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ds106 Radio Bumper 4 pack

For the second audio assignment this week for our UMW students in ds106, they are asked to get their toes wet in some audio editing by the assignment for creating a bumper for ds106 radio. Just in case you do not know, ds106 is the only online course, massive or not, that has its own […]

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The New T-Shirts Are Here! The New T-Shirts Are Here!

People do get excited when things are delivered… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqqjVyOYmow @timmmmyboy Hard rain falling here. Got my #ds106 shirt yesterday. THANK YOU @jimgroom What about the socks? 🙂 — Ben (@BenjaminHarwood) September 18, 2012 @jimgroom Received my #ds106 t-shirt yesterday. Yay! Thank you! 🙂 — linda3dots (@linda3dots) September 12, 2012 #ds106 tshirt! Yay! — David Kernohan […]

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You Never Forget Your First PirateBox

Yesterday I successfully built my first solo PirateBox, the anonymous, free local sharing platform created by David Darts


cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog

My first one, the StoryBox I traveled with last year, was built for my by Zack Dowell. Last Spring, Tim Owens and I each did one at DTLT; I had a wee bit of router help from Tim.

Now I am a big boy. I did my own. The platform has evolved a lot- the original one had a dockstar router and an ASUS wireless transmitted:


cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog

The new install uses a smaller, cheaper all in one router, that is TINY, the TP-LINK, and the parts for this come in at under $35 (unless you add a battery pack).

I am building this as part of an activity idea brainstormed with Scott Leslie to put in place next month at the Open Education 2012 conference in Vancouver most likely part of the Remixathon, but we have some other ideas going. For Jason Toal’s sake, I am hoping we can do something as well to collect audio for his DJ action.

But that comes after the putting together…

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Balloon Boys

While waiting for Michael Branson Smith’s video stream to start, I played with that groovy photo on his splash screen: Why can’t Matt hang on to his balloon? And what is MBS glancing at? A story ro be told… Done by some layering, clone brushing, and pixel painting eyeballs in Photoshop

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Freedom in Five Photos

In prep for doing next week’s introduction to storytelling for my ds106 class, yesterday’s sequence of events compelled me to try the Tell a Story in Five Frames flickr group, making a story titled “Freed” This are an interesting challenge, it is easy perhaps to illustrate a series of events. The trick to level up […]

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Things I’m not Doing

* starting or finishing a PhD * running a marathon, half marathon, quarter marathon, one eleventh marathon * watching tv * reading newspapers * giving a crap about MOOCs LOOCs., POOCS, * Eating beets * drinking Bud, Bud Light, Coord, or Coors Lite * baking cakes * filling out those little subscription cards that come […]