cc licensed (BY) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Today’s Daily Create is to draw an abstract image of an animal tdc.ds106.us/tdc263/ (most cool since it was submitted this week by one of my students). My idea was to see if I could draw a version of my friend’s Beagle,Annie, in a new style. The dog […]
I’ve written or tweeted or just mumbled in my sleep incoherently before about the power of ds106 in challenging our students, of making some things hard to do, or not so cookie cutter 1-2-3 recipe step. This came to my clearly from our 4th week unit on Introduction to Audio. Part of this was introducing […]
cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo shared by blentley When I taught ds106 last Spring at University of Mary Washington, one of the effective in class activities Jim Groom and I came up with was giving the students what we called “rapid design challenges” – just quick activities that pressured them to create […]
Yes there was some trouble on the ds106 web site Sunday night, right about 30 minutes before all weekly assignments were due. Hmmm is there some correlation? Some students got a little worried http://twitter.com/Twerkooo/status/250068227814744064 @RudyXtable the #ds106 website isn't loading for me at all! -_- — Kiersten Pyrtle (@KierstenPyrtle) September 24, 2012 @cogdog no link […]
Here is GNA taking off from Toronto in her not too shabby ride for getting to Phoenix: Follow her travel at http://gypsyroguescholar.tumblr.com/ and of course, on twitter Back in the U S of A! — GNA Garcia (@DrGarcia) September 25, 2012 Welcome to INDIANA?!! What the crap? I took a wrong turn somewhere. The vortex […]
Thanks to Scott Leslie, I got inspired to remix a movie scene… We don't pay moocs http://t.co/U2IVpH45 — Scott Leslie (@sleslie) September 24, 2012 With a little iMovie audio overdub, here is a more relevant statement for what happens when you come into the ds106 bar with swaggering talK ’bout MOOCs. Fists are gonna fly. […]
(or if you are not linking the web you are just squatting on it) cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by mccun934 I’m part of a session at next month’s Open Education Conference on Analyzing and supporting interaction in complex scenarios: the case of DS106 thatb was suggested by Julià Minguillón and also […]
It must be bluntly obvious that I am infected with ds106 (for readers lacking exposure to the virus or the ability to reach for The Google, ds106 is the open Digital Storytelling course now in its second year of evolution, spreading out of the University of Mary Washington. With MOOC Hysteria continuing an epic rage […]
For the second audio assignment this week for our UMW students in ds106, they are asked to get their toes wet in some audio editing by the assignment for creating a bumper for ds106 radio. Just in case you do not know, ds106 is the only online course, massive or not, that has its own […]
cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by caterpiya In the spirit of Doing the Work We Assign Our ds106 Students, I just made my own Sound Effect Story– the assignment as stated: Tell a story using nothing but sound effects. There can be no verbal communication, only sound effects. Use at […]
