Or DS106 look back in bewilderment
My path to DS106 is lost in the haze. The First mention this site is animating gifs on a rainy afternoon.
At that point I’d been reading around ds106 for a while.
I suspect my intro came from the flowering of web2.0 in education I was certainly reading Alan in 2006 and remember reading about Jim’s involvement in The Peoples Republic of Non-Programistan.
My first round was most encouraged by this idea: “#tdc2706 #ds106 “Welcome aboard, do what you like and leave the rest.” The Word according to @jimgroom
Once I started I’ve not really stopped, I’ve participated in several rounds of DS106 classes, finishing some, some not. My responses are scattered over service, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, mastodon & my blogs. I don’t respond much now, but I try to use my blog for anything I want to keep. DS106 has taught me about the impermanence of the web and how a domain of my own gives me a little stability.
Learning
I do not think there has been an online experience that has been as educational as DS106. It took me in to podcasting, aggregation, WordPress and more. It gave me the most positive experience of online learning &connection.
& Fun
John,
Your stuff for #ds106 has been an absolute joy. In particular i loved the Prisoner ds106 stuff you did that last summer I was at UMW. Once I left and went full Reclaim and became obsessed with that a bit, but to read stuff like this about your experience with ds106 puts a giant smile on my face—so thanks for being awesome.
DS106 has put a lot of smiles on my face, your good self and many others laid the groundwork! The structure and the freedom t obreak out of it.
I find it hard to think of my favourite flavour, maybe wire106 (somedays).
Blog as curation … yep.
Kevin
I’m still a grumpy cat…but that unicorn image has me smiling! Love the imagery. My road to DS106 is also digi-hazy but I suspect it was after the 2015 mad-joy of #Rhizo that I connected in this space.