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I Am @IAmTalkyTina
I thought I could hold out, but because of reasons I am outlining below, I am admitting right here, as the eternal truth. I invented the character, twtter account, web site named after the Talky Tina doll from the
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Call in The Dog: ds106zone LoDown 024
cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Bruce McKay When the clams and worcestershire get Scottlo too low to do his daily show, well, they can call in the Dog, that is CogDog, to lend a paw (it’s tricky fitting a pencil behind the ears). This is my first run at doing […]
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Shrinkwr-APP-ing the Web
cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by sharyn morrow Will the open connected web as we once knew it be some quaint artifact we will only peer at as we swipe through apps on our mobile devices? Probably not. But still… I was enamored by a nifty technology from Wibbitz that […]
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To Serve Learners (a #ds106zone radio show)
Last week was the third leg of a 3 week cross country trip by train. I was not planning to be part of a ds106 radio show project for the summer 2013 5 week madcap section of ds106 Jim Groom is teaching. But this idea got in my head, in that ds106 way that I […]
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A Most Potent Brew
For no real good reason- this is based on a single photo, duplicated in PhotoShop as layers. In each layer, I selected the glass and applied different settings of the Wave Filter, just to make it seem like a strange world inside my glass. Combining two of my interests into one act. For no good […]
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Forget Glass, Get Ass
Jeez, anyone can wear their google glasses in the shower. The next horizon is below the hips. Get Google Ass. How it Feels What it Does How to Get One
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The Future of Learning is Syndicated (fol2013)
cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Orin Zebest It is not going down the drains, and despite outcries of technologies being dead, syndication based ones are at the heart of what makes the web works. An understanding of how distributed web-based publishing sources can reconfigure and aggregate information in constructive ways […]
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Keychains, Retelling, and Getting to the Heart of Stories
cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine For at least 3 times in the last 5 years I’ve been fortunate to participate in the Baruch College Schwartz Institute Symposium, a rather unique event in bringing together people from both the academic and business communities to share ideas on communication. It […]
Dog on the Rails
Slowing on Down the Road
Last week in Vermont I took a walk down the same country road I drive when I left the area in September. Going at walking speed I was blown over by how much detail and information I missed on the faster pass. And there is some sort of life lesson that a gazillion have written […]
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I Can Read Series: Eye of the Beholder
Making the Twilight Zone approachable for new readers… This is a slight riff from the I Can Read Movies ds106 design assignment, I did not use the templates, but instead mocked it from Biscuit Goes to School I started with the idea of the Janet Tyler character facing the “beautiful” people maybe putting a mirror […]