Just last month, Alan Levine (@cogdog) and his StoryBox rolled through Ontario and made the landmark stop here in Welland, Ontario. I have been excited about the concept of the Pirate Box project since Grant Potter first mentioned it and then quickly built one. I got to see it in action at Northern Voice ’11.… Read More: StoryBox Remix & Four Icon Story »
I’ve been thinking a lot about my recent “cathartic odyssey” a.k.a UnPlug’d since returning over two weeks ago. Today The UnPlug’d Why ____Matters, Chapter Two: Voices & Choices has been released. I was lucky to be in this group and so I must share a bit of what that experience was like, from my perspective.… Read More: UnPlug’d: Voices & Choices »
ILTBHFYTR = I Left This Pirate Box Here For You To Read First off, I am so glad Alan is renaming the Pirate Box a Story Box because although I love the antidisestablishmentarianism ethos of the “Pirate” and the spirit of the box is autonomy, I have no interest in “pirating” content. As for the… Read More: ILTBHFYTR »
[View the story “Northern Voice 11 Plenary” on Storify]
[View the story “Social Movements on a Shoestring Budget” on Storify]
You know it’s telling when I ask an 11 year old what she thinks would be a good mash up and the first thing she can think of is Gollum & Stephen Harper I wanted to mash up Carrie with High School Musical. Or Sherlock Holmes with Blues Clues. Or Dora the Explorer with the… Read More: Gollum for Prime Minister! »
Okay, a couple of experiments here. First, I am using Blackbird to embed a tweet: @giuliaforsythe @drgarcia yeah. wordpress should grok a link to a blog and autopost a trackback as a comment on mine, pointing to yours.less than a minute ago via Twitter for MacD’Arcy Normandlnorman I am also testing the auto-trackback-grok thing D’Arcy… Read More: Grok’in trackback »
Otherwise known as “What would Spinal Tap call the Web Today? Week 9: Web Story Assignment where I go Meta. It’s a web story about the web. Excerpt from O’Really web page, above: The concept of “Web 2.0” was a clever take on the fact that the web can be a platform. Just as software… Read More: You see? This web, it goes to Eleven! »
The #ds106 radio stream always starts with “Can you dig it!?” which is from (1979) The Warriors. I know this because coincidentally over the Christmas break I watched it on Netflix. @noiseprofessor even made awesome @jimgroom art about it. I really think you guys should all get matching leather vests. For real. Not Photoshopped. I… Read More: Say it like Peanut Butter & Jam Econo »
Two weeks ago, if you asked me my opinion about synchronous learning tools I would probably roll my eyes and scrunch my nose as if smelling something very distasteful. Ugh, Elluminate needs Java, it’s a tech support headache. Students like flexibility and it’s a bit narcissitic of the prof to think that all the learning… Read More: Art of Listening »