Author Archives: Tim
3D Printing on Campus
Got news today that an article George Meadows had been interviewed for about our 3D Printing initiative is online at Campus Technology. I thought it was really well written and I love the way we’re approaching this new technology as … Continue reading
A domain of one’s own: rebooted.
UMW and in particular the folks at DTLT have a long history of talking up the idea of “a domain of one’s own” which basically is the philosophy that there is great power in putting responsibility for getting a domain … Continue reading
Educon and Bridging Communities
This weekend I have the pleasure of heading up north towards Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to visit the Science Leadership Academy and be inspired by the many folks I follow and converse with on Twitter. It’s my first year at Educon and … Continue reading
Can I get that unicorn in another color?
I’m truly honestly sick of the town mob grabbing their pitchforks as soon as anyone holds a press conference for any new educational offering. Is there a more thankless job than the people who dare to try to change any … Continue reading
The Walking TED
I’ve got a little “zombie fever” with season 2 of The Walking Dead having started up last fall. If you haven’t watched that show you’re really missing out on some excellent quality programming for a channel that’s available to most … Continue reading
Building The Daily Create
Last year a lot of us in the ds106 group were shocked when we found out the Daily Shoot website would be taken down by the end of the year. Unfortunately the developers of the site were moving on to … Continue reading
Citizen Yam
I’m not going to pretend to understand the Yam Yarn but if it’s yams the people want, it’s yams I’ll give them.
Learning at some schools is like drinking from a firehose.
I’m already blown away by the amazing programming chops being show by Cogdog and now John Johnston who created this awesome Flickr Quote Visualization Tool that allows you to grab random images, remove the extra stuff, and visualize a quote … Continue reading
The Cooler Animated Movie Poster
The wild mating call of the animated gif has lured me once more to the clutches of ds106. For this assignment I went to http://www.impawards.com/ to check out the selection of movie posters. Although I’m not familiar with this flick … Continue reading
Mobile karaoke on the streets of…
Mobile karaoke on the streets of Fredericksburg last night was a blast!