I blame ds106. Three years plus in and out of the open digital storytelling course and my free floating mind goes to visual association. Seeing the Thought Vectors site starting to light up (24 blogs in the mix now, and first wave of students Hello Worlding into the mix) – and I saw a cartoon […]
creative commons licensed ( BY-SA ) flickr photo shared by dvanzuijlekom As a kid my Mom would ask me what present I wanted for the holidays or a birthday. “Present” being so singular, I thought I gamed the system by asking for a “big box full of a whole lot of little toys”. She always […]
The lights are on, flashing, and content is spinning around. On Friday afternoon, Tom Woodward flicked the server lights on a site we have been co-building over the last few days, maybe 2 weeks. We were able to use a staging server on wpengine which meant we had a public facing “coming soon” site, and […]
Tom Woodward and I pressed the liftoff button a few hours ago and set out the Thoughtvectors open course site into the web breeze. We have been making a lot of iconic use of the classic Doug Engelbart photo (circa 1968) where he is making an emphatic point: So.. we not have some fun and […]
creative commons licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by — Slavin More tinkering goes on with the ds106 Assignment Bank as a wordpress theme (watch it change as often as flickr at http://bank.ds106.us), thanks to the work being done by Karen and Brad on a new version for the Making Connected Learning MOOC. Again […]
creative commons licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by Rochelle, just rochelle What are you saying when you are not saying anything? It’s among many complicated things we tend to oversimplify. I missed the incident that spawned #YesAllWomen — One might make akin to Faking Cultural Literacy, but my tea leaves are generated from […]
I’m not quite sure anyone will ever end up using the DS106 Assignment Bank WordPress theme, but that won’t stop me from working on it. My big takeaway from the experience that its one thing to build a site or tool for yourself or someone for a single purpose, but creating something that other people […]
creative commons licensed ( BY-SA ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog As part of my fellowship for the OER Research Hub at the Open University I am sharing these excerpts from conversations about OER use/creation recorded in April 2014 with faculty at the Maricopa Community Colleges. This is the third of the six that should/will […]
creative commons licensed ( BY-SA ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Before reading this, I suggest reviewing Mariana’s newly shared “The psychology of open: On wrestling your inner MOOC”. It was written for a presentation she is doing June 3 at one of the more interestingly titled and themed conferences — The Higher Education Academy […]
Because she shares and gives so much when asked, I took it seriously to respond to Amy Burvall’s request Hey @dkuropatwa @cogdog @Braddo @WickedDecent @honoria @jimgroom would love your input – plz fwd too pic.twitter.com/0FnATNx62P — ?????????? (@amyburvall) May 17, 2014 A video would be me blabbing generalities. Pass. I got the idea a few […]
