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Ontario Extend

Unmasking the Masking Used for an @ontarioextend Daily Extend

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on June 27, 2018

A core of the ethos from my years participating and teaching ds106 is the importance of not only creating media, but sharing the behind the scenes “how”. Typically the idea of doing a DS106 Daily Create or an Daily Digital Extend is to do it quickly. One aspect I always enjoy about the daily _____ […]

Ontario Extend

The Indispensable Feed Reader Now an @Ontarioextend Curator Module Activity

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on June 25, 2018May 9, 2019

Call me a web old fogey, I don’t care. I cannot blog enough about the value of using an RSS Reader for tracking a set of blogs, web site sources that are important to your work. I just added this as a new Ontario Extend Activity Bank item — This Indispensable Digital Research Tool, We […]

Blogging

Inserting Images When You Cannot Upload Them

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on June 25, 2018

I’m a big proponent of using images with my online writing, all of my blog posts start with an image before I even write. But sometimes you do not have access to upload images, but with a little bit of know how you can sometimes insert them. This happened just today to Danny, a participant […]

Photography

Picking a Noticing Pattern: I’ve Logged 469 Photos of 106’s

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on June 24, 2018

The diagnosis is likely on the spectrum of an obsession. In the buildup to the first open version of the open digital storytelling course, the one, the only, DS106, I first saw a sign with a 106 on it. I noticed it. It was so long ago that what I was doing at the time […]

Rants

Alt-ing Images: Describing Tweeted Photos

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on June 22, 2018November 13, 2022

Twitter recently enabled features to add descriptions to uploaded images, a huge boon for accessibility. That’s a feature, how do you make it a habit? Well, by doing it. I’ve been trying most of the time. Alt text provides additional information to the HTML created when images are embedded in web pages. The primary purpose […]

Coding

New Daily ______ Theme Option to Add Hashtags

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on June 21, 2018

In the minor fiddling with code that probably no one will notice department… I include the Daily Blank WordPress theme as a SPLOT since I worked on it early in the TRU fellowship where all the others were spawned. Yup, I blogged about it December 2, 2014. It was created to make a generic version […]

Ontario Extend

All Toppings for @OntarioExtend Extended Lunch Today

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on June 21, 2018November 4, 2025

While nervously planning my first major event at the Maricopa Community Colleges as a young instructional technologist my stomach was a mess. My mentor, Vice Chancellor Alfredo de los Santos, assured me that all I needed to do was to get people in the room and something worthwhile to do. Like many of Alfredo’s sayings, […]

Coding

I Code By a Little Help from My Strangers

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on June 21, 2018

(there’s a quasi Beatles reference in that title) What would you do if my code spit an error? Would you stand up and tweet out to me? Send me an link and I’ll try to replicate I will try to fix it quickly. This is how stuff works. Someone I don’t know tweets about an […]

On Sharing, Reclaiming Your Web

More Than Archiving, Organizing Your Shared Stuff Begins at Home

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on June 20, 2018October 4, 2020

The practice of archiving or reclaiming the “stuff” one does on the web is mostly framed on the preservation of our stuff, after sharing it into some site one does not own nor manage, chosen because it was easiest. Easy has a price. We saw that in a short time span earlier this year when […]

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Righting Mobile Phone Photos When they Go Sideways

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on June 19, 2018November 2, 2022

I’ve seen and ignored a thing with photos from my mobile phone for years. Since I’m in the minority that views the web on a device other than a smart phone, maybe it’s not a big deal. It’s when the photos look as you took them on your phone, but when uploaded to a site […]

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