Doing It Daily (Maricopa Teaching with Technology Conference)

Maricopa Community Colleges 2015 Teaching with Technology Conference • May 19, 2015

Abstract

People who run races, musicians, and yes, even dentists know the benefit of practice and improvement via a regular daily routine. This same concept is used in The Daily Create (http://tdc.ds106.us), part of the open digital storytelling course DS106 (http://ds106.us), as a means to help people improve their creative skills with media. Each day since January 2011, the Daily Create publishes a challenge meant to be done in about 15 minutes, in the media of photography, drawing, audio, video, and writing. Try out the Daily Create for today, learn how the past challenges can be reused, and how you can create a Daily Challenge site for any topic via an open source WordPress Theme.

Doing it Daily at Maricopa (blogged at cogdogblog.com)

URLs Mentioned or Inferred or Tossed in Later

• Opening Prompt "Show opposites working together- make a yin yang image #ysdaily52 #mtech15" http://thedaily.trubox.ca/ysdaily52/
• Malcolm Gladwell explains the 10,000 Hour "rule" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS5EsTc_-2Q
• Complexity and the 10,000 Hour Rule (New Yorker) http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/sportingscene/2013/08/psychology-ten-thousand-hour-rule-complexity.html
• Can 10,000 Hours of Practice Make You an Expert? (BBC News) http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26384712
• The Dan Plan (Dan McLaughlin) http://thedanplan.com/
• Curly’s Law http://blog.codinghorror.com/curlys-law-do-one-thing/
• Flickr Daily Photo Group (2008-present) http://www.flickr.com/groups/366photos/
• Alan’s 2015/365 Photos https://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/sets/72157650069425885
• The Daily Shoot http://dailyshoot.com (no longer active) WayBack Machine version http://web.archive.org/web/20110201114026/http://dailyshoot.com/
• DS106 Open Digital Storytelling Course/Community http://ds106.us
• DS106 Daily Create http://tdc.ds106.us/
  • Photography Daily Creates http://tdc.ds106.us/category/photography/
  • Drawing Daily Creates http://tdc.ds106.us/category/drawing
  • Audio Daily Creates http://tdc.ds106.us/category/audio
  • Video http://tdc.ds106.us/category/video
  • Writing http://tdc.ds106.us/category/writing
  • Random! http://tdc.ds106.us/random
  • Add a New One http://tdc.ds106.us/suggestions/
• Daily Blank – A WordPress Theme to make your own Daily __ http://splot.ca/dailyblank
  • The You Show Daily http://thedaily.trubox.ca/
  • Theme on github https://github.com/cogdog/dailyblank

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