Of all the creative assignments from DS106 (of which there are more than 730, that is so un-massive) maybe my favorites are the re-edits of movie posters. If any institution ever wanted a class taught in remixing old movie posters… well contact me, ok? I can talk about the many layers of these creative tasks, […]
creative commons licensed ( BY-NC-SA ) flickr photo shared by Kol Tregaskes In my travels around the US, Canada, as well as the UK, New Zealand, and Australia I bet I have visited and stayed in the homes of at least 100 people whom I have first gotten to know online. I’ve written recently of […]
creative commons licensed ( BY-NC-ND ) flickr photo shared by ·S That thing about sensing good light also applies to links. And the people who are linking them. Sometimes, you just get a good intuition. Wiki ShootMe looks like a fun way to add to Wikimedia Commons https://t.co/3N5RRB6vc8 #ccourses via @sjgknight — Martin Hawksey (@mhawksey) […]
Mostly this blog has no trouble squirting out quarter-baked thoughts; this one has been more… constipated. Same result. Here goes. In which this is my grand stupid theory of how we as single human almost interact with complex systems, like the internet. Lots of people are worrying over it’s climate as it gets less rainbowious […]
creative commons licensed ( BY-ND ) flickr photo shared by Tupfenmonster Absolutely worth it, despite crashing asleep in my chair at 2pm. Today was showtime for final project presentations by students at a course at the Hague University of Applied Sciences… the third year I have had the opportunity to be part of Project Community. […]
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creative commons licensed ( BY-NC-ND ) flickr photo shared by kennysarmy Batted around last week via email amongst my new TRU colleagues was the idea of perhaps hosting a Kamloops based WordCamp in early 2015. I definitely like the idea, but tossed in that I’d like to see something less conference-y. For a music analogy, […]
Right there is a test of new flavor of my flickr cc attribution helper where it generates copy/paste code to put the image in a wordpress post, but place the attribution text in a WordPress image caption structure. This is the default output using the regular version of the helper, but in making a new […]
Stuff goes wrong, what do you do? Wait for the gong or just keep the patter going? Last Thursday I was slated to do a half hour session for Thom Cochrane (Auckland University of Technology) who is leading a multi-institutional New Zealand project on mobile learning. He asked me to do a 10 minute mini […]
There’s much technically about the photo that could be better, especially the focus, and maybe a tad of a bigger number (smaller hole) aperture to the depth of field not quite the shadow. But the joy was capturing this while perched on a chair, holding the camera up over the gutter, and blind aiming down […]
