Syndicated, TRU Folio, TRU Time
Reversing Course Again, Doing it Dudley Right
In a post on my approach to building The Daily site am not thinking I was wrong about being wrong… does that make me right? And in a process of […]
CogDog The Blog
An early 90s builder of web stuff and blogging Alan Levine barks at CogDogBlog.com on web storytelling (#ds106 #4life), photography, bending WordPress, and serendipity in the infinite internet river. He thinks it's weird to write about himself in the third person. And he is 100% into the Fediverse (or tells himself so) Tooting as @cogdog@cosocial.ca
Blog Pile
Birthdays Without Brothers
In some alternate universe, this past Tuesday I was visiting my brother to celebrate his 62nd birthday. I am likely teasing him for being so old. This is just my imagination wandering. David never made it to his 36th circuit around the sun, and mentally, I was told his brain might have made two laps. […]
Syndicated, TRU Time
The Making of the You Show: Episode 2
In the video that introduces Unit 2 we emphasize the topics covered that week, especially the use of photographs. As part of the evolving opening credits, the design went photographic, with the title just in text (using iMovie animated text) … Continued
Syndicated, TRU Time
Dealing With the Blog Flow
I’ve been involved with, building sites for and participating in courses/etc that work like the You Show where we syndicate in the work of participants. It’s marvelous. And overwhelming. While […]
TRU Time
I’m Doing it Wrong: The Daily ____
It’s been one of my long term dream plans to make a generalizable WordPress theme approach to the ds106 Daily Create so people (me included) could create news site to run daily challenges. One of the things I wanted to do differently was to make the way people contribute is via twitter, going back to […]
TRU Time
YAS (Yet Another SPLOT) TRU Collector
Not bad for a couple hours of WordPress gnashing. A new Smallest/Simplest Possible Learning Online Tool. Meet the TRU Collector It’s not all that novel. The idea came from TRU Instructional Designers Kelly Warnock and Melissa Melissa Jakubec who will be doing a workshop next Friday on finding openly licensed images (and we will have […]
Syndicated, TRU Time
The Making of The You Show Episode 1
The You Show has left the gate with our first week of activity, and as usual (well twice in a row), Brian and I return in our dual roles as hosts and back stage techs. In The You Show and … Continued
Photography, Syndicated, TRU Time
A Photo A Day Keeps the Dullness Away
We are rolling out today the You Show’s The Daily – a site that will generate a small creative challenge every day at 8:00am PT. A new one will be […]
Presenting
DS106 in the MLA China Shop
List crossing. Attending (and presented) yesterday at the Modern Language Association Conference here in Vancouver. I mingled with more rhetoricians then I usually do. I got to meet Sean Michael Morris and Jesse Strommel of Hybrid Pedagogy fame. My session yesterday was part of a panel on Visionary Pedagogies for the Twenty-First Century: Teaching the […]
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Finding The Lost Deaddrop
Two and a half years ago at the 2012 Northern Voice Conference, Giulia Forsythe, Zack Dowell, and I took our presentation into an alley behind the W venue. In the rain, we cemented a USB thumb drive (which the participants had added files via a Piratebox before we went outside) into the crevice of a […]