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Week 13: The End is Near

Two more weeks to go for ds106; we are done with doing assignments for stars. This week and tonight’s session (detailed below) is: prepping for having your blog organized to showcase your work (see below) in[SPIRE] a participation effort to share the best of ds106 Between now and end of semester, add 4 examples of […]

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Four Icon remix Prequel

It’s time I eat my own remix food and do a ds106 remixed assignment assignment. I drew the One Story / Four Icon [remixed]: What’s the Prequel?. Here’s mine, which I call “Young Whipper” based on the original work done by MC Guirk: The original assignment, one of the all time classics at ds106, is: […]

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On Web Thinking

Yesterday’s serene country side drive to Blacksburg was the perfect set up to attend the 7:00 pm talk by Jon Udell — who is here as the first Virginia Tech Distinguished Innovator in Residence. I was invited down by Gardner Campbell, who first connected many of us in education to Jon’s work. As that story […]

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Timelining My Way Down Memolane

Web-based timeline tools have come a long way… since last year. I have a bunch (among like 30 tools) to update into 50+ Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story (not to mention a plan to yet redo the site a new way) (how do you like the run on parentheticals) (?).

I am keen to try out the Verite Timeline tool, which seems to offer a json type interface for creating media rich timelines right in your web page, or to generate the source data in Google Spreadsheet. That is a post for another day.

This morning I came across Jill Walker’s blog post mentioning memolane as a new “scrapbook” type tool (jill/txt is one of the earliest blogs I recall coming across when I started in ed tech, she has had some long running blog power).

So memolane creates “memory”? lanes? from your tracks in social media spaces. You get to add your accounts, not by entering username/passwords- that is so 2008 — but by authenticating into those systems.

I added twitter, flickr, youtube, soundcloud, instagram (OH NO IT IS NO LONGER HIP?), and my own blog’s RSS feed.

It’s a good set of services, and I would not be surprised to see more added.

What memolane does elegantly is to create a timeline from the content from these sources:

Where the info is put into those little boxes, each of which loads when clicked so you can wiatch a video, see a photo, listen to an audio, etc:

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Gone 25

Today is the 25th year since my older brother passed away, at that he had been alive 34 years, and I knew him not even for that long. I’ve not known him besides dim memories, black and white photos, I can only grasp at; in some alternate universe he is my 59 year old brother […]

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Truth. Cats. Dogs.

The internet giveth and provideth the truth. Need I say more? Via the stream of creative flow of b3ta which came my way via a message from @dkernohan who I only got to know via the network of ds106 which has so many via’s into I better stop.