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Jeffrey Keefer

Digital Writing Month - 0 views

www.digitalwritingmonth.com/blog

#digiwrimo

shared by Jeffrey Keefer on 01 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • Jeffrey Keefer on 01 Nov 14
     
    Digital Writing Month is a (somewhat) insane month-long writing challenge, a wild ride through the world of digital writing, wherein those daring enough to participate wield keyboard and cursor to create digital projects of text, image, and/or sound in the thirty days of November. Modeled after the inspirational National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), DigiWriMo asks writers to be creative not just with their words, but also with other digital media -image, video, and sound - and with what those media can do. We will work to redefine "writing" in the digital, and not confine it only to words, but open up the possibilities of narrative and exposition within multimedia and multimodal projects. Where that "writing" resides, what it looks like, how it interacts with other works and authors, is entirely up to the wild imaginings of each DigiWriMo participant. Writers may choose to collaborate with one another on a long piece, like a novel or collection. They may conspire, co-author, cooperate, collude, or even compete… Blog posts, Twitter essays, podcasts, music videos, wiki novels, a tv pilot co-authored in a Google Doc, slideshows, academic articles, massively co-authored poems, songs, and novels are all potential ways to cross the finish line. The point is to experiment, to push our boundaries and create, and to locate our creations on the web, in relationship with other creations, other words and other authors. You do it your way, whatever way that is, and we'll provide the applause.
Terry Elliott

touches of sense...: To nobody. - 2 views

tachesdesens.blogspot.com/...to-nobody.html

shared by Terry Elliott on 26 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • Dear Nobody,
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Nov 14
       
      Oh friend, how did you know my name?
  • How are you today?
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Nov 14
       
      Fine. Fine. No, wait.  I actually feel kind of coarse. I feel like I have first world, white man problems.  Not real.  Maybe I should become a cutter. Have real problems. 
  • I am thinking about you.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Nov 14
       
      About nothing?  Nothing about nothing? Oh, yes, it is just an idiom. So if you are not thinking about something are you thinking about nothing.  Words in the service of solipsism.  Shallow.  All we have.
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  • writing on the internet
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Nov 14
       
      I giant whiteboard written upon with a giant white marker, erasing and writing, blips, zerone morse code. 
  • I am writing a letter to you
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Nov 14
       
      Please let it be "omega".  I love it because I have heard that the last shall be first and the first last. 
  • writing on a piece of paper
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 27 Nov 14
       
      When we write we actually leave behind a trail of something, evidence of ideas gone by, fictive snails since everything we write is utter fiction.  
  • on a stone.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 27 Nov 14
       
      a headstone? yeah, the most common kind of writing these days.
  • Imagine you
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 27 Nov 14
       
      Keep thinking Imagine University
  • I am sorry you will never read it.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 27 Nov 14
       
      If you publish a post in the digital forest and you are part of the 61% who have no access to the digital forest, does that mean you didn't feel it fall to the floor of the larger reality?
  • wanted to know how you are?
swatson217

Mimi Ito - Weblog: Connected Learning = Abundant Opportunity + Terror + Hard Attentiona... - 7 views

itofisher.com/...cted_learning_abundant_op.html

shared by swatson217 on 26 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Most were reluctant
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      Learned behavior, learned mindsets. Unlearning is the devil's own.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      Reminded of my first attempts with zeegas--unclear, uncertain
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 26 Sep 14
       
      And we learn in those uncomfortable moments, including how to create our own agency with technology. With Zeega, you've pushed the boundaries in many directions, Captain Zeega.
    • Tania Sheko
      Tania Sheko on 27 Sep 14
       
      It's scary at first but once you get used to it, it's easier than F2F in my opinion.
    • Maha Bali
      Maha Bali on 27 Sep 14
       
      I think I now find it easier than f2f too... That probably requires elaboration, though :) as I know it's not intuitive. I wonder if it is a phase everyone goes through to finally reach that comfort, or if it is just something some people are more disposed to enjoy/be comfortable with, while others not (like intro/extroversion)
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 28 Sep 14
       
      with an online comment/post, there is no interruption, no direct contact to 'see' how others take what you say or do, and this can make it easier- or at least appear 'safer' on a personal front - esp. considering the teens Mimi was talking about... but, there is also a sense of permanence when people write and put something out there, whereas in f2f, what you say is gone in that moment. When something is written, people (potentially anyone) can come back to it, and this can be perceived as a threatening sort of exposure, perhaps even the person writing it might not want to have to see it again... so it is both easier and harder at the same time for different reasons for different people.
  • Despite the encouragement of local mentors, they didn’t see themselves are part of that world and ready to contribute, at least not yet.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      Schema. Or as max Stirner calls them,"wheels in the head".  Wheels in the head are any ideas that the mind cannot give up.  For example, I am not an artist/creator/maker,  I am a consumer.
    • Maha Abdelmoneim
      Maha Abdelmoneim on 26 Sep 14
       
      How do we decide who's enthusiastic? What is being Net Savvy? The difference between introversion, extraversion and the level of ease a person finds in company of others for whatever reason. Are all modes of communications comfortable to everybody and why? On a personal note: I am not comfortable writing at all but I can talk for hours when it comes to f2f :)
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 27 Sep 14
       
      I totally admire your English.  It's way better than my Egyptian. ;-)
    • Maha Bali
      Maha Bali on 27 Sep 14
       
      I've experienced Maha's talking firsthand via phone and it's awesome :) But I like her writing too, even if she doesn't feel comfortable with it. So cool to have you here in Diigo Maha!
    • Maha Abdelmoneim
      Maha Abdelmoneim on 28 Sep 14
       
      I'll graciously accept your kindness, both of you /curtsy (a WoW emote, if you're wondering) :) But seriously, I've had managers and even senior mangers who would sit very quietly, apparently (stress on apparently) reluctant to contribute to a conversation/discussion in a training situation. I used to catch myself making assumptions as to why (won't go into that here, too long) then see them fully engaged in an exercise where they had to sit on the floor and use Lego pieces. When I tried different approaches they did join A conversation, not necessarily mine, not necessarily with me watching, but they learned and contributed to the learning. hmmm now I'll start editing myself /lol so better stop and hit post. .
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 03 Oct 14
       
      Yes, I have this problem all the time in the classroom where my expectations get in the way of reality. Trying more to be mindful of this blindspot in my teaching.
  • Help! How do I know what to pay attention to?
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 26 Sep 14
       
      A good reminder that everyone has their own thresholds for navigating the flow in a "space" like #ccourses, and that even the most savvy will miss a whole lot of the interactions. That's OK.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      This also raises one of the essential questions of connected learning:  what do we attend to and how?  We have to have a basis for filtering (another name for attending).  Some of these filters are very fine and designed to have potable water as their product, but most are very porous screens designed to get the big rocks out so that we can build meaning with them.  And the ability to switch out filters should be one of the hallmarks of a capable person in digital systems.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      Thresholds were originally a barrier to the grain escaping from the threshing room floor and out the door.  It was intended to prevent waste.  We don't have the same kind of scarcity in a connected space.  We can't be concerned about "waste".  Instead we have to be obsessed with making sure that we have the best grain in the mill so that we can have the best flour.  Maybe we need one out of a hundred of the grains in order to have the very best flour.  You don't get that with a threshhold.  You get it by finding a way to sort and winnow the best from the rest and not just the wheat from the chaff.
    • Tania Sheko
      Tania Sheko on 27 Sep 14
       
      It's difficult to break out of the traditional concept of following a defined sequential path and instead dip into the stream.
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      Yes, #clmooc was my first nonlinear course, and it was a learning curve to grasp the webbed nature of participating - but once I did, it was such a beautiful thing!
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  • Quiet
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 26 Sep 14
       
      Still on my reading list ...
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      Check out the TED talk above for the tl;dr version.
    • Tania Sheko
      Tania Sheko on 27 Sep 14
       
      That book helped me and others I know to realise that being an introvert was not a weakness, and to accept ourselves and not push against who we are.
  • “xdogx”
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 26 Sep 14
       
      See: https://flic.kr/p/p7rUiM  for my comic response (of sorts)
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      great comic response :)
  • In many ways these different forms of participation fit into what Internet product people might call an > engagement funnel where newcomers and the less net savvy like me march steadily from awareness to engagement to becoming active contributors and content generators.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 26 Sep 14
       
      Yes, and we need to value all levels of the participation, too. Us loudies need to make sure we are inviting, not shouting so loud that others feel they can't contribute, or feel guilty about not contributing. Now that I think of it, my own appeal for more facilitators to get involved in the social media spaces of CCourses runs into conflict with that very statement. Dang it.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      No, I think it can be reconciled,Kevin. If other step up, you can step back or shout in a different direction or encourage and cajole in different spaces. Or just chill and observe and report back.
    • Maha Abdelmoneim
      Maha Abdelmoneim on 26 Sep 14
       
      @Kevin I don't think there's a conflict. More involvement is not equal to shouting so loud. May be we need to think of being more inviting in more ways?
    • mitomimi
      mitomimi on 26 Sep 14
       
      I also don't see a conflict but I do think the question of what the right invitations are is crucial. Having the "loudies" (lol) to keep modeling high engagement is essential and I at least have appreciated the individual pokes and invitations from this same core group.
    • Maha Bali
      Maha Bali on 27 Sep 14
       
      Love this thread, and thank you Maha and Mimi for letting us know that we "loudies" (cute term, will adopt!) are not shouting too loud for you (though we may be too loud for others)
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      I never thought of myself as a loudie, and am on the introvert-side of the continuum for sure, but the folks at #clmooc taught me that exponential things happen when you jump in.  Thise who are "too" quiet may not know what they are missing.
  • colliding through a loosely orchestrated cross-network remix
  • constellation
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 26 Sep 14
       
      I am big on the constellation metaphor -- the stories that emerge when stars are connected by imagination.
    • Maha Bali
      Maha Bali on 27 Sep 14
       
      Made me think of u immediately, Kevin, that thing u did for #clmooc - the word constellation evokes that for me now
  • This heterogeneity can feel like chaos and collision of competing styles and expectations, but I also see it as a site of productive tension that is characteristic of connected learning. Connected learning is predicated on bringing together three spheres of learning that are most commonly disconnected in our lives: peer sociability, personal interests/affinity, and opportunities for recognition. In kids’ lives these are friends, interest-based activities, and school. In connected courses, this is the reciprocity and fun in the social stream, our personal interests and expertise, and institutional status/reputation.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 26 Sep 14
       
      Dang. She hits a home run with this paragraph!
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      Simon Ensor's Clavier Project simplifies this to providing an interesting space so that interesting people can do interesting 'things'.  I admire the abstraction here and would love to see the practice in the previous paragraph.  Phonar/clmooc/ds106/diy.org/kqed's do now/Paul Allison's Youth Voices. This is where this theory tears into the road and the rubber either stays on the tire or you get new tires.
    • Maha Abdelmoneim
      Maha Abdelmoneim on 26 Sep 14
       
      I am not sure how are they disconnected? I see them as intersecting. Take the example of someone playing a team sport that they love. All spheres are represented and interconnected almost merging together. School and work can be sketchy where, depending on teachers,managers, colleagues, available choices etc, some spheres become larger or smaller and affect the balance of the picture.
    • mitomimi
      mitomimi on 26 Sep 14
       
      Maha that must mean you are a connected learner :). Sadly I feel a lot of kids are "learning" just for the grade and they don't see it as part of what they are interested in or what they are socially connected to.
    • Maha Bali
      Maha Bali on 27 Sep 14
       
      Maha's and Mimi's responses are a good reminder about how connection is not just about online or tech. It should be obvious but we can sometimes forget that!
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      I am still struggling to get teachers to see the value of this connecting.  I know, it's a marathon.
  • We are still struggling with how to capture some of the complexity of the activity of connected courses.
  • neck and neck race
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 26 Sep 14
       
      And what is interesting -- most of their tweeting has been making connections together (I think -- no data to back that up. Jamieson?), as Simon and Maha work magic in the social media sphere.
    • Maha Bali
      Maha Bali on 27 Sep 14
       
      Yeah, what is more interesting is the amount of UNHASHTAGGED tweeting between us (Simon, Kevin, Terry, Susan) as well as other stuff where i stop using the #ccourses tag... I sometimes do it on purpose to reduce my noise; other times to just squeeze a few extra chars in, and sometimes for semi-privacy. Until recently, Alan and Mariana were top tweeters, too. Tho i find the majority of their tweeting "supportive" as in, helping others, which i love about them both, whether it is official or unofficial
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      I admittedly get caught up and forget to hashtag.  :)
  • We can see that so far about half our visitors are new, and that the spikes, again come with the live events
  • I hope that we can continue to embrace the abundance and diversity of forms and intensity of engagement while also guiding each other to try something new, to slow down or speed up our default metabolism, or appreciate a new perspective or geekdom.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 26 Sep 14
       
      and the unexpected ...
    • Maha Bali
      Maha Bali on 27 Sep 14
       
      Definitely the unexpected :)
  • Quiet: The Power of Introverts
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      Ito's listing here is important.  They are all examples of the social craft of connecting which is a subset of the discipline of teaching and learning.
  • co-facilitators
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      One of those filters is the folk and all manner of them, expert and otherwise.  The lived experience of the folk is one of the most profound filters we have.  Books are another.  The idea of ideas is another.  Metaphor and figurative language in general are others.  I think the notion of love is one of the most profound filters there is.
    • mitomimi
      mitomimi on 27 Sep 14
       
      My team had a motto back in the early days of Internet studies: "The best search engine is a well-informed friend." I am probably defaulting to this as my filter strategy. Not sure if this is the right one given the opportunity for new encounters on ccourses though.
    • Maha Bali
      Maha Bali on 27 Sep 14
       
      Well, Mimi, you can add to your list of well-informed friends as you go :) that's how it works for me, a few key people connect me to everything and everyone else, then i'll meet a new person who becomes "key" coz i love what they help me connect to... And so on :)
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      Love as a filter- yes, yes.
  • ruminating on the implications for Connected Courses
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      This would be a very profound filter to read about. Not what Ito found in her research but how she mucks about it, how her ruminations follow and work.  Her discoveries on how she filters the great steaming compost of her research from start to intial finish. 
    • mitomimi
      mitomimi on 27 Sep 14
       
      I wish there was more conscious method to the madness... It's not that I don't have any systematic process, but I really rely on having mental space for pattern recognition to happen over time and that's why I think I'm challenged by the pace of ccourses. I do like the metaphor of filtering that you're bringing to this. I find the thought that good filters might exist to be comforting. But I don't have them! I tend to rely on immersion more than filtering as a method I guess. Which is anthropological... but at some point, yes, one does need to make some choices!
    • Maha Bali
      Maha Bali on 27 Sep 14
       
      This is all getting me itchy to read about Mimi's work on researching connecting learning for several reasons: 1. I want to know how she researched it when she's not comfortable on twitter (haha) 2. I am interested to know about research methodology 3. I fell in love with Mimi reading this post and I want to immerse myself in her work and anything she writes!!! Strange how seeing Mimi on hangout for a few mins did not give me much insight but this post was like..wow... I can't explain the profound effect it had on me, both for my own reflections but also how it made me feel and think about Mimi.
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      I hope Mimi is reading these comments :)
  • the most awesome staff
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      Yes, how have the staff been involved.  How are they filtering and testing and adjusting and doing?  They are deep in the mill, grinding the wheat, keeping out the chaff.  
  • feeling the pull of the fragments of notes
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      If you are feeling the pull of the notes you should succumb to their siren call and gives us those unpolished notes.  Just let us know that they are just that.  Let us filter them if they really are pulling at you. 
    • mitomimi
      mitomimi on 27 Sep 14
       
      I suppose I could think aloud on twitter more. It's hard to find time to find the quiet time to pull together a blog post. Or maybe I'm setting the threshold too high on blogging :)!
    • Maha Bali
      Maha Bali on 27 Sep 14
       
      I love what Tania Sheko has done: put together her annotations into a blogpost. I understand that not all people can blog as often and not all feel comfy with unfinished thoughts being out in the open. It's a risk, and i regret it sometimes. But i think there is a middle way for people like Mimi who can blog such awesomeness but feel they cannot do it as frequently. One really useful way of blogging is to curate what you've been reading. I do it sometimes to help me organize my thoughts, and also to let people know i appreciate their work. Mimi's post we are annotating here did so much of that for me and did not feel long at al actually. It was v engaging and full and rich.
  • social stream that I know I’m missing.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      Yes, you are missing something.  I take solace in the disturbing fact that almost every stream of infor mation you might have received was only so much noise.  It is only when you drink it in that it becomes signal.  Your signal and your meaning. The faith we need is that our system of connections is robust enough to be trusted.  So...the system of connections both digital and actual is what is 'holy'.  It is what we do to honor that web and remake that web that is our greatest task.  Connecting is a social craft.  It is time we started honoring it as such.
  • I’ve so appreciated observing and learning from my more experienced online co-facilitators as they surf the rapids;
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      I have spent the better part of the last two summers internalizing and then externalizing your research into connected learning--the values and principles you have so carefully drawn out of your research.  We are surfing the rapids on the kayak that you and your researchers designed especially facilitators from #clmooc.
    • mitomimi
      mitomimi on 26 Sep 14
       
      Thank you for this Terry and for your courage in surfing the rapids!
  • I don’t even know what to say about @cogdog Alan who apparently can comment on blogs and make a GIF while hosting a live event.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      I think that praise is due here to Alan,  but I would like to remind you that there is a web of unsung and unheralded and unknown that are yet to be uncovered.  it is our work as facilitators and helpers and participants to tease and ease them onto the dance floor.  God knows they can boogie better than I can if we can just get them onto the floor and teach us how to juke.
  • “legitimate peripheral participants,”
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      Actually I prefer descriptions of what people do when they legitimately and peripherally participating.  The abstractification of digital space I think is the occupational hazard of researchers.  it is my job to shout out that the emperor has no clothes.  What is legitimate and what is peripheral and how is that different from marginal and what constitute participant membership?  No...freaking...clue.  
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      cornucopia/distributed network/cop/ cross-network remix/immersive theater/funnel/community/hybrid/constellation/stances. I am confused. Good.
  • or that the delicate social machinery we’ve stitched together is going to fall apart
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      The only way it will fall apart is if you don't trust the users to pick up the slack in the web.
  • Living at the collision of multiple CoPs, funnels of engagement and streams means that we can all find a way to succeed!
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Sep 14
       
      Reminds me of a pinball.
  • mmersive theater where participants are all experiencing a different narrative.
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      This is interesting to try to visualize; it takes my mind into photos of intertwined galaxies.  I wonder sometimes "how" different the narratives are that we each experience.  Perhaps the similarity fades as you move away from each rhizome that you participate in.  Of course, our perception of our narrative is crucially affected by our lens, our filter(s), our biases.
  • sequentially by different facilitators
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      I am curious how different facilitators will dip in differently...
  • pulled together some stats
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      I am glad you pointed this out - I had no idea these were on the CC site!
  • Our “open” rate on the emails to subscribers is a whopping 50.7% compared to the industry standard of 16.7%
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      interesting...I had no idea.
  • Kevin Hodgson on 26 Sep 14
     
    Wow -- this piece by Mimi Ito deserves the full annotation/comment of the group. Let's get into it!
  • swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
     
    Wow -- this piece by Mimi Ito deserves the full annotation/comment of the group. Let's get into it!
Terry Elliott

RhetCompNow | Always connect! - 8 views

rhetcompnow.com

shared by Terry Elliott on 28 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • music at the beginning
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      John Hiatt is a great songwriter!!  I saw him live in Newport, RI once.  Cool guy.
  • a way beyond words and toward connecting better than almost anything else I know.
  • hincty
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      great word!
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  • And then it took a turn
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      another lovely turn 
  •  I want Chapter Seven to be read aloud to me as I die.
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      such a beautiful, sad, meaningful idea....but you're not allowed to die, Terry.  :)
  • genius loci
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      special atmosphere or guardian spirit - had to look this up!  What a cool concept.  I am not sure my blog is due such a sense of wonder...though I do fling the words out into it without much editing, in hopes that some part or piece of a true spirit of words will survive the process.  It really is filled with mostly my gut impulses. If I thought too much about any of it, I wouldn't write any of it.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 02 Oct 14
       
      Your blog does have it. Hovering and angelic and full of deviltry, too.
  • 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.
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      I think there are many many people who would think this is impossible in digital spaces, to be made to "feel" like this.  Yet we live its veracity and veritability. And yes, the words to describe it are impossible, though you and Simon seem to create words from the mist/fog/smoke.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 02 Oct 14
       
      Love the juxta of veracity/veritability. And words are smoke from the fire and wake from the ship and fog from the Piper at dawn's gate.
  • the planning drops off,
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      trying to label and name the unnameable
  • a new presence is born.
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      when "flow" is reached in teaching, it is gorgeousness.
  • 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.  
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      I don't even know what to say here except that your writing is beautiful and you manage to lead me down some ever-twisting/changing/flowing thought process that makes no sense and yet makes perfect sense as long as I don't try to pin it down.  As long as it stays in my peripheral vision, it is crystal clear.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 02 Oct 14
       
      LOL, yeah, the piper with his contract to lure away the kids to their doom.
  • (Please read Chapter Seven of Wind in the Willows here. ).
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      I did, just now, and was blown away by it.  I read it a LONG time ago and I don't think I ever truly appreciated it until now.
  • we really are  rescuing children from the leg traps and snares of the world when instead we should be taking them to meet the pipers at the gates of dawn.
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      The images in that chapter - wow. That chubby little baby otter being saved and protected by Pan, while the two who search for him are pulled along by the music they aren't even 100% sure they can hear.  The purposeful forgetting.  The joy in the baby knowing them already, yet still looking for the now-missing Pan. So many of my kids are missing joy.  Do they even know what it is?  Will they ever? When you come to school just for food, is that joy?  How can we teach joy???
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 02 Oct 14
       
      The baby otter's name is Portly. So....sweet. Joy is beyond comfort.
  • t is memory and the experience of shared discipline and questions and ranging out into the world.
  • Hence, the resonating chord stretched between us and only felt as it vibrates, akin.
  • Robert Johnson at a crossroads making a pact with Old Scratch,
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      love the music references!
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 02 Oct 14
       
      Music is an uber language of feeling.
  • We are all tied to each other.  If one goes down, the rest of us will be pulled down the mountain.
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      I do feel a sense of responsibility to you connected folks.  Not in an obligation kind of way, but in a shared experience kind of way.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 02 Oct 14
       
      A vibrating string. There are an impossibly large number of connections for us to parallel process, but we need to send out a pulse every once in awhile, a ping to the freaking world that says, step off, I got sumfin to say.
  • too long
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      ha!  I try to Not Use More Words Than I Need To.  Choose Words That Matter.  But Don't Think Too Much.
  • Dr. John
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      awesome music!
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 29 Sep 14
       
      Those piano riffs that bookend this hit song are the def of inspired.
  • the call must be for us
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      'You hear better than I,' said the Mole sadly. 'I cannot catch the words.' 'Let me try and give you them,' said the Rat softly, his eyes still closed. 'Now it is turning into words again-faint but clear-Lest the awe should dwell-And turn your frolic to fret-You shall look on my power at the helping hour-But then you shall forget! Now the reeds take it up-forget, forget, they sigh, and it dies away in a rustle and a whisper. Then the voice returns- 'Lest limbs be reddened and rent-I spring the trap that is set-As I loose the snare you may glimpse me there-For surely you shall forget! Row nearer, Mole, nearer to the reeds! It is hard to catch, and grows each minute fainter. 'Helper and healer, I cheer-Small waifs in the woodland wet-Strays I find in it, wounds I bind in it-Bidding them all forget! Nearer, Mole, nearer! No, it is no good; the song has died away into reed-talk.' 'But what do the words mean?' asked the wondering Mole. 'That I do not know,' said the Rat simply. 'I passed them on to you as they reached me. Ah! now they return again, and this time full and clear! This time, at last, it is the real, the unmistakable thing, simple-passionate-perfect--'
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 02 Oct 14
       
      I love the fumblng for the concrete here: faint but clear, the dwelling awe, frolic to fret, the helping hour, reed, trap set, helper and healer, reed-talk, pass them on, sighing and dying away sound. Nearer,nearer. The 'approaching-ness' of words and, inevitably, their 'failing-ness'.
  • new dawn.
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      Old Crow Medicine Show: We're all in this thing together Walkin' the line between faith and fear This life don't last forever When you cry I taste the salt in your tears Well my friend, let's put this thing together And walk the path that worn out feet have trod If you wanted we can go home forever Give up your jaded ways, spell your name to God. All we are is a picture in a mirror Fancy shoes to grace our feet All that there is is a slow road to freedom Heaven above and the devil beneath All we are is a picture in a mirror Fancy shoes to grace our feet All that there is is a slow road to freedom Heaven above and the devil beneath
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 29 Sep 14
       
      One of my favs
Tania Sheko

Why Read This, Why Read That?Reflecting Allowed | Reflecting Allowed - 1 views

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mimi ito maha bali connecting #ccourses blog post learning reflection

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  • that she found reading books (quickly, i assume?) easier than wading through tweets and blogs; whereas I clearly did the tweets/blogs things quite comfortably but found reading books “too much”
    • Tania Sheko
      Tania Sheko on 27 Sep 14
       
      I feel the same as Maha, easier to read and respond to blog posts than read a book on my own - with nobody to talk to and no way of sharing my thoughts. Claustrophobic.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 27 Sep 14
       
      I can both ways, depending on the situation. Here, with Connected Courses, I find I am (like Maha) completely ignoring all the recommended reading and diving right into the social stream.
    • Maha Bali
      Maha Bali on 27 Sep 14
       
      Kevin I keep remembering that you were initially planning to lurk coz ur not in highered. I think (assuming here) that given your personal goals and interests it makes absolute sense to go that route. I made me realize, reading this, that in some other MOOC, my behavior may be slightly different, where my goal is to get some theory rather than interact w ppl (umm i've yet to participate in such a MOOC, but i do sometimes sign up for an xMooc and just download resources and never follow the 'MOOC itself
  • Anyway, it made me reflect on why I, someone who LOVES reading by all accounts, have a strong preference for reading blogs/tweets over books/academic articles in MOOCs. There are many reasons,
    • Tania Sheko
      Tania Sheko on 27 Sep 14
       
      This is something I've been thinking about for ages but feeling like I've failed in that I've lost the enthusiasm for reading books, or maybe don't have the focus stamina any more. Thanks for writing this out, Maha, I might do my own blog reflection.
  • reflecting on connecting
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  • “my way
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 27 Sep 14
       
      I think finding our own way is a key element here.
  • Mimi’s point that a connected learning experience “welcomes people with different dispositions and orientations to learning”,
  • In terms of learning: Is the MOOC about experiencing connecting? Or about reading about it?
  • the MOOC is about reflecting on connecting,
  • My first PhD supervisor was big on encouraging me to read diverse articles not single-authored books
  • My second supervisor (who replaced the first) was big on me reading original works by e.g. Marx, Foucault, etc.
  • I also find reading translated works really difficult and find it a better investment of my time to first read more contemporary (or at least, more education-focused) interpretations of the “greats” works, before reading the original. It helps me read it better
  • I do not value the book-authors more than I value the blog-authors
  • can interact with them more regularly
  • more accessible, easier to read quickly
  • 2. Attention issues
  • Philosophical approach to reading
  • This is particularly funny because I keep not finding time to read the”attention literacies” part in Howard Rheingold’s Net Smart, as I get ‘distracted’ into reading different parts of it (i’ve probably read half the book already, just not in order).
    • Tania Sheko
      Tania Sheko on 27 Sep 14
       
      I can relate to this behaviour.
  • And that’s why I voice these things in MOOCs, because I am pretty sure that courses about connection want ppl to feel they can participate.
  • Taking steps: Conceding Having said all this… I went into unit 2 of #ccourses today and did the following
  • So basically, I hope to engage with these readings “my way” (so not deeply with each entire book, unless it draws me in, but with parts of it)
  • hope that blogposts by other people & the hangout will fill me in second-hand (you see what I am doing here, don’t you?)
    • Tania Sheko
      Tania Sheko on 27 Sep 14
       
      Very clever. I think this method wards away the guilts and also sustains engagement in the course. The alternative would be to give up and feel defeated if you couldn't do everything.
  • P.S. some ppl may say that w blog posts u have no guarantee of quality vs a book recommended by the facilitators. However, there are many ways to gauge a blog’s quality, incl knowing the person, seeing it retweeted often or with many comments – and it takes v little time to skim it to decide to read deeply;
  • lovely quotes from Mimi’s post
  • Connected Courses is a veritable cornucopia of ways of participating with no central platform.
  • colliding through a loosely orchestrated cross-network remix, immersive theater where participants are all experiencing a different narrative.
  • hybrid network, more like a constellation that looks different based on where one stands and who one is.
  • a site of productive tension that is characteristic of connected learning.
  • Connected learning is predicated on bringing together three spheres of learning that are most commonly disconnected in our lives:
  • peer sociability
  • personal interests/affinity
  • opportunities for recognition.
  • reciprocity and fun in the social stream
  • our personal interests and expertise
  • institutional status/reputation
swatson217

Teaching Beyond Tropes: What is a bomb? - 1 views

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  • spite of [probably] [maybe] [sometimes] looking like silly fools.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 05 Oct 14
       
      God I hope so.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 06 Oct 14
       
      Guilty. I'm OK with that.
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 06 Oct 14
       
      me three!
  • If you just want to sound smart, look dignified, write big dense paragraphs, then I don't read on.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 05 Oct 14
       
      Just happened to me. I already know I am an idiot. I don't need anyone driving home the point! Unless they already know me and I trust them.  Then it is OK.
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 06 Oct 14
       
      hahahaha!  happens to me all the time.
  • using the article here.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 05 Oct 14
       
      Been watching this issue unfold with FB and the LGBT community, notably drag queens seeking to remain anonymous or who identify their real name as their drag queen moniker. Problem arises from the fear of letting folks decide for themselves and letting the solutions grow out of those choices.  If anything this is the classic case for arguing for the simplest rules possible that arise from living together online.  Whatever they might be.  Instead of having all the exceptions listed in the article why don't we have them arise from being pseudonymous.  And there will be some.  And some of them will be deadly.  Sadly, we cannot know for certain where the 'felicific calculus' will fall.  I put my bets on freedom over policy until I am proven wrong.
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 06 Oct 14
       
      first I had to look up felicific calculus -  method of working out the sum total of pleasure and pain produced by an act, and thus the total value of its consequence.  I can see both sides of the argument, because pseudonyms can obviously used for harm as well as for the more pragmatic reasons.  I agree - let the issues arise from the pseudonyms.
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  • Often we don't even know ourselves.
  • That who you "really" are might be shared in the wrong place, with the wrong people, at the wrong time.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 06 Oct 14
       
      Identity and trust ... crucial issues in the modern age on so many levels.
  • on opposite sides of the political spectrum
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 06 Oct 14
       
      And yet ... avoid the echo chamber effect, too, right? Don't just hang out with peeps with the same views of the world as you. Encourage dissent and discussion, as long as it is reasonable discussion and peeps are open to ideas.
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 06 Oct 14
       
      I totally agree, but this experience led me to reflect on just that.
Terry Elliott

Hiding Emotion behind NumbersReflecting Allowed | Reflecting Allowed - 0 views

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  • animated gif in a zeega Terry Elliott
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 15 Jan 15
       
      Here is the link: http://zeega.com/170893
  • but our real need is to feel loved ok, that’s a bit extreme, but you know
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 15 Jan 15
       
      No, this is not extreme at all. Love has so many forms and all are worthy.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 15 Jan 15
       
      "People read about love as one thing"  But it is many things, deep and wide, too.
  • they noticed that my whole article was really about that
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 15 Jan 15
       
      I have just the book for you: Sentipensante Pedagogy: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3557358-sentipensante-sensing-thinking-pedagogy# Sentipensante Pedagogy and Contemplative Practice from Center for Contemplative Mind on Vimeo.
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  • love could shine through
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 15 Jan 15
       
      Revealed truth, kind of like discovered check in chess.
  • qualitative vs quantitative research
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 15 Jan 15
       
      It's all a matter of perspective, yes?
Terry Elliott

touches of sense... - 3 views

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shared by Terry Elliott on 07 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • Let it bleed
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 07 Oct 14
       
      The motto of the cutter.  The secret answer to the question, "Am I still alive?"  I need a sign from the only God I know--my own body, the only truth as embodied.
  • I will not let the hope of life die.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 07 Oct 14
       
      Hope is fractal.  The tiniest bit be representin' of the whole. 
  • Let us bleed our life over blank sheets.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 07 Oct 14
       
      Red Smith was asked if turning out a daily column wasn't quite a chore. …"Why, no," dead-panned Red. "You simply sit down at the typewriter, open your veins, and bleed."
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  • Let us laugh out loud at this madness.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 07 Oct 14
       
      It's only blood.  We'll make more.  Let the IV run to your pen.  And write until you grow faint as the memory of your loss concentrates in your veins.
  • I got the joke.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 07 Oct 14
       
      Me, too. And ask not for whom the joke sings, it sings for thee.
  • I knew that I was effectively dead. 
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 07 Oct 14
       
      At Thomas Merton's Grave BY SPENCER REECE We can never be with loss too long. Behind the warped door that sticks, the wood thrush calls to the monks, pausing upon the stone crucifix, singing: "I am marvelous alone!" Thrash, thrash goes the hayfield: rows of marrow and bone undone. The horizon's flashing fastens tight, sealing the blue hills with vermilion. Moss dyes a squirrel's skull green. The cemetery expands its borders- little milky crosses grow like teeth. How kind time is, altering space so nothing stays wrong; and light, more new light, always arrives.
  • many metamorphoses over the years
  • How do you live after death?
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 07 Oct 14
       
      Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so; For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 07 Oct 14
  • This was all a nightmare. 
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 07 Oct 14
       
      The darkness drops again; but now I know    That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,    And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,    Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 07 Oct 14
       
      One, two! One, two! And through and through       The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! He left it dead, and with its head       He went galumphing back.
  • I lived still in hell.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 07 Oct 14
       
      Midway along the journey of life I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from the straight path. Canto 1, Inferno
  • How wrong could I be?
  • Her silence, and in particular her rictus terrified me.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 07 Oct 14
       
      Vintery, mintery, cutery, corn, Apple seed and apple thorn; Wire, briar, limber lock, Three geese in a flock. One flew east, And one flew west, And one flew over the cuckoo's nest.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 07 Oct 14
  • How does one live when one knows one is dead?
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 07 Oct 14
       
      Sound track to Dead Man, Neil Young http://open.spotify.com/track/3TAPPBn35eyY4I07FgMxuy
  • "You have been through hell."
  • "Why not me?"
  • "Education Nirvana."
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Jan 15
       
  • inkling
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Jan 15
       
      Origin of INKLING Inkling is a mighty word. Middle English yngkiling whisper, mention, probably from inclen to hint at; akin to Old English inca suspicion First Known Use: 1513
  • a bit of surprise
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Jan 15
       
  • "Miracles do happen"
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Jan 15
       
  • "Hurrah!" I hear you say.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Jan 15
       
  • a stunned silence
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Jan 15
       
  • "We've realised over the past few hours, that we really haven't got a clue what on earth we are playing at, so we have decided as a group to abandon all pretence at leading policy for world education."
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Jan 15
       
  • a congregation of education hacks
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Jan 15
       

      Audio and voice recording >>
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 10 Jan 15
       
      I love this comment.
  • There is one more thing
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Jan 15
       
  • Prince Edward Island, in Canada.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Jan 15
       
  • Mr Dave Cormier
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Jan 15
       
  • "Who?" I hear you say.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Jan 15
       
  • what will now become official world education policy.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Jan 15
       
  • "Rhizomatic learning, or rhizomatic education."
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Jan 15
       
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Jan 15
       
  • Mr Cormier, it appears, will be giving us a detailed report
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Jan 15
       
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 10 Jan 15
       
      cooooooool
  • surprised as any of us
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Jan 15
       

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  • The world is really a mad, mad, mad, and wholly uncertain place..
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Jan 15
       
      W. B. Yeats, "The Second Coming" from Mohammed Raiyah
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Jan 15
       
  • "Hello! Can you hear me?"
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 01 Feb 15
       

      Audio and voice recording >>
  • "Idiot!" "Fucking idiot."
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 01 Feb 15
       

      Voice Recorder >>
  • "Idiot!" "Fucking idiot."
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 01 Feb 15
       

      Voice Recorder >>
  • "So, what next?"
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 01 Feb 15
       

      Record and upload voice >>
  • "If I were to put my hand there?"
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 01 Feb 15
       

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  • "No, it's unsafe, there's a loose block." "If that were to come off, that's a bloody big block.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 01 Feb 15
       

      Audio recording and upload >>
  • "What if I moved my foot up a bit."
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 01 Feb 15
       

      Record music with Vocaroo >>
  • "Fuck. Fuck. Fuck."
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 01 Feb 15
       

      Audio and voice recording >>
  • "Yes, that seems better."
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 01 Feb 15
       

      Audio recording software >>
  • significance
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 01 Feb 15
       
      significance (sɪgˈnɪfɪkəns)  [a. OF. significance, or ad. L. significantia, f. L. significāre to signify: cf. signifiance. Not frequent before the 19th cent., but cf. next.]  1. a.1.a The meaning or import of something.  c 1450 Merlin ii. 39 Often axed Vortiger of Merlyn the significance of the two dragons. [Ibid. 40 significaunce.] 1649 Milton Eikon. viii. 73 Empty sentences, that have the sound of gravity, but the significance of nothing pertinent.  
      Audio recording and upload >> b.1.b Without const.: Meaning; suggestiveness.  1863 Geo. Eliot Romola iii. xxiv, To one who is anxiously in search of a certain object the faintest suggestions have a peculiar significance.  
      Record and upload audio >> 3.3 Statistics. The level at or extent to which a result is statistically significant; freq. attrib., as significance level; significance test, a method used to calculate the significance of a result; hence significance testing vbl. n.  1977 P. Johnson Enemies of Society xi. 157 In psychology, for example, it is notorious that 'results' use
  • "You fucking idiot." "Fuck, fuck, fuck."
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 01 Feb 15
       

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  • at a crux again
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 01 Feb 15
       
      crux (krʌks)  [L.: see cross.]  ‖1.1 = cross, in heraldic and other expressions. crux ansata = tau 2 b (see quot. 1930).     1841 J. G. Wilkinson Manners & Customs Anc. Egyptians 2nd Ser. I. xiii. 341 The sign of life (or crux ansata) was compelled to submit to the unintelligible name of 'Key of the Nile'.    1896 [see ankh].    1930 E. A. T. W. Budge Amulets & Superstitions xviii. 340 It is wrong, too, to call the sign ☥, crux ansata, the 'handled cross', for whatever object the hieroglyph may represent, it was certainly not a cross or anything like it. ‖2.2 Astron. The constellation of the Southern Cross.     1837 Penny Cycl. VIII. 198 Crux, a southern constellation formed out of Halley's observations by Augustine Royer in his maps published in 1679.    1870 Proctor Other Worlds xi. 253 There is in the constellation Crux, a pear-shaped vacuity of considerable size. 3.3 fig. a.3.a A difficulty which it torments or troubles one greatly to interpret or explain, a thing that puzzles the ingenuity; as 'a textual crux'. Cf. crucify v. 2 c. (Used by Sheridan and Swift with the sense 'conundrum, riddle'.)    [Cf. G. kreuz, Grimm, 2178 g, (quoted from Herder 1778, and Niebuhr); according to Hildebrand taken from the scholastic Latin crux interpretum, etc.]     1718 Sheridan To Swift Wks. 1814 XV. 56 Dear dean, since in cruxes and puns you and I deal, Pray, Why is a woman a sieve and a riddle?    1718 Swift To Sheridan Ibid. 61 As for your new rebus, or riddle, or crux, I will either explain, or repay it in trucks.    1830 Sir W. Hamilton Philos. Perception Disc. (1852) 69 note, Ideas have been the crux philosophorum, since Aristotle sent them packing to the present day.    1859 Maurice What is Revelation 70 To look upon them as mere cruxes and trivialities which may be left to critics.    1875 Jowett Plato (ed. 2) IV. 401 The unity of opposites was the crux of ancient thinkers in the age of Plato.
  • "My God, oh my God , why have you forsaken me?"
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 01 Feb 15
       

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  • "I  thirst"
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 01 Feb 15
       

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  • "I swarm up towards the sunlight, gasping for air."
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 01 Feb 15
       

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  • "It is finished."
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 01 Feb 15
       

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  • in significance
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 01 Feb 15
       
Kevin Hodgson

K-Log: #CCourses: Thinking Like the Web - 3 views

justywk.blogspot.com/...courses-thinking-like-web.html

ccourses mooc web

shared by Kevin Hodgson on 22 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • There's a lot of information offered by the course, but we don't have to cover all of them during these two weeks.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 22 Oct 14
       
      "Time" becomes different when you are in an open online space. While we might put time constraints around ideas (this Make Cycle, this Learning Cycle), a true open learning space would allow entry and exit, and re-entry, at any point in time. This doesn't always jive with university criteria (finish this during this semester or you get an incomplete!)
  • sketch
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 22 Oct 14
       
      love the sketch! The visual element dovetails nicely with the visual element of how we experience and interact with the Web. We don't all see the underlying code. We see the illusion of the graphics.
  • when people connect and realize that a gap in their knowledge can be filled by bits of information
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  • #DailyConnect feature
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 22 Oct 14
       
      Yeah!
  • These led to a bit of conversation which made me feel that the course wasn't static but alive
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 22 Oct 14
       
      This is so important -- that we are not writing into the wind ... that others are out there, connecting and sharing and asking questions, and pushing us to ask questions, too. When that part of a cMOOC fails, the entire endeavor is pointless. I see a course like CCourses as a place to launch from as much as dive into.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 22 Oct 14
       
      Love your thinking in this piece, Yin.
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