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.
Bows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles in the air…
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
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 …
At this time almost five years ago, the first open DS106 was launching.
One of the early readings then was Gardner Campbell’s seminal A Personal Cyberinfrastructue (the fuel of the idea that became Domain of One’s Own) along with a suggestion to watch Gardner’s 2009 OpenEd talk No Digital Facelifts: …
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 …
To totally mangle McLuhan is medium.com the message? Does it control the message? What is the message?
I will unfairly pick on one story in my assertion that for a lot of what people publish on medium- the entire arc of the story is contained within a click bait title. …
That’s the classic Man With No Name minimal utterance “Get three more coffins ready” in the clip from Sergio Leone’s spaghetti western masterpiece A Fistful of Dollars (I love how after the gunfight scene that follows he says, as holstering his gun, “My mistake, make it four coffins”).
For thinking …
Today’s DS106 / Western Daily Create was to do some “research” on spaghetti westerns:
#ds106 #dailycreate #tdc1457 Do Some Research on Spaghetti Westerns https://t.co/gBrUaW1JEf pic.twitter.com/aRXEhV6eMI
— ds106 Daily Create (@ds106dc) January 4, 2016
This is one of those tasks that could be as simple as tweeting a link like Paul …
The DS106 Daily Create started January 8, 2012 in a site originally created and maintained by Tim Owens. I took it over a few months later when I went to teach/work at the University of Mary Washington, and populated/tended it until late July 2014.
I sure were excited ’bout leadin’ a new herd of ds106 calves from the Kansas State University ranch. Me ‘n Bill even planned stuff over beans and a fire and even ole Hatchet Jack was ready to become unfrozen to be doing a new round of DS106.
And when …
Yesterday I climbed high up a snowy mountain to seek out Ol Hatchet Jack (sadly lacking a Wikpedia entry), the frozen mountain man. Jack has not been heard from on over a year, but he’s still there.
His rifle is gone, some other mountain man must have nabbed it, but …
Yep pardner, one more this here edit for a movee I made to promote the Online DS106 course I am teaching starting January 2016 at Kansas State University.
Apparently my last version, featuring audio of me and my buddy Bill Genereux talking over a montage of 6-12 second …
For more of a lead up to a western flavored version of DS106 starting January 2016, I aimed for another video to solicit interest from KSU students, where I will be teaching it.
Bill Genereux suggested doing a video that might be able to go on their local access TV. …
A big hat tip to Mariana Funes for cleverly taking an idea for a DS106 Daily Create into the next level of interestingness. The one for TDC 1384 is called just “Removed”:
US photographer Eric Pickersgill created “Removed” a series of powerful black and white photos. Inspired by this, …
