Disembodied Collegiality or Outta Sight, Outta Mind
The problem with long distance collegiality is just that…out of sight out of mind. #nwpam15. F2F draws all the O2 from the room. Sighs. — Terry Elliott (@telliowkuwp) November 19, 2015 This morning...
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The zeega at the end of the long creative tunnel. Wow. My part was easy compared to the others: Ron: Keyboard, Maha A.: Vocals, Bryan: Lead guitar, Kevin: Rhythm guitar & vocals, Etienne: Lyrics...
View ArticleMaking Participatory Culture More….Participatory?
I have been reading Jenkins, Ito and boyd’s Participatory Culture in a Networked Era while doing the full catastrophe of the holidays and recovering from some nagging health problems. Alongside this I...
View ArticleDoors into a Participatory Culture: Reading Is Doing
Entry Points in the Interaction Universe There has not been a whole ton of interacting itself for our slow-read book talk on Participatory Culture in a Networked Era. Folks are still getting the book,...
View ArticleWhat Counts Can’t Always Be Counted
I loved the two annotatathons I have been a part of this week. Or as I told Jeremy Dean in a Tweet: @dr_jdean I have been digitally annotating for over ten years now (mostly Diigo),last night was a...
View ArticleOracles Among Us
Word Clouds are fun. And they amount to an I Ching of sorts if used in an open and oracular way. You have to ask the text a question and then create the word cloud and then interpret the cloud as an...
View ArticleA new podcast from Wyoming is turning hosting on its head – Poynter
A new podcast from Wyoming is turning hosting on its head This can include anything from taking notes on a book to writing introductions for segments to writing out interview questions for the host...
View ArticleBlazing the River
Another installment of reflection on the nature of teaching and learning at the root level, my root level. I am trying to rive the smoke from the fire and the wake from the boat. Vialogues is such an...
View ArticleFollow the Yellow Brick Road Down the Rabbit Hole as We Make the Way by...
Breaking smart is what happens when improvisation meets ‘oooopsortunity’ at a roundabout. What I am doing with the rest of this post is showing our work. I don’t think we make enough of the profound...
View ArticleTrailblazing with Doc Searls
I just got access to a Chrome extension called ‘Trailblazer.io’. It is tool for blazing your public Internet trails as you make them. In this case I took a Doc Searls post, Pile o’Links, and just...
View ArticleTransplendance
We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows. Frost Transcendence Uploaded by TERRY ELLIOTT on 2016-04-29. the eternal burlesque, the transcendance, the...
View ArticleImprovisational Translation on a Wet May Day in Derby Week
I was inspired by this video: Making of Japanese handmade paper of Kyoto Kurotani Japanese handmade paper of Kyoto Kurotani kurotaniwashi.jp Film by Kuroyanagi Takashi vimeo.com/user20501044 Music by...
View ArticleFunction Follows Form Follows Funky Fun
Simon posted an intriguing image on his blog this morning. He called it a blank page, but you can see it is far from blank. It is a canvas. Perhaps a field with metes and bounds to be surveyed or...
View ArticleGamifying the Mess
I responded to Kevin’s post from June 3 by annotating with Hypothes.is. Here is a screencast of my responses to his page: Here is a screencast of the annotations and Kevin’s original post side-by-side...
View ArticleHow to Be a Lovely Odd Duck 101
Heather Havrilesky & Mike Caulfield I know there is a “fit” here somewhere. Between these two posts. Between these seemingly disconnected pieces. I want to jam them together. I want to, I...
View ArticleLiminal Thinking and Ziggurats of Understanding
Caulfield’s argument in favor of David Gray’s “liminal thinking” is very appealing but emotionally and cognitively a big leap. Why should we spend our time and our social capital clamboring up...
View ArticleThe Shell of the Game
I will usually include this phrase in the image below at least once at the end of a twitter chat. It is something I feel the need to both remind myself and the community: Read outside your discipline....
View ArticleAutomatic Grading
Thanks to George Station for pointing this to me in a Facebook post Free Technology for Teachers: How to Enable Automatic Grading in Google Forms I am thinking to myself, “Self? What kind of knowledge...
View ArticleKQED Teach
KQED Teach KQED Teach is a fun and social online learning platform for educators to improve their media literacy skills KQED has been committed to helping teachers and learners for as long as I can...
View ArticleThe Whole World Is A DJ
I ran across this quote reading a forum here on how to keep your mixes from getting booted off Soundcloud. The whole world is a DJ In the context of that forum the point was that the tools are...
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