This kind of small act of near random #ds106 connection will not increase enrollments, will not “fix” education, will not improve institutional metrics… yet I just cannot let it slip by without a small “wow”.

And the ironic thing is that the tweet in which I saw it came into …

Once a media idea worms into my head, it’s gotta play out before I can do other things. So it was this morning, leading to this:

Jim Groom has been running fun and wild with the record store metaphor for Reclaim Hosting, fueled by the recognizable style of Bryan …

Like many folks, I was interested in comic guru Nick Sousanis’s call for participation in a week of Grids and Gestures

Quickly, have a look at your ceiling tiles or other grid-ish things around you. If you then imagine putting these features to music, you might have regular long notes …

Like a classic MOOC dropout artist, I’ve fallen so far off of my #western106 horse I can’t even see the dust any more.

I had grand hopes of running a DS106 in a genre of Western films/stories. I was doing trailers back in October for a planned online class to …

Darn you Daily Create sending me down a creative rabbits hole.

Thanks.

And I’m responsible for today’s challenge

#ds106 #dailycreate #tdc1552 It’s 4/8/16 Make Art to Celebrate the Power of the Number 4 https://t.co/hMegpYbuET pic.twitter.com/SW4CiurJfC

— ds106 Daily Create (@ds106dc) April 8, 2016

I look for patterns in numbers, and …

Long ago, long before the web, as a Geology student, I was on a trip to Los Angeles. On the return drive along I-10 I saw this billboard that read:

Barry’s Bail Bonds: We’ll get You Out… Even if it Takes Us 20 Years!

Why does this memory stay in …

When I hear folks in my stream sharing stuff for Open Education Week, my inner cynic wonders what they do the rest of the year. Or speculate a world where we do not have to draw attention in this way to Openness.

I get it. The whole idea is …

I think it was Mariana Funes that share what I think is one of the best GIF’s I’ve seen

pic.twitter.com/S9wtnaYs8M

— Amy Hoy (@amyhoy) March 10, 2016

There is so much to like about this play on the final shoot out scene from The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly…

It’s quite possible I finished four books this month; two may have been started in January, but four in a month is a recent record for me in finishing.

Both of these books I bought as part of my interest in westerns and #western106. While both are in the …

A few weeks ago I got an email from Justin Reich asking if I wanted to run a workshop on connected courses with him at DML 2016. Heck yeah! I’m a big follower of his work, and it was Justin who got me on board doing an aggregation hub a …

That first heady phase of the first round of DS106, back to December 2010, before Jim Groom’s first class very started, set the stage for the creative riffing ethos that is part of this crazy space.

Like free form music jamming, it is taking something someone else has played, …

It was just a simple daily create. Well today’s could be simple (take a photo of a cloud) but the prompt was to play with the idea of the Judy Collins song Both Sides Now.

Some of the best experiences doing the DS106 Daily Create are taking on one that you think is maybe not all that special, interesting, and falling into a magic shiny rabbit hole… in the act of just letting the mind fly open and also stumbling across the unexpected trigger.

I’m …

I JUST FINISHED READING A BOOK?

Can I get a badge?

As much as I enjoy reading, I am a pathetic xMOOC-like reader- I keep signing up and rarely complete. I have at least 3 books on a table at home with a bookmark in the middle, and on my …

I was not going to do today’s DS106 Daily Create task to add a modern context caption to a Frederic Remington painting:

I had already done the one that appears there.

But I am just sipping coffee, and in much less time than this blog post will take, I made …

When the #OER16 plea to DS106 goes out…

Have you got your ticket yet? (help us make an #oer16 promo poster) ((calling #ds106)) https://t.co/znKl9N8dPr

— OER Conference 2016 (@OERConf) February 10, 2016

Of course a response needs to be made

The #oer16 conference sent a #ds106 Bat Signal for …

There’s a lot to like about the DS106 Daily Create. There is also a lot of them, today’s was number 1493; this has gone on for 1493 days since January 8, 2012 without missing a beat. Four years.

The best part is the unexpected range of responses, epecially when …

More grand plans upended- after dialing back my #Western106 plans as a “trail adjustment”, I was hoping to keep plugging along with the High Noon Radio show on DS106 Radio.

Travel, life, work interceded, and I dropped doing the show this week (also guest Bryan Alexander was down …

The western landscape is full of emptiness, vast stretches of drab land, interrupted by deep canyons or sheer mountains, and infrequent water. My reasons for recently watching The Painted Desert was largely because it was set in an area close to where I live. I had it queued on Amazon …

At my November checkup my doctor did the same routines he has done 4 times a year for the last 5 years I’ve visited, but this time he came up with something new.

“I hear a heart murmur.”

Murmur? Is that like a heart having a speech impediment?

I recalled …

During this week’s Western 106 High Noon Radio Show, I was talking about my interest in the western films and stories that are situated in and beyond the end of the era, Not that there is a firm line, but films like The Shootist, Lonely Are The Brave…

I love this framed print, it’s in my office now. I am fairly sure it was something my ex found as we did yard sales in Scottsdale, she was super good at finding such treasures.

“How The West Was Lost” is just dripping with symbolism and icons and mostly irony. …

A cowboy made of snow showed up on my deck on January 6. He was not much of a smiler. Over the next 11 days, Ole Grumpy (as I called ) him, lost his clothes, then blew up in weight (from a later snow), but then started wasting away.

By …

Ok, I am putting a ton of time into setting up stuff for Western 106, and it’s eating in my time to even do some stuff (what are those, excuses?). Part of Unit 1: Blog Riding Camp was written to have participants explore some short form stories, from either TV …

I’m not sure as a kid if I ever uttered the “I want to grow up to be a cowboy” line (maybe Mom listened to Waylon and Willie).

How would a suburban Baltimore kid in the 1970s even get the idea? Easy.

TV.

I’m digging back in the memory …

I’ve been so busy trying to get Western DS106 set up, making up personas, doing videos, I have not done a lick of work from Blog Riding Camp.

People of the west don’t have much use for excuses.

So I am done. So I am shooting some …

Serendipity would have no magic if it did not sneak up on you and lovingly whack you on the side of your normality.

On a beautiful Saturday when I ought to be outside playing in the fresh snow, I am instead pounding away at this #%$*@ keyboard working on web …