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Tiny Electric Motor
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Well maybe I got too carried away, but this is a response to @giuliaforsythe’s design assignment Learning by Design at ds106. This is both an explanation of how an electric motor works and instructions on how to make a tiny one. I have my students do this in my physics classes every year, and it’s a favorite hands-on project. If I had been at school, I would have done it all on the Smart Board, which is easier to draw on and manipulate. Instead I drew on several pieces of paper with a black marker. Then I photographed the pages, ...
Sketchy Dr. Groom on Assignment
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Learning By Design Turn ideas into pictures! Visualize a blog post, TED Talk, Class lecture or even dense text from a book- through drawing. Use the pictures to symbolically represent & concretize abstract concepts, and to make connections between ideas. Try to use words sparingly and only to reinforce your imagery. Doodle it in your notebook, use your tablet, or scribble it on the back of a napkin. Just be sure to digitize it and then blog about the process, including citing where your inspiration came from. I decided to follow another ds106er path (that”s you @spencer_cscott) and take an ...
Upcycling v. Recycling v. Downcycling
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I really wanted to try to make an infographic of some kind, so I decided to do the Learning By Design assignment worth 3.5 stars. Since I am not very good at drawing, I googled different infographic maker sites that let you make infographics for free. I came across Piktochart and really liked the different icons and fonts that were included in their free package, so I went away and registered and began making my infographic. I chose to do an infographic about upcycling because sustainability is very important to me, and although I am not a perfect environmentalist, I do try ...
Acme Doodle – Learning By Design
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I have wanted to try visual note-taking for a while and have given it a couple of tries, but find that I drift to using mostly words. I bought Mike Rohde’s The Sketchnote Handbook last fall as inspiration. This week I attended a symposium on MOOCs and Libraries so decided to try visual note-taking in one of the sessions. I ran into quite a few problems. I didn’t allocate an appropriate amount of space for each of the three speakers. I rambled with the first speaker who ended up with 75% of the page real estate. My next problem was ...
Tutorial on Visnotes!
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For those of you in my classes, visual note taking will be an important skill for you to develop. It will increase your capacity for taking notes, it’s more fun, it makes your notes easier to study, and it will help you retain more information. I will also expect to see you taking notes like […]
Data Mine
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Another great #etmooc session this eve. Audrey Watters dropped some awesome thought bombs. She posed some challenging questions, as we move beyond the analog manilla envelope (like her mom collected of her school artefacts) into the digital realm and quintillions of bytes are collected daily. How do students, teachers, administrators, schools, and governments decide who owns what, for what purpose. Starting with the terms of service, which we admittedly all quickly click through without thoroughly inspecting who is giving and who is taking value. (TLDR= too long, didn’t read ~ TOSDR = terms of service, didn’t read!) Issues of control, ...
Napkin Doodle | 5 Stars
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The assignment: Visual Thinking and Symbols Do ONE of the following assignments: Learning By Design (*****) is an assignment in visual note taking. Because many of you expressed interest in the style of the Steven Johnson video form week 1, here is your opportunity to learn more about how this is done. This TED talk is from Jok Church His talk is titled A Circle of Caring. It is a heartwarming story of his life, that resonates with all of humanity. ————————— Jok Church wiki An Interview– Washington Post and Jok Church
Beautiful Music of the Spheres
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Making sense of my learning through drawing DS106
Open Education
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Visualization of Jim Groom's talk at the Open Education 2011 conference, broadcasted live on #ds106RADIO
Inspired Rants- More on Copyright
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Visualization of Brian Lamb's talk about Open Sustainability at the Open Education 2011 conference, broadcasted live on #ds106radio