I am Todd Conaway and I live in in the upper deserts of Arizona. I live in a village called Cornville. No joke. From a hill near my home I can see for many miles in every direction. In some cases there are no buildings for a hundred miles. No wonder I am looking for ...

Marshall McLuhan has touched me in text. He used words and paper to reach me. I touch you in this rectangle before you using electricity and characters. This is me. “The automobile is an extension of your feet, clothing an extension of your skin, glasses an extension of your eyes, the internet an extension of ...

Last night I happened to catch a bit of The Bounty with Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins, and Liam Nesson. They all look like kids, even Hopkins. Given the recent events in ds106 it seemed appropriate that the movie presented itself before me. I wonder what kind of good questions we can ask about a mutiny? Do we simply banish all ...

I had a rather rough start with making an audio assignment as I paired with the awesome Alan Levine and the guy is an overachiever in most things. We did the American Life assignment, you can see and listen to it here. I did about five seconds of audio and he did twenty minutes. It was ...

At the start of the day I found this great post by Daryl Cook and among other nice thoughts and pieces of information it ended with a Mother Teresa quote saying that you cannot do great things, only small things with love. I immediately thought of the ds106 community and the face of the MOOC ...

My daughter just told me about a project a friend of hers is doing involving anime and YouTube and I thought the ds106 community would like the plan. She described it as a “visual novel” and like the old “choose your own adventure” books. I described her efforts in Anime here last fall for ds106. ...

I had to write this down quickly so here is goes. It is inspired by the ideas of a YouTube video novel and recent post by @AlanLiddell and @jimgroom about themes and RPG/D&D concepts in courses. I like themes in classes. They can be addressed in many ways, but I agree a participatory story line ...

This is an animated gif and I used my own words again. There was a time when Bukowski was my role model. Now I just admire his words and his stamina. I do not know when I wrote this poem. That sentence might be saying, “Well, Todd, you may have written it before you stopped ...

of writing poems. Well, he did. Here is cover to self published little spiral bound book he did in 92. I like the title. I think. I still feel like I am sitting at a window, watching the beautiful world go slowly by. Pretty Awesome. I think the Archives may be returning to life. Perhaps ...

PRETTY FUNNY. Not real inspired by the pink lines around the bumper stickers. No heckling please… Super inspired by @nottrivial and some awesome bumper stickers, and @jimgroom mentioning them in his no where near 99th post. I have to say before I share them that @draggin and @twoodwar and I had had some exchange of ideas back ...

By clicking on the “Final Project” tab to the upper right of this text you will see my Final Project. Good Grief.

Well, as I pondered a title for this I hearkened back to a classic Neil Young song I always loved. Still love. But I could not recall the title of the song. Hello Google. This is the journey. I went to that Grand Canyon this past weekend. My government was going to shut down on Saturday morning and that would have ...

As we conquer each new media we encounter, I was inspired to pull together the various logos (sans the International Treaty shields) into one giant logo. I figure branding is important at this point of the game and the marketing people should be on it. As I did not do any of the original artwork ...

I present my mashup (that I hope to improve on someday soon) in a few words I thought of and a part of Allen Ginsberg and his HOWLing and some fantasy of Fantasia and Night and Darkness sweeping across the land. Let us pray: Herald the Doom creeping like seething night tossing optimism aside like ...