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 […]
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 […]
cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by SabrinaDan Photo Oi. I dropped the ball of my slices of life audio reflections– slice 14 here is almost 2 months old! I did get up to slice 20, so ahve some posts back logged, given that my ds106 semester will end this week. […]
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Jim Groom and I are in the last home stretch of ds106 at University of Mary Washington, final projects and last blog posts being due Sunday, and next week being individual review sessions. After an intense semester, as hard working academics we ought to head […]
I double dare ya. With a cherry on top. Whipped cream too. It’s just around the corner, the flip of the monthly calendar, but so soon, The University of Mary Washington Faculty Academy will be happening- May 16 & 17 here in Fredericksburg. Let’s see- you will get a keynote by David Darts, an NYU […]
Bugs are prettier in photos than in code. I spent a few hours last night (and cleanup this morning) hammering some overdue fixes to pechaflickr, my random flickr + pechaflickr mashup If you have not played before, you enter a flickr tag, and the site generates a slideshow of 20 random flickr images in pecha […]
Continuing from Monday’s start on archiving and semester wrapping up. Schedule your final meeting (Monday – through Friday; 4/30- 5/4) via http://tungle.me/cogdog Complete class evaluations (in your email, came from Taiwo Ande) See full details on archiving, mapping domains, and migrating In class- export a snapshot of your blog Tools–>Export Later – import this data […]
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by Andrew Curtis This is the last week of my first semester teaching ds106; Jim Groom has reminded my plenty about what a marathon push this is for both student and teacher. Their blogs have fallen quiet as (I hope) they are going full metal on their […]
I tried my hand poorly a few weeks ago at the ds106 Kinetic Typography assignment. There is a reason maybe only 3 or 4 people have braved this one. Kinetic typography (“moving text”) is an animation technique that allows a creative entrepreneur to mix text and motion. Your job is to take a speech or […]
cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo shared by Daniel*1977 What needs to be done this week. All items must be done by midnight Sunday, April 29 You must write up 3 blog posts, detailed below, one summarizing all things done on this checklist, one for your final project, and one for a […]
