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MOOCs are The Baby Ruth in the Bushwood Pool of Higher Education
I cannot think of a more fitting MOOC-a-phor. “It’s no Big Deal” reports David Carl Spackler Wiley. DOODIE!
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Google Wakes Up and Smells the Animated GIF
In August I noted the oddity that you could upload animated GIFs to Google Drive but you could not insert them in any documents. A comment on that post had me re-checking, and woah, you can directly upload an animated GIF anyplace you can upload an image, here is a gDoc with two GIFs I […]
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Experiments in Open Courses You Won’t Find in the New York Times, A Cheesy Edudemic Infographic, or Among Davos Champagne Sippers
cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo shared by Johan Rd When will that MOOC[cow] finally hump over the Gartner peak and slide down to its valley of disillusionment? Is it after the last article published the cites the birth of MOOCism to the Stanford AI class? Might there actually be something out […]
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Design a Memorial For Fairuz’s PC
We got some really sad news today, a death in the ds106 family. Motherboard is dead. What am I supposed to do for #ds106 this week!? — Fairuz Maggio (@fairuzmaggio) February 19, 2013 Yes, a computer has died. While Fairuz is in mourning (or shopping), let’s deal with it in the ds106 way — and […]
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Six Words From 1970
Each go around of ds106, one assignment seems to take off in popularity, with no real explanation why. Previously we have seen bursts around Say It Like Peanut Butter, One Story / Four Icons, Splash the Color, and Messing with the MacGuffin. I’m guessing, maybe wrongly, we will see a burst around the Six Word […]
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I Sent This For You to Read [markup, remix, etc]
cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Do not get me wrong, I am rather proud and excited to have my 10 copies of Educause Review that includes my article. The thing is… I don’t know what to do with them. I’ve read my own piece more than enough before publication, […]
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No More Stories From Jack
cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog “Alan hope this finds you well. Jack passed away quietly on Friday, Feb 1, at 7 am.” In one short email message, a doorway sadly closed. Jack was my neighbor here in Strawberry. With the last few years of my traveling and his health […]
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Vacation Lost / Found
Today I helped a friend cart some stuff to the Buckhead Mesa dump, located between Payson and Pine. We were struck by seeing snapshots scattered on the ground at the base of this junk pile, how someone dumped photo memories. Whose photos are they? Why trashed? This one suggests a lost vacation, my first guess […]
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Jamming with Light My Fire
As it happens, I had just finished lighting the fire in MY woodstove, when I clicked over to Alan’s post and listened to his rockin’ version of Light My Fire. I retreated to basement, found the tenor guitar, used the Guitar Toolkit app to find a few chords and a Dorian scale in Am. I […]
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Web Makers / Web Breakers
cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo shared by concretecandy The web is a fabric we weave and wear together or tear apart. Posterous yesterday announced a new feature- the web they wove back in 2008? Thrown away in 2013. To you read URLs? I bet they changed the title of the post from […]