Syndicated, TRU Time
Dealing With the Blog Flow
I’ve been involved with, building sites for and participating in courses/etc that work like the You Show where we syndicate in the work of participants. It’s marvelous. And overwhelming. While […]
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Things done during my stint as an Open Learning Scholar at Thompson Rivers University (Oct 2014 – March 2015)
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I’m Doing it Wrong: The Daily ____
It’s been one of my long term dream plans to make a generalizable WordPress theme approach to the ds106 Daily Create so people (me included) could create news site to run daily challenges. One of the things I wanted to do differently was to make the way people contribute is via twitter, going back to […]
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YAS (Yet Another SPLOT) TRU Collector
Not bad for a couple hours of WordPress gnashing. A new Smallest/Simplest Possible Learning Online Tool. Meet the TRU Collector It’s not all that novel. The idea came from TRU Instructional Designers Kelly Warnock and Melissa Melissa Jakubec who will be doing a workshop next Friday on finding openly licensed images (and we will have […]
Syndicated, TRU Time
The Making of The You Show Episode 1
The You Show has left the gate with our first week of activity, and as usual (well twice in a row), Brian and I return in our dual roles as hosts and back stage techs. In The You Show and … Continued
Photography, Syndicated, TRU Time
A Photo A Day Keeps the Dullness Away
We are rolling out today the You Show’s The Daily – a site that will generate a small creative challenge every day at 8:00am PT. A new one will be […]
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Strap on Your Doggles. The YouShow Engine is Revving Up.
Google Glass is so 2014. Get with the program. Next week begins the second half of my TRU Open Scholar Fellowship with much of the next two months devoted to an eight week open seminar I am doing with Brian Lamb. The throttle is open though I am not sure we checked the Fuel Tank. […]
Blog Pile, TRU Time
363 out of 365 for 2014
I’m planning on skipping the philosophical life’s been good to me so far year end posts, but cannot pass up on my most regular activity since 2008- my daily photo (almost every day) post to flickr. You can get the back story in previous posts, but more or less, after seeing D’Arcy Norman do it […]
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Tweaking TRU Writer / Coding By No Textbook
In some reference of software design, there’s a process where you figure out all the features you might need, plant it all out neatly, build it, and then go into some cycle of testing and debugging. Then you roll it out, tweet it, and … well I don’t really know how it works. In my […]
Blog Pile, TRU Time
Skittering Along The Great Curiosity Engine — to Baker Bill
File this one as another Alan Falls Down A Slender Thread of Web Connections and Wants To Scream “ISN’T THIS AMAZING?” In all the ways the web has become, for those under 25, something that has always been there, and hence not a technology’ it’s not viral big trending stuff or the oft tweeted videos […]
Blog Pile, TRU Time
Randomly() Yours
Do you really know where your next blog post will come from? Mine kind of pop up like… driving down the road with a destination in mind, and an curious road sign appears. How can you not take that turn? Is that critical you get to Palookaville by 4? Mine started with (like many) a […]