Tag Archives: #CLMOOC

Bad Logo⤴

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During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge.

CLMooC
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Today’s TDC says:

We aim to learn good design principles; can you take what you know or have learned to do the complete opposite?

Design a logo for a real or imagined business, and make it really bad.

I decided to take the name of sister community CLMOOC and make a logo for us. I asked Nightcafe for:

A logo for a course called Connected Learning Mooc. It has a cow in the middle of the picture with a speech bubble saying “MooC” and the words “Connected Learning” at the bottom of the picture

You can see the result above. I’m not sure it’s bad, but it’s not good.

Bernard Pivot Questionnaire⤴

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During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge.

This post is an answer to Roger’s Blaugust post. I also like quizzes and questionnaires, so here’s my answers to the Bernard Pivot Questionnaire (the post byRoger omits question 4, but I’ve answered all 10 here).

Q1: What is your favourite word?

There’s lots of Scots words that I like – dreich is one that I use a lot as it describes so many Glasgow days.

Q2: What is your least favourite word?

Any word that describes dead animals. Steak, yuck!

Q3: What turns you on?

Any creative challenges, like the Daily Create and anything else inspired by the DS106 community, or the annual calendar that we do as CLMOOC.  Talking about remix and bricolage, and writing about it.

Q4: What turns you off?

Selfish behaviour of any type. Arrogant arses taking others for granted. Competitive games. All sport.

Q5: What sound do you love?

The sound of a cat curled up in an Amaxon box licking a paw. It expresses safety and comfort.

Q6: What sound do you hate?

Any song by Dido. She’s awful.

Q7: What is your favourite curse word?

I like the phrase ‘hell’s bells and buckets of blood’. Dad used to say it when I as young, and I still hear it in his voice.

Q8: What profession other than yours would you like to attempt?

I’d quite like to have been a politician. Not one of the self-serving ones that are the majority at the moment, one that actually believed in “government of the people, by the people, for the people”. Actually, I’d really have preferred to live in a real anarchist society, or a direct democracy, but that’s a thought to another post.

Q9: What profession would you not like to participate in?

Anything to do with sales or marketing. I did some sales jobs when I was young – I wasn’t very good at them.

Q10: If heaven exists, what would you like to hear god say when you arrive at the pearly gates?

Well, I could quip here about god being a woman. But given all of the evil in this world I’d be too busy shouting at her to hear what she was saying. I used to really enjoy teaching philosophy of religion, and I do think the problem of evil is proof that the theistic god does not exist.

HOMAGO⤴

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Today’s TDC asks us to:

Tell, show, what a culture of belonging looks like

Since about 2016, when I was looking at CLMOOC for my PhD, I’ve had this sketch on my wall

HOMAGO
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This takes the HOMAGO from Mimi Ito and maps it onto the 3Cs model from sociology of religion – Community, or who we are; Cultus, or what we do; Creed, or what we believe. I talk a bit more about it here.

DS106 and the TDC exemplify this for me – it’s about people working out in the open, practicing what they preach and welcoming others who share their values.

It’s not about charging people to join Zoom calls or gated communities.

Making cards⤴

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Card Making
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It was a cold afternoon today, so after spending time in the garden tidying it up for winter, Lacey and I snuggled down in my study for the afternoon. It’s been a while since I had any time to doodle, so I decided to get ahead and start sketching some Xmas cards to travel across the seas this year. No spoilers about my design for this year, of course!

How I found the Daily Create⤴

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Creative Bomb
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I found out about the Daily Create because I became part of an online community. As I’ve written before, in 2014 I signed up for an online experience organised by Dave Cormier called  Rhizomatic Learning – The community is the curriculum which I thought was going to be about Deleuze and Guattari, and even though it wasn’t I met a bunch of great people and am still collaborating with some of them in various ways a decade later. I was also introduced to CLMOOC and found many like-minded remixers and bricoleurs there.

As a result of meeting these people, and particularly thanks to my friend Ron Leunissen, I was introduced to #DS106 and the Daily Create. I dipped in and out of participation at first, only responding if a prompt really piqued my interest, but since November 22nd 2017 I have completed the daily challenge every day, without fail. I’ve also written about how important it is to me on a guest reclaim blog post, and I won’t repeat all I said there about the influence that this daily activity has had for me – but it’s a hugely important part of my daily life. Well, after 2894 days of participation it’s not surprising that it’s very much for me.

Busy Bees⤴

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248/365 Busy bees
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I love making postcards.  Doodling ideas on paper, then drawing them on blank cards, looking through my spreadsheet of names and addresses, writing a message on each, adding stamps and taking to the postbox. A ritual that relaxes me, makes me feel close to the friends I am writing to, helps me to forget about the world around. This week I posted a dozen cards across the world. Now I wait till they arrive.

Holiday traditions⤴

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Postcard from Algot
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Sending postcards has been part of my holiday routine for most of my life. As a child we were ‘encouraged’ to send them to family and godparents, as an adult I enjoyed choosing cards to send to nephews and nieces when they were young. In recent years N and I have been sending them to our parents. Last year I sent what would turn out to be the last postcard to mum while we were on holiday in Findhorn. This year, for the first time that I can remember, I didn’t buy or send any postcards while we were on holiday, because there wasn’t anyone to send them to.

So imagine my joy when I returned home to find a postcard from my friend Algot.  Thank you, Algot. Now to think about drawing some to send around the world…