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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

Memories, Presenting

memorable / unmemorable

I am humbly honored to have been part of a stellar invited panel for Monday’s Minding The Future event at the University of Mary Washington (I don’t mind it at all BTW). Along with Audrey Watters, Kin Lane (first time meeting, he is a genius), David Wiley, and Gardner Campbell (subbing eminently for Jon Udell, we missed ya Jon), I prepped a 10 minute “FredTalk”

I kept the description vague not to to tip the hat for how I would discuss my topic.

If asked whether they would like to be remembered, almost no one would answer “No”..But multiple choice questions can be trickier than they seem. The education future some are painting for us is a path focused on a destination, reached via an unmemorable journey.

Rather than the normal, plop the slides into Slideshare (well after having to convert Keynote to PDF), I am just embedding them below with the rough notes. I don’t use a script, so the notes are the gist. Or the grist

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A LibraryBox For Nancy

It’s been a while since I touched my StoryBox (c.f. unfinished projects, 1963-2013). I had bought a new router that the PirateBox inside uses, thinking I might use it last Spring, but never got around to it. In the meantime, in getting to talk frequently to Nancy White as we work on the Project Community […]

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Keep on Designing!

I’m overloaded! I can’t keep up in ds106! That does not matter because so many other people are cranking out the design work. But for a recent blog post I got it my head to make a redo of the classic 1970′s image for “Keep on Truckin’” Which turned out rather nicely with maybe 30 […]

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Keep On Reclaimin’ Open Learning

It was truly rewarding last week to travel to Los Angeles and represent with Martha Burtis, the legion of ds106 at the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub Reclaim Open Learning Symposium. We were being recognized as one of five top examples of “organizations that are transforming higher education toward connected and creative learning, open […]

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I Found a Camera in Popcorn

This is my second of makes as a Mozilla Web Maker Fella, my first was the Thimble creating yourself as an ingredients lable. I actually was intending to do another idea in popcorn, and was just checking out an example Brett Gaylor shared to understand how you can embed a set from flickr. I was […]

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Morning Journeys- phonar pre-task

I am not even finding enough time to do some creative work for ds106, so why not try a bit for our partner in anti-MOOCing, the open photography+narrative course at Coventry University — phonar. The pre-task ramp up for the course that starts n October is to document a morning journey- to class, work, whatever. […]