It’s been a while since I did an edtech cover song. And this one was actually inspired quite some time ago. But recently while reading Audrey Watters notes for her talk Teaching Machines and Turing Machines: The History of the Future of Labor and Learning my brain was triggered. You see it was her November […]
Dumb idea. Why did this little worm crawl in my head today? New silly idea brewing for a cover song that mocks moocs… — Alan Levine (@cogdog) June 1, 2015 Someone was tweeting about the end of an open course. I have this thing about talking about the finality of something. Some things should end. […]
Someone never told the folks who participated in the 2013 Educational Technology and Media MOOC that it was over. They are still at it. FYI: @courosa @cogdog just to let you know #Etmooc in 30 in case you know anyone wanting to join in ? ALL welcome — Susan Spellman Cann (@SSpellmanCann) May 28, 2015 […]
A few hours early, but here is your birthday present, @drjones106 — one of your greatest hits. I knew there was a pretty good remix potential in Dylan’s Ballad of a Thin Man (from Highway 61 Revisited). The tabs were a bit all over, I munged together a few, this was closest to what I […]
A late congratulations to Bonnie Stewart for defending her dissertation on Friday. I am little peeved she scheduled it the morning I left for a 4 day backpack to the Grand Canyon, so I missed the live video stream and all of the twitter live action support. Through emails I did not see until today, […]
Only rhizomes can explain why this idea popped into my head. Maybe it was seeing the #rhizo15 tweets. But there it was, a song going in my head. In the middle of the day I was looking up the tabs. I waited at least until after dinner to write some lyrics. And then practice a […]
Of all the creative assignments from DS106 (of which there are more than 730, that is so un-massive) maybe my favorites are the re-edits of movie posters. If any institution ever wanted a class taught in remixing old movie posters… well contact me, ok? I can talk about the many layers of these creative tasks, […]
Dusting off some ds106 poster riffing. I guess there as some fun banter about remixing james bond posters with some dogs we know, Mariana was off and running with it… But she let me down by not making it an assignment. So I had to step in with The Best Bond Is A Dog: All […]
Because she shares and gives so much when asked, I took it seriously to respond to Amy Burvall’s request Hey @dkuropatwa @cogdog @Braddo @WickedDecent @honoria @jimgroom would love your input – plz fwd too pic.twitter.com/0FnATNx62P — ?????????? (@amyburvall) May 17, 2014 A video would be me blabbing generalities. Pass. I got the idea a few […]
Oh MOOCs, how I mock thee. It has been a while. But now I am associated with this Invasion of the MOOCs: The Promises and Perils of Massive Open Online Courses has just been published by Parlor Press (and is available for free as a downloadable PDF). Steve Krause and Charlie Lowe emailed me sometime […]
