Everything that does not have a home, just a big old stinking pile of posts.
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by Andrew Taylor I want to toss a big thanks to Ben Rimes for organizing and running the last few weeks the online reading group Book Club 106 with last week’s discussion being the wrap up for Sherry Turkle’s Alone Together. Like Ben and others, the group […]
Look ma, no guilt! cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine This is for of course today’s ds106 Daily Create: Create a pass or certificate that allows you to not complete this Daily Create. My free association mind went to Monopoly Chance and Community Chest cards, which are things well […]
It could be I am just out of coding shape or there is more to this reshaping of the ds106 Assignment Bank than it seems. I’d hedge money on the former, but not for ling. This afternoon was spent doing more inside shuffling and some important theme adjustments. But now at least we have a […]
Last June I was approached by Justin Reich from Harvard (and newly with EdX) about building a site for the Future of Learning Institute, that is part of Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education- he was looking for the syndication/aggregation features I had created for the ETMOOC site’s blog and twitter hubs. Apparently, their local CMS (iSites) was a bit cumbersome before to use, but it also sounded like they wanted to extend people’s participating in social media (read more from Justin on the needs for the site).
Harvard calling?
Oh yeah. They wanted to be on the Syndication Bus (Magic Bus! Magic Bus!)
Groovy.
Syndication seems to be in the air, given the amazing stuff Mike Caulfied is doing with Water106. There was also I understand today a ds106.tv episode with Jim Groom, Tim Ownes, and the hatted one, Howard Rheingold, going over how syndication bus works with WordPress (drats to Gila County for having me inside all day for jury duty).
I have grand plans here to document how the Future of Learning site was built, and as I pulled through my notes and the theme code, I got depressed as there are a lot of parts, so I hope I cover everything:
A difference for this event from the previous syndication projects I have done is that it was for a shorter time span (a week institute) rather than a course. Since I was brought in to build the site, not be part of the institute, I did not see much directly of how the site was used and presented.
This is one giant ever scrolling post. You have been warned.
Before I took on some coding projects today I was compelled to GIF. I hope someone other than me can explain it to Sandy Jensen Brown (you get a daily create chance for that on August 21). As often, I was motivated by Michael Bransom Smith’s response to something called GIFfight Dark Side Around the […]
There it is an assignment created in the new ds106 Assignment Bank template I am building out- the plan is to create the functionality of the ds106 Assignment Bank as a wordpress theme, that could be customized easily for other types of collections. It is quite far from looking and acting like the ds106 site, […]
Once again in the YouDontSeeThisInAMOOC category, long time open participant Melanie Barker gives is a fantastic promo GIF for the Headless ds106 that starts August 26: DS106 makes sense. Running with bulls does not. But running with bulls is exactly what’s going to be happening near Richmond August 24th. Fools. If you visit Melanie’s blog, […]
Just to be clear… My title is misleading- there are elements of the ds106 site we are going to be making available soon in a format for you to open, paint, fill, decorate, install on your own site. I worry more about the “in a box mindset” cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo […]
cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine I am going to assume the answer is “yes” “EFF YEAH I AM #4FLIFE” We still have some server quirks to try and figure out, like getting live stream meta data to display, and some indication of when a live broadcast is going […]
It’s time to get all wide-eyed and get started on my August project- to recast the ds106 Assignment Bank into a wordpress theme that would have the functionality built into it for people to create other kinds of sites with the same features. The first step was to create the development site, which shall remain […]
