The Inventiveness of a Simple #DS106 Daily Create

The Inventiveness of a Simple #DS106 Daily Create

by cogdog

| Syndicated
February 9, 2016

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 res...
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Fallen Off the #Western106 Radio Horse

by cogdog

| Syndicated
February 7, 2016

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 we...
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Gaps, and Open Space in the West: “The Painted Desert” (1931)

by cogdog

| Syndicated
January 26, 2016

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 ...
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ds106 – CogDogBlog 2016-01-25 01:47:54

by cogdog

| Syndicated
January 25, 2016

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 im...
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3:42 to Yellow Sky

by cogdog

| Syndicated
January 22, 2016

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 ...
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How The West Was Lost

by cogdog

| Syndicated
January 21, 2016

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 ...
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The Short Life of Grumpy The Cowboy Snowman

by cogdog

| Syndicated
January 19, 2016

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 yesterday mornin...
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DS106 Welcomes CU Denver for a Spring 2016 Course

by cogdog

| Syndicated
January 18, 2016

Yes, I am a placeholder so that the course tag for Learning With Digital Stories will work! This is a graduate class consisting primarily of Instructional Learning Technology majors and Language & Literacy majors. Our students come from a wide range of professional fields and offer a diverse mix of...
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Jack ‘n Bat: Some Western106 Shorts

by cogdog

| Syndicated
January 18, 2016

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, ...
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When I Grow Up I Want to Be a [Pretend] Cowboy [on the Internet]

by cogdog

| Syndicated
January 15, 2016

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 ...
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Howdy #Western106

by cogdog

| Syndicated
January 14, 2016

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 blog bul...
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It’s an Ecstasy of a Bag of Gold

by cogdog

| Syndicated
January 12, 2016

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 suggest...
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An Unexpected Affirmation for Why I Teach

by cogdog

| Syndicated
January 9, 2016

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 ...
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On Medium a Title is Often the Entire Story

by cogdog

| Syndicated
January 8, 2016

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 ...
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A Fistful of Western DS106

by cogdog

| Syndicated
January 5, 2016

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, a...
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“Nobody” in the Spaghetti

by cogdog

| Syndicated
January 4, 2016

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 (@...
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Taking the Reins of the DS106 Daily Create

by cogdog

| Syndicated
December 28, 2015

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. Th...
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Solo Rider for #Western106

by cogdog

| Syndicated
December 21, 2015

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...
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Ol Hatchet Jack is Gonna Ride With #Western106

by cogdog

| Syndicated
November 8, 2015

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...
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Ridin’ ‘Round the Copyright Fearin’ Folks for #Western106

by cogdog

| Syndicated
October 31, 2015

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 monta...
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Bill ‘n Alan Jaw ‘Bout #Western106

by cogdog

| Syndicated
October 27, 2015

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 l...
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Adding on to Removed as a Daily Create

by cogdog

| Syndicated
October 25, 2015

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 po...
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Howdy, Pardner! Round Up For #Western106

by cogdog

| Syndicated
October 22, 2015

This storytelling drive is going to happen. There is a roundup for January 2016, when me and some other riders are gathering to do a new round of The One The Only The Stomp Over MOOCs Open Course in Digital Storytelling, DS106. It’s been riding t...
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Giddyup for Western106!

by cogdog

| Syndicated
October 1, 2015

Howdy! There’s gonna be a ds106 full of western stories and movies that I will be teaching next Spring for Kansas State University. Bill Genereux has been a long time ds106 partner in teaching a Kansas State University course on digital storytell...
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Sorry, I Could Stop Help Myself from Remixing

by cogdog

| Syndicated
September 23, 2015

When John Pederson (or “Balki Bartokomous”?) launches a softie like this These audience reaction shots are exactly how I feel while watching @djakes and @shareski keynote. https://t.co/CCgozydkZG — Balki Bartokomous (@ijohnpederson) ...
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Tuco No Ugly

by cogdog

| Syndicated
September 11, 2015

I do not even want to look to find out the last time I officially completed a ds106 assignment (probably last time I taught, Spring 2014). But I was so inspired by Bill Genereux’s new one, A Scene We Didn’t Get To See: Create a short video tha...
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Imaginary Bestseller! “Tweeting Alone” (and the making thereof)

by cogdog

| Syndicated
August 26, 2015

Twas not my plan to make a mocked up book cover, even before breakfast. But so it goes, when the urge worms its way into my cranium. I cannot let go til I try it out. I woke up to back scroll twitter, finding the eminently sarcastic, funny, insightful,...
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#ds106 Good Spellin’ on a Sunday Afternoon

by cogdog

| Syndicated
August 23, 2015

I got a message request from Mariana Funes Want to do new bumper for 106 spell starting Sept 6 can you record “Under the #106spell on a sunny Sunday on #ds106radio” for us when you have a moment? with a link to the song by The Kinks. She is...
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The Stuff You Think The Internet Will Find Funny… They Don’t

by cogdog

| Syndicated
August 3, 2015

Internet, you so fickle. Without much thought, you ca share something frivolous and people are all over it. You’re on fire. You get an idea in your head you think will get spread, and it falls like a lead rock on Jupiter. I’ve only marginal...
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Becoming @iamtalkytina

by cogdog

| Transmissions of ds106 Greatness
July 4, 2015

Our beloved ds106 talking doll’s life story
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