cogdog on I dare you. I double dog penguin dare you to contribute a story for my True Stories of Openness (formerly known as Amazing) aka Magic Acts of Web Serendipity… First conjured up long long ago (2009) at a conference far far away (Open Ed in Vancouver “Crossing the Chasm” was the theme), deploying not light […]
cogdog on While lightning may not strike the same spot twice (debatable), I manage to keep recycling this same “True Stories of Openness” talk perhaps way too many times. It’s on tap as an Alt format session for OER22 but I gave it another warm up as a Creative Commons Lightning Talk for Open Education Week. Without […]
cogdog on When I was teaching DS106 there were not many rivals for teaching the craft of audio storytelling than to ask students to listen closely to the way what I consider the standard bearer of the form is- This American Life. I’ve gotten back to listening to more episodes lately, and they maintain that form. Episode […]
cogdog on Monday I saw the #OEWeek tagged tweets and had some wondering about what I might contribute for Open Education Week. So I dusted off and cleaned up an oldie- my collection of Amazing Stories of Serendipity. This was something that goes back to a 2009 presentation at the Open Education conference. The idea was to […]
cogdog on At 8:00 AM EST today I was keynoting the K12 Online Conference while at a beach hotel in Western Puerto Rico. Well not exactly. At 8:00 AM I already on the road, driving back to San Juan for my flight to Chicago. But I was keynoting. This is because this online conference, the presentations are […]
cogdog on I do not think Feldspar is going to hear any wailing from me for a while… In her typical “never do anything the easy way” Amy Burvall delivered me a lavishly animated (all the colors- black, pink, AND white) video of not just a story of connection, but ten of them: She’s got everything from […]
cogdog on I did not know my wails of despair were heard by by co-habitant. I started my campaign a month ago asking for stories of connection, and a few did come in. I saw more tweets and retweets than stories, and even enlisted Bugs Bunny to the cause. Well I do have 13, peeking way down […]
cogdog on OERs. People build them. People house them in repositories. People do journal articles, conference presentations, research on them. I doubt never their existence. But the ultimate thing they are supposed to support, maybe their raison d’être– the re use by other educators, what do we have to show for that except whispered stories, innuendo, and […]
cogdog on This summer I enjoyed the growth and harvesting of sunflower seeds, and special ones at that- they came from an internet friend in Canada! Today, I assembled all of the photos (a lot) into a video The story behind the story behind the story… Last year my gardening/soundmixing/edteching/doodling friend Jason in Vancouver shared the outputs […]
cogdog on cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine They come unexpectedly, unscheduled, unobtrusively. An email from a stranger. A comment on a blog that is shockingly written by a person, not some shoe selling bot. And yesterday, a comment on the flickr photo above. It’s obviously a screenshot, but I had […]