Yes, in a week, we will be into the first day of the headless ds106 course. I am not teaching anyone. No one is. Or everyone is. We already have 23 headless participants. Over the next few days, I hope to put the weekly announcements in the scheduled post queue, with the plan they will […]
As of Mon, 19 Aug 2013 02:00:11 -0400 10518 Five Card stories have been created on this site from a pool of 13589 tagged photos. I have bot looked at all 10,000+ stories- this site has been humming along, for the most part un-attended for months and back to 2008. In some exchanges a week […]
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by Andrew Taylor I want to toss a big thanks to Ben Rimes for organizing and running the last few weeks the online reading group Book Club 106 with last week’s discussion being the wrap up for Sherry Turkle’s Alone Together. Like Ben and others, the group […]
Look ma, no guilt! cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine This is for of course today’s ds106 Daily Create: Create a pass or certificate that allows you to not complete this Daily Create. My free association mind went to Monopoly Chance and Community Chest cards, which are things well […]
It could be I am just out of coding shape or there is more to this reshaping of the ds106 Assignment Bank than it seems. I’d hedge money on the former, but not for ling. This afternoon was spent doing more inside shuffling and some important theme adjustments. But now at least we have a […]
cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo shared by Zoriah Step right up on August 26, the launch date for the Headless Open Digital Storytelling course from your freaks and friends at ds106. The idea is to create an experience for people who are interested in participating in a digital storytelling open course that […]
Last June I was approached by Justin Reich from Harvard (and newly with EdX) about building a site for the Future of Learning Institute, that is part of Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education- he was looking for the syndication/aggregation features I had created for the ETMOOC site’s blog and twitter hubs. Apparently, their local CMS (iSites) was a bit cumbersome before to use, but it also sounded like they wanted to extend people’s participating in social media (read more from Justin on the needs for the site).
Harvard calling?
Oh yeah. They wanted to be on the Syndication Bus (Magic Bus! Magic Bus!)
Groovy.
Syndication seems to be in the air, given the amazing stuff Mike Caulfied is doing with Water106. There was also I understand today a ds106.tv episode with Jim Groom, Tim Ownes, and the hatted one, Howard Rheingold, going over how syndication bus works with WordPress (drats to Gila County for having me inside all day for jury duty).
I have grand plans here to document how the Future of Learning site was built, and as I pulled through my notes and the theme code, I got depressed as there are a lot of parts, so I hope I cover everything:
A difference for this event from the previous syndication projects I have done is that it was for a shorter time span (a week institute) rather than a course. Since I was brought in to build the site, not be part of the institute, I did not see much directly of how the site was used and presented.
This is one giant ever scrolling post. You have been warned.
Before I took on some coding projects today I was compelled to GIF. I hope someone other than me can explain it to Sandy Jensen Brown (you get a daily create chance for that on August 21). As often, I was motivated by Michael Bransom Smith’s response to something called GIFfight Dark Side Around the […]
There it is an assignment created in the new ds106 Assignment Bank template I am building out- the plan is to create the functionality of the ds106 Assignment Bank as a wordpress theme, that could be customized easily for other types of collections. It is quite far from looking and acting like the ds106 site, […]
I bet I crop 90% of my photos in post editing. Sometimes it is minor, to remove a distracting element on a margin, but often, I feel like I can make a less interesting photo more so by using the crop tool to isolate detail or just frame it better. Should I ever teach a […]
