While educators assemble resource lists, suggestions, Zoom How To lessons, I’m hoping here to provide some small things one might try to do online besides “moving courses.” This idea came to me last night… and it involves maybe one of the favorite things I have built… pechaflickr. I’ll leave it for you to explore… but […]
Monday I saw the #OEWeek tagged tweets and had some wondering about what I might contribute for Open Education Week. So I dusted off and cleaned up an oldie- my collection of Amazing Stories of Serendipity. This was something that goes back to a 2009 presentation at the Open Education conference. The idea was to […]
To every new browser tab opened, is a window to the past, thanks to the Free to Use Browser Extension from the Library of Congress. What it means is that every new tab opened in Chrome comes a public domain photo from the Library of Congress. I don’t think I’ve ever seen the same one […]
Yes, it’s that year end time of inevitable reflections, of dusting off the blog, vows to blog, etc. There’s not de-dusting or vow-making needed here, I can tell in one URL that this blog hoisted 120 posts in 2019 https://cogdogblog.com/2019/ (though admittedly down from 2018, 2017, 2016…). It’s been a far bit of SPLOT blogging […]
While the tech choruses croon on about scale and AI and datadatadata, I prefer the long tail. Looking in the corners of digital stuff I marvel when you find small signs of quirky human presence. Like web messages you only see when you View Source. Or when you google recursion; and this new surprise search […]
I will always make a case for image attribution in online publishing as an act of gratitude first, over following rules of some license. And to put this practice into all my works, not just here in the old dog blog. As an ongoing experiment in “a license is only a minimum statement” a few […]
It’s no secret around about my love and belief in the practice of taking/sharing daily photos. I’m in my 12th year; this is maybe when practice – obsession? The idea too has resonated in DS106 as the Daily Create, at today’s number 2846, you can do some math and find this has gone on non-stop […]
It had been a while since I saw the flickr error screen that meant “oops” something went wrong, the “Bad Bad Panda” message. And its intent worked; while frustrating, the image made me smile. I remember when it looked like Yahoo had shelved the panda. I was pretty sure that it had been part of […]
Go ahead, be a copycat. Down at number 111 of the 2019 Top Tool for learning is a site I use often myself for finding images available for reuse, pixabay. The rank is anything I care about. Among the comments: “Free images, you do not have to attribute, good selection.” Instructional Designer, USA “As with […]
I’ve mentioned it more than once here, but maybe the best thing I have done to put some serendipity wonder into the daily web browsing experience is installing the Library of Congress Free to Use extension. What it does is simple- each time I open a new tab in Chrome, rather than the white screen […]
