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Kevin Hodgson

Teaching Beyond Tropes: Needle in a Haystack - 4 views

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ifttt delicious diigo

shared by Kevin Hodgson on 28 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • The massiveness of a MOOC is not just about numbers, but about depth and intricacy.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Sep 14
       
      Massively open Massively cooperative Massively complex Massively connected Massively entangled
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 28 Sep 14
       
      And massively collaborative!
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      massively fun.... You know, the intricacy of #clmooc was a surprise for me, since I had never been involved in such a nonlinear "course" - it takes getting used to, but once you do, you can't imagine it being any other way....which is why some of the PD fare I am in now seems ever so flat.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Sep 14
       
      The expression for me is simple:  skin in the game.  I am absolutely enamored of 'packet kid': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3h5jcI-MFI
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      Terry, I love him too. I saw this a while back and was cheering him on. He is so exactly right.
  • influence of God or a god
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Sep 14
       
      I am thinking of Pan here.  You know...the panpipes.  i have such wonderful associations with this word because of The Wind in the Willows. The very title of Grahame's book is a reference to Pan and the gods of otters and water rats and moles and badgers and toads. I read this book over and over to my children growing up.  I want Chapter Seven to be read aloud to me as I die. It is titled "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" --Pan, the source of all inspiration, speaking to use through the wind in the willows at the gates of dawn.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Sep 14
       
      I am inspired here to suggest that your blog like every loved thing or space has a genius loci, a Pan of its own living within like the little island in the middle of the weir in The Wind in the Willows.  Your work is to give it room to breathe out that inspiration, to be another's wind in the willows.  There really are undiscovered connections everywhere.  Holy digital spaces that we believe in because others do and because we do.  Inspiring, breathing in, like the zephyr at dawn. Sweet and wild and impossible to word.
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  • the fact that something bigger than "us" is at play here
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Sep 14
       
      Yes, in teaching I yearn for these moments where the artifice fades away, the planning drops off, the dross of the past is slagged off and a new presence is born.  We become the pipers at the gates of dawn if only for a few moments and the seeming chaos of improvisation, of taking our lead from the pipedreams in the ayre, becomes impossibly logical, a transcendent logic.  And no wonder we are called 'touched' because we damned well are.  And the world in these times makes abject sense, abject in the sense that wonder and awe always cast off sense.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 28 Sep 14
       
      Good way to put it ... something larger but not unrecognizable
  • (you get the idea).
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Sep 14
       
      We get the idea because it is a river that passes through this familiar yet undiscovered country.  We all come to it through teaching for whatever reason. Teaching flips the switch that allows us to see the light that "grows and grows" in Wind in the Willows.
  • Mimi's post was added to the Diigo group so we could all jump in and annotate.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Sep 14
       
      Mimi's post is just a little rowboat, a place to put the hamper as we search for Old Otter beloved youngest child along the river banks.  (Please read Chapter Seven of Wind in the Willows here: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/289/289-h/289-h.htm#link2H_4_0007).  Not to put too hyperbolic a point on it--we really are here to rescue children at this point from the leg traps and snares of the world.  Instead we should be taking them to meet the pipers at the gates of dawn.
  • resonated with me - and made me laugh
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Sep 14
       
      If you love words, you'll love 'resonate'--I think it is directly analogous to the word recursion. Where recursion is tied to vision, resonation is tied to the ear.  It is not an old word at all according to the OED.  it is a science word. Many disciplines use it. To re-sound, to be a re-sounding board, to echo back and forth.  It is like the empathy of mirror neurons.  It is memory and the experience of shared discipline and questions and ranging out into the world.  We are all looking for someone's lost child.  We have all found Pan at the Gates of Dawn.  Hence the resonating chord stretched between us and only felt as it vibrates, akin.
  • an amalgamation
  • an amalgamation
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Sep 14
       
      I think that we skirt around the issue of how we go beyond an "amalgamation" when we lower our gates and release the bloody-minded wards of routine. We really are Kevin and Mimi and Maha and Alan (well, maybe not Alan ;-) ).  I think they are our fractal selves.  Is that nuts? Is that perhaps lowering the prison walls a bit too much?  None of us is free.  We are all tied to each other.  If one goes down, the rest of us will be pulled down the mountain. Do I really believe that as more than a damned abstraction?  Sometimes.  At the best of times.  All the time? I just gotta keep working that garden.
  • "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."
  • What inspired me to create
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 28 Sep 14
       
      Here is the phrase we should see bending all over the place: "What inspired me to create"
  • we are too happily enmeshed to fail
Terry Elliott

No Hiding Your Talents and No Bad Dogs: Happy New Year | Impedagogy - 1 views

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terry

shared by Terry Elliott on 04 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • Sandra Sinfield
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 04 Jan 15
       
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Jan 15
       
      Generating stuff you never need--story of my life. Wonderful to see Sandra in axn.  This is why I love Google Hangout(s)
  • a nova in the winter’s dark.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 04 Jan 15
       
      or Heather Nova ...
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Jan 15
       
      Lyrics to Winter Blue Kiss your lashes, hiss you low I'm driven to you like the driven snow There's a place for us to lie For every lover there's a piece of sky To every life a light that shines To every heart a beat that's true Baby you're my yellow summer Baby you're my winterblue You know that this was meant to be Long ago a hundred years from now Tossing on an open sea Love so good it's easy to go down To every life a light that shines To every heart a beat that's true Baby you're my yellow summer Baby you're my winterblue Baby you're my yellow summer Baby you're my winterblue To every life a light that shines To every heart a beat that's true Baby you're my yellow summer Baby you're my winterblue Love you like a jungle fever I'll never never never, I'll never leave Through every vein and every fibre I'll never never never, I'll never leave To every life a light that shines To every heart a beat that's true Baby you're my yellow summer Baby you're my winterblue Baby you're my yellow summer Baby you're my winterblue Baby you're my yellow summer Baby you're my winterblue Winterblue, winterblue ... Winterblue, my yellow summer ...
  • annotate it and share it.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 04 Jan 15
       
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Jan 15
       
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Jan 15
       
      Go to the Vialogues above to comment.  Here is the link if you have probs with the embed: https://vialogues.com/vialogues/play/19196
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Jan 15
       
      I could see where this would be very handy way to make an assignment by using the annotation links as guided reading, asking questions, embedding Google Forms,  well...just wow.
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  • did you know that you could embed stuff into the the Diigo annotation boxes
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 04 Jan 15
       
      Lots of stuff you can stuff inside things that weren't made for stuffing ...
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Jan 15
       
      We Have Arrived
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Jan 15
       
      I was having trouble embedding a hackpad until I remembered about Embed.ly.  http://goo.gl/1DCgSx
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Jan 15
       
  • text box
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 04 Jan 15
       
  • celebrating her post
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 04 Jan 15
       
      Oh yeah ...
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Jan 15
       
  • text annotation machine
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 04 Jan 15
       
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Jan 15
       
      freaky
  • sound file via Soundcloud
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 04 Jan 15
       
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Jan 15
       
      Gotta love that Farfisa Combo. 
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Jan 15
       
      Here is a Wikipedia book I made this morning titled "Rock Lobster:the Birth of the B52s and Fictional Lobsters"
  • Three things to note
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 04 Jan 15
       
      and one to share: Beware the Dog
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Jan 15
       
      Irrepressible music just like my daughter's beagle/pug cross.  This music is a puggle.
  • Terry Elliott on 04 Jan 15
     
    feel free to help annotation this piece about annotation
Terry Elliott

Teaching Beyond Tropes - 1 views

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shared by Terry Elliott on 07 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • Time.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 07 Jan 15
       
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 07 Jan 15
       
      time is so relative...if you're a freaking time lord!
  • it's been a long.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 11 Jan 15
       
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 11 Jan 15
       
      I was born by the river In a little tent And just like the river I've been running ever since It's been a long, long time coming But I know a change gonna come Oh, yes it will It's been too hard living But I'm afraid to die I don't know what's up there beyond the sky It's been a long, long time coming But I know a change gonna come Oh yes it will Then I go to my brother I say brother help me please But he winds up knocking me Back down on my knees There's been times that I thought I couldn't last for long But now I think I'm able to carry on It's been a long, long time coming But I know a change is gonna come Oh, yes it will Sam Cooke - It's Been A Long Time Coming Lyrics | 
  • That's all relative
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 11 Jan 15
       
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 11 Jan 15
       
      Passing through your personal event horizon.
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  • maintain
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 11 Jan 15
       
      maintain, v. (meɪnˈteɪn, mənˈteɪn)  L. phrase manū tenēre, lit. 'to hold in one's hand' (manū abl. of manus hand; tenēre to hold). 
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 11 Jan 15
       
  • after which I got lost in VA someplace as my phone died and darkness fell and the Famous Virginia Traffic Overtook).
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 11 Jan 15
       
  • The pain levels in my body have not.
  • Today was a good day. And...tomorrow will be another good one.
  • Today was a good day. And...tomorrow will be another good one.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 11 Jan 15
       
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 11 Jan 15
  • I have been yearning to connect
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 11 Jan 15
       
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 11 Jan 15
       
      Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
  • So. Connections.  
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 11 Jan 15
       
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 11 Jan 15
       
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 11 Jan 15
       
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 11 Jan 15
       
      Scroll down in this annotation.
  • Capture Moments
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 11 Jan 15
       
      Me, too.  Here is a post on Medium on how to pay attention:https://medium.com/re-form/how-to-pay-attention-4751adb53cb6  Remember the word maintain comes from the French: main+tenir=to hold in one's hand.
  • the times when less pain has reared its head.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 11 Jan 15
       
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 11 Jan 15
       
      and short moments of...?  Not pain.  Joy.  Chronic Pain is so hard.  You need to visit a friend of mine and her blog: https://chronichopes.wordpress.com/
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 11 Jan 15
       
      And here is a zeega I made back then in response to one of her posts. One of my bests I think.  Hope you get something from it.
  • pileated woodpecker
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 11 Jan 15
       
      'round here they are called 'peckerwoods' with some other connotations when used to describe a particularly bullying backwoods igmo (ignorant moron).
  • chess board and challenging him to a few games as we both learn to play chess.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 11 Jan 15
       
      So kind.   Why is  chess such an affinity drug? Because We  war together  against the  game.
  • (You wanna?)
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 11 Jan 15
       
      I lost your invite to play. Please send it again.  
  • meditation-doodling
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 11 Jan 15
       
  • Zentangle
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 11 Jan 15
       
      QUANTUM ZENTANGLEMENT
  • I need a cMOOC.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 11 Jan 15
       
Terry Elliott

Impedagogy - 1 views

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  • A road not taken
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 08 Mar 15
       
Terry Elliott

The Downside to Being a Connected Educator | Blogging Through the Fourth Dimension - 3 views

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ccourses

shared by Terry Elliott on 08 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • which is a strange month anyway because aren’t we always connected?
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 08 Oct 14
       
      Yep. If you just connect in October, you are not really connected ...
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Oct 14
       
      What happens if you do like Doug Belshaw does with his BlackOps month--no overt connection for a month.
  • the moment you open up your classroom and your thoughts to the world, people will have an opinion on it.  And sometimes that opinion hurts.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 08 Oct 14
       
      A connection to the theme of trust and fluency, and also, identity. Who do we portray as ourselves in the world?
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Oct 14
       
      Or worse you put stuff out into dead air and get no response.
    • Tania Sheko
      Tania Sheko on 03 Dec 14
       
      I don't know which is worse, they are both disheartening.
  • We are awfully good at praising one another
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 08 Oct 14
       
      Echo Chamber Effect ...
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Oct 14
       
      Yes, the temptation is the gr8 valid8
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  • And then there is the feeling of constantly needing to produce
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 08 Oct 14
       
      Internalized pressure ...
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Oct 14
       
      I am trying to use some tools for this from Greg McKeon's book Essentialism
  • Being connected to a global PLN had taken the place of the local connections because somehow the exoticism of the global collaboration seemed like it would be more beneficial, yet this is not ture.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 08 Oct 14
       
      I know this feeling, too. How to balance that reaching out and reaching in so that both have value?
  • Not like this, not in this way.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Oct 14
       
      There are overt and covert connections.  There are connections we are aware of and ones that are unknown to us.  The hard fact is that we are always and everywhere connected.  That means we live in the world and the world lives in us--for good or ill.
  • thus we look incredible online.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Oct 14
       
      MDR!
profrehn

Teaching Students to Become Curators of Ideas: The Curation Project - 0 views

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curation PLN

shared by profrehn on 27 Oct 14 - No Cached
    • profrehn
      profrehn on 27 Oct 14
       
      Love this! need to learn more about how this worked. maybe meet teacher via RFD? 
  • As part of the social media class, my students are required to set up a network of online mentors using social media tools.
  • This semester, I asked my students to “curate” that information the way a museum curator would curate an art exhibit.
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  • In essence, I tasked students with  creating the ultimate resource on a particular topic and to share it with the world.
  • profrehn on 27 Oct 14
     
    plns and curation 
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