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Highs and Lows of Technical Problem Solving
There is little like the satisfaction, no that is to tame a word, the exhilaration of solving a problem that you had never addressed before, or thought you could not […]
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The Making of You Show Episode 3
If you thought our series of videos was a bit strange, this one goes way off the rails and down the canyon, into another dimension. Maybe. Episode 3 introduces our Unit on Visual Design. In the video, hosts Brian and … Continued
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On Theme Shopping
“What’s the best theme for my WordPress site?” Is there a equivalent to the “Best Camera is the one in your hand” assertion? Probably not. In our work on The […]
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Building a Portfolio By Not Trying to Build a Portfolio
Doth I blog in riddle? I doth do. Any assertion made here is a squishy subjective question. But I’ve been coming to grips with this in the first weeks of […]
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Reversing Course Again, Doing it Dudley Right
In a post on my approach to building The Daily site am not thinking I was wrong about being wrong… does that make me right? And in a process of […]
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Birthdays Without Brothers
In some alternate universe, this past Tuesday I was visiting my brother to celebrate his 62nd birthday. I am likely teasing him for being so old. This is just my imagination wandering. David never made it to his 36th circuit around the sun, and mentally, I was told his brain might have made two laps. […]
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The Making of the You Show: Episode 2
In the video that introduces Unit 2 we emphasize the topics covered that week, especially the use of photographs. As part of the evolving opening credits, the design went photographic, with the title just in text (using iMovie animated text) … Continued
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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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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 […]