Everything that does not have a home, just a big old stinking pile of posts.
You should be confused. Today was a ds106 daily create monstrosity I can take responsibility for, and is one that busts my usual mantra of “things that you can create in 20 minutes”. Today’s assignment: Lipdub a video of yourself in another language talking seriously about crickets. Write the script and record the video. Then […]
For all you reclaimers of the web, that was, or is… I’ve been immersed in the present future as portrayed in the past, 1976 to be precise. I’ve been a bit obsessed with the Paddy Chayefsky’s epic Network, which then was not a connection of people on digital lines, but of the television network. If […]
Yesterday I put up the tombstone for Feed2JS, on its life support after 10 years. But like any good zombie, I just cannot kill it, it rose from the grave, and shall continue to provide free RSS content in your web sites, for FREE! Cartoon Zombie by ~Sabotender Brian Teller, a web developer in Hagerstown […]
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Time keeps on running past me, teasing, “Nyeh nyeh, you are BEHIND on blogging”.
Dirty scumbag, that Time.
Now it is closing in one a month since my 3 week jaunt to parts of Asia, and huge tracts of land remain uncharted. Like anyone is complaining.
Anyhow, the second leg of my tour was a week in Singapore, a first time visit. I have to admit some super geography ignorance. When I knew of the trip invitation to go to Japan, I said, “hey I am in the neighborhood, why not go visit Jabiz Raisdana in Singapore”.
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Long time blog friend, and having met once in Shanghai, I kind of missed the fact that it was more then 3000 miles, a 7 hour flight from Tokyo to Singapore. But I got there (despite some adventures with a late night arrival and a cab driver who could not seem to find the gate to the school).
But next day, I was there in Jabiz’s classroom, a vibrant setting I had only seen in his blog words and flickr photos. A huge thanks of appreciation goes to Jeff Plaman and Caroline Meeks, who really were the ones who coordinated, arranged my trip, and lined me up with a full schedule of sessions at UWCSEA.
The dirt goes in the hole by May 30, 2013 (the end date of softlayer’s billing cycle)… the Feed2JS server will be cancelled on May 28, and the lights go out. For some time, the domain will be pointed at an information site on wordpress.con, and a small “nag” notice is now appended to all […]
A special edition of the ds106 show (the weekly live broadcast all about Digital Storytelling and ds106) takes place Tuesday, April 16 as a keynote session for the 2013 TCC Online Conference. The folks down in the basement have been working feverishly to produce the new promo spot for this sessions: This is pretty much […]
cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by rmelgares The next phase of closing down the Feed2JS service is done (the lights go out on the server by June 2, 2013). In a sort of reclaim effort, I moved the home of the code from Google Code to github. I am extremely […]
Don’t cry! ds106 can help you clean up that hard drive littered with discard media files! cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo shared by confidence, comely. We want your media leftovers from your ds106 projects, stuff you did not use, things that you may have downloaded and left side, stuff maybe you made […]
Just last week, my ds106 students applied Roger Ebert’s How to Read Movies for their weekly assignment. One of my students was first in my network to share the sad news that Ebert passed away today https://twitter.com/mmbutlerr/status/319597819939921920 What a better way to honor his contributions that a ds106 assignment (well there are likely much better […]
Picking up last month’s 3 week tour of Asia, I still not have finished blogging my way out of the first leg, in Yokohama, Japan, which started with 2 days of workshops and stuff at Yokohama International School. The rest of the week here was devoted to the 2013 Flat Classroom Conference, actually the event whose invitation enabled the trip in the first place.
A big huge giant thanks goes to Julie Lindsay, who runs the show; I’ve had some marginal participating over the years, and did a key last year for their online conference. I was jazzed when she asked me to come be a part of this year’s in-person conference.
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There’s a lot to this conference to which a blog post here will likely miss major chunks. There is the conference wiki, the final video projects, a ning, and maybe 15 more parts. It’s global, and flat.
The unique thing about this conference is that teachers attend with students, something you rarely see. There was several teams from Japan, also from CHina, India, and Malaysia, plus more teachers who came on their own from as far away as Mexico. The conference mixes people together rather effectively. Then there is a whole backchannel of participants who join un virtually.
I got to do a bit of what I always enjoy at events, getting action shots of people, mostly when they do not see me taking the photo. If they pose, I genrally don’t snap the shutter…
