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Feeling Combobulated⤴

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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.

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.

Postcards as an antidote to AI⤴

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Postcard Prep
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It’s been far too long since I got out my supplies and decided on a theme for a round of postcards, but this week we’ve set things in motion. Inspired by a MOOC type thing that some of us are dabbling in, we’ve embarked on a new round of postcard sending.

Join us, if you like.

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.

Pandemic Postcards⤴

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I’ve been thinking about sending some postcards recently, but not having a theme in mind to motivate my doodling, so this tweet from Karen was just the prompt I needed.

Today’s been a dreich day, so while I’ve been watching TV and drinking tea I’ve had an idea and made a start.

Postcard grids

Can you guess what they are going to be? [Update – sneak peak below]

Post Pandemic Cards