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Moving Mashup
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In Doctorow’s novel Pirate Cinema, the main character is obsessively driven to create and transform a video “mashup from something trite and obvious to something genuinely moving”. It’s a great complement to this week’s ds106 remix challenge. Jonathan Worth, the brilliant prof behind #phonar, has released all his great Cory Doctorow photographs under a creative commons license for all the world to remix. Cogdog has already given Cory the Jedi Master treatment. I decided to choose this picture: cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) by Jonathan Worth I stared at it so long I thought I could almost see ...
Drive by learning
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Evidence that learning cannot be contained within the boundaries of a course, I’ve taken a couple double takes reading both Audrey Watters’ and Mike Caulfield’s excellent critiques about Sugra Mitra and his Hole in the Wall project in India. Caulfield also tweeted a link to this excellent essay by Morozov touching on the topic of his book about solutionism,: which is “an intellectual pathology that recognizes problems as problems based on just one criterion: whether they are solvable with a nice and clean technological solution at our disposal” This harkened me back to last year during #Change11 week 24 session ...
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, ...
More Learning from MOOCs that Matter #ds106 #etmooc
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I’m excited to be a guest in #ds106 this evening for Week 6: It’s All Designed. Of course, DS106 is not like any other MOOC and is not big on the M part of the MASSIVE, but its specialness is important to reiterate in this time of MOOC madness. I’m hoping some of the students take up @cogdog‘s suggestion to do one of the assignments I submitted, Learning by Design. I’ve done many visual notes of talks over the past couple years, but I’m always happy to do a new one. Luckily, this week I was able to catch the ...
EDCMOOC: Utopia, as x approaches c
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There’s a lot to like about the EDCMOOC currently running in Coursera. It’s probably the closest thing I’ve seen to a cMOOC on an xMOOC platform. That said, the platform hinders its greatness. This course would be just about perfect if it existed entirely on the open web. Indeed, much of it does. I like that the organizers decided to focus their attention on curation so they have more time to provide thoughtful prompts and meaningful engagement. While scanning the work of tens of thousands of people is impossible, I feel like I have all the information I want from ...
Permanence Lost
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Reading Chris Lott’s poetic comment about loss in response to Jim’s assertion that Nothing is Lost …there’s not only nothing wrong with writing one’s poem and sending it down the river on fire, it might be a significantly better way to transcend the technical issues and consider what it means to *be* the idea struck me so much, I decided to do this very thing in a literal sense. We wrote. cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo shared by giulia.forsythe Set alight. cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo shared by giulia.forsythe And sent the burning ...
Open as in “for business”
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Featured Image “open for business” cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo by @cogdog Whether you are outraged, amused, or overwhelmed with ennui by the flurry of Instagram ToS sentiments, I agree with Gina Tripani: Deeply happy users are questioning/debating their favorite tools’ Terms of Service, demanding their makers clarify the language. Iteration! — Gina Trapani (@ginatrapani) December 19, 2012 I saw a few of these appear in my instagram feed: Dear Users: You are not our customers, you are the cattle we drive to market and auction off to the highest bidder. Enjoy your feed and keep producing the milk! ...
Nothing Can Stop It!
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cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by giulia.forsythe Starring Sebastian Thrun and all those xMOOCS: Udacity, Coursera, EDx (because they are the ones that get all the attention) but produced, directed and thought about by George Siemens, Alec Couros, Dave Cormier, Stephen Downes. Poster based on The Blob illustrated movie poster, aptly named Design Assignment 666 (number of the BEAST!!!) I read some comments in the Openness in Education newsletter today about whether MOOCs should be feared by institutions because they threaten their financial viability. Will MOOCs disrupt the regular university experience? Hopefully! At first I ...
Wäscälly Wäbbits Weception
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Big virtual party as we (sorta) gather all the pictures of the Wäbbits for our big group photo. Listening to the wisdom of my RSS feeds, Ben reminds us that camp counselors should lead by example. Fellow Wäbbit, John saysKeep Calm and Make a GIF. Not sure how to take Bava’s below the belt advice, but since he was inspired by our other Wäbbit Chanda it must be good. In honor of herding Wäbbits, I have made a special group photo and included a couple of the animated gifs I made this week. Do not adjust your set. This is ...
Casserole Ensemble
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Casseroles – Montréal Sunday’s Daily Create was to take a picture that shows motion. I decided to make it rather show a movement. I love the celebratory, non-violent movement of this ensemble featured in The Huffington post. I’ve included the embed of the video below. It’s quite moving. I love the track titled Intuition by Astronomie. It’s en français; my fave line is “D’un même élan” (roughly translated: the same momentum). Quebec students have been on strike for over 100 days and most mainstream media has mostly ignored them or chalked them up to “self-absorbed brats” Last week the National ...