Syndicated
A Bit of Rodeo Clowning on First High Noon Radio Show
Today, at high noon my time, was the first High Noon Radio Show on DS106 radio.
Blog Pile
It’s an Ecstasy of a Bag of Gold
At this time almost five years ago, the first open DS106 was launching. One of the early readings then was Gardner Campbell’s seminal A Personal Cyberinfrastructue (the fuel of the idea that became Domain of One’s Own) along with a suggestion to watch Gardner’s 2009 OpenEd talk No Digital Facelifts: Thinking the Unthinkable About Open […]
Blog Pile
Dad’s Mighty Little Hammer
That toy hammer in the photo above belonged to my Dad. It’s handle is worn wood, and the tiny hammer is corroded metal (metal toys are long passé). I question my own memory; I seem to have this story that he gave it to me when I was young. That’s possible. But a competing memory […]
Syndicated
Introducin’ Western106 High Noon Ray-Dee-Oh Hour
With western106 blastin’ out of the gate like a wild bucking bronco we’re gonna spring something else on ya that starts this week.
Ray-dee-oh.
Sure radio did not exist until the very late or even past …
Barking Dog, Photography, Syndicated
One Frozen Pine Needle
This week’s major winter storm of almost 2 feet of snow is not unusual for where I live in northern Arizona.. except it has not happened in a few years. This photo was taken on the first clear day after the 4 days of heavy clouds, and the light under the blue sky was brilliant. […]
Syndicated
Western106 Opens With Blog Riding Camp
Tomorrow (or maybe today in some parts of the world, ok January 11), is the first day of our rodeo for Western 106. What are you in for? Well let me tell ya…
Blog Pile
An Unexpected Affirmation for Why I Teach
Serendipity would have no magic if it did not sneak up on you and lovingly whack you on the side of your normality. On a beautiful Saturday when I ought to be outside playing in the fresh snow, I am instead pounding away at this #%$*@ keyboard working on web sites. Finally, after getting a […]
Rants
On Medium a Title is Often the Entire Story
To totally mangle McLuhan is medium.com the message? Does it control the message? What is the message? I will unfairly pick on one story in my assertion that for a lot of what people publish on medium- the entire arc of the story is contained within a click bait title. And this has a lot […]
Syndicated
Corralling and TAG Branding #Western106 Tweets
Me: Holy frijole! (slaps head)
I’ve been yawing and yammering out in Twitter Land with the #western106 hashtag and plum forgot to set up a corral collectin’ pen with the Twitter TAGS Tool by
Syndicated
Apparently A Man Without A Map for #Western106
There shure is plenty of whooping it up out there in the riding pen, with all these folks coming in with all shiny intentions of doing Western106 with this outfit.
Lots of that action is …