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, …
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 the open internet plains …
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 storytelling that he has hitched his wagon to the …
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) September 23, 2015
how can I resist the urge to remix? Not only are the reaction shots brilliant., but …
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 that shows …
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, and …
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 …
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 marginally followed the story, but seeing …
Well, you might only be able to go back to 2007. And Google Streetview often does not provide too many exit doors. But this seemed like a cool discovery, simply at random.
Last weekend I was driving north from home on highway 87, and coming down the hill from the …
File this one in the Unexpected Wonderful Internet Things That Started With an Almost Random Click department.
I do like to know when someone comments on my flickr photos. In a previous version of the mobile app, what it showed for notifications matched the settings you make on the web …
Whilst passing through various discussions, tweet streams, blog posts about education, I end up feeling like Michelle Flaherty because I am always reaching for my experience and examples from ds106 (I won’t embed the video ;-)
While not much actively involved lately, since 2011, I have been an open participant, …
My “involvement” in #rhizo15 is pretty much listening to the tea leaves in twitter, today’s bits had a fair bit of rumbling about “Content is People!” When I read Simon’s post I really had expectations of a DEVO song.
But in reading/watching Dave’s question about the Myth of Content…
List crossing. Attending (and presented) yesterday at the Modern Language Association Conference here in Vancouver. I mingled with more rhetoricians then I usually do. I got to meet Sean Michael Morris and Jesse Strommel of Hybrid Pedagogy fame.
My session yesterday was part of a panel on Visionary Pedagogies for …
