My experience with DS106
My experience with DS106 was very interesting once I had a chance to explore it. I really like how the users are extremely creative, it is very interesting how something that is an online course and its at free will can have such a positive outcome. One thing that really caught my attention is in the INSPIRE part of the website, “We have knitted together an intimate community that is not only participating in its structure but also creating it”, it really reminded me of the objective for our class. As far as intellectual property and fair use, DS106 participants would probably agree that when using someone else work to create something new or in better words, remixing, it just gives more opportunity for someone to express themselves easier. The class understanding of the commons is demonstrated by the freedom of sharing their ideas and work of art where it can potentially be viewed by anyone. Overall, my experience with DS106 was positive and I think our professors are doing a good job at making our small class as interesting as DOS106.
Nice post, Jordan (be sure to include a title when you post– you can go back in and add one).
This is an interesting observation:
.. could you push your analysis of this observation a bit further, especially in its regard for “the commons.” Is the ds106 sense of the commons that everything produced “can be viewed by anyone,” or is it more than that?
Also… you use the words “interesting” and “positive” a few times each in this post. Adjectives like those are good starting points for analysis, but in the future when you’re inclined to write them, ask yourself why what you’re observing gives you that feeling. We (speaking as a historian here) constantly want to push our analyses as far as they can go.
One of the really, really cool things about the INSPIRE site is that it was created by the ‘students’ of ds106, not the ‘instructors.’ Those are both in quotes for the simple reason that most in ds106 recognize there is just as much opportunity to teach as there is to learn and visa-versa. That’s part of the magic of a course that embraces whole heartedly the ideals of participatory culture.
Honestly this class is one of the most interesting classes that touch on very relevant modern ideas. I’m kind of glad I’m at the absence cap so now I will have to come every session. Haha.
Aside from my own rants, ds106 is absolutely amazing and with the community to support and educate one another, we may be able to learn something and use this for our own class.