John, your set a great example for this assignment. Your story, your insight, and your voice married with the song is nearly hypnotic. And, no, I don't think it's too long. But then, I have a weakness for a Scottish accent! :) Nicely done!

Hi Martha, Thanks. I guess I was not clear. I like the idea of falling short of 'the glory'. In the. Song there is I believe an implicate forgiveness. I also like the idea of failing, failing early and often. I am with you on the learning. I've been finding my fellow participants more use than many design web pages: shorter and easier to digest. .htacess updated and links are prettier.

Oh! And when you get a chance, can you change your permalink settings on your blog (Settings -> Permalinks) from the default to "pretty" permalinks? For some reason, Wordpress isn't generating the feed for comments on posts correctly when default permalinks are being used. As a result, on the ds106 site, our comment counts are off for your posts.

There is no falling short in DS106 -- just getting back up and trying again. As for design sense, I strongly believe that it can be learned to a large degree. We may not all be able to become professional designers, but we can learn how to tune our sense of design so that we're better at imagining the possibilities. I also strongly believe that a lot of what frustrates people is when their (current) expertise falls short of their vision. That's not a lack of design sense, just a need to continue to hone skills. Which you've certainly got a strong start on! I know how frustrating it is when you've got this amazing vision in your head of how the product is going to turn out, but then you get into Photoshop and simply can't execute it fully.

Thanks Chad, not sure the 'wee kids license' is official;-) Its been 3-4 years since I've had a class now. I think they, like me, explain CC with difficulty;-)

John, thanks for this reflection and sharing out the wee kids license and search toy - I could definitely use them with my middle school students. How do your kids explain CC? Best, C