The ds106 assignment for what comes below is “Return to the Scene of the Crime”: Take a photo from the past that you took in a particular location. Return to that stop, and take another picture, “framing” the original within the current view. The whole premise is to find an old photo, return to the […]
cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by sea turtle MOOCs are a rumbling. For those following them or participating, so called Massive Online Open Courses might feel they are coming of age. I’d bet they are far from the horizons for most educators. I think the most important stuff about MOOCs […]
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog My visit here in Camilla Georgia was exciting enoiugh with yesterday’s tour of the alligator farm, but today topped that easily. Vicki Davis invited me to where much of her magic happens, at Westwood High School. The first hour was spent with the entire school […]
The animated GIF still motivates me. I made two more today from photos that just cried out “GIF me! GIF me!). This first represents the loneliness of the road, it just goes on and on and on and on… I’d notice a large number of these log trucks heading north on US 19, and spotted […]
During my drive into Florida today I caught the last bit of Michael Branson Smith’s great Horror Cast for ds106 and I really enjoyed hearing the voices of his students. I get the sense they have bit off fully on the ds06 experience. The theme was horror stories from the classroom, bad things teacher and […]
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog For about the 90th time on my road trip, I am overwhelmed at the gracious openness that people give me, even when I drop in almost last minute. Two days ago, while I was visiting Cindy Jennings in Spartanburg, South Carolina, I looked ahead to […]
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Number of days on the road: 126 Miles Driven: 11,476 Most Recent 1000 mile marker: 11,000 miles, east of Nashville, TN on October 21 Number of States/Provinces driven in: 22 Number of US/Canadian Border Crossings: 4 Money spent on gas: $3048 Cheapest gas price: $3.08/gallon […]
Here’s my idea for a new ds106 assignment- Sync up a song with an annotated google map, and mix as a video. It is a sideways step from using maps as stories. It’s easy to go literal, find a song that references geographic locations. To create an example, I went for Route 66, especially relevant […]
From Tokyo we are seeing a nice ds106 activity surge in the Haiku It Up writing assignment created by Shinichiro- what is most lovely is how the author has elaborated on the meaning and structure of haiku beyond just the syllable forumala we learn in grade school here in the US. Haiku, known as the […]
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Yes, it is so- this LG Thrive is my (temporary) replacement for my iPhone that lept over a cliff this week. It is a Droid. Frankly the fervent fetishing of this phone over that phone tires me (though I really want the one that starts […]
