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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

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After All These Years: THIS

Twas maybe 1994 and I went to some eLearning conference in Anaheim, probably a Masie event. I was so green (ahem like hardly even qualified to be hired) in my new role as an instructional technologist at the Maricopa Community Colleges. What did I know from conferences? But I was horrified. Having traveled from home, […]

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Kirk vs Barney

“Internet: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship ds106. Its multi-year mission: to explore strange new remixes; to seek out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where no digital story has gone before…” But can the crew of the Enterprise survive something worse than the Klingons, Romulans, and Khan combined? […]

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Googly Eyed GIFs

It has nothing to do with the Mothership Google, but Googley Eyes are useful for sock puppets. Via the Firehose of Links Known as Alec Courous, I found myself diverted "Add googly eyes to a GIF" http://t.co/76z5EKhIoX — Dr. Alec Couros (@courosa) November 18, 2013 I find Googlify is a sophisticated technological tool (free of […]

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Pivot MOOC

With all the buzz about the Grand MOOC Pivot of Saint Sebastian that word could not help but transport me back to my 1970s youth and the classic game of Pivot Pool (I had this game, but to date, have never had a real pool table). cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared […]

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65 Pencils

cc licensed (BY) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog A drawing for today’s ds106 daily create: Repeat TDC613! Draw something that represents the TDC idea of regular exercises of creativity. We asked a few weeks ago for some images to represent this idea and they now appear as random ones on the front of the Daily […]