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Writing Flashku for The Daily Create

by dogtrax

| ds106, quickfiction, Syndicated, Write Out
September 29, 2023

A few months back, I saw a reference to a short writing prompt called a Flashku, which had me interested. I found out more — it’s short flash prose, inspired by an image and borrowing words from another text — and this morning, the DS106 Daily Create shared out the Flashku prompt. See mine above […]
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DS106 Pledge of Creativity

by dogtrax

| ds106, Syndicated
September 9, 2023

The Daily Create prompt the other day – by my friend Karen – suggested a revamping of the Pledge of Allegiance recited in schools but I went in another direction. Peace (from the nothing), Kevin
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More Notes on ds106 Clean-Up

by Reverend

| AWS, digital storytelling, ds106, Hack, s3, Syndicated, WordPress, wordpress multi-user
August 17, 2023

I think the worst of the ds106 hack is behind us, and thanks to Wordfence managing most of the heavy lifting it was not all that bad in the end. Now I’m just going through and pretty ruthlessly removing plugins … Continue reading ?
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ds106 Hacked and WordFence to the Rescue

by Reverend

| digital storytelling, ds106, Hack, PHP, php scripts, Plugin, Syndicated, wordfence
August 14, 2023

If you have used WordPress for any length of time, chances are you’ve gotten hacked at least once or twice. That certainly has been my experience, and it never helps when you let old plugins and themes sit around for … Continue reading ?
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Accused! ds106 on Trial

by Reverend

| #4life, digital storytelling, Dr. Oblivion, ds106, Martha Burtis, oblivion, Paul Bond, reclaim, Reclaim Open, reclaimopen, Syndicated
June 28, 2023

It’s been 12 or 13 years since its inception and I must say it’s kind of wild that ds106 won’t die. That’s gotta say something about how awesome it was/is/will be, right? I guess it really is #4life! Few people … Continue reading ?
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Reclaim Karaoke at the Rockaway Club

by Reverend

| digital storytelling, ds106, ds106radio, ds106tv, edupunk, fun, karaoke, OBS, OER21, OERxDomains, OERxDomains21, oerxdomains21youtube, owncast, PeerTube, reclaim, Reclaim Edtech, Reclaim Open, Reclaim Video, streaming, Streamyard, Syndicated, youtube
May 27, 2023

It’s been a little while since I blogged, and that’s due to a combination of factors, including visitors, conference preparation, and a little bit of karaoke experimentation. The last of those will be the focus of this post, cause I’d … Continue reading ?
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Moving Mastodon Object Storage from AWS S3 to DigitalOcean Spaces

by Reverend

| AWS, Digital Ocean, DigitalOcean, ds106, Mastodon, rclone, s3, s3cmd, Spaces, Syndicated, sysadmin
April 26, 2023

These days I’ve been in a Mastodon maintenance state-of-mind, as my last post highlights. Early this week I tried to shore up some security issues linked with listing files publicly in our AWS S3 bucket. This encouraged me to explore … Continue reading ?
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Some Initial Mastodon Instance Tweaking

by Reverend

| digital storytelling, ds106, ds106social, Mastodon, server, Syndicated, sysadmin
November 25, 2022

Now that I have a few instances of Mastodon running in Reclaim Cloud, I figured it was time to start optimizing them for resource usage, storage, and security. This post is an attempt to capture what I’ve done thus far—which … Continue reading ?
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A MBS Recommendation

by Reverend

| Animated GIFs, blogging, Console Living Room, digital storytelling, ds106, Film, MBS, pop-culture, Reclaim Today, Reclaim Video, ReclaimVideo, Syndicated, Teaching, umwconsole
July 18, 2022

Last week I had the privilege of writing a recommendation for Michael Branson Smith to gain admission to the masters program in Interactive Data Visualization at the CUNY Graduate Center. And while I’m confident he will get into the program … Continue reading ?
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Linda McKenna is ds106 #4life

by Reverend

| digital storytelling, ds106, Reclaim Today, Syndicated
June 8, 2022

Yesterday I had the opportunity to realize a long-time dream of reflecting on ds106 with one of the many awesome internauts that traveled where no student had gone before. Linda McKenna was just the internaut I was looking for, and … Continue reading ?
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Form of a Blog Post about ds106, RSS, and more

by Reverend

| digital storytelling, ds106, gifs, Reclaim Edtech, reclaimedtech, Syndicated
June 2, 2022

I am getting ready to map out my goals for this month’s Reclaim EdTech’s Flex Course on Gravity Forms, and after reading Tom Woodward’s post about using Gravity Forms to pull RSS feeds into FeedWordPress I was reminded how much … Continue reading ?
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Happy Valentine’s Day #ds106

by Reverend

| digital storytelling, ds106, Syndicated
February 14, 2022

I found myself thinking a bit about ds106 this weekend after Paul Bond asked me to look into a specific issue with a student’s site not syndicating. I got it working by deleting and re-adding the tag, but still not … Continue reading ?
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“You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.” ? Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake

by @profCaritat

| Daily Create, Syndicated
January 17, 2022

“You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.” Now it is time to do something again.
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Sake Song

by @Untertacker

| art, Syndicated
January 16, 2022

Today is Kagama daySing with us, sake, sakeDrink with us sakeOn this Kagama Biraki day. It is always Kagama daySing with us, ole oleDrink with us sakeOn this Kagama Biraki day.
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Breathe

by @https://twitter.com/MCorbettWilson

| #storycenter, Digital Story, digitalhumanities, Reflections, sound, Syndicated
October 19, 2021

In the spring of 2021 I participated in “Elder Circles: Fierce Words of the Third Age”, StoryCenter’s (storycenter.org) first workshop for those over 60. I joined founder and Executive Director Joe Lambert and Linda Parris-Bailey, playwright and Founder of ParrisBaileyArts.com, who also served as the Executive/Artistic Director of the Carpetbag Theatre for 45 years, in […]
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An economy of care

by @https://twitter.com/MCorbettWilson

| #digped, #DigPedLab, #Ethics21, cMOOC, Reflections, Syndicated
October 17, 2021

When I went to sleep last night I meant to write about ethics this morning. I woke up early and turned on the Canadian Broadcasting Company’s “All in a Weekend” on CBC Radio with Sonali Karnick to hear her interviewing Judy Rebick about how women economists in Canada and around the world are transforming economics […]
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Saudade in Santa Fe

by @https://twitter.com/MCorbettWilson

| Digital Story, Reflections, Syndicated, Video
October 9, 2021

It’s been 20 years since the last time I was in Santa Fe. My mom was from New Mexico and we used to spend one month each summer visiting her parents in Silver City in the southwest corner of New Mexico. We traveled around visiting our many relatives and exploring the beauty of the landscape, […]
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Ethics, Analytics and the Duty of Care

by @https://twitter.com/MCorbettWilson

| #Ethics, Syndicated
October 8, 2021

I’m looking forward to participating in Ethics, Analytics and the Duty of Care cMOOC created by Stephen Downes. Join in the fun! https://ethics.mooc.ca/course_outline.htm My learning philosophy in a graphic I created. Click for more. I’m interested in connectivism, personal learning networks, graphing my learning – both formal and informal, FOSS, and heutagogy. A retired craftsman, […]
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Catching Up with the Joy of ds106

by Reverend

| digital storytelling, ds106, PeerTube, Syndicated
October 5, 2021

It’s been a while since I posted about this semester’s Bob Ross-inspired instantiation of ds106, but, like Luther, I’ve been busy! Looks like the last weekly video I posted was over a month ago for week 3, so below are … Continue reading ?
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The Sisyphean Labor of Link Love

by Reverend

| Amber, archive, archive video, archive.org, Archiving, digital storytelling, ds106, EdTech, Instructional Technology, internet archive, PeerTube, Syndicated
September 16, 2021

I woke up this morning to a Twitter exchange between Alan Levine and Ken Bauer about creating a plugin that points dead links on a blog to the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine: I might need a WordPress plugin than converts … Continue reading ?
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Blog Islands in the Stream

by Reverend

| blogging, digital storytelling, ds106, ds106radio, ds106tv, karaoke, OERxDomains21, Syndicated
September 2, 2021

I’m not gonna lie, I have been spending the greater part of the last few days honing my karaoke game. Turns out I can spend endless hours on the web broadcasting to a radio/tv empire with no listeners or viewers … Continue reading ?
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The Joy of ds106: Week 3

by Reverend

| digital storytelling, ds106, ds106tv, Syndicated
September 1, 2021

Paul and I continue to churn out the cheesy Joy of ds106 weekly videos, and I have to say they’re a blast. No only do they take very little time and exude an air of sub-par quality, but they’re also … Continue reading ?
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ds106: The Waves of Creativity

by Reverend

| @ds106dc, digital storytelling, ds106, Syndicated, tdc3514
August 26, 2021

I’m starting to feel the ds106 creativity rise and hopefully crest here soon, and it feels good. Getting back into the groove is everything, and I figured it was time for a long overdue Daily Create to prime the pump. … Continue reading ?
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The Joy of ds106, Week 2

by Reverend

| digital storytelling, ds106, joyds106, Paul Bond, Syndicated
August 26, 2021

Paul Bond and I are starting to get into the flow of The Joy of ds106 and students are posting! We did a rush job on Week 2’s intro video, but I like that we are keeping it focused and … Continue reading ?
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Producing The Joy of ds106

by Reverend

| digital storytelling, ds106, OBS, Syndicated
August 19, 2021

I’m officially back in the ds106 saddle as a producer for the ds106.tv public access station. I think the last time I had any significant presence in a ds106 class was 2015 or so, so this feels good, especially in … Continue reading ?
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Brainstorming ds206.video

by Reverend

| Andy Rush, ds106, ds106tv, ds206.video, ds206video, Reclaim Today, Syndicated
October 20, 2020

I’m gonna try and make this post short and sweet because the conversation above says it all. In episode 24 of Reclaim Today Tim and I were once again joined by Andy Rush to brainstorm the design and structure of … Continue reading ?
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KaraOERke Summer Summit 2020

by Reverend

| digital storytelling, ds106, ds106radio, ds106tv, fun, jitsi, karaOERke, karaoke, OBS, Syndicated, Video, youtube
August 4, 2020

As an update, turns out Zoom will work better than Jitsi in this instance, and I explain why in this follow-up post here. I spent a bit of time this afternoon getting my rig setup for the KaraOERke event that … Continue reading ?
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Weekend Notes from Reclaim Cloud: Anth101, downsizing bava, and back to MyISAM

by Reverend

| anth101, bavatuesdays, ds106, Reclaim Cloud, reclaimcloud, Syndicated, WordPress
June 29, 2020

I spent some time Saturday and Sunday playing around with the Reclaim Cloud, I am spending more and more time in this environment, and loving it. Couple of notes here given I am prone to forget. I moved the impressive … Continue reading ?
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New homepage for ds106.club

by Reverend

| digital storytelling, ds106, ds106club, Syndicated
June 5, 2020

While I am still cleaning house, I wanted to share the new homepage I create for the ds106.club site. While I would like to pretend I actually styled this site, I did nothing of the sort. I basically copied the … Continue reading →
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Archiving ds106 docs

by Reverend

| digital storytelling, ds106, mediawiki, reclaim, Reclaim Cloud, reclaimcloud, Syndicated, wiki
June 5, 2020

Part of moving ds106 to a new server is making sure you don’t leave a trail of dead links in your wake. With great classes come great responsibility 🙂 I think I have the caching issues and some of the … Continue reading →
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#ds106 is #4life

Writing Flashku for The Daily Create

DS106 Pledge of Creativity

More Notes on ds106 Clean-Up

ds106 Hacked and WordFence to the Rescue

Accused! ds106 on Trial

Reclaim Karaoke at the Rockaway Club

Moving Mastodon Object Storage from AWS S3 to DigitalOcean Spaces

Some Initial Mastodon Instance Tweaking

A MBS Recommendation

Linda McKenna is ds106 #4life

Form of a Blog Post about ds106, RSS, and more

Happy Valentine’s Day #ds106

“You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.” ? Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake

Sake Song

Breathe

An economy of care

Saudade in Santa Fe

Ethics, Analytics and the Duty of Care

Catching Up with the Joy of ds106

The Sisyphean Labor of Link Love

Blog Islands in the Stream

The Joy of ds106: Week 3

ds106: The Waves of Creativity

The Joy of ds106, Week 2

Producing The Joy of ds106

Brainstorming ds206.video

KaraOERke Summer Summit 2020

Weekend Notes from Reclaim Cloud: Anth101, downsizing bava, and back to MyISAM

New homepage for ds106.club

Archiving ds106 docs

UMW Spring 2024 (Bond & Groom)

Welcome to Paul Bond and Jim Groom’s Spring 2024 ds106

Student Blogs

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