Everything that does not have a home, just a big old stinking pile of posts.
Memories of my grandmother and sifting through the fragments I have left of her, led to this story authored at Cowbird (not sure how well it embeds, testing it now…) Update Jan 6, 2013 My sister had a copy of the recipe, thanks Harriet! Look at my little rebel jewish grandmother, making soup with a […]
Guard your time, precious. Physicists and philosophers will carefully explain that time is not a quantity we can possess in any quantities. But we still want to. I have had a long gag reflex to any device or technology which proffers to “save you time.” In workshops i used to say that when you hear […]
cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by laura I can be so clever I… oh forget it. But still, I think this is neat. back in the beginning of my web career I “discovered” something in my first big (and the “big” was never planned, it just happened) web project that […]
cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo shared by Kim’n’Cris Knight
The Headless ds106 Experiment is mostly over, in the never really over way of ds106. I had a great time, we saw a nice wave of new energetic folks come into the fold, and we ended with a big bang of a project that was not even in the plans.
You will most likely never read about this in the New York Times, Slate, Fast Company, The Chronicle of Higher Education, not even the Weekly World News. That’s fine by me.
This post has sprawled far past the reasonable bit size attention span length everyone seem so acknowledge. I planned to close with this, but for TLDR or whatever it is–
Massive online learning in numbers does not interest me at all; what does is massive amounts of creative effort by perhaps a small core of participants and a lovely long tail of activity by a larger number.
Since January 2011 ds106 has been taught at University of Mary Washington (UMW) and other institutions as a course for credit but also has at the same time been open to participants from the web (learn more about ds106). However, for someone new to ds106 as an open participant, it has not been very clear what they can do (we’ve made some suggestions as a starting point).
Because UMW is not offering a formal course for Fall 2013, I had a thought”“ what if we set up a syllabus based on the previous iterations of class, set the weekly assignments as scheduled posts, and invited people to participate in it as a course w/o a teacher?
It was not simply copy old posts and republish… I greatly underestimated what it would take to remove the parts of previous UMW classes that was specific to them, take out wording that says “required”. About halfway in I started trying to add a weekly video, arttcle link, etc as an “inspiration”… sometimes toed to the topic, sometimes just more general.
So we have a complete syllabus of the experience. More on a plan for this later.
extracted from an actual, individually composed comment on my blog… Me: Why hello, it is so nice that you stopped by my blog. cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo shared by LEOL30 BlogSpammer: What you published made a lot of sense. Me: Sometimes I hit the mark. Rarely. BlogSpammer: However, what about […]
When I first came across the reCapctha project, then at Carnegie-Mellon, now a Google owned product, I thought the concept was one of the most clever things ever. Those two scrambled word things you have to type into a box on a web form were there to make it harder for bots to pretend to […]
A photography friend is making a trip to the Salton Sea, and I was trying to remember the name of this odd place I had heard about nearby that was worth recommending. Except I forgot its name. The thing I did remember is that a participant in a workshop I helped with back in 2004 […]
You don’t [usually] pay for an open course. You don’t depend on it for a grade. You have nothing at stake except your own interest in a topic. “Failure” and “dropout” are words without meaningful meaning here. But we cannot help ourselves, Not reaching the finish line is something we apologize for. We measure ourselves […]
This is not my photo, but I have driven past a Mexican restaurant in Payson, AZ that has the same label Does this mean other Mexican restaurants without an “authentic” label are inauthentic? Or am I confused with the Japanese style Mexican food? It just seems funny to me, almost as if the reason to […]
I have no idea how to even blog what culminated today for headless ds106. Maybe it was because what was in the boxes. Trying to write this up sells it short. But one ought to try. This is in lieu of a more comprehensive it-might-be-blogged-one-day-before-the-sun-burns-out post for what has happened the last 15 weeks since […]
