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The Blog Reader I Miss the Most

creative commons licensed ( BY-SA ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Happy 86th Birthday, Dad, another one you missed. And how I miss you in this world. Actually the last one you had was your 75th. And we all knew it was the last. Because of that, I was there to watch him eat cake […]

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We’re On a Mission of Open

This was the academic theme for today’s presentation at OER14 in Newcastle, UK by Rochelle Lockridge, Mariana Funes, and moi, “A DS106 thing happened on the way to the 3M Tech Forum“: DS106 (http://ds106.us/) is a computer science course in Digital Storytelling at the University of Mary Washington (UMW), framed on principles of the web […]

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When You Set the Bar As High as “Easy”…

The other day a colleague asked my thoughts on a system (yes open source) that makes it “easy” for faculty to create profile pages. Scanning the examples, I found relatively clean pages driven by web forms, standard portrait photos. But it felt as lively as a rental neighborhood that looks like creative commons licensed ( […]

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Eleven in Blog Years

creative commons licensed ( BY-NC-SA ) flickr photo shared by chrisinplymouth Yikes, I missed my own blog birthday yesterday. This pile of typos, rants, and code jabbering started on April 19, 2003 with I Blog, Therefor I Am. This first post, which also defines the source of the name of this space, was posted using […]

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Remembering Sherman Lake

With what seems like 95% of the comments that squiggle through Akismet to the moderation queue still spammy, it seems almost like your first blog comment when a legitimate one comes through (as most online conversations slither down the vat of twitter/facebook/google+ spaces). I got that today when Mark left a note of an experience […]

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When Worlds Collide (2014)

See the movie synopsis in the article in FakiPedia When Worlds Collide is a 2014 OER14 presentation based on the Fall 2014 headless ds106, co-presented by Rochelle Lockridge, Mariana Funes, and Alan Levine. The presentation was created in Keynote, and the animated GIFs tricked out by Rochelle and perhaps the paper may be published in […]