presented at Wordcamp Vancouver, Oct 12, 2012. "ds106 is an open course in Digital Storytelling that leverages platforms of open source tools, syndication, and social media in a way that makes it more community than course. At ds106.us is a wordpress powered hub that aggregates and recombines input from 500+ external blogs plus a user contributed assignment bank, daily creative challenges, even a radio station. Built by a team of educator tinkerers, not coders, ds106 is as a model of a community network that is not limited to just courses."
Building an Open Course/Community with WordPress, Syndication, and Duct Tape
1. Building an Open Course/Community
with WordPress, Syndication, and Duct
Tape
WordCamp Vancouver (Oct 13, 2012)
Alan Levine • cogdogblog.com • @cogdog
11. lass like ds106 is mo re than a class, it’s a
Ac
unity. To keep that c ommunity running,
comm
though, we have to do this thing called
ation. It’s one of the things that makes
communic
so special. And you w ouldn’t be here if
ds106
n’t looking for some thing different and
you were
creative, right?
aetherbunny.com/2012/10/10/magnificent-7-comment-challenge/
13. ds106 has given this m e the conviction that I, at 72,
can make videos, that tell my story beautifully,
thoughtfully, and truthfully. The community aspect
gives me the secu rity that, no how busy I am with
other thing s, I can always "drop into" ds106 and
continue to learn more.
margaretherrick.com/blog/
24. FeedWordPress Gravity Forms
BuddyPress
Parallelus
Salutation
(theme)
Awesome
Flickr
Wiki Gallery
Embed
+a bit of
custom
Custom Post Types WP Views code!
45. Pa rticipating in ds 106 eliminated
my fears—- my fears about my
abili ties, my fears ab out the online
community, my fears about
te chnology, and my fears about
s haring ideas.
blog.neverthesameriver.com/final-movie-my-ds106-adventure-spring-2012/
47. Betw een daily creat es and projects
fr om the assignm ent bank, I am
consta ntly creating th ings, and I find
m yself taking m ore creative
approa ches to every thing else in
my life , from approac hing problems
at w ork to noticing the interesting
a ngles and textu res of a room.
erstrongds106.wordpress.com
59. e first week of doing minor fixes to the
Within th
ebsite, I was asked to restart the process
new w
atch and fully design and develop them
from scr
website by myself. The skills I obtained
a new
fr om participating in D S106 allowed me to
website in a month, and since it's been
finish the
fully launched.
Colin Schulz, Spring 2012
61. With all the negative mess out t
here
on marriage, I figure it couldn’t
hurt
to show a little glimpse into the
life
of a happy couple. Because if
finding joy in the every day isn’t
art,
then I don’t know what is.
crystalscomingback.com/wordpress/2012/09/03/how-we-do-or-why-tdcs-take-us-2-hours-or-more/