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This video was made by the bots on the web, I received it after Colin, the Gifadog, had died that summer. It captured much of his last year. I only had to make minor adjustments to the video. He will be missed and remembered by many. It was a privilege to have shared 15 years of my life with him. 

RIP Gifadog

@mdvfunes (his human)

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A poem from the 'Moon in a dewdrop' by Dojen Zenji 

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 The ethics of cMOOCs or how to detect a scum bag

On the role of the facilitator/educator in cMOOCS excerpt from YT video 

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You cannot be half open. Wrestling your inner MOOC monsters

A summary podcast of a talk given at the HEA Conference ‘Heroes and monsters: extraordinary tales of learning and teaching in the arts and humanities’ by @mdvfunes

You can find the full write up of the talk on her blog. 

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Every Sunday at 8.00 UK time ( check here for your local time) 

The DS106 Good Spell in 106 Bullets -  John Johnston and Mariana Funes talking DS106 learning, community and creativity.

On DS106 Radio: http://ds106rad.io/listen/

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My story of open for Alan Levine. Please don't make me watch that begging video again...

I wanted to tell the story of how a simple blog comment from a stranger led to the discovery of the open web and a how the journey to open education went much further than Moodle, Thank goodness. 

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Every Sunday at 8.00 UK time ( check here for your local time) 

The DS106 Good Spell in 106 Bullets -  John Johnston and Mariana Funes talking DS106 learning, community and creativity.

On DS106 Radio: http://ds106rad.io/listen/

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Insights from my teachers.

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A Gifachrome camera commercial by Colin the Dog. 

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Colin Dog GIFaChrome camera testimonial. The dog about the farm shoots a  Gifachrome every time.

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Colin Art by Viv Rolfe in this beautiful cover for the Headless Inkspots Gif-a-chrome Christmas song. 

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A student at the Open University tries to access her library services after failing to get any response from tutors or emails sent to the library. She was told by her tutor that the library web-chat was an efficient service. Judge for yourself. The 'conversation' lasted for 40 minutes and reminded me of this quotation from my days studying Artificial Intelligence:

People have begun to think of themselves as objects able to fit into the inflexible calculations of disembodied machines: machines for which the human form-of-life must be analyzed as a meaningless list of facts, rather than the flexible prerational basis of rationality. Our risk is not the advent of super-intelligent computers, but of sub-intelligent human beings. 

What computer's can't do! Hubert Dreyfuss 1979 

The script is verbatim as the university service helpfully emailed to me after the 'conversation' had ended. I added nothing for comedic impact. You could not make this up!

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Can we transmit photos on radio? What might it mean to use radio to create pictures for your ears?

Pilot show broadcast on 11/11/13 in DS106 Radio  at 20.00 GMT

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A radio bumper for the upcoming pilot show 'Pictures for your Ears' to be broadcast on DS106 Radio on Monday 11th November at 20.00GMT.

Thank you to The Juniors for providing such lovely voices.