smile.mov Watch on Posterous I was catching up on some ds106, looking at this visual assignment while this audio assignment was playing. 

I am addicted to this retelling of the story of Robocop as a rap. It takes ten minutes to cover the entire narrative of the film in loving detail. It gets super bonus points for including the actual recorded dialogue from the original film woven int...

I am addicted to this retelling of the story of Robocop as a rap. It takes ten minutes to cover the entire narrative of the film in loving detail. It gets super bonus points for including the actual recorded dialogue from the original film woven into the rhythm and rhyme.  I was born at a…

As Seymour Papert once pointed out, just imagine the absurdity of a school that has only two pencils in each classroom. Or imagine a school where all the pencils are locked up in a special room. But I think the big problem is that schools have ...

As Seymour Papert once pointed out, just imagine the absurdity of a school that has only two pencils in each classroom. Or imagine a school where all the pencils are locked up in a special room. But I think the big problem is that schools have very few ideas about what to do with the…

via blog.ni9e.com This is a must watch for anyone that is reading this. For ds106ers, it should be required watching. I can't enumerate all the ways this presentation is great, or all the great ideas and aesthetics therein. Let me jus...

via blog.ni9e.com This is a must watch for anyone that is reading this. For ds106ers, it should be required watching. I can’t enumerate all the ways this presentation is great, or all the great ideas and aesthetics therein. Let me just say it is a beautiful intersection of open software, open data, the internet, crowds,…

Aside from all the glorious edtech rambling debates, I am seeing ds106 as really an exercise in unlocking and cultivating our personal creativity. It is a slow process for me, which saddens me, but I am still determined to work through this and emer...

I'm spending a couple of weeks of doing daily shoot photos for the digital storytelling 106 open course. I decided in addition to taking a photo based on the guidelines, I'll also make a video each day. Today's theme was repetition. As a happy accid...

The ds106 assignment for this previous week was to read O'Reilly's "What Is Web 2.0?",  Bryan Alexander and Alan Levine’s “Web 2.0 Storytelling: The Emergence of a New Genre”, and Seven Things You Should Know about Creati...

I’m spending a couple of weeks of doing daily shoot photos for the digital storytelling 106 open course. I decided in addition to taking a photo based on the guidelines, I’ll also make a video each day. Today’s theme was repetition. As a happy accident, there might be multiple examples of repetition here, not just…

The ds106 assignment for this previous week was to read O’Reilly’s “What Is Web 2.0?”,  Bryan Alexander and Alan Levine’s “Web 2.0 Storytelling: The Emergence of a New Genre”, and Seven Things You Should Know about Creative Commons. First off, for most of higher ed, the term web 2.0 is still some strange ideal that is…

Thanks to @drs18 for pointing me to this post by Dave Winer on students running their own publishing infrastructure.  How strangely serendipitous that while we in ds106 are raging on about the Gardner Campbell's "Personal Cyberinfrast...

Thanks to @drs18 for pointing me to this post by Dave Winer on students running their own publishing infrastructure.  How strangely serendipitous that while we in ds106 are raging on about the Gardner Campbell’s “Personal Cyberinfrastructure” that Winer joins in on the net with his own take. Winer also, like Campbell in his “No More Digital Facelifts”…

I have always considered my self proficient in the internet.  Of course, I could use Facebook, write a blog, search Google, watch Youtube, etc.  But, now I am realizing that I am not proficient at all.  My education has prepare...

I have always considered my self proficient in the internet.  Of course, I could use Facebook, write a blog, search Google, watch Youtube, etc.  But, now I am realizing that I am not proficient at all.  My education has prepared me very little to experiment with the internet in a way that would allow me…

On the surface, my relationship with my webhost is fairly transparent and one-dimensional – I trade money for services/space.  My relationship with free or freemium web services is a little more murky – I become a data point in an...

Here are some reactions for ds106 to Gardner Campell's "No More Digital Facelifts" presentation. It was so densely packed with "Right on!" and "Yee-Haw!" moments, it really got my head buzzing, and I suspect I will be feeling this effect for quite s...

The previous week in ds106 has been all about what I consider a uniquely internet art form, the animated gif. Yup, what was a gaudy attack on all that is good and decent has made a resurgence in some corners of the web and ds106 is riding the wave. ...