Bear with me on a metaphorical stretch. Seat belts are not required, but we will practice our breathing. Wikimedia CC licensed image As a kid, I always liked being in the water- I never enjoyed swimming per se, but I loved seeing how far I could go, how many laps I could do, underwater in […]
And here we go! ds106 is off the ground with week 1’s assignment, a post with typical Groomian oomph (‘this ain;t like your mama’s MOOC”). We are to do any kind of short story about something that happened recently. I was toying with some tech and came up with a half baked idea to try, […]
cc licensed flickr photo shared by ouyea… “That’s for kids.” “It’s just a game.” “Cute. Now let me know when you do something academically valuable.” “Grow up.” “(I can’t do that, people will laugh).” With senseless violence becoming a sad norm, with the weight of a world dying of overheating or exterminating its own biosphere, […]
Almost as much as grey page backgrounds, under construction barricades, and nested HTML tables, few things define the web of the 1990s as the animated GIF. It’s been rewarding and nostalgic to see the wave of resurgence in the lead up to the ds106 open course that should lift off this week. It’s been fun […]
Cheddar cheese is yellow and melts nicely to make sandwiches. Bacon has the ability to arouse the dead with its delicious smell and to drive Canadians bonkers. Desire is stacked in favor of the bacon, except– They’re under pressure from health nuts, vegans and pig lovers to eat soy food product. It takes guts to […]
In doing some prep for a future presentation (this is almost historic in my modus operendi of procastination, as it is almost 2 months away from now), I revisited a seminal 2008 Roger Ebert post on How to Read a Movie. He shares a number of ideas I am thinking might have potential for ds106, […]
cc licensed flickr photo shared by Serenae You gotta like the Jim Groom strategy- run off to the good life in Italy, and let people like Tom Woodward go craxy coming up with ideas to use in Jim’s ds106 course (Tom is on FIRE, see his latest activity ideas). My, that fence is getting painted […]
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.
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, […]
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 […]
