

In a meeting/chat this morning with Beck Pitt about her work here at the OER Research Hub, I mumbled something how these kinds of informal conversations with people and their projects more often then not ends up generating unexpected connections down the line. I see these brief meetups this week as more like potential nodes […]

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This is How I Take on Flickr

creative commons licensed ( BY-NC ) flickr photo shared by tramani_sagrens No crying (well except for twitter complaining). No giving up in despair. Stay in the fight. Yesterday I got an email from Sandy Jensen Brown Jensen Brown- she is good at letting me know something is amiss with the ds106 Daily Create. Usually the […]

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Twitter is a Crappy RSS Reader Replacement

This was not necessarily the point of what Gardener Campbell pulled out of an article about the perhaps sliding value of twitter as a business (Twitter is dead!) The Twitter paradox: the pros & cons of being free http://t.co/QGctQFqvnF > "Twitter functions as a human-mediated RSS feed" #thoughtvectors — Gardner Campbell (@GardnerCampbell) May 6, 2014 […]

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MOOCopoly: The Game

I typically tell people the ds106 Daily Create is something that should take less than 20 minutes per day, hence today I spent maybe 2.5 hours on mine. It’s not a rule, it’s a choice. Today’s one was special though. I am visiting David Kernohan and Vivien Rolfe in Bristol, and David’s son Ben is […]