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MOOCs are The Baby Ruth in the Bushwood Pool of Higher Education
I cannot think of a more fitting MOOC-a-phor. “It’s no Big Deal” reports David Carl Spackler Wiley. DOODIE!
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Google Wakes Up and Smells the Animated GIF
In August I noted the oddity that you could upload animated GIFs to Google Drive but you could not insert them in any documents. A comment on that post had me re-checking, and woah, you can directly upload an animated GIF anyplace you can upload an image, here is a gDoc with two GIFs I […]
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Design a Memorial For Fairuz’s PC
We got some really sad news today, a death in the ds106 family. Motherboard is dead. What am I supposed to do for #ds106 this week!? — Fairuz Maggio (@fairuzmaggio) February 19, 2013 Yes, a computer has died. While Fairuz is in mourning (or shopping), let’s deal with it in the ds106 way — and […]
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Six Words From 1970
Each go around of ds106, one assignment seems to take off in popularity, with no real explanation why. Previously we have seen bursts around Say It Like Peanut Butter, One Story / Four Icons, Splash the Color, and Messing with the MacGuffin. I’m guessing, maybe wrongly, we will see a burst around the Six Word […]
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I Sent This For You to Read [markup, remix, etc]
cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Do not get me wrong, I am rather proud and excited to have my 10 copies of Educause Review that includes my article. The thing is… I don’t know what to do with them. I’ve read my own piece more than enough before publication, […]
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No More Stories From Jack
cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog “Alan hope this finds you well. Jack passed away quietly on Friday, Feb 1, at 7 am.” In one short email message, a doorway sadly closed. Jack was my neighbor here in Strawberry. With the last few years of my traveling and his health […]
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Vacation Lost / Found
Today I helped a friend cart some stuff to the Buckhead Mesa dump, located between Payson and Pine. We were struck by seeing snapshots scattered on the ground at the base of this junk pile, how someone dumped photo memories. Whose photos are they? Why trashed? This one suggests a lost vacation, my first guess […]
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Natural/Unnatural PhotoGifs
Two more for the GIF pile of ones made not by downloading video clips, but using my own photos– the ds106 assignment is Photo it Like Peanut Butter: Rather than making animated GIFs from movie scenes, for this assignment, generate one a real world object/place by using your own series of photographs as the source […]
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Blitzing Photos the ds106 Way
Part of this this week’s ds106 work on Visual Storytelling is the “photoblitz”. We ran this in the in person sections last year as one way of making the class sessions active; we would give students 4 photo assignments to find examples of within the building our class was in. The idea was just to […]
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That Special ds106 Valentine Moment
Just put the phone away, will ya? cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog This one is for the Valentine’s Day Caption Challenge a rather special one since it was former ds106 student Sara K who sent this out as a challenge last year. It’s only fitting with Valentines Day tomorrow […]