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Captcha Art (ds106 assignment)

Among other TEDx Talk videos I have seen recently, the one by Luis von Ahn on Massive-scale online collaboration, Stephen Downes notwithstanding, generated a number of ideas for me. von Ahn is the man behind the idea of reCaptcha– originally a Carnegie-Mellon project eventurally gobbled up by Google. What I liked most is his example […]

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Predicting Predictions

cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by adamthelibrarian It’s been a few years since my last round of predictions (for 2009), but I’m counting on being 100% accurate. My prediction for 2012 is a ton of predictions for 2012. That’s all I got. For a refreshing approach to this old shlock, […]

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Even a Dog Can Teach ds106

cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by greenkozi Jim has already been dropping teasers but if he blogs, then it’s official. It’s been a year since the first open course version of Digital Storytelling (ds106) at the University of Mary Washington and in 2012 it’s going to DEFCON 1. Yep, you […]