When John Pederson (or “Balki Bartokomous”?) launches a softie like this https://twitter.com/ijohnpederson/status/646833331045163008 how can I resist the urge to remix? Not only are the reaction shots brilliant., but the whistler’s facial contortions are priceless. This was about 25 minutes of iMovie twiddling, it’s so easy a cat could do it I downloaded the Amazing Whistling […]
That’s about half the descriptors in the title for a writeup on my latest WordPress/Syndication Hub site that Does Not Act Like a Blog- the Covering the Coverage site, one of the 24 courses that are part of Gardner Campbell et al’s Great VCU Race Bike Book project. I’m pretty stoked for how it is […]
After a glorious almost 8 weeks at home, the bag is packed, I’m ready to go (cue the music) on a madcap tour. The next six weeks is a nutty series of trips by planes, cars, trains for visiting friends, A Great Bike Race Book project, visiting friends, keeping tabs on UdG Agora and Project […]
I blame Google Calendar. Yeah. Sometime last year (?) I started seeing on my GCal the birthdays of other people who I guess are in my G+ circles? Contacts? Who knows with Google/Alphabet/Whatevertheyarecalled now? Stuff just appears. Monday I spotted this in my calendar: Look at that, Thursday is Maha Bali’s birthday. Wow, it would […]
Inventive kid Builds Electronic clock. Takes To School to Share. Administrators Panic. BOMB! Kid Handcuffed by Cops. Rage Breaks Out In Twitter (Facebook frets over button). Our collective cycle of social ignorance/stupidity/racism/ goes sadly through another Lather Rinse (Do Not Learn from Mistakes) cycle. I’m not going to summarize the story of Ahmed, it’s easy […]
All it takes is alarm clocks and coffee. No, alarm clocks, coffee, and a relatively small group of interesting, geographically dispersed people. And some google hangouts. And now a Slack with snarky bots. Last week the geometrically growing Virtually Connecting was set up for several live sessions from participants at the ALT Conference (Association for […]
Just for fun, published to medium… I Can’t Do Much About Internet Spam (But making fun of them makes me feel better) Top / Featured Image Credit: My Photoshop remix of an image spammed at me via twitter. In my book, spammers have no rights at all least of all rights to prevent me from […]
I do not even want to look to find out the last time I officially completed a ds106 assignment (probably last time I taught, Spring 2014). But I was so inspired by Bill Genereux’s new one, A Scene We Didn’t Get To See: Create a short video that shows a scene from your favorite TV […]
We are hearing a lot of feedback from our UDG Agora participants that many of their efforts to have their students use twitter fall short “They don’t like it”, “They won’t go there”, “they prefer Facebook”. I have zero surprise. If you send anyone to twitter for the first time telling them to “make and […]
I’ve used this suggestion a few times to participants in our UdGAgora Project who are trying to figure out what kinds of things they can have their students do, that also produce some artifact that documents their learning. Few things work better to me than having your students have to explain the concept themselves to […]
