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Were You At SPLOTapalooza?

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on July 27, 2022September 20, 2022

Whether you were present at this fest may be a future cultural touchstone, like all those who were at Woodstock after it happened. Or maybe the reputation might be as glowing as the basis of our metaphor. Huh? Today I co-wrangled a 3 hour online BCcampus FLO Lab with Jessica Motherwell McFarlane whom I can […]

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Like Zombies, After 10 Years, the 60000 Times Myth Will Not Die

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on July 18, 2022April 13, 2023

It is so truthy that authors, so-called experts, and every day citizens just repeat this one because it sounds true. Thanks to blog commenter Ashraf another stumbling zombie was spotted at a niche publication called Inc, the moldy monster summoned to support a case for AI (stress the artificial portion and discard the Intelligence one)– […]

Rants, Reclaiming Your Web

Edtech Who the &*#% are you?

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on July 1, 2022July 1, 2022

I keep peering at the name badges, but am not quite who we are referring to with some recent (in finally in the best space) blog talk about [capital] Edtech. It’s nobody I would hangout with. The end was spotted at Hack Education where Audrey Watters kicked past the curb at her own blog (yeah […]

Coding, Wordpress

Useful Way to Taste a WordPress Plugin or Theme

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on June 27, 2022August 28, 2022

I must get a dozen or two emails a week from so-called SEO experts asking if I want guest posts or will insert their clients link in my site. So I almost too quickly read this one from Emma at TasteWP: I have a cool WordPress tip for you! I see that you’re linking to […]

SPLOT, Wordpress

Sodaphonic Audio now inside SPLOTbox

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on June 26, 2022June 26, 2022

It was about time I did some feature adding to a SPLOT theme- adding support for Sodaphonic audio was super easy for many reasons. For all that is not great about time spent in Twitter (believe it or not I have dialed my attention there back) I have to give credit that I still sift […]

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WordPress Does Not Like Waiting in Open Tab

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on June 24, 2022June 24, 2022

Despite the shift to this ornery block editor (I have made my peace with it but still regularly cuss at it) and avoiding full site editing, I still love ya WordPress. Always. Mostly. I have noticed something for a while. WordPress does not like hanging out waiting for you in open tabs. Many times over […]

Blogging, OE Global

Blogging as/in Discourse

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on June 23, 2022November 27, 2022

Once again in the “spent too much time creating a clever title” department, I am here not to delve into Foucault analysis (and I had to look that one up). I can take the opening Wikipedia line on the article as “Discourse is a generalization of the notion of a conversation to any form of […]

Rants, Reclaiming Your Web

Trading in the Rs for Ps

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on June 20, 2022August 17, 2022

Look at the capital letter R. Just snap off the front leg, and now you are a P. In the world of Open Educational Resources, the five Rs are like chapter/verse of the induction, repeat after me: The right to Retain, Reuse, Revise, Remix, Redistribute… Pick your source https://www.google.com/search?q=oer+5+rs Apparently things get a bit more […]

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The OEGlobal “AND” Conference Experiment

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on June 20, 2022June 20, 2022

My use of experiment is more the try “to learn something” in the definition than a well-designed test “done in order to learn something or to discover if something works or is true.” This is also framed in my ongoing wrestling with the conference experience that is (to quote myself) overly “presentationally oriented.” Compound this […]

Cool Tool Fool, Reclaiming Your Web

Where’s the Fediverse Shattering Kaboom?

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on June 7, 2022June 7, 2022

I have been lazy in not getting into the IndieWeb game here, but look who is catching up! I activate the Activity Pub plugin but no idea how it knows who I am in Mastodon- this post gave me the clue that is not listed elsewhere- in my WordPress profile at the bottom is a […]

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