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Freedom in Five Photos

In prep for doing next week’s introduction to storytelling for my ds106 class, yesterday’s sequence of events compelled me to try the Tell a Story in Five Frames flickr group, making a story titled “Freed” This are an interesting challenge, it is easy perhaps to illustrate a series of events. The trick to level up […]

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Things I’m not Doing

* starting or finishing a PhD * running a marathon, half marathon, quarter marathon, one eleventh marathon * watching tv * reading newspapers * giving a crap about MOOCs LOOCs., POOCS, * Eating beets * drinking Bud, Bud Light, Coord, or Coors Lite * baking cakes * filling out those little subscription cards that come […]

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Gotta Know When To Walk

This is supposed to be an introductory blog post for the Program for Online Teaching Certificate Class. Hello/Goodbye it is– while it’s a bit early to jump over the fence (I did rad the first chapter of the book), but I am finding it’s not the experience I need. I’m on course in my usual […]

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Nice Doggy

This is the second week of bootcamp for our online ds106 classes at University of Mary Washington; and one of the assignments this week is a challenge. We asked out students to create an animated GIF in response to the Say it Like Peanut Butter assignment— and purposely did not provide explicit instructions. What we […]

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Aunt Dorothy

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog It’s been a really long long long time since I can even remember spending time with my Aunt Dorothy. She is my Mom’s younger sister; she lent so much to the meeting we had a year ago with the presiding rabbit (oops it was not […]