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I’m Still Chewing on that Over-Branding of DS106 Comment
I’ve been thinking a lot about the over-branding conversation that Stephen Downes started on Alan Levine’s blog post I Want You to Make Art (Dammit). Downes did not like the use of ‘DS106’ in propaganda, and called it “over-branded.” After Alan tried to defend the work as students celebrating the class, Downes continued that it…
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Groom QR Code
While doing a search for propaganda ideas, I found this site that celebrates all sorts of Star Wars fan art. There’s probably a few dozen pieces to inspire new ds106 assignments. One in particular caught my eye, as ready for some ds106 riffing, Darth Vader QR Code. It was apparently created by a Greek graphic…
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A purely unapologetic piece of DS106 branding
Cogdog’s DS106 propaganda post was taken to task by Stephen Downes for “over-branding” ds106. Is the DS106 to much hype? Not real enough? Adrift in a cult of personality? F****THAT #4LIFE. As Martha mentioned in her comment on Cogdog’s post, there’s nothing but love out there in ds106. No hating on someone for not being…
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I Can Read Breaking Away
For the I Can Read Movies DS106 Design assignment, I created a cover for one of my all time favorite films, Breaking Away. If you haven’t seen the film it’s the story of four friends after high school that grew up in a college town, not feeling they were ever to go themselves. Their families…
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Bagman – Make It Work
In an effort to help turn our country around and celebrate the awesomeness of the Bagman. I submit for you Bagman – Make It Work. Thanks to Annie Belle’s poster for the inspiration on Brian Short’s assignment and his poster as well. Bagman is in good company with this one. I have this FDR t-shirt…
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CUNY Week 3 -Web 2.0 is an attitude not a technology.
Remix RSS from cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by eBlog The name of this post is a quote from Ian Davis one of the co-authors of RSS 1.0, which I think is a great way to kick off thoughts for Week 3 and Web 2.0. RSS is one of the web’s…
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Happy Valentine’s Day from Nurse Ratched and McMurphy
The Cuckoo would have come home to roost if things were just a little different at the mental institution. You can thank Usher’s “Twork it Out” for bringing this wayward couple together. It was touch and go for a long time, but we all knew that this is how the story should have really turned…
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CUNY Week 2 – Getting Under the Hood of Your Blog
cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by larrysphatpage ABOUT YOUR BLOG – In week one’s assignment, you got your Domain and WordPress site up and running. Now it’s time to soup-up this blog into a real muscle machine. There are a number of things to do including editing default titles, posts,…
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Millions of Unusual Small Creatures Lurking Everywhere
I remember having a little garbage can full of these M.U.S.C.L.E Men back in the 1980s. They were about an inch tall and there were dozens of different characters, each with a lot of detail. I was becoming a little too old to ‘play’ with them, but I was a bit of a dork and…
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CUNY Week 1 – DS106 is Taking the 7 Train
cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo shared by adaptorplug The spring semester is finally starting for York College and I’m really excited to get a new group of students into DS106. Here at York DS106 feeds out of the course CT101 whcih is the foundation course for our Communications Technology majors. For students…