Everything that does not have a home, just a big old stinking pile of posts.
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.
cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog
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…
What is going on here at CogDOGBlog, taking the side of the cat? But you see, the way I saw this video, the poor cat was just trying o sleep at that Lil Tramp kept messing him up: This is an example for my ds106 students of this week’s video assignment. Here’s the deal- in […]
cc licensed (BY) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Before I could listen to the old school turntable I got shipped by Jason in Vancouver (and it came to him via Grant Potter) I needed to get some audio equipment, namely an amp with phono inputs and some new speakers. Gardner Campbell gave me the ultimate […]
cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo shared by Bert Werk Cut to the chase- unless something drops from the sky, the lights on my RSS feed service Feed2JS will turn off by June 1, 2013. Between now and then I will get the word out, attach a small alert on feeds fed, offering […]
cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo shared by volperic Late night fiddling, don’t ask why– I was doing my photo editing and saw nothing on #ds106 radio, so set out to play somethimg from iTunes. For some reason, Nicecast no longer allows me to select an application as a source (Maybe because […]
cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog
I’m back almost a week from an incredible and intense and fantastic three week trip to Japan, Singapore, and Hong Kong — all pretty much enabled by network connections among nice people.
So much happened I had to make a spreadsheet to help me organize the sessions I did at least 30 workshops, presentations, consultations, and class visits. Beyond the snafus of US Failways on the trip over, catching and somehow warding off the Cog Dog Cough Wog in week 1, keeping tabs on my ds106 class– the blogging fell off the table.
I’m not sure I am ready to be the Roving Presentation Dude. I’m worn flat.
A number of sessions were re-purposed, but never carbon copies, and most of them evolved along the way- many variations of Web Storytelling sessions from 20 minutes to 3 hour workshops, morphing into one on Elements of Storytelling (what works), the tools stuff (50 Ways, Five Card Flickr Stories, pechaflickr, ds106); another one where the code name was “The Web is a Groovy Place” with flavors to include the True Stories of Openness or the value of Sharing in a Networked Environment; a new one on visual metaphors and strategies for finding photos, and a string of brand new workshops / class activities.
For a fresh change of environment, I did more stuff with k-12 on this trip than usual, everything from doing a storytelling activity with 2nd graders to a 6th grade math activity to discussing internet culture with 10th graders, not to mention the interaction with the 130+ international students and teachers who were part of the Flat Classroom Conference.
I’m bringing ds106 to the 2013 TCC Online Conference (the 18th Annual “Technology, Colleges and Community” Online Conference). This keynote session (look at my along side Terry Anderson, I cannot wait for some of his trademark jokes) is listed as Dim the Lights: The ds106 Show. My original thought was to build a presentation metaphor […]
I could not pass up this tweet https://twitter.com/scottlo/status/317153027092013056 to customize the box of oats I cannot get enough of these. Dig the Saudo kilt on that dude.
Something to unclog the CogDogBlog Blog Clog… both of these were made on the long trip back from Hong Kong. I wish I had talked more to the guy who makes the naan at United World College East Campus in Singapore, or at least, gotten his name. Every day, blissfully, he whipped together these luscious […]
