Many people on the web want to follow the trending stories or whats popular, I prefer the joy of discovering the obscure. Today I was looking for ideas to post tomorrow for our monday-connect series of topics (these are fun explorations, y’all should try them).
I went back to an older project I was part of a program called the UDG Mural of Open I helped coordinate for the University of Guadalajara held March 5-9, 2018 to introduce faculty to openness.
As part of my old bag of tricks, I set up a version of the same DS106 Daily Create daily-create I put into play for 2026 OEWeek as the Daily Opener which as luck had it, overlapped with 2018 Open Education Week. At the time, I was not even fully aware that OEWeek was offered by what was then called the Open Education Consortium, before it became Open Education Global.
The Daily Try I created for the first day of the program was a call to explore Open Education Week.
The task was to explore the OEWeek calendar:
You will be busy today, but if you could pick an activity from the events listed, which one would you choose?
And for 2019, what kinds of activities might UDG be adding to the agendas?
Back then, the Daily Challenges were set up to accumulate responses made in reply to them being posted in Twitter-- it’s rather remarkable in 2026 that all 16 responses from participants are still displayed there!
It’s notable how dominant was the interest in Wikipedia in the replies. And also note that even back in 2018, the effort the organization placed on a visual identity:
The closest working Internet Archive snapshot I could find was from April 1, 2018.
To me, the distant and obscure corners of the web are still alive and interesting.