DS106 Pledge of Creativity
The Daily Create prompt the other day – by my friend Karen – suggested a revamping of the Pledge of Allegiance recited in schools but I went in another direction.
Peace (from the nothing),
Kevin
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A BIT of Light
As the world watched with bated breath, the lander softly land on the Moon, and India and the world broke into applause at 6:04 pm IST on the 23rd of August 2023. Once more we were looking to the heavens and the South Pole of the moon for the need of w... -
Special Issue on Decolonizing Digital Learning: Equity Through Intentional Course Design
Krystle Phirangee, University of Toronto, [email protected]; Lorne Foster, York University, [email protected] What’s the purpose of lived experience in assessments? How do we even grade lived experience? These were some of the ques... -
A BIT Of Salt
India, in March prepares for spring by stepping into a riot of colours and I happened to time it right as I arrived in Kolkata and finally made my way to Uttarakhand. There was also an air of celebration as the G20 presidency saw India step into 2023 w... -
Chapter Proposal – Autism, Neurodiversity, and Equity in Professional Preparation Programs
We are currently in the process of editing a forthcoming publication entitled Autism, Neurodiversity, and Equity in Professional Preparation Programs to be published by IGI Global, an international publisher of progressive academic research. We would l... -
Twitter Sez DS106 Daily Create Get Off My Lawn!
The Musky Dark Lord of Twitter has finally cast the fun loving, roll-in-the-grass-like-a-happy-dog DS106 Daily Create off of the tweeting lawn. This marks the end of 3811 successive never missed a single day of tweeting fun creative challenges openly and the last 2813 of them had, until today, been able to have their responses collected […] -
Educational Technology Conferences 2023 & 2024
The following list was adapted from Clayton R. Wright’s Educational Technology and Education Conferences List #48. Please refer to Wright’s complete list for other conferences as well as each conference website for more details. Each year I attend AECT... -
The Joy of Web Improbability: The Buggles on/in front of #DS106 TV
Keep the internet weird and un-expected, not managed by machine languages and corporatized algorithms, but by the small human acts of sharing. Ok? This has happened to me countless times yet never gets old. So via Mastodon, all the way from New Zealand, my colleague Stephen Harlow thinks to share this: Indeed, in a YouTube […] -
Fourth Month of Daily Doubles: The April Slide
Alas, the first three months of the year I kept to my goal/obsession to stay on form for daily flickr photo posting and daily #ds106 daily creates. Yes, I hit the mark for January, February, and March. Alas by April 30, 2023, day 120, my slippage is showing, with 118 daily flickr photos and 108 […] -
It’s ETMOOC#2 Time! Chat GPT
So like many people I have heard about ChatGPT . Until ETMOOC#2 I hadn't even used it.But it is time. And as usual the best way to try software is to use it so, here is my first interactions with ChatGPT!The topic was chosen because one of my staff mem... -
Call for proposals – Engaging Faculty through Faculty Development
A reminder that JFD is welcoming submissions for its next special section, focused on Engaging Faculty through Faculty Development. For this special section, JFD is seeking brief manuscripts that address but are not limited to the following questions:Â ... -
This video was made by the bots on the web, I received it after…
This video was made by the bots on the web, I received it after Colin, the Gifadog, had died that summer. It captured much of his last year. I only had to make minor adjustments to the video. He will be missed and remembered by many. It was a p... -
Third Month of Double Dailies
Not that anyone is keeping score… well I am! For 2023 my double daily habits, the DS106 Daily Create and my Daily Flickr Photo routine have notched another perfect month, bringing both to 90 completions at the end of March, the 90th day of the year. This follows my streaks for both January and Feburary. Can this blistering […] -
Humanery and/or Machinery
by cogdog March 20, 2023Despite the apparent demise of blogs the flat line of the RSS-ograph blips with a pulse from David Kernohan “on chatbots.” FOTA is alive! Unsure if my comment gets through the gate (a first one generated a critical WordPress error, sorry, David), but I have to at least assert my assertion, as if it blips […] -
OEWeek Eventness (or Madness)? 12+2+2 Unscripted Conversations
How often do we get to participate in small group open discussions of our practices? I am not talking about blipping in social media. Last, I chose to to be organize/be in 18 of them, and energized more energetic than any zoom webinar. That week was full on for my organization, Open Education Global with […] -
Double Down on Daily Double in February
The daily habit is on for a two month streak! Picking up in the January pace of batting 1000 for the DS106 Daily Create and my Daily Flickr Photo habit, by the 59th day of the year being 59/59 in both. As the kid asks… Daily Flickr Photos A bit of… Not quite the Ghostbusters […] -
Fetching Stuff from Mastodon (simplest brute force approach)
The clock is ticking for me to modify the WordPress theme that powers the DS106 Daily Create given that the slippery slope timeline for free, unfettered access to the Twitter API will sooner? later? tomorrow? hit the bottom. Just to be clear, nothing here stop the DS106 Daily Create site from publishing it’s 4050+ day […] -
2023 eLearning Conference of Colorado Call for Proposals
We invite you to submit a session proposal in the 2023 eLearning Consortium of Colorado Virtual Conference. The 2023 Conference is free and open to all educators. We hope you will join us for 3 days of collaboration, technology and learning! Wednesday ... -
2022 Year in Review
As I complete my annual evaluation, I find myself looking back over the prior year and my publications. The post 2022 Year in Review appeared first on patrick r. lowenthal. -
Daily Double January 2023
With grand intentions to stick to a schedule of daily challenges, by skin of my calendar teeth I am 31 for 31 days in both daily flickr photos and ds106 Daily Creates. I’ve held this pace before maybe 2 months? Does it really matter to get a perfect score (no)? But parsing some time to […] -
ETMOOC 10 Years Later: Ten wonderful things ETMOOC has done for me
by karenatsharon#learning, #olcmooc, #rhizo14, #tvsz, Alan Levine, Alec Couros, CLMOOC, Dave Cormier, ds106, ds106 daily create, etmooc, Janine DeBaise, Jesse Stommel, Jim Groom, Pete Rorabaugh, Rhonda Jensen, SyndicatedJanuary 28, 2023Hard to believe it has been 10 years since I first started ETMOOC.Why after all this time do I still engage with this community and with the people I met along the way? Because ETMOOC was the beginning of giving me a space to learn and grow,... -
Broadening the Reach of Your Research: Creating an Intentional Web Presence
The post Broadening the Reach of Your Research: Creating an Intentional Web Presence appeared first on patrick r. lowenthal. -
Call for Chapters: Handbook of Research on Innovative Frameworks and Inclusive Models for Online Learning
Editors Jared Keengwe, University of North Dakota, United States Call for Chapters Proposals Submission Deadline: March 8, 2023Full Chapters Due: May 21, 2023Submission Date: May 21, 2023 Introduction A growing demand for online learning coupled with t... -
Call for Chapters: Balance and Boundaries in Creating Meaningful Relationships in Online Higher Education
Editors Sarah Jarvie, Colorado Christian University, United StatesCara Metz, The University of Arizona Global Campus, United States Call for Chapters Proposals Submission Deadline: February 14, 2023Full Chapters Due: June 14, 2023Submission Date: June ... -
Call for Special Issue–Instructional Communication Competence and Instructor Social Presence: Enhancing Teaching and Learning in the Online EnvironmentCall for Special Issue–
The coronavirus pandemic mandated unexpected ‘instant transitions’ to remote learning and accelerated student demand for online courses. As a result, colleges and universities in the U.S. and around the world began and have continued to exp... -
Educational Technology & Society Call for papers for a Special Issue on Educational Design Research for Human Beings’ Learning Access – Centering Accessibility, Equity, and Inclusion
In an era when digital and immersive technologies surrounding human beings, inclusion, equity, and accessibility become a rising focus to serve and center human in education (Estes et al., 2020; Sulecio de Alvarez & Dickson-Deane, 2018). These can ... -
Handbook of Open, Distance and Digital Education
Provides a unique and comprehensive overview of ODDE in the age of digital transformation in education Offers an in-depth discussion on various issues related to ODDE from historical and cross-cultural perspectives Allows researchers, scholars and stud... -
Educational Technology Conferences 2022 & 2023
The following list was adapted from Clayton R. Wright’s Educational Technology and Education Conferences List #48. Please refer to Wright’s complete list for other conferences as well as each conference website for more details. Each year I attend AECT... -
Marge’ah-Refreshing Hope
by achowfinA Future and A Hope, Education Matters, hope, Innovative Technology, Marge'ah, Refreshing, Sonrisa Learning Centres, SyndicatedOctober 30, 2022You have heard me wax poetic about the beauty of the Himalayas many times over this year and yet it is very hard to really capture it in words. However, I have discovered that even more beautiful that the mountains itself are the people that inhabit it... -
The Good, Bad, and Ugly Get a #ds106 Walk of Life
by cogdog October 15, 2022
Yikes, I had to dig deep in the archives to find the last time I did a DS106 Assignment. I would like to think there is one in there about making an excuse for not doing them. Well there was one in 2020 when I made a DS106 Assignment for NetNarr, then the assignment timeline […]
