{"id":2237,"date":"2011-12-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?e=2237"},"modified":"2023-05-13T13:16:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T12:16:02","slug":"joining-ds106","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/joining-ds106\/","title":{"rendered":"Joining DS106"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 205px; float: right; text-align: center; margin: 4px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"jimgroom\" src=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/images\/2011-12\/2011-12-24_jim_groom_bw.gif\" alt=\"Jim Groom bw\" width=\"203\" height=\"203\" \/><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been reading Jim Groom&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/bavatuesdays.com\/\">bavatuesdays<\/a> for a few years and though it following <a href=\"http:\/\/ds106.us\/\">ds106<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Digital Storytelling (also affectionately known as ds106) is an open, online course that happens at various times throughout the year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>DS106 is pretty off the wall, but I&#8217;ve been inspired by it several times:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?e=2221\">Radio Edutalk<\/a> offshoot of EDUtalk follows the tech in DS106 Radio<\/li>\n<li>Playing with animated gifs and <a href=\"http:\/\/some-site.com\/\">automating their creation<\/a><\/li>\n<li>And the, yet to work, <a title=\"John's World Wide Wall Display\" href=\"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?t=piratebox\">TeachMeet pirate box<\/a> was inspired by on of next sessions ds106 instructor Alan Levine&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/cogdogblog.com\/storybox\/\">StoryBox<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It has occasionally crossed my mind to join in with the course, but the time involved and the creative focus made me reluctant. However I do feel there is a lot to be learnt and some fun to be had by following the course so I started thinking about it. I popped a question in the <a title=\"ds106: We\u2019re open and you\u2019re invited! | bavatuesdays\" href=\"http:\/\/bavatuesdays.com\/ds106-were-open-and-youre-invited\/\">comment box on Jim&#8217;s blog<\/a> about using <a title=\"PivotX - The Powerful Open Source Blog CMS\" href=\"http:\/\/pivotx.net\/\">pivotx<\/a>, this blogs software instead of the more usual wordpress. Jim got back very quickly and set <a title=\"Members\" href=\"http:\/\/ds106.us\/members\/johnjohnston\/profile\/public\/\">me up with an account on ds106<\/a> which makes the decision about joining in over<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/pivotx\/includes\/emoticons\/trillian\/e_121.gif\" alt=\";-)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I am a wee bit nervous about jumping into something that requires visual creativity. While I am happy enough editing images, audio and video I am not good at visual thinking or design (many webpages attest to this) I do hope to have some fun around the edges. I am encouraged by Jim&#8217;s <strong>do what you like and leave the rest<\/strong> and welcoming attitude. I am looking froward to finding out a bit more about how the wordpress mechanics pull the course together and investigating this openest of online learning opportunities for the perspective of a learner and with an eye on my day job.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d be interested in knowing if any other Scottish educators are taking the course, perhaps we could offer a bit of local support to each other.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in ds106 and want to know more <a href=\"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?e=2226\">Jim Groom &#8211; Wednesday Morning Keynote on YouTube<\/a> is a great, if crackly, 40 minute intro (the animated gif above if from this).<\/p>\n<p><!-- script element removed --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I&#8217;ve been reading Jim Groom&#8217;s bavatuesdays for a few years and though it following ds106: Digital Storytelling (also affectionately known as ds106) is an open, online course that happens at various times throughout the year. DS106 is pretty off the wall, but I&#8217;ve been inspired by it several times: The Radio Edutalk offshoot of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,6],"tags":[17,190,485,80],"post_format":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ds106","7":"category-wwwd","8":"tag-animatedgif","9":"tag-creativity","10":"tag-ds106","11":"tag-fun","12":"kind-article","14":"h-entry","15":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-A5","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2237"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17939,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions\/17939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2237"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=2237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}