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Psychic 106
cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog You cannot escape the psychedelic aura of ds106. Photo challenge- find the aura of ds106 where you live.
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Nobody Blabberizes Like the Bava, NOBODY
In lieu of not having much other material to post here, I could not let the pre ds106 fun pass with a little playing with the most useful, erduite, scholarly web 2.0 tool… or see it at http://blabberize.com/view/id/351885. Like Xtranormal, most of the stuff one creates with Blabberize is pure nutbar crazy (but fun), yet, […]
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Cooking Spam Stories
cc licensed flickr photo shared by roboppy No one (admits) liking spam, the electronic kind nor the meat food product… well there are fans of the latter, more than the former. Instead of just complaining I seek to make use of the stuff. For a while I was trying to pull bits out and tweet […]
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Play Five Card ds106 Stories
In the pre-launch fury for the ds106 Digital Storytelling Open Course, I thought it would be fun (and easy to set up) to create a new place on the Five Card Flickr Stories site for us to play. Want to have a go at making a story? Head over to http://web.nmc.org/5cardstory/play.php?suit=ds106. I’m curious to see […]
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Not Dog Writing? The Dog Reading
cc licensed flickr photo shared by dchrisoh This year I fell out of NaNoWriMo only 12 days in, and it was a good thing. I could sense form where I was, that my attempt at writing a World According to Dogs novel was maybe at best, a not original idea and not welle executed. But […]
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It’s Alive!
What hath Jim Groom wrought? A few spare body parts, some electricity, whilring dials, and some hunchbacked assistant… ds106 The Mad Open Online Course is Alive! So it’s not even place, it’s three weeks out, why are all my colleagues, friends madly in their labs, and doing of all things, retro 1990s techno things like […]
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My Adobe Connect Recipe
cc licensed flickr photo shared by klynslis Someone in my twitter flow, I cannot recall who, tweeted in angst asking if anyone has had a good webinar experience in Adobe Connect. The subtext was clear- he/she had a lousy experience, and wonders if te problem is the technology. Heck, I do this all the time. […]
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I’m With Jim (#ds106 as open course)
I have signed up for more open courses and barely participated in all of them- but I am aiming to break my mold with just off the press bavadelicious announcement from Jim Groom that he would be leading an online and open course version of his ds106 Digital Storytelling course at University of Mary Washington. […]
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Walking: A Higher Resolution Experience
cc licensed flickr photo shared by h.koppdelaney “There is this to be said for walking: It’s the one mode of human locomotion by which a man proceeds on his own two feet, upright, erect, as a man should be, not squatting on his rear haunches like a frog.”— Edward Abbey Zooming down the road at […]
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From Cape Town OER to Spanish Journal Article: Newest Amazing Story
Here is my newest Amazing Story of Sharing of 2010 (not THE newest, because they are happening all the time). Last week I wrote of an unsolicited message from Michael Paskevicius of the University of Cape Town OER Project, eager to share the story of an open resource shared by Matumo Ramafikeng, a teacher at […]