About raptnrent: I got the name from my keys - R Apt and R Ent for the back door to my apartment and the back door to the house. I liked that they were also words: Rapt, meaning enthralled, riveted, captivated, and Rent, meaning torn asunder, violently wrenched. I thought it made for an interesting juxtaposition, open to all kinds of interpretations.
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Monthly Archives: August 2016
Week One: Bootcamp
8/29/16-9/2/16 All work is due by midnight on Friday, 9/2/2016 Welcome to ds106! This first week is dedicated to getting set up: set up your domain and Web hosting; install your WordPress site; and create other social media accounts such … Continue reading
Why the Internet?
Why are we using the Internet as a theme? I started thinking about this idea a few months ago, when I came across the article “The true promise of Interactive Computing: Leveraging our Collective IQ.” I started thinking about how … Continue reading
“Blackbird fly…”
For today’s Daily Create we had to “Remix the Twitter Bird into an unusual location.” The bird led to The Birds, naturally, and no doubt inspired by gifmaster Michael Branson Smith’s Hitchcock effort. When I googled the Twitter logo and … Continue reading
ds106 Fall 2016
The syllabus for the Fall 2016 ds106 course is now online.
Drawing pedagogy lab
On the first day of the Digital Pedagogy Lab Institute, we were challenged to draw our ideal classroom. Some random thoughts: This group used an explorer metaphor. We see builders, travelers, a thinker, Dora, Sherlock… the figure at the bottom … Continue reading
Of bus drivers and cartographers
One of our first activities was to write down our core teaching values. I believe we were asked for three statements. This came fairly easily to me, and I imagine it was even easier for many of the others in … Continue reading
“All the pieces matter”
In Sidney Lumet’s great book, Making Movies, there’s a section on art direction, part of the design of film, where he points out that every little detail we see or hear in a scene is deliberate and planned, right down … Continue reading
What I’ve been reading
I know I’ll never be a Martin Weller, but I managed to get myself into a number of books at once. First was The Eternaut by Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Francisco Solano López. I ordered this for my library, or … Continue reading
Internet 106
ds106 is right around the corner, so I better start blogging about it again. I had a bunch of ideas about what to do this semester. I thought of using a superhero theme, something I still might run with at … Continue reading