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The New Beatrice
If you watched TV in the mid 1980s you should recall the smarmy commercial for some megacorp that apparently owned more food products than you could name (Airstream, Altoids, Avis, Blue Valley, Butterball, Culligan, Ekrich, Good & Plenty, Hunt’s, Jolly Rancher, Krispy Kreme, La Choy, Meadow Gold, Orville Redenbacher, Peter Pan, Playtex, Reddi Wip, Samsonite, Swiss Miss, Tropicana, Wesson and World Dryer)– Beatrice.
With all the company buying that Pearson seems to be doing (does anyone wonder where they get all the moolah to go on the shopping spree?), it was time to remix them in (no accounting for quality of the singers).
All of the names listed in the video are either acquisitions made by Pearson or investments in other companies (via CrunchBase).
Can anything stop them from buying everything else?
Lesson from the past, Beatrice was itself eventually bought out and disaggregated elsewhere.
That’s how the
106 Things
It was December 2010 that I spotted my first 106 in the wild, since then I have added another 219.
Tomorrow is the deadline for final projects from my Spring 2013 UMW ds106 students. A few grades punched in the system later, and I close out my current era of teaching ds106. After being part of the 2011 horde of open participants, I taught it in person at UMW in Spring 2012 (a parallel section with Jim Groom), co-taught with Martha Burtis the online summer 2012 “Camp Magic Macguffin” experience, and taught a parallel online section with Martha in Fall 2012, and this current semester was the solo teacher at UMW.
It’s been quite a ride, but I’m hopping off the bus.
Jim is lined up to teach a 5 week summer session starting in May; it should of course be over the top, but you will need to check with him for details. I’ll be around, but not as a teacher.
It’s time to do something different (that is TBD). I was talking with Martha last week about another topic, but like usual, ds106 came up. It looks like no one will be teaching it at UMW in the Fall (as far as I know), so it will be interesting to see where the community flows. The level of activity among open participants fell off a lot since the first buzz year in 2011. It’s not surprising, I would likely more my attention elsewhere after an intense following of ds106.
And while there is a lot of things in the ds106 universe, on first entry as someone who maybe just signs up, there’s not a whole lot of direction or a road map. I tried to outline some routes in the Quick Start Guide.
I had dreams of building a part of the site that would be a kind of “build your own syllabus”. Between the Assignment Bank, Daily Creates, and the 2+ years of lessons we have assembled for our UMW class, we have a rather large pile if resources. What if there was some way to identify and interest area or level, and them pick and choose resources to make a syllabus for yourself or others?
I had the idea, but not the time to make it happen.
Coming off a mini ds106 immersion workshop last week for faculty at Wagner College, and in talking with Martha, it seems there is room for perhaps some other “sizes” of doing ds106- maybe a faculty development series, or maybe a month focussed on doing say design or audio (which is what it sounds like Scottlo is cooking up).
So while I am done teaching ds106 at UMW, I am at the peak of my game (maybe), so if someone, somewhere else is interested in running it as a course, workshop, interpretive dance, give me a bark.
There’s a short list of things to wrap up on the ds106 web site; a nice diversion yesterday was inserting all media by current students into the header on the home page:
and I have a few storify collections to assemble as I review the current students work- their final projects, student’s identified “Best Works”, and one of my favorite, the advice to future ds106ers (again these will fill out as I grade slug tomorrow).
I cannot say for sure what will happen with the Daily Create – I will likely fill it up for at least May and June. There might be some rethinking that needs to be done there since YouTube has pretty much killed the functionality of tags (so we cannot retrieve videos by tags), and SoundCloud is still stingy on letting accounts create but a single group. It might be time to figure out a way to parse out the submissions from twitter and tags, like the old DailyShoot used to do.
There’s likely a boat load of my more post game reflections. This class by far had some of the best creativity and blog writing of any class I’ve had before. It says a lot about UMW and an environment where web publishing is kind of a regular thing. I look forward to seeing how these students put their #4life skills to work (and play).
But after next week, someone needs to shut the porch light off for ds106.
UPDATE: I looked at my computer clock right as the post was publishing. It has a 106 in it!
MORE UPDATE: And now someone steps in with a new summer 2013 project that plans to use ds106! I will add them to the registration system ASAP.
What’s your digital story? is a summer programme open to middle and high school students in Hanoi over June and July 2013. Digital Storytelling provides the spine of our workshops the summer in which learners will be guided by both educators and professional digital storytellers (photographers and filmmakers). Our vision for the summer is to use the tools of digital storytelling to help our participants think critically about the subjects and topics they address. Learning how to collaborate and communicate in different ways will be a focus of our workshops. You can learn more about the programme here – http://thelearningproject.asia/summer2013-2/
New Takes Photo of Old
cc licensed (BY) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog
Today’s ds106 daily create: "Take a picture of the oldest thing you own, and the newest thing you own"
tdc.ds106.us/tdc480/
It might not be the oldest thing I own — I do have some pre-Cambrian granite– but this chess medal bears my grandather’s name "David Gottfried" and was awarded to him in 1929 (previously described at www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/4163089219/)
The reverse side reads "Special Prize
1929
New Jersey State Championship
Hotel La Reine
Bradley Beach
RCC"
RCC was Rice Chess Club- I don’t have much information except my grandmother telling me the stories of her father’s chess prowess. He was a widower with ? 6 kids, and I am marveling at him doing this in the middle of the Depression.
The new thing is my brand new camera! The Olympus TG-2 is fun so far, I took the photo in a mirror.
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Horizon Report 2013: Dissecando o ensino superior até 2018 http://t.co/awdGNhVqeA via @sharethis
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Carmen Update: What You Need to Know
The Horizon Report 2010 examined the emerging #technologies & their impact in training. How well did they predict it? http://t.co/89VTsgYw2i
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Curious about emerging technologies that will shape higher ed in h next decade, read the Horizon Report. http://t.co/Nogfr8haXv #SAHE740
@cityofakronohio I read the Horizon Report from @NMCorg that predicted this back in like 2011. #smgov
Ready, Set… Carmen is Updating this Weekend!
More Stories, Please?
cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by Christian O. Harris
On May 15th I am bringing a new round of Amazing True Stories of Openness to the Yavapai College Summer Institute and guess what? I WANT MOTE STORIES!
A few people said they would do these last time, and fell short. Shall I name names?
Have you ever had an amazing unexpected outcome from something that you shared online? or just made a connection through open networks with someone that you would have not otherwise been able to do?
I am looking for more examples to add to my collection but not for me, it’s so I can share with others. See http://stories.cogdogblog.com for stories gatherered so far and the call for stories
Keep the open web alive, full of magic and wonder
If you are a teacher using the internet in any way, connecting with other teachers through blogs and social media, all you energized ETMOOCers, students who are connecting with world experts, talking to astronauts (ahem Donna Fry) — tell me a story!
It’s crazy simple, Sit down in fromt of a web cam and tell me a story, post it to youtube/vimeo, shazam, done.
The point is to use your own experience to provide a spark of inspiration to others, like the ones attending my session at Yavapai. Nothing says more of the value fo open sharing than another educators positive experience.
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