tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39410752160830115902024-03-13T10:43:37.064-07:00Teaching Beyond TropesAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07719153438721951700noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941075216083011590.post-64015128185042953472017-07-17T14:19:00.000-07:002017-07-17T14:44:01.785-07:00Swell Antique Postcards and Polish Ladies<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">Treasure hunting on vacation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">Day 1: I found some antique postcards at <a href="https://buddhasandbeadsorg.ipage.com/" target="_blank">Buddhas and Beads</a> and of course bought twelve of them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">Went back to house and enthusiastically shared with my family [Insert indifference from some and curiosity from others.] </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">Discovered that 4 of the cards had notes on them from the same family. The Fox family. [Insert excitement on my part!]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">Day 2: <a href="https://buddhasandbeadsorg.ipage.com/" target="_blank">Returned</a> to see if I could mine more postcard gold. Found five more notes from that family, and a few other gems.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">(My personal fave had no writing on it - 3 Polish ladies, circa 1910. What's not to love here?!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">It was fascinating to find a series of postcards from one family. The dates started in 1908 and went through 1941.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;"><b>My challenge to you [if you choose to accept it]</b> is to write their story using the cards I found.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">1908 to Mr. Harry Fox. The message just says "From, Fred." The picture is the Bowery in NYC and the postmark is Madison Square Station NY, 1908. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">We have had an amazing week with our game design and reflection unit!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Kevin Hodgson has asked us to reflect on implications for our classrooms.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I have a few simple offerings that we have used with some success in our alternative middle school. In our setting, we often have to go to great lengths to "engage"! And none of these ideas uses much technology.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">This book gives a wide variety of interactive storytelling games, with many different entry level skills, and has a naturally high ceiling. One of the games we start with is, "Where was your shoe?" We sit in a Circle, and everyone sticks his or her shoe into the center. We then take turns telling a story about a place our shoe has been. This could be true or fanciful. The point is to build comfort levels.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">2. Standardized testing - my co-teacher and I make a game of district-based timed assessments. Each time we finish a section, students get a raffle ticket to put in a jar. At the end , we pick names for a small prize. This keeps things moving, gives some incentive to get through the sections, and makes a horrible experience more fun for all! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">5. When we divided the middle school up into collaborative groups to do two Chopped-style team-building days with students, planning the day as a structured game led to higher levels of student engagement. We did this one day with cooking, and another day with constructing a bird feeder. Staff then voted on the best meal or the most well-designed bird feeder. Having the day laid out as a game ahead of time allowed students to have background knowledge of how the day would proceed, layered on top of the advance notice we always give for schedule changes and special activities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">None of this is revolutionary, but I wanted to share a few simple game-ish things that we have found success with. While it might sound as if a lot of extrinsic reward was involved, that element actually ended up playing very little part in the successes. The game aspects simply lowered stress levels, increased fun levels, and gave an implicit structure to a set time period. </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">All of these things typically lead to more success for our students. </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The game aspect also led to a natural rallying together of students who normally do not like working together and who are generally unsuccessful in teamwork. In order to "win," they put aside some of the petty differences.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Our CLMOOC unit has given me many more tools and concepts for my Game Toolbox. As I reflect more on this experience, I plan to incorporate the Makes I have seen [and done] in order to more systematically plan for and gamify my classroom. Lots more thinking to do, but thank you for all of the great ideas you have shared, including your processes and <strike>"failures"</strike> iterations!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">What does it mean to welcome someone, and what power dynamics are at play? Anna distinguishes between the French concept of hospitality, which is "mainly let someone stay without asking money (sleep and live) under one's roof" and the English concept, "receptive and open-minded, welcoming, and it also about parties and meals."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">In January, I went to a TedTalk in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. The theme was "Collisions." Much of the content in the amazing talks had to do with Equity of Access. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8RrX4hjCr0" target="_blank">Ruha Benjamin's</a> TedTalk has stuck with me (as has <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tarl95XP1M" target="_blank">Jimmy Lin's</a> but for corollary reasons). </span><br />
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Anti-homeless architecture is growing and pushing back the poorest towards zones even more inhospitable. This ordered violence, indifferent to the sufferings of others, takes part in the degradation of human relations and is a quiet and paradoxical response to ultimate precariousness.
Anti-sitting, anti-homeless design. How inviting.
This sort of thing isn&rsquo;t only anti-homeless, it&rsquo;s anti-life.
Everyone who sees this incurs mental harm. Each jagged edge is a whip that bullies us into forgetting that a city must retain a communal sense of ownership.
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Clearly, no one in #CLMOOC is purposely using discriminatory design.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">But I think it is important in any arena which is inherently entitled, such as an online class, to keep in mind those design elements which might be <span style="color: yellow;">unintentionally </span>preventing people from feeling included, safe, welcome or welcomed. Like the frog in the pot of water on the stove who doesn't realize that the temperature is rising until it is too late, we can become so immersed in our own experience that we forget what it feels like from different perspectives. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">"Hospitality is not in the place it is in the human."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Yesterday I sent out a <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1PYfDW5lcdIg1Frx5MZPPSAqgPaXou-1X3pRGC-D3pME/viewform" target="_blank">survey</a> to briefly gauge how comfortable people are feeling with #CLMOOC. Since there are over 2000 people in the Community, and so far 34 have responded to the survey, I can't say that it is a scientific representation, but I have found that anonymous surveys tend to attract a decent cross-section of those who are fairly content and those who have concerns that they haven't been able to express in another arena. </span><br />
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<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"intriguing"]" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; word-wrap: break-word;">intriguing</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"Catalyst"]" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; word-wrap: break-word;">Catalyst</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"catalyst"]" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; word-wrap: break-word;">catalyst</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"play"]" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; word-wrap: break-word;">play</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"busy"]" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; word-wrap: break-word;">busy</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"Creating"]" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; word-wrap: break-word;">Creating</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"collaborative "]" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; word-wrap: break-word;">collaborative </td></tr>
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<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"Inspiring"]" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; word-wrap: break-word;">Inspiring</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"positive"]" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; word-wrap: break-word;">positive</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"opportunity"]" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; word-wrap: break-word;">opportunity</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"energetic!"]" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; word-wrap: break-word;">energetic!</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"inspiring"]" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; word-wrap: break-word;">inspiring</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"opening"]" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; word-wrap: break-word;">opening</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"intriguing"]" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; word-wrap: break-word;">intriguing</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"Fun"]" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; word-wrap: break-word;">Fun</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"frantic"]" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; word-wrap: break-word;">frantic</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"Create"]" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; word-wrap: break-word;">Create</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"overwhelming"]" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; word-wrap: break-word;">overwhelming</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"exploring"]" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; word-wrap: break-word;">exploring</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"rejuvinating"]" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; word-wrap: break-word;">rejuvinating</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"Disorganised"]" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; word-wrap: break-word;">Disorganised</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"tentative"]" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; word-wrap: break-word;">tentative</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">What is one question you have for or about #CLMOOC?</span><br />
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<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"Are all the prompts connected to connected learning principles?"]" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; word-wrap: break-word;">Are all the prompts connected to connected learning principles?</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"????"]" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; word-wrap: break-word;">????</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"Connected to each other by...what?"]" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; word-wrap: break-word;">Connected to each other by...what?</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"What's going on? What am I making?"]" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; word-wrap: break-word;">What's going on? What am I making?</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"When are you going to stop dictating and start involving all of us in designing this?"]" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; word-wrap: break-word;">When are you going to stop dictating and start involving all of us in designing this?</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"I am pretty sure I officially signed up, but I haven't received a newsletter email yet. Where should I check to make sure that I am actually registered? "]" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; word-wrap: break-word;">I am pretty sure I officially signed up, but I haven't received a newsletter email yet. Where should I check to make sure that I am actually registered? </td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"I do not see a purpose for the \"untro\" and feel it is a wasted week. It is too deep, too complex. If you want new invitees to feel comfortable in this space, it had better start in an easy to understand manner. What is the purpose of the week 1 make? How would I bring this into my classroom and use with students, or into a staff meeting to use with staff? I just don't see it and I am a creative person. Honestly, this 1st week is a huge potential turn-off to newbies. I'm hoping next week is more practical."]" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; word-wrap: break-word;">I do not see a purpose for the "untro" and feel it is a wasted week. It is too deep, too complex. If you want new invitees to feel comfortable in this space, it had better start in an easy to understand manner. What is the purpose of the week 1 make? How would I bring this into my classroom and use with students, or into a staff meeting to use with staff? I just don't see it and I am a creative person. Honestly, this 1st week is a huge potential turn-off to newbies. I'm hoping next week is more practical.</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"How do we build community [based on tweet https://twitter.com/NomadWarMachine/status/613491511989174272 ]"]" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; word-wrap: break-word;">How do we build community [based on tweet https://twitter.com/NomadWarMachine/status/613491511989174272 ]</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"How important is it that your experience in the mooc transfer to your classroom? Is the mooc about nuts and bolts or inspiration?"]" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; word-wrap: break-word;">How important is it that your experience in the mooc transfer to your classroom? Is the mooc about nuts and bolts or inspiration?</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"I don't know enough yet to have questions. "]" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; word-wrap: break-word;">I don't know enough yet to have questions. </td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"Any representation of clmoocers at ISTE2015? "]" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; word-wrap: break-word;">Any representation of clmoocers at ISTE2015? </td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"How long does an individual cycle last? Is it only a week?"]" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; word-wrap: break-word;">How long does an individual cycle last? Is it only a week?</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"How do we find more equity? (e.g. How do we make this less for \"insiders\"?)"]" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; word-wrap: break-word;">How do we find more equity? (e.g. How do we make this less for "insiders"?)</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"How will I apply this experience in my teaching?"]" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; word-wrap: break-word;">How will I apply this experience in my teaching?</td></tr>
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<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"None"]" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; word-wrap: break-word;">None</td></tr>
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<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"Where are we going?"]" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; word-wrap: break-word;">Where are we going?</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"Do you really want 2000 people posting their make projects? I posted my intro first night, but now it is overwhelming with un-intros."]" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; word-wrap: break-word;">Do you really want 2000 people posting their make projects? I posted my intro first night, but now it is overwhelming with un-intros.</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"How long will the links last?"]" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; word-wrap: break-word;">How long will the links last?</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"How can CLMOOC concepts be made more appealing (obviously relevant and beneficial) to a wider audience, and a broader number of disciplines?"]" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; word-wrap: break-word;">How can CLMOOC concepts be made more appealing (obviously relevant and beneficial) to a wider audience, and a broader number of disciplines?</td></tr>
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<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"Is there enough collaboration going on? or just silos?"]" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; word-wrap: break-word;">Is there enough collaboration going on? or just silos?</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"How do I become more involved and what are examples of transferring CLMOOC experiences in the classroom?"]" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; word-wrap: break-word;">How do I become more involved and what are examples of transferring CLMOOC experiences in the classroom?</td></tr>
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<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"How will we get every one to feel ownership of clmooc."]" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; word-wrap: break-word;">How will we get every one to feel ownership of clmooc.</td></tr>
<tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="[null,2,"Any plans to make this a year-round thing?"]" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; word-wrap: break-word;">Any plans to make this a year-round thing?</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Are there ways we can more creatively make this experience more equitable? More welcoming to new players? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Susan <complete id="goog_1766665878">@eatcherveggies</complete></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07719153438721951700noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941075216083011590.post-72770324372833895812015-05-23T07:44:00.000-07:002015-05-23T07:44:17.662-07:00Women Who Wear Makeup Get Paid More:<h2>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">As Ty Kiisel points out <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/tykiisel/2013/03/20/you-are-judged-by-your-appearance/" target="_blank">here</a>, humans tend to judge and get judged, consciously, or unconsciously, by our appearances. He references <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/05/7-ways-your-looks-affect-your-pay_n_2811740.html?utm_hp_ref=small-business#slide=more284540" target="_blank">this article by Aaron Gouveia</a>, citing research that our appearances affect </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">many things at work,<i> e.g.</i> tall people get paid more, fat people <i><span style="color: yellow;">[his words, not mine]</span></i> get paid less, women who wear makeup get paid more, etc. <a href="http://www.briantracy.com/blog/leadership-success/the-importance-of-a-first-impression-everything-counts-personal-statement/" target="_blank">Brian Tracy, a "personal success authority" says</a>: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"Your clothes are responsible for 95 percent of the first impression that you make on someone because, in most instances, your clothes cover 95 percent of your body. Your grooming, your hair style and the other ways you can determine your appearance from the neck up also exert an inordinate influence on the way that you are perceived, on your ethos with someone. "</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">[I realize these may be U.S.-centric examples, but I don't want to speak of things I don't know anything about. So please add your own cultural examples in the comments if you can.]</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">What is my point?</span><br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Z4iEWcCwGIo/VWCRc5uS3JI/AAAAAAAAEIQ/obmf9VetRL0/s1600/WP_20141026_003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Z4iEWcCwGIo/VWCRc5uS3JI/AAAAAAAAEIQ/obmf9VetRL0/s200/WP_20141026_003.jpg" width="112" /></a><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Connected Courses such as #rhizo15, #CLMOOC, #connectedcourses, etc. create a playing field more even than most f2f learning situations. We interact with people primarily for the value of their work, their humor, their interactions, their willingness to share and be vulnerable, their willingness to connect reciprocally. It has little, very little, to do with anything superficial, such as what they look like or wear.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">I would like to think that happens in most real life learning environments, too. But I am not that naive.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Fortunately for most of us, in connected courses, we can work and interact with each other in our pajamas, our farm duds, with babyfood smeared on our hijab, or muddy dog prints on our jeans, no make-up, hair uncombed.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">If you met me in person, you would know that I have nine tattoos, short grey hair, and dress pretty androgynously.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">This week Kevin made a cartoon version of me, which I loved. He got the hair pretty close, but I never wear skirts/dresses, and let's just say sweaters don't look that good on me, and we'll leave it at that (LOL).</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">I have on many occasions been judged for my tattoos, my lack of feminine attire, etc. But those things are not a factor in courses like Rhizo and CLMOOC. We find out about each other in dribs and drabs, already having had valuable interactions that are far more important than finding out someone has tattoos.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">I don't know if you are heavy or skinny, masculine or feminine, sloppy or neat, disheveled or tall or short. I</span></span><span style="color: yellow; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">t points out how unimportant our actual appearances are to our interactions.</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Many of us have, at different times, made cartoon versions of each other. </span></span><br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SgLdYNgbvFg/VWCHLwg2RvI/AAAAAAAAEGk/qq3SbqDI56w/s1600/MB%2B1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="color: yellow;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SgLdYNgbvFg/VWCHLwg2RvI/AAAAAAAAEGk/qq3SbqDI56w/s1600/MB%2B1.jpg" /></span></a><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">However, I am always mindful of the potential for cultural ignorance (in myself), so I always ask the person directly, if I am in doubt. We recently made a happy birthday video for Kevin, our cartoon master. I made cartoon superhero versions of participants, and didn't want to do anything to Maha Bali's character that would be culturally offensive. This is what I ended up with, after consultation with her:</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">It is rather freeing, really, to be judged by the quality of one's work and the reciprocity of one's interactions. And not by the weight of any other scale.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">[Maha and I have chatted about how other things aside from physical appearance affect our perceptions of each other, but she has written about that far more eloquently than I could.]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">Rhizomatic Learning is a grass-covered archipelago, each isle an atoll dotted with a series of chocolate lava cakes and connected by ocean waves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">Each cake emits a unique signal, and is able to sense and synthesize unique signals from other cakes when conditions are right.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">Each time a chocolate lava cake receives a signal, it gains an ounce+ of molten chocolate, as well as an enhanced signal of its own via the addition of more coral and more life in, under and around.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">Each atoll, with a base of coral, is weak when it first begins to emerge. But as more chocolate is added, the atoll becomes stronger and deeper.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">Under and around it, beauty lives and swims, and tendrils die when tossed aside or neglected.</span></div>
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/100966621">Southern Atolls, Maldives - Underwater World Part 2</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/eunjae">Eunjae Im</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">[Such atolls are noted for losing signals and a subsequent decrease in chocolate content.] #data</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">Other atolls share so many unique signals that they become greater than the sum of their parts. One example is this Tahitian Rhizo Archipelago:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;"><br />A few rhizo atolls are more idiosyncratic, like this atoll dubbed the "Simon"atoll:</span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JzKXvvy8tB8/VV51Z8KwGiI/AAAAAAAAEAA/dnqFCid21-Y/s1600/sion%2Batoll.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JzKXvvy8tB8/VV51Z8KwGiI/AAAAAAAAEAA/dnqFCid21-Y/s1600/sion%2Batoll.jpg" /></a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">Finally, as seen in the example below, when rhizo signals are neither sent nor received, the atoll disappears and is no longer a vessel of delicious chocolate.<br /> </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">Each cake is delicious on its own. But an archipelago of interconnected, cross-communicating chocolate lava cakes becomes an idiosyncratically beauteous entity, with incredible life hidden within and below the surface.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">With just a few well-aimed signals, you end up with, at the very least, a small bit of tasty rhizo chocolate lava, some clear ocean waves, and a living microcosm. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">Remix - add ice cream, illegibility, whipped cream raspberries, octopi, irony, sarcasm, curiosity, doubt, optimism, eels, a rudder.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">Can/should we get rid of the idea of 'Dave'?</span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Dave asks, "...what is the role of the facilitator/teacher/professor where we are using learning subjectives, where learning isn't measured and where content is actually other people?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">Well...Dave <i>could</i> be this-</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Or this:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Or this:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Or this:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Or this:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Or this:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">However, he's more like this:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">My point is - I don't think that we can get rid of Dave, or the idea of Dave.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">Dave is the fertile soil in which the rhizome began to grow.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">Dave is the smart, flexible, creative instigator.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">Even in (and maybe especially in) an environment of "more formal education" that he proposes we reflect upon, the individual, the kaleidoscopic faceted person (or people) who have the vision and get it moving are not only integral to what evolves: they are the first domino to lean, they are the farmer who throws out the seeds, they are the painter who tosses the first splash of paint.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">I have worked for 23 years as a teacher. One thing I have learned is that the one who leads, the ones who instigate, are intricately & idiosyncratically critical to the development of anything truly new and real.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">There is a dearth of pedagogical leadership in many of our day-to-day academic experiences.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">There is too often a lack of unique and diverse voices willing to show passion and push us to think in new ways.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07719153438721951700noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941075216083011590.post-20867852980591954442015-05-03T17:21:00.002-07:002015-05-03T17:21:46.837-07:00Intersecting Overlapping Interlocutors: Webs of Most Excellent Comments<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">I am waiting. I want my homework.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">I read the homework. I think about the homework.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">Primarily, I LIVE the homework. As I make my way through my day, filled with teachers and 13 year-olds, I live it. And reflect.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">So, this week - <b><span style="color: yellow;">content</span></b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">A busy week in this context is good. It means others will have written about this before I was able to. They can help me understand, perceive, and reorient my thinking.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">So, I read and read and read. </span><br />
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<strike><span style="color: yellow; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">Something else I probably forgot.</span></strike><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">And then confusion sets in. If I liked your Facebook post, and then comment on your blog, should I also comment on your Facebook post? If I +1 your comment on Google+ and then read your blog, should I also favorite your tweet? If I favorited your tweet, does that mean I already read your post? Or that I will? If I comment on Twitter, should I also comment on your blog? And on Facebook? And on Google+? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">And these Intersecting Overlapping <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/interlocutors?s=t" target="_blank">Interlocutors</a> and these Webs of Most Excellent Comments will not defeat me.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">We are asked: <span style="line-height: 24px;">How do we design our own or others' learning when we don’t know where we are going? How does that free us up? What can we get done with subjectives that can’t be done with objectives?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">--tending or intending to subvert or overthrow, destroy, or undermine an established or existing system.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-align: start;">"The </span><b style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-align: start;">English subjunctive</b><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-align: start;"> – that is, the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjunctive_mood" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none;" title="Subjunctive mood">subjunctive mood</a>,<span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-align: start;"> is used to form sentences that do not describe known objective </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fact" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none;" title="Fact">facts</a><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-align: start;">. These include statements about one's state of mind, such as opinion, belief, purpose, intention, or desire. The subjunctive mood is also used for statements that are contrary to fact, such as </span><i style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-align: start;">If I <b>were</b> a giraffe."</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: yellow; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-align: start;">As Virginia Woolf said, "Biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many thousand."</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: yellow; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-align: start;">This is not meant to be trite - because we never actually know where we are going when we design learning. We are trained to pretend to, and to actually believe it on some level.</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: yellow; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-align: start;">This course acknowledges that this concept of subjectives is of value, not to be tamed, but to be ridden like a wild bronco while you laugh maniacally.</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: yellow; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-align: start;">How would one truly subvert this #rhizo15? Perhaps by mapping out the curriculum with <strike>pretentious</strike> linear learning objectives while pretending they will have a happy ending?</i></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07719153438721951700noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941075216083011590.post-87313718278419594532015-04-13T06:21:00.001-07:002015-04-13T09:14:33.110-07:00Writing From the Gut: A Response<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">Terry Elliott recently honored my <a href="http://teachingbeyondtropes.blogspot.com/2015/03/quicksand-ellipses.html" target="_blank">Quicksand</a> post with <a href="http://impedagogy.com/wp/blog/2015/04/11/honor-by-annotating-susan-watsons-quicksand-ellipses/" target="_blank">annotations on Genius</a>. And when I say annotations, I mean annotations as only Terry can - GIFs, photos, technical grammar explications, questions, praise and all manner of goodness.</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">[Right now, I am stealing moments at work, a tiny rebellion but also a sweet breeze through my (cinder block) metaphorical window.]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">~~I am humbled by the fact that anyone reads what I write. I try to honor that by writing to the best of my ability, not wasting my readers' time, and attempting to make people think or laugh or question.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">Terry has helped me become a better thinker and writer. And all of you make me better.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">Thank you for reading.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07719153438721951700noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941075216083011590.post-8645373928257477232015-03-30T10:26:00.001-07:002015-03-30T10:26:55.635-07:00Quicksand, Ellipses<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;"><b>trailing off,</b></span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;"><b>trailing off,</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;"><b>or violet tenderness.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">As in,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">...it's been a long.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">That's all relative, of course.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">I have managed to maintain some online connections, and managed to attend OpenEd14 (which was fantastic and after which I got lost in VA someplace as my phone died and darkness fell and the Famous Virginia Traffic Overtook). </span><br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jxHQRq98IR0/VKdEVTx_LBI/AAAAAAAABUU/vybYdqP-hBM/s1600/pain.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jxHQRq98IR0/VKdEVTx_LBI/AAAAAAAABUU/vybYdqP-hBM/s1600/pain.jpg" height="124" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">My work at school has been rewarding. The pain levels in my body have not. They seem to cycle, and for the past few weeks the cycle has been Not So Good. As in, Bad. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">But.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">Through these weeks, I have truly thought of my #ccourses folks daily.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">I have been yearning to connect with them, but only managing the Life Minimum to succeed in "real" life, AKA my job....which basically means I have devoted what ever energy I have to my school and staff and students.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">So. Connections. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">But.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">We have now had ten days off from work, which has helped my pain. Less typing. Fewer desk-sitting hours.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">I have been trying to Capture Moments in order to Maintain Sanity. Take advantage of the times when less pain has reared its head.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">Books, they help a lot. And nature. I was able to take a gorgeous hike in Patapsco State Park and watch a pileated woodpecker for a wonderfully long time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">One of my students, who is homeless, has been at the <i>Barnes and Noble</i> store in town daily for about 8 hours a day, because his mom got a job in the mall. He and his sister can't stay at the shelter during the day, so they wait at the book store. I have been showing up there with my chess board and challenging him to a few games as we both learn to play chess. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">A colleague and I have been playing Chess With Friends across space and time. I'm awful, but willing and learning! (You wanna?)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">Another student has mainstreamed back to his home school, but I maintain contact with his mom. He and I went on New Year's Eve to see the new Hunger Games movie. Popcorn ensued, and discussions of The Walking Dead, and mostly I was just happy to see him. He has grown 6 inches since I last saw him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">My BFF and I have seen some amazing films as well - Imitation Game, Theory of Everything, Fury, Unbroken, Wild.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">And.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;">I am learning a new meditation-doodling method called Zentangle, which I am really enjoying. Hoping to incorporate it into our SEL program at school.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;">Most days for me consist of a choice between accomplishing a lot (more pain) and accomplishing a little (less pain). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;">Today was a good day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;">And...tomorrow will be another good one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I didn't know it at the time, but in that post, I crowdsourced advice. </span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">When I read the comments and advice on my blog, I was blown away.</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"> First, I was blown away that people took the time to comment, and second, I was blown away by the diversity of ideas offered, and the incredible helpfulness of said ideas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: yellow;">And Terry gave me word origins for "ruin," including:</span><span style="color: #292929;"> </span></span><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="background-color: black; line-height: 24px;">671 Milton P.R. iv. 363 In them is plainest taught‥What ruins Kingdoms, and lays Cities flat. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">And Terry connected connected connected me to ideas as only Terry does: unmoored, unbalanced, neutral nowheres, reaching forth....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Mostly, this is a <span style="color: yellow;">thank you</span>. To all of you who read, and who offered ideas, and connected. I can't really describe fully how I felt when I read your comments, but suffice it to say that my heart was full. <span style="color: yellow;">On a day when I had felt alone, I suddenly felt a part of something bigger.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Here is a more artful version of my thanks to all of you: </span><a href="http://zeega.com/169341" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;" target="_blank">Thank You Note</a></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07719153438721951700noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941075216083011590.post-73528014217219313182014-10-26T13:12:00.000-07:002014-10-26T13:12:45.301-07:00#Ccourses Has Ruined Me and I Don't Know How to Fix It<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I am typically a very optimistic and positive type of folk.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">But lately there's been no balance in my life. And that's not me.</span><br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-O3tTR-J5WIk/VE1QR5WsyjI/AAAAAAAABOE/rYOMBXe3UwM/s1600/no%2Boutlet%2B1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-O3tTR-J5WIk/VE1QR5WsyjI/AAAAAAAABOE/rYOMBXe3UwM/s1600/no%2Boutlet%2B1.jpg" height="200" width="171" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Work. More work. No walks. No exercise. No real feeling of accomplishment other than <u>not</u> falling off of a mental treadmill. Lots of trying. Hamster-wheeling. More trying. Reflecting. Action planning. Susan-What-Are-You-Doing self-chats.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">So I went on a walk today. You know how when you get a new car, and you notice that kind of car wherever you go, for weeks?</span><br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PS8rkCHZx-8/VE1QSc5wA6I/AAAAAAAABOI/vO-JN_70ikA/s1600/no%2Boutlet%2B2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PS8rkCHZx-8/VE1QSc5wA6I/AAAAAAAABOI/vO-JN_70ikA/s1600/no%2Boutlet%2B2.jpg" height="200" width="118" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I noticed signs on my walk. Signs. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">OK, universe, I get it, not too subtle on your part.</span><br />
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HI3uRUMAZmY/VE1QTCvGo_I/AAAAAAAABOU/JMx_g8wrJn4/s1600/walk1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HI3uRUMAZmY/VE1QTCvGo_I/AAAAAAAABOU/JMx_g8wrJn4/s1600/walk1.jpg" height="200" width="158" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Two "No Outlet" signs. Yep. That's accurate. Thanks, universe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">A "walker" sign, with an arrow. A mindless, neutral, robotic walker on a sign. Yep. Accurate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I was starting to understand that this walk was trying to yell at me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">And lastly, an arrow pointing at a curb. I likened it to beating my head against a wall. Lookie here, look, nothing!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I am big on taking responsibility. I have been having a lot of WTF moments.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Year three of trying to facilitate a new program at my school. This week, a team meeting where blank stares were the predominant feature. Where people did not do things that they were supposed to do. Simple things. Team things. "I am a part of something" things. That they had agreed to do. Phoning it in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Clearly, I am doing something wrong. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">So, I reflect. Why am I so dissatisfied?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">My goals have been changed by #ccourses. I now expect people to want to connect. To thrive on connecting. To make time to connect. To think and research and have fun sharing ideas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">#Ccourses has ruined me. There's no going back.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I love this course, but am I better at getting other people to want to do this connection thing? Apparently, no. I have modeled, and encouraged, and cheered and all that. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">So, I go back to my question from a couple of months ago - how do I create a connected experience for people who are satisfied with boxed macaroni and cheese?</span>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Put student needs last on the list.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Once you see all the data, make excuses for it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large; line-height: 1.08000001040372; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please read his succinct, effective explanation of how motivation and context can push us into being able to learn things for which we do not have traditional "prerequisites."</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and commented, “</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He is so close to what I've been thinking!”</span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07719153438721951700noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941075216083011590.post-40157190207577909322014-10-13T16:34:00.000-07:002014-10-13T16:43:38.404-07:00Being @DogTrax - An Homage<i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">If you can't sing it, it won't come alive.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Last Sunday, our #dailyconnect asked us to collaborate on a song. I got together with some #ccourses folks and collaborated to create a new version of an old favorite. Some people were really trepidatious.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">That got me thinking - what must it feel like for people to step outside their comfort zones with music? <a href="http://dogtrax.edublogs.org/category/music/">I am comfortable making music</a>, sharing music. I enjoy taking things others create and adding my own musical touch to them. I sing, play saxophone, guitar, write songs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Kevin:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; orphans: 4;">There’s a certain feeling you get when you share a song that is close to your heart. On one hand, you don’t want to let it go. It’s so personal that it feels like a child that needs protecting. On the other hand, some songs come out nearly perfect (or so it seems) and the only way to breathe real life into it is to share it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I also love making comics. See some examples <a href="http://dogtrax.edublogs.org/category/comics/">here</a>. Comics are not for everyone. But they help me to zero in on important ideas in the writing of others. <a href="http://dogtrax.edublogs.org/2014/10/06/comics-recap-a-weekend-update/">It's my way of "reading" the posts and material, searching for interesting tidbts.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So I decided to take a comic look at how it might feel for others to make music in #ccourses. The second panel in this comic includes my friend Terry, our favorite writer/pirate. His use of obscure phrases always makes me laugh (and think).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Finally, my friend Maha posted <a href="http://blog.mahabali.me/blog/social-media/can-less-be-more-in-an-age-of-abundance/#comments">here</a>, where she asked, "Can Less Be More in an Age of Abundance?" Maha had planted a small garden of green beans, but then found she had planted too many and they were too close together. She took that and applied it as a metaphor to revision, and growth, and collaboration. One of her lines grabbed my attention and made me think:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">(comics made with http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/)</span></div>
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07719153438721951700noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941075216083011590.post-50762584251931614692014-10-11T18:02:00.002-07:002014-10-11T18:08:27.366-07:00poetrope, entropy, trophic, trope, nonsense<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vS0auOIN1Fc/VDnOBwb12GI/AAAAAAAABKk/gDWC6L8LBFo/s1600/entropy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vS0auOIN1Fc/VDnOBwb12GI/AAAAAAAABKk/gDWC6L8LBFo/s1600/entropy.jpg" height="132" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="color: yellow;">entropy</span>, a gradual decline into disorder.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="color: yellow;">poetrope</span>, a word I just made up, a gradual decline of metaphors into a lower part of the language food chain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="color: yellow;">trope</span>, a convention that can be relied on.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="color: yellow;">trope</span>, a cliche.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="color: yellow;">trope</span>, overused plot device.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="color: yellow;">synecdoche</span>, referring to a whole through use of a part.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">but.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">your glasses are <span style="color: yellow;">more than</span> glass.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="color: yellow;">more than</span> your bones are tired.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">life itself is <span style="color: yellow;">more than</span> DNA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">nonsense.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">nonsense...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">not sense.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">it made sense.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">S.Ensor, Sensor, senser, he who senses, sends her.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">tellio</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">tell.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">tell us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">connect.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">con.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">where's the con.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">convince me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">evince.</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">tossing words out like confetti/</span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">but with a less celebratory fling./</span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">i forgot to add velcro/</span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">so the words may not stick./</span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">perhaps pushpins were in order/</span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">but yesterday such things were weapons/</span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">in a war against disorder./</span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">dis.order./</span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">i was a pacifist./</span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">but./</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">So how do we trust people in our Connected Learning Networks?</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">What can we do to protect ourselves? Encrypt? Decrypt? Password Protect? Lie in wait. Lie?</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">This is not Match.com. We don't have reason to pretend we are 10 years younger, or that we don't have grey hair.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">So what's the big deal?</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">It's not. A big deal, that is. Unless you're pouring out your heart. Like many of us do, in spite of [probably] [maybe] [sometimes] looking like silly fools.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Can you be vulnerable? Do you share idiosyncracies? Do you reciprocate? Do you not only post, but also comment on others' posts? Then I start to trust you. </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">And if you are willing to connect outside of the [albeit loose] confines of #ccourses, then I really start to trust you. Not required, but nice to have and know.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">A pseudonym lets you participate at whatever level you want. Otherwise, you are a buffet who can only share your flatware, or your dessert. Losing the multi-dimensionality of what you could be, when you choose. Meaning we lose that, too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><u style="color: yellow;">Part 3: Hiding:</u><span style="color: white;">Reading about encryption last night, my first impulse was to encrypt everything. My second was, "It's too late anyway." My third was, "I don't really understand a lot of this." My fourth was, "I better learn more."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><u style="color: yellow;">Part 4 [final part] Challenging:</u> I was reading a blog post in module 1 when I <strike>realized</strike> <span style="color: yellow;">incorrectly thought</span> that the person writing it had political views directly opposite of mine. I was taken aback. WHAT? I <strike>stupidly</strike> clearly thought everyone in #ccourses shared my political views [not really, but yes, but you get my point]. I emailed with another friend about it, and she helped me see that I had read it wrong. We are actually <u>not</u> on opposite sides of the political spectrum. But my friend and I had a good conversation and a laugh over it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">109 hours.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Never been good at math.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">[Trigonometry was fine. Higher than that, my brain did not compute.]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Lots of math this week. Actually got a compliment from a colleague - "nice job with this complex math problem."</span><br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-o6-9rp4WR3g/VC8a0Gqp3eI/AAAAAAAABFI/kd0212cFDFg/s1600/images%2B(19).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-o6-9rp4WR3g/VC8a0Gqp3eI/AAAAAAAABFI/kd0212cFDFg/s1600/images%2B(19).jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I have what's called an 11-month position. For two extra pay checks, we need to work 128 extra hours beyond the school day, between July 1, 2014 and July 1, 2015. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">So far I have worked 109. I have until July to work 19 more hours. Math. You do the.</span><br />
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qGc3za4ju_I/VC8b0FIenzI/AAAAAAAABFQ/jFFu6yBlTHk/s1600/dellchromebook-850-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qGc3za4ju_I/VC8b0FIenzI/AAAAAAAABFQ/jFFu6yBlTHk/s1600/dellchromebook-850-3.jpg" height="133" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Spent three hours Wednesday night making a plan for distribution and transportation of 22 new Chromebooks throughout the middle school.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Lotsa compliments on said plan. "Good math."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">But. Plan now revised; some initial requisites became moot. [Teachers who had demanded Chromebooks no longer needed them once it took a tiny bit of coordination and cooperation to get them.]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">"It's not about you. What do the kids need?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Too. Much. Work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">In the background, my Connected Courses friends got to play. 9 p.m. Three hours into the Chromebooks plan, I was irritable. I wanted to play, too. But. Sleep. @ 9 p.m. EST. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I have not gotten to read blogs this week. Only tiny dips into Twitter. I know beautiful things have been happening. I can't wait to rejoin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Brief respites with a student, writing to <a href="http://blog.mahabali.me/blog/">Maha Bali</a>, have kept me encouraged, connected. He is excited to have a long-distance friend in Egypt. He has few real friends here. Thank you, Maha.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">You can miss people you've never met. You can wonder what they'd think about something that is happening in front of you. </span><br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M0dr_NZrd10/VC8gYybcYKI/AAAAAAAABFk/JbCzM5G6ywY/s1600/10511193_10203527434122635_3266434000535603887_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M0dr_NZrd10/VC8gYybcYKI/AAAAAAAABFk/JbCzM5G6ywY/s1600/10511193_10203527434122635_3266434000535603887_n.jpg" height="200" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">People. In France. Kentucky. Egypt. Massachusets. Ohio. New York.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Out of the swamp. For now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">People inspired by people inspired by people....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">What does it mean to be inspired? <a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=inspiration">Word origins fascinate me.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><u><span style="color: yellow;">Inspiration</span></u> (n.) c. 1300 <span style="color: yellow;">"immediate influence of God or a god."</span> From Old French <i>inspiracion, </i><span style="color: yellow;">"inhaling, breathing in."</span> From Late Latin <i>inspirationem, </i><span style="color: yellow;">"inspire, inflame."</span> Literal sense <span style="color: yellow;">"act of inhaling,"</span> attested in English from 1560s. Meaning "one who inspires others" is attested by 1867.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Act of inhaling. That IS sometimes what it feels like to be inspired. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Also - immediate influence of God or a god.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Yes, at the risk of <strike>sounding like an insane person </strike> misunderstood hyperbole, in a sense, yes. <a href="https://twitter.com/sensor63">Simon Ensor</a> has "touched" upon the fact that something bigger than "us" is at play here: <a href="http://tachesdesens.blogspot.com/2014/09/dawn-augurs-well.html">here</a> and <a href="http://tachesdesens.blogspot.com/2014/09/stillness-in-frenesy.html">here</a> and <a href="http://tachesdesens.blogspot.com/2014/09/nothing-very-much.html">here</a> and (you get the idea).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Mimi Ito wrote <strike>a freakin brilliant</strike> an incisive</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">, incredible </span><a href="http://www.itofisher.com/mito/weblog/2014/09/connected_learning_abundant_op.html" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">post</a><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"> that has many of us still thinking, annotating, and reflecting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Maha Bali was inspired to <a href="http://blog.mahabali.me/blog/pedagogy/why-read-this-why-read-that/">reflect</a> on the aspect of Mimi's post that discussed preferring to read blogs to reading recommended books. Mimi's post was added to the <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/ccourses">Diigo group</a> so we could all jump in and annotate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="color: yellow;">So many things in Mimi's post resonated with me - and made me laugh. Was</span> <a class="g-profile" href="https://plus.google.com/104809868243093766367" target="_blank">+Alan Levine</a> <span style="color: yellow;">@cogdog more than one person, an amalgamation? And was</span> <a class="g-profile" href="https://plus.google.com/103009061956191088385" target="_blank">+Kevin Hodgson</a> <span style="color: yellow;">@dogtrax also more than one person? They are able to make so many connections that they seem superhuman. They've assured us they are each one person and also two different people. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">What inspired me to create what I think of as the Twitter Haystack image, though, was what she said about <a href="https://twitter.com/hrheingold">@howardrheingold</a> and anxiety: [he] wakes up in the morning worried that a co-pilot has fallen asleep at the wheel or that the delicate social machinery we've stitched together is going to fall apart." Mimi then goes on to say that in her opinion, "We may not be too big to fail, but [she] would like to believe that we are too diverse to fail and distributed to fail."</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">My image is meant to reinforce that idea - we are too happily enmeshed to fail. Just like my summer #clmooc that never ended, this construct has a life of its own. We are all needles in haystacks that managed to find each other. The massiveness of a MOOC is not just about numbers, but about depth and intricacy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">You came here to the U.S. from the Ivory Coast because there was a civil war.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">You told me about weapons hidden in Banco National Park by your house. Seeing people shot. Seeing people die.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">You told me about not being in school for a year because of the war.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">You told me about why there was a war - there is a President, and someone else who thinks he should be ruling, so they were killing people who were against them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">You told me your father and mother spoke two different traditional languages, as well as French and English.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Now you are in the U.S. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">At an alternative school. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">You are struggling to understand how to interact with your peers. They make fun of your accent. You try to fit in, often in ways that disrupt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">You were fascinated that I could be in a class with a lady from Egypt. I explained (as best I could) online connections and classes. After looking at <u>her</u> project, you said, "Me and dis lady, we have a lot in common!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">"Dis lady" was Professor Maha Bali, who then wrote you an email, in spite of her own busy life with work and family. I can't wait to share it with you Friday!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">You've never talked to anyone at my school for more than 5 minutes. Today you talked nonstop for 40.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Thank you, Maha. You helped someone half a world away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">If this is Connected Learning, let's keep it up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I learned I have so much to learn. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Researchers at the National Center on Accessing the General Curriculum define differentiated instruction as <span style="color: yellow;">"a process to approach teaching and learning for students of differing abilities in the same class. The intent is to maximize each student's growth and individual success by meeting each student where he or she is."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Each year, though, the students arriving at my doorstep are more and more complex.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I want to meet them where they are. But finding them is getting tough. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Sometimes I chase their ghosts down into the cave, or watch their eyes float through the sky, or try to grab the shadow that remains when the consciousness, the conscience-ness has left.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07719153438721951700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941075216083011590.post-80596236219749000432014-09-19T09:58:00.000-07:002014-09-19T09:58:00.200-07:00400 Screaming Hawks at a Squirrel Convention<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wm3DSD3l89g/VBw0uEP4otI/AAAAAAAAA9M/z80ubhXlzf8/s1600/sel-competencies-249x300.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wm3DSD3l89g/VBw0uEP4otI/AAAAAAAAA9M/z80ubhXlzf8/s1600/sel-competencies-249x300.jpg" height="200" width="166" /></a><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">This has been an insane two weeks at my day job. Let me first clarify that I <i>truly</i> love what I do. And we have fantastic, forward-thinking leadership in my building.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I am charged with facilitating our middle school </span><a href="http://www.edutopia.org/project-based-learning" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">PBL</a><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"> program</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"> and a variety of "other duties as assigned" (although to be truthful, I volunteer for most of the duties).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Our staff is small (20 certificated staff, 12 Instructional Assistants) and our classes are small (right now the largest is 9 students).</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Like in "</span><a href="http://www.onlineconversion.com/dogyears.htm" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">dog years</a><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">," though, there is a calculation for our students that is a simple multiplier </span><strike style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">that I just now made up in my head</strike><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">: </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">In the midst of all of this at school, I checked my phone and saw that <a href="http://rhetcompnow.com/">Terry Elliott</a> had posted Iconoclasty 101. I told myself, "You have no time to read that," and immediately found myself reading it. "Damn you, Terry." I did not have time to write a comment. Yet I did.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">You <span style="color: yellow;">#Connectedcourses</span> people are making me a little bit <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/crazy">crazy</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Aside from <a href="https://twitter.com/telliowkuwp">Terry</a>, the piratical iconoclastic modular-home blower-upper:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I have <a href="http://tachesdesens.blogspot.com/">Simon Ensor</a>, with his open, vulnerable, humble writing that I see alternately as beautiful sushi rolls or foaming steins of beer. <a href="http://blog.mahabali.me/blog/">Maha Bali</a> making me think about Twitter as half eggs, and online trustworthiness. <a href="http://www.scoop.it/t/infotention">Howard Rheingold</a>, self-professed online instigator, keeping us all connected. <a href="http://dogtrax.edublogs.org/">Kevin Hodgson</a>, fellow non-higher-ed-ucator, making comics that intrigue and entertain. <a href="http://worldliterate.com/">Mia Zamora</a> declaring #ccourses a guilt-free zone. <a href="http://cogdogblog.com/">Alan Levine</a> teaching us to be <i>bona fide</i> smartasses online. <a href="http://heloukee.wordpress.com/">Helen Keegan</a>, fellow #ccourses addict enabling my addiction. The list goes on and on. If you are not listed, it is only because I am trying to avoid over-wordiness.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07719153438721951700noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941075216083011590.post-21767706257906071792014-09-15T16:30:00.001-07:002014-09-15T16:32:59.100-07:00The Meat of It: #WhyITeach<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Why do I teach an Enrichment Course to students who have been kicked out of their own schools for behavioral reasons?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Because for twenty years, no one thought my school needed an enrichment course.</span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">"Those kids...can't learn....don't learn....won't learn."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Because my school is not funded enough to have the courses needed for a student to graduate.</span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">"Those kids won't graduate anyway."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Because my students are some of the most brilliant I have ever worked with.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="color: yellow;">"Those kids are just criminals."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Because they represent only .01% of all students in my district.</span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">"Those kids don't matter. Why waste resources on them?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Because their home schools don't really want them back.</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I made this for my team at the beginning of the school year. Seems appropriate for this Why:</span><br />
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