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A Parsnip’s Wild Philosophy

Submitted for no one’s approaval, another design example for the ds106 Minimalize Your Philosophy assignment: Pick your favorite quote OR make up your own phrase which describes a philosophy that you try to live by. It can be about love, friendship, family, education, culture, health, charity, etc. Design a minimalist poster depicting the concept. Extra […]

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Growth Growth

It was time tonight to do some ds106 design assignment, this time a Triple Troll Quote. the classic ds106 assignment game of mixup and mis-attribution: Find an image of a well known figure, add to it a famous quote by someone related in some way to the figure in the image and then attribute the […]

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phonar meet ds106

One the about 3,000 exciting things going on with ds106 has been the connecting with the open photography course, phonar from Coventray University in the UK- I am fairly certain we can thank David Kernohan for connecting us to Jonatan Worth et al. I’d written some about it this past July Impressive MOOCs You Never […]

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Card Carrying Utopian

modified from graphic generated at http://namegenerator.in/arizona WHat’s in your wallet? I’ve spent a few days reflecting, rehashing, or maybe just recycling something that happened last week. It’s given me some pause, yet given that my position is to use my blog as a place to work out ideas, I;m walking the dog. (My new motto […]

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Last Dog

Friday was 9 years since I owned a dog, making this her named blog a tad hypocritical. Friday marked the day I had Mickey put down, and maybe have never full resolved how such a sweetheart of a dog to people turned out to be violently agressive to other dogs. Or what that said about […]

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We Found Your Camera On The Train

One of my favorite all time web-based stories (I credit Bryan Alexander for introducing me to this) is I Found a Camera in the Woods. originally posted to a discussion board, it reveals exactly what the title says- including a series of photos on the found camera that sequentially play out a story in images, […]

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GNA Es Verdad

Here is GNA taking off from Toronto in her not too shabby ride for getting to Phoenix: Follow her travel at http://gypsyroguescholar.tumblr.com/ and of course, on twitter Back in the U S of A! — GNA Garcia (@DrGarcia) September 25, 2012 Welcome to INDIANA?!! What the crap? I took a wrong turn somewhere. The vortex […]

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We Don’t Pay For MOOCs

Thanks to Scott Leslie, I got inspired to remix a movie scene… We don't pay moocs http://t.co/U2IVpH45 — Scott Leslie (@sleslie) September 24, 2012 With a little iMovie audio overdub, here is a more relevant statement for what happens when you come into the ds106 bar with swaggering talK ’bout MOOCs. Fists are gonna fly. […]