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Famous MOOCsters of EDULANDIA
Because Audrey asked… https://twitter.com/audreywatters/status/332892228722765824 Perhaps monstering soon at http://moocthulhu.com/ Look closely into the eye of Cthulhu to see its true intent.
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
Rants
Google Personality Disorder
I might be the last one left still using Google Reader. Why not? Although banished from the menus, it will work through July, 2013. I’m in no hurry to join the Mad Rush To Find The Perfect Reader Replacement That Does Not Exist. But I was surprised when tonight reader announced that a newer version […]
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That Old Maverick
Oh how fond is my memory of that 1973 Ford Maverick I drove out to Arizona from Baltimore, it went to the lowest elevations and up into the White Mountains of eastern California. In 1988 I traded it in when I bought a Chevy S-10 pickup. I think they gave me $300 for Martin the […]
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Contouring Your Way
cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog The direct path from here to that ridge, was a huge loop to the left, and quite a bit of up and down to get there. The view from my back deck looks across the valley to a high ridge, one that looks continuous […]
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Happy Belated Birthday Dad
cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Sorry I missed your birthday yesterday, Dad. I did get my calendar reminder, and woah, you’d be 87. Twenty years ago you were in Phoenix to climb Camelback Mountain for a special day. And the last one we celebrated together for your 75th is […]
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The New Beatrice
If you watched TV in the mid 1980s you should recall the smarmy commercial for some megacorp that apparently owned more food products than you could name (Airstream, Altoids, Avis, Blue Valley, Butterball, Culligan, Ekrich, Good & Plenty, Hunt’s, Jolly Rancher, Krispy Kreme, La Choy, Meadow Gold, Orville Redenbacher, Peter Pan, Playtex, Reddi Wip, Samsonite, […]
ds106 Class Notes and Stuff
106 Things
It was December 2010 that I spotted my first 106 in the wild, since then I have added another 219. Tomorrow is the deadline for final projects from my Spring 2013 UMW ds106 students. A few grades punched in the system later, and I close out my current era of teaching ds106. After being part […]
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New Takes Photo of Old
cc licensed (BY) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Today’s ds106 daily create: "Take a picture of the oldest thing you own, and the newest thing you own" tdc.ds106.us/tdc480/ It might not be the oldest thing I own — I do have some pre-Cambrian granite– but this chess medal bears my grandather’s name "David Gottfried" and […]
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More Stories, Please?
cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by Christian O. Harris On May 15th I am bringing a new round of Amazing True Stories of Openness to the Yavapai College Summer Institute and guess what? I WANT MOTE STORIES! A few people said they would do these last time, and fell short. […]
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MOOC Fiction
I dream of some magic hack that retweets this classic from Audrey Watters every time someone tweets/blogs/farts about MOOCs https://twitter.com/audreywatters/status/314119610851008512 We need more Jules. I am but a weak imitation, but over lunch could not rest (and actually forgot to eat lunch) to spin out some MOOC FiCTION “What does the future of education look […]