Look Ma, a Learning Experience!
Seems I forgot a few elements the first time around, so consider this the Author’s way of apologizing and amending.
Visit my (very brief) about me page to learn a little bit about, well, myself. Additionally, you can follow me on twitter, flicker, soundcloud, and youtube.
You can also follow my crazy professor!
Hey @cogdog and #ds106! Leah Yegneswaran here. Looking forward to this class!
— Leah (@UMWdarlingchaos) January 15, 2013
(As far as I can tell, he’s not actually a dog.)
Also, hey, I made a thing! This is the weird part about the internet–I could link to the youtube video, link to the post I made about the youtube video, or embed the video. Let’s go with all three! yeah, too lazy for that. Let’s just embed it.
And that’s it for the edits.
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To me it’s still alarming and astounding that the internet, and everything on it, is made of an intangible series of dots and dashes, zeros and ones, pixels and processes.
This week I carved out my own little space of intangibility by designing my own domain. This isn’t the first time I’ve had my own space on the internet–for another class, I had a space called darlingchaos.com, I think, but this year, I’m going with a cool prefix! It makes me sound much more collegiate. Totally.
After meeting my drill sergeant (Hi Alan!) I worked my way through the assignments, updating my personal twitter a bit to mesh well with my presence on umwdarlingchaos.com (same name: follow me @umwdarlingchaos) and making a soundcloud and discovering, to my surprise, that I already had a flickr as a yahoo user. Weird.
Sidebar: if this is a totally boring diary entry, I apologize, but i like listing things I’ve done. It makes me feel accomplished. Whee!
Anyways, there were some videos worthy of consideration, on the nature of art. What I really took away from the Robert Hughes video was that he had a fantastic accent, an even better sense of humour, and a great thing to say about necessary art. He basically argues that art tries to give back to adults what they lost after leaving childhood, to give the earth a sense of glory to feeling and to close the gap between you and everything else, to lend meaning… I agree wholeheartedly.
The RSA animate was of a similar vein–I seriously love those animations, go check out the one on the education paradigm (link to follow, when I find it again. I have it downloaded on my computer but not bookmarked). Anyways, RSA talked about where ideas can come from, but the style of delivery is what makes RSA my favourite. It’s engaging and energetic and kind of wacky, and keeps you really, really invested–me at least. Disruptive wonder is fantastic, says Kelli Anderson, because you get to really throw off empty rituals that mean nothing and disrupt what has become commonplace–something I hope to do!
Finally as to the rules for students and teachers, I wish there was a way to make it absolutely mandatory for everyone everywhere to read and follow them.
Don’t have much more to say, running out of time, hope I did this right, and if not chalk it up as a part of the learning process.
Ten, hut!
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Alan Levine (@cogdog) on 01.22.2013
Hi Leah!
You did wonderful geting set up and I know you will rock this class. A few nitpick things I’d like you to focus on:
* Use hyperlinks in your writing. You and I know what the Hughes video is, but any other reader has no references or context. Think about links all the time in your blog writing- link to people, media, books, placesm web sites. It is not a web w/o links
* Set up and start using categories to organize your work. You will create mayeb 100+ posts in this class, categories make them easy to find in one place. Make up a name for the weekly summary posts “Weeklies” (“Weakles”‘?”) or “Stuff Alan Makes Me Write” I dont care, but that way one link will bring up all of them together. And you wont have URLs with “uncategorized” in them.
* You need to write about in this weekly post all fo the items on my checklist for the week; you ought to have added links to your social media accounts, and embedded your (dark) Daily Create in this summary post.
I agree with your point abut following- I can only go so far towards “mandatory” but we will be touching on this in the next few weeks, it is always a challenge to get a lot of students commenting on blogs w/o some cheap inducements to earn points (I refuse to do that).
Bring on the darling chaos
admin on 01.24.2013
@Hyperlinks: I sort of accidentally deliberately left them out because I had some other stuff I was having trouble with tech wise, and unfortunately was feeling under the weather so had limited time on the computer to sort it all out (migraine plus screen equals puking, so I was working as quickly as possible and though I knew hyperlinks were important, decided to spend the time it would have taken to hunt down links including other content. As I said in the post, links to follow, and I’m going back now to link to the stuff I mentioned–I just wanted to make sure I mentioned it!)
@I knew I was forgetting something! Thanks for pointing this out; I’ll do it right away.
@Didn’t realize, will fix and keep in mind for the future.
Consider the chaos brought
admin on 01.24.2013
made some edits. if you have a moment, see if this is more like what you’re looking for? That’ll help me with Week Two’s “Case Summary”