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Exploring Lake Macguffin

Things are shaping up nicely for the summer course of ds106 I am co-teaching with Martha Burtis, we have been super busy supervising and doing a lot of the work at Camp Magic Mcguffin. If you have every mused about trying to take ds106 as an open participant, this is perhaps the best time, during […]

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Cowbirding

cc licensed ( BY ND ) flickr photo shared by hans s Based on the recommendation of Barbara Ganley (one of whom I would recommend following recommendations thereof) for the past few weeks I’ve been dabbling in Cowbird, an online storytelling platform that center heavily on photography as well as original writing. Cowbird is one […]

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If It’s Repeated Enough…

cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo shared by Kalexanderson Someone lend me a rope, I have fallen deep into one of those internet rabbit holes. It began as a simple “I’ll look this up in a few minutes” query. I’d seen this quote in at least 2 presentations: “images are processed 60,000 […]

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Early On The X

Just wanna stake my claim… Look for big announcement soon about CogDogx cause just like the ‘i” prefix of a few years ago, an “x” suffix is the new shnizzle — Alan Levine (@cogdog) December 30, 2011 Of course, the “big announcement” is 404, because I was just playing. But the “x” factor is going […]

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The Sixty Million Dollar MOOC

As a fan of Steve Austin I could not help myself in response to today’s news of edX. Hastily and sloppily edited in iMovie, oh well. “Higher education, learning. A concept barely alive. Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world’s most massive online course. Edx […]

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Dear Photo: Birthday Dad

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Dear Photo, In the alternate path universes, today I am calling you in Florida to wish you a happy 85th Birthday. You will want more to hear me talk about me than me talk about you. I might be talking about the next trip down […]