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For week 6 in ds106, we learned that “Design is everywhere! Anything we create or manufacture has key design elements.” Everything in our environment has design potential and possibility. We can design to invent what never existed or breathe new life and purpose into an existing object for people…

Untitled, a photo by Ary Aranguiz on Flickr.…

GIFing and ds106 has changed my life forever! Last week in the cult, I mixed up some sweet GIF kool-aid, and served it to other cult members! Fascinated with the concept of the GIF, I called on our ds106 cult to go on an adventure! Why not create original GIFs …

Audio week is coming up in ds106, and we’ve already experimented briefly with creating our own stories using only sound effects. During that week, I also thought about TV sitcom theme songs from the 70s, 80s and 90s, and how these songs summarize a show’s storyline in under a…

Sally Field’s  “You like me! Right now!” Oscar acceptance speech 

One of the most important aspects of being part of a peer to peer learning environment such as ds106 is engaging in the art of giving, receiving and eliciting critical feedback. What makes giving, receiving and eliciting feedback or …

Since joining the ds106 cult, I have learned many lessons, above all how important it is to create something everyday. It’s not like I didn’t know this, but I had never truly incorporated this philosophy in my life. Too often, we know certain truths in life, but we just…

I am guilt ridden, although we’ve been told not to feel guilty if we fall behind in ds106. I have yet to summarize and reflect on weeks 3 and 4, but it’s all in my head just waiting for some time to sit down and either write or record…

DS106 has been chosen as a top innovator in the open education movement so for Saturday’s daily create, the ds106 cult faced the task of creating a short video to give audiences at the Reclaim Open Learning Symposium on September 27th a sense of who or what the cult…

Week 4 is all about experimenting with sound by listening, creating radio bumpers, and stories using sound effects. Here are two radio bumpers I created for #ds106 Radio using Garage Band along with my first Sound Effect Story.

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There’s a high school chemistry teacher I know. He’s unsatisfied with his job and his life. He can’t afford to support his family on a teacher’s salary, so he has to work a part time job at a car wash where his boss belittles him everyday. Just when he thought …

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
McMurphy (Personal Cyber-infrastructure) VS.
Nurse Ratchet (Public Ed Infrastructure) Week 2 in #ds106 was tough because life got in the way, but nevertheless I learned how to make GIFs using some of my favorite movie scenes, and I managed to learn so much from…

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Headless #ds106 has, as artist and designer Kelli Anderson puts it, “opened a humble backdoor into understanding a reality that is infinitely surprising.” In one week, Headless #ds106 Bootcamp has challenged me to create daily, take risks, find my visual voice and digital identity, and fearlessly build my personal cyberinfrastructure so …

So, yesterday was Giulia’s birthday in ds106 world. Today Google said it was Rochelle’s, (someone who submits a lot of the daily creates, I’ve noticed), and #ds106  is celebrating the 600th anniversary of the Daily Creates! We also can’t forget it’s the last day of the first week for #ds106 …

Giulia Forsythe was born today! And the world hasn’t been the same. She’s made it different and beautiful for her mom and her dad, her family and friends. Giulia’s being here is no coincidence.  There are many reasons why she’s here. Many lessons she’s learning, and many she’s here to…

When I was five, my grandfather bought me one of those Crayola crayon boxes with the built in sharpener on the back. One little girl in my class was jealous, and she plotted revenge and set me up! I had four aquamarines, lots of hot magentas; lemon yellows in triplicates,…

Last night after I got tattooed, I wrote my first post for #ds106 and was thrilled to find my first comment was from Alan Levine, who is really not our teacher …no one heads the course…but there are some very present masterminds behind all of this experimental DIY learning!…

Descarada or descarado! In Spanish, literally translated this means faceless; figuratively it connotes shamelessness, boldness! If ds106 has gone headless, no “teach” to tell us what to do, and no face with a pair of eyes to stare into, then we’re all a bunch of descarados… defiant, uninhibited, and courageous …

Since I started taking MOOCs, all of the course endings have been bittersweet. I hate when they have to end!
Art and Inquiry like the others completed, edcMOOC and modMOOC, has exceeded my expectations and once again helped me learn from liked minded individuals. In the MOOCing world, I’ve met…

moma teen | MoMA | Voluntaries Service: MoMA Teens + Dean Moss

Sometimes for logistical or financial reasons, students are unable to visit art museums. Today’s interactive technology, like Google Art and other sites like it, enables students to take an up, close and personal tourobserving every brushstroke of …

Week 2 of MoMA’s Art and Inquiry challenged educators to think about “how teachers can help students use contextual information productively within dialogues about art“. Our required reading prompted us to think about “how educators can ensure facts will act as catalysts for significant meaning making”. Significant meaning making…

Over 60K humans…including me… are enrolled in Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Coursera MOOC A Brief History of Humankind to learn about our past, present and future! Distinguished historian, Dr. Yuval Noah Harari, promises us a superficial, controversial and personal interpretation of the history of humankind, but assures “a …

In my most recent dabbling in the world of MOOCs, Art and Inquiry: Museum Strategies for Your Classroom, a five week Coursera MOOC taught by MoMA, we are being asked to think about why we should engage in inquiry around art. While pondering this important question, I’ve …

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