Tag Archives: Remix

The question is?⤴

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Forty Two
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Today’s TDC says

As Douglas Adams tells us in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the answer to the question is 42. But what’s the question? Tell us, in a toot or a blog post, using exactly 42 words.

Here’s my version of the question:

How many different ways can we respond to a Daily Create? How many possibilities emerge when we remix, reinterpret, reinvent, collaborate, experiment, play and borrow? Is there a limit to creativity? If you had to give a number, what would it be?

Put a bird on it!⤴

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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
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We are open⤴

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We are open
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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.

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
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Dem Dry Bones⤴

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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
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My Favourite Daily Creates⤴

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Dalek Pasta Olympics
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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:

Autumn Kigo⤴

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

Open Education Remixers⤴

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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.

Super-simple badge
Dalek cat badge

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.

Venn diagram

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.

Field Notes

Day 4 has us on the psychiatrist’s couch, asking how OE makes us feel

Couch

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.

Element 106

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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