The ds106 Files: Outbreaks of Infectious and Open Acts of Creativity

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Keynote presentation for TechFest 2013, University of Alaska-Fairbanks http://www.alaska.edu/oit/techfest/ While much of higher education seems hunkered down in crises of a broken system or MOOC takeover, reports are filtering in from the distal portions of the internet where open, spontaneous, volunteered acts of creative expression seem to be spreading at alarming rates. These reports have been traced to a loose federation of registered students, teachers, and openly participating individuals of all ages in something known as ds106, an open course in digital storytelling. Patient Zero has been traced to students at the University of Mary Washington, but activity has spread to multiple institutions, K-12 schools, retirees, artists, and people of various affiliations across North America, Europe, Africa, and Australasia. The report highlights the manifestations of this creativity in individually managed internet domains and self-hosted blogs, demonstrated in visual, audio, video, and remixed media, extensively reflected upon. Intense activity has been spotted in blog comments, twitter, Google Plus, and social media platforms, including the current incarnation as a "headless" course. The most intense focus areas are around atypical course constructs of daily creative challenges, a web-based radio station, and an open assignment bank. It is likely some of you will be affected by contact with this information and may end up devoting time to creating animated GIFs, remixed movie trailers, and radio shows.

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THE DS106 FILES: Outbreaks of Infectious and Open Acts of Creativity

BEST THEY CAN DO?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhiCFdWeQfA

TRANSACTIONAL

DOES NOT FOLLOW

DIRECTIONSgood!

Minimalismhttp://ds106.cwyrough.me/minimalism/Minimalistic Movie Poster Assignment

IS THIS A DIGITAL STORY?

Stay Out of Malibu Deadbeathttp://ahomelyhomeless.com/2012/09/04/i-love-the-smell-of-gifs-in-the-morning/Say It Like Peanut Butter Assignment

REALLY?

Alan Kay's Burger Conundrumhttp://jmster88.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/alan-kays-burger-conundrum/Patty Pioneers Assignment

IT SOUNDS LIKE...https://soundcloud.com/clhendricksbc/ds106-commercial-2

MYSTERY MACHINEds106.us

ds106.us

but I think it's love

a typical reaction

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eayDFs98ToY

ds106 has given this me the conviction that I, at 72,

can make videos, that tell my story beautifully,

thoughtfully, and truthfully. The community aspect

gives me the security that, no how busy I am with

other things, I can always "drop into" ds106 and

continue to learn more.

THERE IS NO DS106^single

ROW THE M***

http://cogdogblog.com/2012/08/15/mooc-ramming-speed/

UMW COURSE• Bootcamp (2 wks)

•What is Story

• Audio Listening

• Visual

•Design

• Audio (2 wks)

• Stories in the Web

• Reading Video

• Video (2 wks)

• Remix

• Project

ds106.us/history

TELLING IS PERFORMING

http://www.nextexit.com/

ON DEFINING

PARTS OF THE MACHINE"parts is parts"

the syndication bus

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo by cogdogblog: http://flickr.com/photos/cogdog/7049777267/

SCALE LIKE THE NET

https://managewp.com/why-we-love-wordpress

OPEN AS IN SOURCE

Feed WordPress

Feed WordPress

+tag “umwsp13”

http://ds106.us/tag/umwsp13/

UMichUMW

York College

Open Online Participants

tag archive

DOMAINS OF THEIR OWNumwdomains.com

totipotentplasm.com

joltfree.org

mindofamasri.comslowlykillintime.com

ampersanddragon.net

any-ideas.me

rescuesgtsocks.com

themanthemyththepaul.us

livingwithouta.netconfessionsofafuturedisneyprincess.com

aspiring2b.me

guacamoleh.com

aetherbunny.com

happiprocity.us

ohmygott.com

corgisandcupsofcoffee.com

coffeedogsandactivism.me

flavorblast.me

confusedeasily.com

savethepandas.net

mycosmicmind.me

dontstrayaway.com

owlbereading.com

DOMAINS OF THEIR OWN

BANK THE ASSIGNMENTS

LET'S TRY ONEhttp://assignments.ds106.us/randomassignment/

REMIX MACHINE

remix.ds106.us/remixassignments/return-to-the-scene-of-the-crime-remixed-in-another-language/

DAILY CREATE

http://tdc.ds106.us/ • http://tdc.ds106.us/tdc639/

LET'S TRY ONEhttp://tdc.ds106.us/tdc641/

RADIO

I MADE A DESIGN FOR DS106 RADIO. IT COULD BE A LOGO, OR A POSTER, OR A T-SHIRT, OR A TATTOO OR AN ETC.

THERE ARE BINARY LIGHTNING BOLTS, BILLOWING SMOKE AND CHILDREN RUNNING AWAY FROM THE EXPLOSIVE FORCE THAT IS DS106 RADIO.

ds106 Radio Designhttp://blog.andrewallingham.info/2011/02/ds106-radio-design/

Not even done for any assignment

http://tdc.ds106.us/ • http://tdc.ds106.us/tdc639/ http://ds106rad.io • http://ds106.us/ds106-radio/

INSPIRE

http://inpsire.ds106.us/

GLUE

#DS106https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ds106

REDDIThttp://www.reddit.com/r/ds106/

CLASS AS PERFORMANCE"pedagogy of uncertainty"

SUMMER OF OBLIVION

MAGIC MACGUFFINhttp://magicmacguffin.info/

A DIMENSION OF SIGHT AND SOUND...

HACKED

http://iamtalkytina.com/

"UNCOMFORTABLE BUT NOT PARALYZED"Jeff McClurken, UMW

META CONCEPTS

NOTICING

PHOTOBLITZTime's Upcc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo by Sally Wilson: http://flickr.com/photos/pomathorn/9985534074/

DESIGN SAFARI

form & function

Confusing SignageTiffany H

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tm_hobbs/6872417535/

LOOK LISTEN ANALYZEhttp://ds106.us/2013/03/25/week-10-how-to-read-movies/

Between daily creates and projects

from the assignment bank, I am

constantly creating things, and I find

myself taking more creative

approaches to everything else in

my life, from approaching problems

at work to noticing the interesting

angles and textures of a room.

erstrongds106.wordpress.com

LAYERED CREATING

MAY I TAKE YOUR ORDER?http://ds106.kncrotty.com/may-i-take-your-order/

CREATION BY DELETION

BLACKOUT POETRYhttp://ds106.bellekid.com/2013/02/19/my-newspaper-poetry-looks-like-the-aids-quilt/

WITHIN CONSTRAINTS

MINIMALISTIC POSTER

Deliverance Minimalist Movie PosterMichael Branson-Smith

http://www.michaelbransonsmith.net/blog/2011/12/13/deliverance-minimalist-movie-poster/

OPEN BEGATS SERENDIPITY

RETURN TO THE SILENT ERAhttp://www.techsavvyed.net/archives/2411

RALLYING

DS106 PROPAGANDA

POSTERhttp://ds106.missambermay.com/assignments/ds106-propaganda/

106, THE MOVIEcc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo by Giulia Forsythe: http://flickr.com/photos/gforsythe/6899228915/

#4LIFE

RIFFING

http://www.noiseprofessor.org/love-analytics-is-the-new-bags-of-gold/

http://rockylouproductions.com/blog_wp/2013/10/02/gifs-gimp-and-me/

http://www.brianbennett.org/blog/ds106-shark-jumps/

#HEADLESS #DS106http://ds106.us/tag/headless13/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUFHzOHCKMQ

http://edreach.us/podcast/chalkstar-to-rockstar-05-ds106-is-the-5th-dimension-of-teaching-and-learning/

http://edreach.us/podcast/chalkstar-to-rockstar-05-ds106-is-the-5th-dimension-of-teaching-and-learning/

In the end, more than anything, ds106 isn't a class, it's a community. It's a group of people coming together to share stories and ideas on an open platform and openly accessible at anytime, anywhere.

So that brings us back to that original question-- what is it? It is what you make of it. And that's the thing I think that Jim and Alan want people to take away. Your story is what you make of it and ds106 can be a way for you learn how to tell that story.

"If it's nothing else what it's true value is that it's a place where people can experiment with what online learning could like like and might look like and the more it looks like the web the better" (Jim Groom)

http://aetherbunny.com/2013/03/18/ds106-teaching-an-ethos/

At its core, though, ds106 is just as much about conveying a particular ethos, informed by the rhetoric of innovation and open education that’s part of the larger conversation about edtech.

When I say “rhetoric of innovation,” I’m referring to the line of thinking that pursuing a new way of completing a task, a new way of thinking, or a unique experience is more valuable than sticking to well-established methods, which I encountered constantly (and found incredibly compelling) as a student in ds106.

The value of open resources, online communities as vital spaces for learning, the thoughtful creation of identity online, and giving students the freedom to create their own learning experiences are all integral to the ds106 experience.

Each of those elements reflects the overarching ethos established by the professors who constructed and teach the course, one that touts openness, creativity and the innovative use of tech as essential components for constructing a new, more compelling and student-driven educational model.