I can never remember any jokes in English much less another language. But a challenge is a challenge, so I have an effort for the ds106 Make ’em Laugh assignment, submitted by my pal Darren Kuropatwa: Find a good, brief joke in a language other than your mother tongue; if you don’t know any other […]
cc licensed (BY) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog I’ve been pretty knocked flat by a cold I picked up on my flight home last Monday, most noticeably not having much energy to do much photography. Having suffered twice in the fall (October in DC, and December after Australia), I am convinced my immune system is […]
And then there were twelve… I have no quibbles with the people The Chronicle of Higher Education highlight as people who are innovators, but the old school notion of top x lists continues to baffle me in the internet age. I can barely resist a chance to poke fun at The Chronicle. IMHO, their sole […]
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog With one final oooooooomph I have freed mysefl of web hosting/strangulation from Dreamhost, to the new free loving set up contrived by Tim Owens, http://hippiehosting.org– and experiment that is bearing fruit for a bunch of new possibilities of making domains of one’s own an even […]
cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by i k o I can’t write a blog post until I wrangle with the headline. I mull that over before I even sit down to write. or that is all I have and I hope an idea flows from there. The title is key […]
Who needs a stinking academy to provide a code challenge? With some basics under the belt (which of course you cannot do without) and google (which usually lands you at Stack Overflow), you can tinker away. Well, I can. Here was a tool I whipped up in about 10 minutes, and then spent about another […]
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog I made this demo for my students to show them Audacity and basic editing for the Sound Effects Story assignment: Tell a story using nothing but sound effects. There can be no verbal communication, only sound effects. Use at least five different sounds that you […]
Long live Don LaFontaine… whose voice appeared in some 5000 movie trailers and 350,000 (? really?) commercials. You know him as soon as you hear him. Well, here is a new ds106 audio assignment for you, Use the Voice, bring The Voice to something around you: Don LaFontaine was legendary for hos deep voiceover intros […]
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by olga.palma The title here has no real reference to anything I talk about, besides me babbling as I talk, walking in to campus on February 14 at the “crack of 10:00am”. The class is consuming me, and at least one person about there is wondering, “Will […]
cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo shared by Bondseye This was from two weeks ago, still catching up on my back(b)log of audio reflections, back in my second week of being here at the University of Mary Washington teaching my section of ds106. I can give you a prelude that the next episodes […]
