Assignment Riffing: What Happens in DS106 Does Not Stay in DS106

part of a panel session at MLA 15 "Visionary Pedagogies for the Twenty-First Century: Teaching the Humanities with Digital Technology"

Unlike MOOCs (of c and x variety), his open digital story course ds106 uniquely stands as more than one course, but as overlapping ones from multiple institutions with a cloud of open participants. Its Internet radio station and Daily Create challenges offer opportunities outside the course. An open assignment bank not only gives flexibility to choose assignments, but also invites participants to add new ones, a living example of the “adjacent possible” in a course. It may appear ludicrous to house assignments for editing images of famous paintings to include fat cats, creating poetry from titles of songs, or putting fast food in the hands of internet pioneers, but the media created are not the end goals in ds106. Participants open their apertures of creative interpretation, incorporate works of others in a constructive fashion, and narrate their creative process. A frequent spirit of spontaneous "riffing" occurs, not unlike that of improvisational jazz musicians, that ripples far beyond the confines of one course.

More details at http://go.cogdog.it/ds106-mla

Transcript

1. ASSIGNMENT RIFFING WHAT HAPPENS IN DS106 DOES NOT STAY IN DS106 Alan Levine @cogdog go.cogdog.it/ds106-mla
2. ds106.us
3. http://pixabay.com/en/abstract-background-copy-space-313629/ THERE IS NO DS106 ^ single
4. FEED WORDPRESS
5. ds106.us/flow
6. +TAG “UMWFALL14”
7. ds106.us/tag/umwfall14/
8. LANE CC UMW X 3 YORK COLLEGE OPEN ONLINE PARTICIPANTS
9. ds106.us/open-course/
11. assignments.ds106.us
12. assignments.ds106.us/types/designassignments/
13. assignments.ds106.us/assignments/fat-cats-make-art-better/
14. assignments.ds106.us/assignments/fat-cats-make-art-better/
15. happiprocity.umwblogs.org/2012/02/10/visual-assignment-fat-cats-make-art-better/
16. ds106.us/handbook/success-the-ds106-way/writing-up-assignments/
17. ds106.us/handbook/success-the-ds106-way/writing-up-assignments/ • The Work Itself • Telling the Story Behind the Story • Narrating the Process
18. assignments.ds106.us/assignments/stories-written-in-windows-media-player/
19. jmster88.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/alan-kays-burger-conundrum/
20. github.com/cogdog/ds106bank
21. tdc.ds106.us/tdc1069
22. tdc.ds106.us/tdc1096
23. github.com/cogdog/dailyblank
24. remix.ds106.us
25. remix.ds106.us/remixassignments/return-to-the-scene-of-the-crime-remixed-in-another-language/
26. youtu.be/YW8eyqquHLQ Students Explain DS106* *including “cat breading”
27. go.cogdog.it/ds106-mla