If you watched TV in the mid 1980s you should recall the smarmy commercial for some megacorp that apparently owned more food products than you could name (Airstream, Altoids, Avis, Blue Valley, Butterball, Culligan, Ekrich, Good & Plenty, Hunt’s, Jolly Rancher, Krispy Kreme, La Choy, Meadow Gold, Orville Redenbacher, Peter Pan, Playtex, Reddi Wip, Samsonite, […]
It was December 2010 that I spotted my first 106 in the wild, since then I have added another 219. Tomorrow is the deadline for final projects from my Spring 2013 UMW ds106 students. A few grades punched in the system later, and I close out my current era of teaching ds106. After being part […]
cc licensed (BY) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Today’s ds106 daily create: "Take a picture of the oldest thing you own, and the newest thing you own" tdc.ds106.us/tdc480/ It might not be the oldest thing I own — I do have some pre-Cambrian granite– but this chess medal bears my grandather’s name "David Gottfried" and […]
cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by Christian O. Harris On May 15th I am bringing a new round of Amazing True Stories of Openness to the Yavapai College Summer Institute and guess what? I WANT MOTE STORIES! A few people said they would do these last time, and fell short. […]
I dream of some magic hack that retweets this classic from Audrey Watters every time someone tweets/blogs/farts about MOOCs https://twitter.com/audreywatters/status/314119610851008512 We need more Jules. I am but a weak imitation, but over lunch could not rest (and actually forgot to eat lunch) to spin out some MOOC FiCTION “What does the future of education look […]
cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Do you see those faces? That’s what a two hour dive into ds106 can do for you. At least that is what a group of faculty found out Friday at Wagner College a lovely campus on a hill at the tip of Staten Island. […]
cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo shared by Tojosan Long ago when I was working at Maricopa, I called our computer repair department to fix some issue with an Apple computer. I was a bit incredulous when Bill the Repair technician opened the case, and whacked the hard drive with his screwdriver, […]
Yesterday was week 14 for ds106, the last week of classes for my UMW students, and also the last of my semi regular live Google Hangouts pitched as a weekly “show”. Thanks to Brian Lamb, Todd Conaway, and stalwart student Nancy B for showing up. The whole series is right here! The viewership on the […]
cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by nicola.albertini Thinking back on the 10 year mark of this blog, I’ve noticed the decades for years ending on “3” have been pivotal for me stumbling into some good things, in the usual unexpected ways. So I am due. Oh, I am supposed to […]
I was born in Dixie in a boomer’s shack Just a little shanty by the railroad track Freight train was it taught me how to cry The holler of the driver was my lullaby I snapped a series of photos of this freight train going by out on the Santa Fe tracks behind La Posada […]
