For students in my section of ds106, here is a little bit to expect for the coming week. The heat just increases every week. cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by ?olo Before class, you should … Continue reading →
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by peasap This weekend marks the one year anniversary of the launch of what has been to me, one of the best shared online experiences in my 20+ years here– ds106 radio. This web radio station was started with a tweet by Jim Groom, that has gone […]
On the list of question topics that anesthetize me, just below FERPA and Intellectual Property, is the query on a project, “Does it scale?” Scales are fine for lizards. And weighing stuff. Expanding things by scaling them is not the only model of growth. For Massive Open Online Courses, this year’s poster child the Stanford […]
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Yeah, even in the early days it was all about sex online… No it wasn’t, that was the unfortunate “special theme” for this September 1996 issue of “the net” magazine. I found this mint copy, along with the CD-ROM, in my Box of Old Job […]
cc licensed (BY) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Were my brother still alive, today would have been his 58th Birthday. I continue to marvel and wonder about an alternate universe where I had his presence as a functioning older brother- what kind of person would I be now? (see the story of David’s Chair). This […]
The ds106 classes at University of Mary Washington are underway this week- I had my first class last night (with assistance from the Reverend), and I have set up a new blog for ds106 teaching posts (and just to go through same steps I am asking students to do) see http://106tricks.net/. I will next start […]
Wednesday was my first appearance teaching a section of ds106 for a class at the University of Mary Washington- the one hitch is that I am still in Strawberry, Arizona (here is an extra riddle for my students- what is … Continue reading →
cc licensed (BY) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Yesterday, within a few hours driving, I went from seeing the highest elevation in the lower 48 states, My Whitney (14,505 feet) to standing at the lowest surface elevation, Badwater Basin in Death Valley (-282 feet). These two points are about 100 miles distant on a map, […]
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog On break from a long drive to California, I took respit via a hike in Joshua Tree National Park, hiking up Lower Cottomwood Wash to this place- wash meaning maybe some soul cleansing under the desert sun, or also in this case, the dry sandy […]
I do believe in the Six Million Dollar Man, but not Bigfoot… Now hold on to your comments, kids. I believe in Serendipity, I live and breathe its fumes for all of my online career.. How else might I have gotten to house sit for a month in Iceland, have a German Rock Band use […]
