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    Slice of Life: Cool Collaboration

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    (This is a post for Slice of Life, a regular writing feature hosted by Two Writing Teachers. We write about moments. You write, too.) I wish I could embed the media piece I want to write about today, but you will have to go to Mariana’s blog to see and hear it. Then, come on […]
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    Bringing the Animals In

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    Today’s Daily Create for DS106 was one for the audio senses. It asked us to use a Nature Soundmap project (where people post audio recordings of animals in nature) and mix five sounds together. I was tempted to add some backing drumbeat … but then found that the first track, of frogs, created its own […]
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    Exploring the Muse: SongMap

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    At the DS106 Daily Create the other day, we were given the task of creating a “hand drawn” map. In other words, get away from the computer and make something on paper. I’m glad I did that because this map got me thinking metaphorically about how I go about writing songs. Plus, I got to […]
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    Forgive Me, Shakespeare, for I have Sarcasmed You

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    All last week, the DS106 Daily Create community was alive with Shakespeare, as part of the 400th year celebration of the Bard. To say we took it seriously would be an overstatement. But still … each day, we were given words and/or images and/or passages and set free to do what we would. (Thanks to […]
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    Continued Reverberations of Online Connections

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    flickr photo shared by priyaswtc under a Creative Commons ( BY-NC-ND ) license Three posts recently had me thinking again about the reverberations of online networks or communities or whatever term it is you wish to use to indicate projects that never quite end. First, there was this tweet from my Making Learning Connected MOOC […]
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    Grids and Gestures: A Comic Make

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    Nick Sousanis, whose work as a graphic story/artist is always intriguing (see Unflattening) and interesting, is hosting an informal week of Grids and Gestures, his activity that invites you to make a conceptual comic built around time and design. Nick did a Make with Me hangout with CLMOOC this past summer, and we all did […]
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    Daily Create: Five Image Story

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    Today’s Daily Create at DS106 was a multi-step affair — generate a story starter and then construct a visual story with five images. So, StorySpark gave me this odd story starter: An anxious storyteller spies on a quick-witted quantum chemist in a diabolical toy store So I went into Flickr Creative Commons to make this […]
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    Ambient Audio Reverberations in Story and Poem

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    Yesterday, thanks to a wintry late start at my school but not at my sons’ schools, I had time before school to work on two sound stories. One of the stories was the third Learning Event for the HearMyHome project, and the other was an assignment for the DS106 Daily Create. The Learning Event for HearMyHome […]
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    (More) Lost Women of the West: Queen Anne Bassett

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    This is the final poem that I wrote to remember the “lost women of the west” whose stories often get forgotten alongside male notables like Jesse James, Wyatt Earp, and others. I have been aiming to celebrate the women, but not necessarily the lifestyles they led. Some robbed and hurt others, just like some of […]
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    The Last Pony Ride of the Internet Kid (for now)

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    I am nearing the end of this two-month run of making comics for The Wild West Adventures of the Internet Kid. This has been an ancillary project for the Course with No Course — a Western-themed offshoot of DS106. It has been a ton of fun to make these comics, but I don’t know how […]

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