On Theme Shopping
“What’s the best theme for my WordPress site?” Is there a equivalent to the “Best Camera is the one in your hand” assertion? Probably not. In our work on The You Show open seminar and providing sites for TRU staff […]
Author: cogdog
Building a Portfolio By Not Trying to Build a Portfolio
Doth I blog in riddle? I doth do. Any assertion made here is a squishy subjective question. But I’ve been coming to grips with this in the first weeks of the You Show Open Seminar I am running with Brian […]
Reversing Course Again, Doing it Dudley Right
In a post on my approach to building The Daily site am not thinking I was wrong about being wrong… does that make me right? And in a process of working on projects, does, does being right even matter? To […]
Vera’s Mushrooms
Today’s You Show Daily calls for combining images to find something to represent a random John Cage poem– Determine an image for a random John Cage Indeterminancy #YSdaily11. I landed in selection 143 about mushrooms: When Vera Williams first noticed […]
Theme Settling
I’m starting to settle into this Moesia Theme (you can see it in action on the Mickey test blog, this is one I set up to allow switching of themes). I like the big splash welcome: This can have text […]
And Thus, Dog Food Shall Be Eaten
Sure it’s cliché. And I have a dog house full of metaphors. But it seems a tad hypocritical to be asking participants in the You Show to be creating portfolios and sites and not be doing it myself. It’s one […]
Dealing With the Blog Flow
I’ve been involved with, building sites for and participating in courses/etc that work like the You Show where we syndicate in the work of participants. It’s marvelous. And overwhelming. While we create the main blog flow and can subdivide, e.g. […]
Finding, Taking, and Blogging With Photos
A presentation and activity for the You Show… Get some hands on practice finding images you can use in your show (or anything you create) that are licensed for re-use, but also look beautiful. Beyond a list of search sites, […]
I’m Doing it Wrong: The Daily ____
It’s been one of my long term dream plans to make a generalizable WordPress theme approach to the ds106 Daily Create so people (me included) could create news site to run daily challenges. One of the things I wanted to […]
Introduction to Storytelling (Experiential Learning Series talk)
This as a presentation on January 16, 2015 as part of the TRU Experiential Learning Series 11:30am-12:20pm. A hook of interest, the shape of a narrative, a character to care about, suspension of belief, using less, media metaphors are techniques […]
YAS (Yet Another SPLOT) TRU Collector
Not bad for a couple hours of WordPress gnashing. A new Smallest/Simplest Possible Learning Online Tool. Meet the TRU Collector It’s not all that novel. The idea came from TRU Instructional Designers Kelly Warnock and Melissa Melissa Jakubec who will […]
A Photo A Day Keeps the Dullness Away
We are rolling out today the You Show’s The Daily – a site that will generate a small creative challenge every day at 8:00am PT. A new one will be tweeted out by @youshow15 and appear on the front of […]