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Today’s TDC says:
Seriously, pointing people are always better with budgies. From our friends at Boing Boing
Pick your pointing person and put a bird on it! Enjoy.
I decided to take a poster I’d already remixed and added the budgie to it:
Your country needs you with added bird flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
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We are open flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Today’s TDC says
Think of a local store in your neighborhood. You’ve been hired to come up with a hand-drawn “We’re Open” sign for them to hang on the front door. Your design should speak to the spirit of the store, and entice passersby to take a peek inside.Tell us about the store. Show us your ‘We’re open’ sign.
I asked NightCafe to make me:
A hand written sign for a daily create shop. it says:
We are open for:
ideas
challenges
remixes
What it gave me is at the top of this page, with ‘e’ added by me.
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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 flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
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It’s always good when a Daily Create lands on a day when I have time to follow through on my ideas. Today’s TDC asks us to make an image that shows or represents bones. The image alongside the post is from Alan, so I downloaded that to play with.
I had two things bouncing around my mind – Doctor Leonard “Bones” McCoy from Star Trek, and the song Dem Bones. I decided to mash them all together. I used GIMP to remove the background from an image of Bones from the web and PPT to put it all together. Please all sing along with me!
Dem Dry Bones flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
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Dalek Pasta Olympics flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA 2.0) license
At the 2025 Reclaim Open Conference we ran a session called Why we all love the Daily Create and you should too, and you can watch the full session here
While preparing for the session I reflected on why I loved the TDC so much, and looked back on some of my faves. It didn’t surprise me to realise that it’s the photo editing ones that I like most. Here’s five of them:
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Today’s TDC asks us to make some autumn kigo. I really wanted to get out my pencils and crayons for this one, but I am trying to compress a day’s work into a morning so that I can enjoy the Reclaim conference this afternoon, so I quickly grabbed one of my recent pics of autumn leaves and used LunaPic to add some filters to it. I then dumped these into powerpoint, screenshot the slide and uploaded it to Flickr. Then I used Alan’s flickr cc attribution helper to attribute it.
Kigo flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
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This week, as part of Open Education Week 2025, I’m joining in with all of the remixes thanks to the wonderful Bryan Mathers and his remix machine and OEGlobal.
First a ‘hello‘ activity, to make a badge. I made two – one for me, and one for my faithful companion Lacey Cat.
Then a Venn Diagram challenge – to pinpoint where I am at the intersection of Open and Education. No surprise that I say that for me that’s DS106.
Next a ‘field notes‘ remix, to talk about what introduced me to OE. I focused on the connected learning experiences (cMOOCs) that allowed me to find many of the friends I now know online.
Day 4 has us on the psychiatrist’s couch, asking how OE makes us feel
The final day has us creating a ‘periodic table‘ for the elements of openness. How amazing is this? Of course, my element is number 106.
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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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“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.
