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Imagination Library⤴

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Today’s TDC  says:

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a wonderful initiative. As Dolly said:

“The seeds of these dreams are often found in books and the seeds you help plant in your community can grow across the world.”

Imagine DS106 was setting up an imagination library. What would you donate to it, and why?

So many books I could suggest to inspire the imagination, but I chose one that helped me to understand my remix

Navas Remix Theory
Navas Remix Theory flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Frankentab poetry⤴

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Today’s TDC is another riff on the Frankenpoem. Submitted by Alan (with a little help from his friends!) it asks us to visit Alan’s post and see what he did. Now, actually I don’t usually have many tabs open while I am at work apart from admin screens, but here’s what I found:

A quantitative data scientist
will involve film screenings
Observation:
real music matters
They’re right to be scared
This site works best composed from bits and bobs stitched together

 

Feeling Combobulated⤴

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WildDS106
WildDS106 flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Today’s TDC was written to fit in with the first day of the Reclaim Hosting conference, and in particular to celebrate our new website: Combobulating.

When Mark first offered us the domain name we didn’t think it was a word, but of course others before us had come up with a definition:

To compose (one’s self); to compose, organize, design, or arrange; to reverse the effect of discombobulation.

Well, we can’t promise our website will do that, but it’s given us a lot of joy doing it and, to me, that epitomises what the Daily Create is  – it brings me moments of hope and joy when I participate and see what others have devised as their responses.

So here’s to you, my fellow combobulators. Thanks for all the fun, and long may it continue.

And if this has affected you, make your claim for compensation here.

13 years of the Daily Create⤴

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Today marks the 13th anniversary of the Daily Create I’ve been participating in this since around 2016, often uploading my responses to a Flickr album. Here they are as a slideshow. Here’s to the next 13 years!  You can participate as well – just visit the web page at 5am UTC or follow the @creating@daily.ds106.us on Mastodon.

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Reflection on an ongoing collaboration⤴

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OEGlobal Postcard

“Postcards on Pedagogy” flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

It’s a couple of weeks into the UW/UofG collaboration, and I thought I’d take a few minutes to reflect on my experiences so far.

It started out very low-key for me. Mum died on 10th October 2024 (I still can’t type that without having to pause to wipe my eyes). So when the collaboration ‘officially’ began at the beginning of November, I knew that my participation would be interrupted by my need to travel 470 miles south to attend her funeral in early November, and all of the emotional upheaval that would entail. But I thoroughly enjoyed meeting my group (Debs, Alka and Mary) over Zoom and coming up with an asynchronous activity for us all to add to before meeting again on the 18th. On my return from England, after pushing through the mountain of work that had accumulated in my absence, I enjoyed a brief hiatus that I allowed myself in which write. Sending a quick email to Debs, Alka and Mary on Tuesday evening (my time) resulted in three lovely replies in my inbox on Wed morning – that really gave me a boost, and I have found a little more time to plan my next contribution to the collaboration.

I also found time to catch up with a project initiated by Carole, who is sending out prompts asking people to respond with a digital postcard. Carole had sent a card around to the group with a picture of her typical classroom. I have had neither classrooms nor students for years now, so I responded with a postcard remix from the amazing Bryan Mather’s remixer. However, this did get me thinking about my own learning environment, and an idea for my next remix.

Both of these activities have helped me to reflect on what I was hoping to gain from this collaboration, and what I was enjoying. I think that one thing that I have realised from my online communities is to enter experiences like this without rigid expectations, but with high hopes. I hoped to meet good people, to have interesting conversations, to participate in ways that I had not anticipated, and without rigid rules (no facilitators telling me that I am doing it wrong).  And I always hope for the opportunity to play with remix.

Well, so far I’ve not been disappointed, and I’m looking forward to the rest of the month.

Bricolage⤴

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Lines of Thought

My One Little Word for 2024 is bricolage.

Bricolage is a French word which roughly translates as ‘do it yourself’. It is a practice of taking what is available (what is ready to hand, as Heidegger says) and reusing it for the current purpose. I use it to describe the remixing that we do in CLMOOC and DS106 (see this paper by me and Wendy Taleo). I have also used it to talk about to describe my approach to research and scholarship, and to describe a model of learning and assessment that is based on my own online experiences (this is paywalled, but I’ll happily send a draft to anyone who asks for it).

“Lines of Thought” flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

Daily Create 2023⤴

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Daily Create Leaderboard 1/1/23

I first did a Daily Create on 19th March 2016, and I’ve been doing it daily for years now. As of this morning I have completed 2465 challenges. Sometimes, when I have a bit of spare time, I look back at ones I missed and fill in the gaps. I had hoped to end 2022 with a final tally of 2500, and I came pretty close.

So what will my challenge be for 2023? To do the TDC every day, of course. My ultimate all time goal is to complete every single daily create, but doing an extra 1541 over the next year might be too much of a challenge. But I will keep chipping away!

Happy 2023 all.

Daily Create 2023⤴

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Daily Create Leaderboard 1/1/23

I first did a Daily Create on 19th March 2016, and I’ve been doing it daily for years now. As of this morning I have completed 2465 challenges. Sometimes, when I have a bit of spare time, I look back at ones I missed and fill in the gaps. I had hoped to end 2022 with a final tally of 2500, and I came pretty close.

So what will my challenge be for 2023? To do the TDC every day, of course. My ultimate all time goal is to complete every single daily create, but doing an extra 1541 over the next year might be too much of a challenge. But I will keep chipping away!

Happy 2023 all.

Calendar Connections⤴

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Over the last few months Wendy and I have been doing some thinking about the calendars we’ve collaborated over in CLMooc for 2021 and 2022. We’ve written a short report which is published as part of the ASCILITE conference proceedings, and Wendy presented at the conference last weekend. You can see the slides below, and the abstract of the report.

Abstract

Can collaborative creativity help to connect digital practitioners with each other and enhance their well-being? In order to answer this we undertook a piece of qualitative research. Using bricolage as our methodology, we surveyed participants of a collaborative creative project and used grounded theory in order to categorise the responses. In order to illustrate our findings and better explain the nature of the creative project, we share some of the artwork and music that was created by participants as part of this project. We conclude that as well as enhancing well-being, this creative endeavour also added to the personal learning of these participants.

Heideggerian Art⤴

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Language Noths
“Language Noths” flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

Inspired by a Twitter conversion, I added a couple of phases from Heidegger to an AI art generator and this is the result. These are the phrases:

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

Language remains the master of man.