Everything that does not have a home, just a big old stinking pile of posts.
I grossly, grandly, and greatly underestimated the development of a WordPress theme for a customizable version of the ds106 assignment bank — I want it to be very flexible, and am finding the creation of the admin screens for configuring it to be more complex than I expected. Jim and I had planned a session […]
It was truly rewarding last week to travel to Los Angeles and represent with Martha Burtis, the legion of ds106 at the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub Reclaim Open Learning Symposium. We were being recognized as one of five top examples of “organizations that are transforming higher education toward connected and creative learning, open […]
Another Mozilla Webmaker make created with Thimble, actually this was just a test version I was trying out to see what kind of advanced interactions Thimble could do since they added Javascript functionality. The idea is to have larger photo with complexity within, and use a virtual “camera” viewfinder to make a series of snapshots […]
This is my second of makes as a Mozilla Web Maker Fella, my first was the Thimble creating yourself as an ingredients lable. I actually was intending to do another idea in popcorn, and was just checking out an example Brett Gaylor shared to understand how you can embed a set from flickr. I was […]
I am not even finding enough time to do some creative work for ds106, so why not try a bit for our partner in anti-MOOCing, the open photography+narrative course at Coventry University — phonar. The pre-task ramp up for the course that starts n October is to document a morning journey- to class, work, whatever. […]
Until this past weekend, my previous travel trip was way back in June. It’s been so nice being home for a long stretch… so much I pinned together a five week travel trip starting Sunday. Remind me to ask myself what I was thinking? This is roughly the plan, i started fiddling with Google maps […]
The first means of communication touched only a small circle of people utilizing their bodies as their tool, these people conveyed their thoughts and emotions through their facial expressions and body movements. But as their thoughts became more complicated they found it difficult to express their feelings just through their bodies. They looked for another mode of communication and they found the word. Through nooks, newspapers and magazines the people now had the ability to share their knowledge with many more. The circle widened.
The people then sought to spread their words with more immediacy. They wanted to reach more people on a shorter amount of time. This brought about the invention of the telegraph and later the telephone.
The people could now touch a friend next door and a friend three thousand miles away in the same amount of time. And the circle widened again.
Today these people use their many tools of communication to create, animate and influence. They use them to educate, inform, and entertain. And the circle keeps widening.
Here at Milford, our circle can be compared to no other. The many tools we use to express ourselves carry us through our stay. Whether it be a morning announcement, a sign of relief at the end of a test or a wink to a passing friend in the halls we can easily relate our ideas and emotions. Through these pages we will examine these tools and capture the moments which make us special and our circle so vast and neverending.
A recent passage from the New York Times? Fast Company? Salon?
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I spent nearly most of my day working to design a label for a can of beans… UPDATE: Nov 25, 2013: Wowzers! I see about 30 different remixes of this project… This was created/published with Mozilla Thimble, my first full go with this web-based tool for working with web page code where you see your […]
cc licensed (BY) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Quite a while ago i was contacted by someone from a company that makes fridge magnets asking permission to use the photos– and today I got my free samples in the mail. I think (need to check) that they have attribution in their catalog (there is none […]
On my trip down to southern Arizona this weekend to visit Karen Fasimpaur, I got a photo of a most unusual multi-colored grasshopper (actually, she spotted it, I just did the photo) cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine I saw more grasshoppers of various sizes, shapes, colors, that weekend, […]
