Wow, what a week.  It’s been a rollercoaster for sure, and I’m starting to find I’m grateful to have had my blog along for the ride to help me document, evaluate, and share the ups and downs. I got to talk about stories, put a shape to an old favorite I’ve begun to be able ...

In case you haven’t heard yet, there is this beautiful place on the Interwebs called The Daily Create.  It has quickly become one of my favorite places, and has become a wonderful excuse to take a creative break out of my days.  I’ve found it’s refreshing, and I’ve come to look forward to seeing the ...

This week, in my ds106 class, we’ve been diving into the world of storytelling in all sorts of ways, in an attempt to better understand what it is, what it means, and what it can do.  One of the most fun, and yet time-consuming assignments to this effect was to check out the highlighted works ...

Ever heard of  Kurt Vonnegut.  Yeah, me either.  Well, until this week. I’ve talked with friends and my husband before about how there are no original stories, how all stories are the same old same old, same stuff, different setting, change the names to protect the innocent kinda stuff. Our buddy Kurt here puts a ...

When my good friend Carolyn asked me if I’d do The Color Run with her back at the beginning of the year, I agreed to do it, even though I didn’t understand what it was.  I mean, it had the word run in it.  That was cool with me. When I looked it up, I ...

WARNING!!  Boring administrative post incoming!!  I was one of those who fell for that annoying little trick and accepted the /wordpress subdomain WordPress automatically offered us during initial setup.  Man, did I ever pay for that.  Justin and I both pulled our hair out for a while trying to figure out how to fix this ...

Every day, for thousands of years, people everywhere have laughed.  They’ve laughed for endless amounts of reasons – at everyday ironies, at idiosyncrasies, at stupidity, at each others’ sense of humor, at others’ misfortune, and even at their own misfortunes. I couldn’t resist using my friend Walter at least one more time. As I’ve expressed ...

Wow, what a week. Hopefully, this post will mean I’ve survived Week 2 of Bootcamp in ds106.  I dunno.  Depends on how fast I can get this published and into Canvas.   Here’s the rundown. I had a blast with the daily creates.  I still love them.  I won’t rehash all 6 of mine here, ...

    This assignment sucked.  It made me cry.  Many many times.  Actually, it just made me cry again, as I just finished typing it up, and when I clicked save, it deleted all of my writing, saving only the GIF. What would I like to do?  I’d like to cry, and scream, and throw ...

Apparently, I have come to love the Daily Create.  I finished ds106‘s Weekly Summary for last week a little early, and didn’t include Friday’s or Saturday’s assignment, so I’ll include these here, just for my own sake if nothing else.  I like the idea of being able to use Categories and Tags to see all ...

@JMoIsHere Yay. <3 in reply to JMoIsHere # @mburtis I have gotten an onslaught of spam comments on my WordPress – I deny them, but any advice on how to stop them? #ds106 # @cogdog @mburtis Score, thanks! @JMoIsHere just showed me the plug-ins, and I just finished setting up Akismet. Double score. in reply ...

‘Use the power of the Web to learn more about CC and copyright.’  Well, alrighty, Professors.  Challenge heard and accepted. I began my online research with the smartest site in the world: Google. But as much as we all love Google, we never really spend more than a few fleeting seconds there at once, so ...

Looking back, I’m not sure why we even felt it was necessary to have me take the video for JMo.  I don’t think I saw a single other submission for the keychain Daily Create assignment that used anyone else’s help to take the video.  But apparently, when you’re an old married couple like us, it’s ...

About Me Perhaps an advantage of being one of the last students to be added to the course, is that I have had the advantage of seeing everything you all have posted already, before having to create my own. A disadvantage, maybe then, would be that I’ll know all of you, and you aren’t even ...

My very first Daily Create.   Generally, I’m very excited about this page, but I don’t like the idea of putting myself on video. Stresses me out.  I was just gonna show you my keys on a table, but decided that since this assignment was chosen to help us meet each other, I’d allow images ...

What, I don’t get a little bit of grace for being a late-comer? Come on, now, I just got added to the class this morning (or was it yesterday morning…I’ve lost count). Whatever.  Patient or not, I guess the interwebs will just have to wait another half-second or so while I finish playing with my ...