Our Four teams of #headless #ds106 participants have really earned their crowns, as we saw heard Tuesday night when we premiered live on ds106 radio the productions of The Merry Hacksters, The 3Ts, the JunioRS, and the Dusky Path of a Dream Team. You can catch another premiere, the UK version hosted by John Johnston and Marian Funes at 8pm BST – tune in at http:?/ds106rad.io/live And yes, we haz archives! On the Headless Radio Show page, we have not only the shows, but the great pre show and post show discussions hosted by your truly and truly Christina Hendricks last night- find them all at http://ds106.us/2013/10/19/headless-radio-shows/. But wait, there is more! It’s all in a playlist on ds106radio, so those in the know can find it and slot it into the schedule at any time. Want to know how to do this? Learn here and there… First of all, […]

Shark jumping is so old. Everyone has done it. Try leaping over the Greek computer bearing donkeys cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo shared by Dave Sag I was trying to think of a ridiculous animal to be jumped, like an 8 headed iguana, and just flickr searching on “hydra” I landed the photo above, which just so begs to be in a blog post. If anything needs to be said about open access, what about creative commons flickr searching and stumbling across a free to use 10 year old photo of a greek donkey carrying computers? How much ore infinite can the web be? (I seek more reasons to write “Greek Donkey carrying computers”). The caption of this photo describes nothing you will see around an EDUCAUSE conference: At lunch on Hellenic island of Hydra when I saw these donkeys carting computers up to a conference. […]

Maybe my favorite image of my Mom was one I made on her last visit to my home in Arizona. She knew, and obliged in retelling, the stories of her past. I remember asking her about her high school years, because to me, in her photo, she looked so much more mature than high school. I had the idea to ask her to try and recreate the expression in that photo, which I merged in PhotoSHop: cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine Sometime later, it got me thinking of the Dear Photograph site (check it out), and that it was actually more interesting to have in the photo the tangible real original photo. I got the idea to do it in 2011 when my sisters and I had to clean Mom;s house out, and I ended up getting photos of my sisters holding their […]

It’s a new word for me (go ahead and giggle you Brits), but I have just finished listening to one of those things that happen fairly regularly in ds106, but can slip by you in the fast flow of all the activity. Mariana Funes aka The ds106 Shrink has been a force of awesomeness since coming into ds106 this summer from Martin Weller’s H817 course, She has taken a lead in promoting the ds106 Google+ Community (of which I was lukewarm). For every call I put out for volunteers, she is pulling off an Arnold Horshack While waiting for some files to load or some database to launch I scrolled through the ds106 tweets from the last day, and found this solo Google Hangout Mariana did– she has been restricted this week from using the computer because of RSI… but that sure did not stop her. And demonstrating the best […]

Since this week in headless ds106 is an exploration of what digital storytelling means, and what happens when it is digital– it might by interesting to participate in the third iteration of a story that plays out in realtime on the web. mainly through twitter– Twitter vs Zombies, happening September 13-15: Welcome to the third round of Twitter Vs. Zombies. Part flash-mob. Part Hunger-Games. Part Twitter-pocalypse. Part digital feeding frenzy. Part micro-MOOC. Part giant game of Twitter tag. This iteration of the game was built to serve, in part, as a networked icebreaker for the participants of Open Online Experience 2013 — but the game is open to anyone on the Internet. Twitter vs. Zombies, or #TvsZ, is a game played on Twitter designed to demonstrate virtual community and teach new media literacy. For the three days of the game, you will have a built-in community on Twitter ready to […]

cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by Reema This blog’s crusty old theme (I still like it, sue me) has a pretty narrow width content column, 500px fixed. I typically size my media to fit. Since I have been syndicating content into here from my other blogs– my Barking Dog photo site puts images in at 950px wide, and my ds106 tricks site is at least 800 wide, I end up with posts requiring manual editing. Here is an example, the post originally at ds106 tricks has images 71- px wide, so when they are syndicated here, I get cruft like: The images blow wide, at the top its not horrible, they are behind the sidebars… but it bothers my design sense. I’ve noticed on themes like the stock WordPress Twenty-Eleven -Twelve, -Thirteen that it seems to magically size all images wider than the column width […]