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Terry Elliott

Tweedy Impertinence - 1 views

  • Even if, today, all they want to grow into is someone whose Moodle gradebook works right.)
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      I propose that the words "even if" be a catch phrase every time we enter into a service act.  
  • I wonder how we set expectations for this kind of service. I suspect one answer is that we change from talking about tools we support, to talking about tasks we support within tools.
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      This is so wise.  Move from nouns to verbs. Valorize the act of serving--the tools will get their due as a matter of course.
  • I think there will also be a new kind of community growing up. My neighbor once told me that he couldn’t fix my riding mower’s starter, but he could show me how to hotwire it with a screwdriver. I think some part of our job will get more “neighborly” like that.
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      In a vibrant community we all have important roles.  Most of us, however, won't get into the history books.  The privileging of the big man or woman in history is one of the most profound blindspots we have in American culture.  We just gotta start casting our eyes around to work with those at arm's length, virtually or actually.  
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      In a vibrant community we all have important roles.  Most of us, however, won't get into the history books.  The privileging of the big man or woman in history is one of the most profound blindspots we have in American culture.  We just gotta start casting our eyes around to work with those at arm's length, virtually or actually.
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  • You’ve got a friend in me
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  • “Today my jurisdiction ends here.”
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      Oh the indignity, yet...
  • A world of “reclaimed” pedagogy is necessarily going to involve more interactions like this.
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      This might just have the capacity for levelling that I am looking for in the classroom.  We all are learners and while we may also be a box on the office hiearchy we are also nodes in the wirearchy.
    • Terry Elliott
       
      This might just have the capacity for levelling that I am looking for in the classroom.  We all are learners and while we may also be a box on the office hiearchy we are also nodes in the wirearchy.
Terry Elliott

How To Pay Attention - re:form - Medium - 1 views

  • started to take on the feel of something between a set of New Year’s resolutions, and a manifesto.
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      See this as a way to be systematic and overt about observation so that we become more mindful and more actively less mindless.
  • Spot something new every day
  • Change Perspective
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  • Reframe the familiar
  • Walk with an expert
  • Talk to a stranger
  • Let a stranger lead you
  • Take a day-long walk through an unfamiliar part of town
  • Poeticize the irritating
  • Look slowly
  • Look really, really slowly
  • Look repeatedly
  • Repeat your viewpoint
  • Just Listen
  • Soundmap
  • Follow the quiet
  • Look at anything besides your phone
  • Misuse a Tech Tool
  • Care for something
Terry Elliott

touches of sense... - 1 views

  • looked up at me
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      Jazz divines your intention, your attention.  
  • just Jazz
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      a dog juste
  • "Why had I stopped?"
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      Remote gazing, scopaesthesia,
    • Simon Ensor
       
      Ah another new word. Yes, technology amplifies what...
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  • freedom is framed
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      Excellent article. Had not situated Lakoff. Understand better now my own desire for progressive lenses.
  • All means of capture: camera, phone, pen, paper, I had left at home.  
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      Binary framing. Power framing. Main framing.
  • There he was again, questioning, "What are we doing?"  "Is this where will stay?"  "Will we stay here for ever?"
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      That is Jazz.
  • patient impatience
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      "I calmly get frustrated waiting on waiting. I'm a patient person but impatiently patient about waiting"~Urban Dictionary
  • "What was that?" "What made that noise?" "Where was it?" "Is it safe?"
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      That is Jazz
  •  A few yards on, the clouds were becoming rather menacing.   I felt a few spots of rain.   There were gusts of winds rustling the surviving leaves on the trees. 
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      That is a cool comment
  • the sky seemed to have fallen onto the path. 
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      HennyPenny
    • Simon Ensor
       
      Wow I am learning. Had never heard of that reference to the sky falling.
  • puddlestruck
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      Reciprocate turbulence.
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      Recycle resonance
  • watching the stories span out
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      radiant
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      gradient
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      patient
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      arcadian
  • There is something comforting, something animistic in meeting those we have never met outside of a screen in a puddle-journey...
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      You have been magicked.  You're it. Let the wild hunt begin anew.
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      There are poems and stuff in this stream.
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      The poetry is both within and without the post,  twining, divining, opining. Catastrophe is a dish best tasted together.  
  • ingenuity
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      ingenuity (ɪndʒɪˈnjuːɪtɪ)  [ad. L. ingenuitās the condition of a free-born man, noble-mindedness, frankness, f. ingenu-us ingenuous: cf. F. ingénuité (16th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), It. ingenuità (Florio, 1598), possibly the immediate source. The employment of the word as the abstract n. from ingenious (for ingeniosity or *ingeniety) appears to be confined to Eng. and is connected with the confusion of the two adjs. in the 17th c.: see ingenious II and ingenuous 6.]  I.I Senses connected with ingenuous.  †1.I.1 The condition of being free-born; honourable extraction or station. Obs.     1598 Florio, Ingenuita, freedome or free state, ingenuitie, a liberall, free, or honest nature and condition.    1614 Selden Titles Hon. Pref. C ij, Ingenuitie, not Nobilitie, was designed by the three Names.    1614 Raleigh Hist. World v. iii. §16. 705 Such other tokens of ingenuity for his wife and children as every one did use.    1638 F. Junius Paint. of Ancients 254 The noble Art‥being forced to seek her bread without any ingenuitie, after the manner of other sordide, mechanike, and mercenarie Arts.    1658 Phillips s.v., Ingenuity is taken for a free condition or state of life. †b.I.1.b The quality that befits a free-born person; high or liberal quality (of education); hence, Liberal education, intellectual culture (cf. II). Obs.     a 1661 Fuller Worthies (1840) II. 214 He intended it for a seminary of religion and ingenuity.    1662 Stillingfl. Orig. Sacr. ii. ii. §1 He [Moses] was brought up in the Court of Ægypt, and‥was skilled in all the learning of the Ægyptians; and these‥ prove the ingenuity of his education. †2.I.2 Nobility of character or disposition; honourableness, highmindedness, generosity. Obs.     1598 [see sense 1].    1603 Florio Montaigne ii. viii. (1632) 215, I should have loved to have stored their mind with ingenuity and liberty.    a 1638 Mede Wks. (1672) i. xxxii. 1
  • 'education' in the dark ages
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      Opposite of the golden age fallacy is the dark age fallacy.  
  • an infallible model
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      AKA, the papal bull model.
  • Preamble.
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      Please do let us ramble before we amble.  The random feldgang is so civil.
  • wayside
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      So very Biblical: As he sowed some fell by the waye syde. (Tyndale, Luke)
  • Such wastage
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      MOOC waystrels?
  • learning ecologies of the time
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      Stupided? Self-stupided?
Terry Elliott

School Design: Every School Is A Think Tank - 1 views

  • Every School Is A Think Tank
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      When I first clicked I thought, "Yes, if only it was true."  Then I started having second thoughts as I read.
  • Every school, by design, opens it doors
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      Schools are compulsory for the poor. Not so much for the rich. A school by design is a lot of other things as well most of which has little to do with opening doors so much as shutting them and sorting the rest into where they need to go.
  • As children solve problems in an authentic and sustainable way–this particular problem and this particular family in this particular context in this particular community–the school crystallizes into something else.
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      Schools could become like this: http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2014/12/covering-miamis-rising-seas-sensors-public-data-politics/ But I don't think this zombie from the past can be reborn, do you?  There are issues and problems and ideas that schools in general will not tackle, many of them they cannot tackle.  For example, how can schools become think tanks for keeping students in rural communities?
Terry Elliott

touches of sense...: The first click. - 0 views

  • What drove the settlers to the 'new world'?
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      They were holy hell angry and generally flaming mad for freedom.
  • What were their dreams?
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      There were some seriously bad-assed marketers in those day, i.e. liars of the first order.
  • co-learning perhaps?
    • Terry Elliott
       
      For me an mine it is time to get together and swap notes about the world as it is--i.e. stories that define and stories that push the bounds.
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  • I agree with Laura
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      But whose bricks?  
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      That brick metaphor is cock-eyed.  The problem being that we assume it has to be a brick.  It is this straightedged linear hierarchical nonsense that is the bane of modern architecture.  It is the Frank Geary/ Frank "Loud" Wright brand.  I ain't buyin' it.  In fact most of the things of the world don't require anywhere near the amount of topdown brick-headed, lego instructive bs than we think.
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      ok
  • education for freedom.
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      democracy schools
  • on the cheap.
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      not hardly
  • I think of profit margins...
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      the bottom line...is a guillotine's blade
  • Is education about serving industry or about safe-guarding some sort of freedom?
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      Where I live education is a business inspired by desparate dreams and harnessed by professional despots both for-profit and not for profit.  I will sell you a dream not your own.  I am little George against that dragon, Smaug.  And not the Benedict Cumberbatch voiced dragon either.  
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      Desperate or disparate dreams?
  • unbundle
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      nononononon a thousand times no.  If anything we need to be making our own bundles not someone else's fasces.  We all know where using someone else's bundle leads.
  • Second life anyone?
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      Not on your second life.
  • We are connected by more than a few bits and clicks.
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      Connected in our heads, in the connections we share with other folks heads, by the universal experience of power and lust and empathy and fear and joy and oblivion.  I know how you connect because I do so in much the same way.  I recognize you in me and me in you.  Self same same self, mirrored and beaming out of that glass like the blooming idiots that we are.
  • (The audience claps)
  • "To build the house, you have to lay the first brick."
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      This is my anathema.
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      The map is the brick.  The map and the brick as dominant metaphors is the problem.  They should serve us,not master us.  Expertism is rampant and everything I have ever learned well has been when they have served my curvilinear, my randomized, my self-serving chaotic self, not vice the versa.  Lest we forget, we have changed the temperature of the oceans by building with bricks and maps.
Tania Sheko

Connected by Design - YouTube - 0 views

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    "In this session Kim Jaxon, Jaimie Hoffman, Danielle Astengo, Jeremy Wallace, and Jim Groom will be discussing various approaches to building a connected courses infrastructure for individual assignments, or an entire course. This session will showcase various sites faculty and graduate students have created over the semester, and hopefully inspire others to create their own connected course hub."
Kevin Hodgson

lastrefuge: Develop a digital me - 2 views

  • so let’s start over…
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      'do overs' allowed
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      When do we never start over?
    • Kevin Hodgson
       
      (made a comment and lost a comment) Is this more of our loop conversation that started on twitter? I like Simon's words of "You are just on a longer loop" to Susan. Looping around.
  • I found that the way it appeared to be militated and implemented within institutions wrung out all the joy and potential of that which technology could bring:
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      As if all the caring was wrung from it?
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      (Ir)rationalisation, militarisation, institutionalisation. the alchemists. "Learning business management" Performance - nonperformance.
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      Caring versus military micromanagement
  • they could harness a form that facilitated a multiplicity of ways to understand – to communicate – to be creative – to think – to explore…
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      You helped them determine their own freedom.  Determining freedom sounds paradoxical if not downright oxymoronic.
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      Determining freedom sounds appalling! Trying to create a fissure or crack in implacable academic space where freedom could emerge?
    • Kevin Hodgson
       
      Love this sentence ... idea .... and how it formed all that went forward from there
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  • they were bad!
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      Bad dog. Bad.
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      No bad dogs.
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      They were bad - we were bad... all bad! (Just heard on the radio: When shepherds get hungry - they will eat their sheep... I think this is it: when we punish the teachers they eat their sheep!)
    • Kevin Hodgson
       
      I'd say, good dog, there.
  • And it definitely did not feel like joyful learning.
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      This is an example of joyful learning for me: listening to Wendell Berry's poetry in his voice.  This is joy rising up from the ground, not power raining down from above.
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      Poetry and process
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      The peace of wild things!
  • my first digital artefact!! So bad!!
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      Someone should put it on their digital refridgerator to share and show:  I am here, I am here, I am here.
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      Kid art. Toddlîng. Performance... Self-censorship Constable sketches.
    • Kevin Hodgson
       
      I'd like to see it, in fact, now that you have me curious ... does it still live online?
  • I have tried to bring some of that back for my students – to see if the passion and the play could happen in our classrooms as well.
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      It is the going out and the coming back.  Coming down from the mountains and talking to the folk. 
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      Just wanted to embed this picture.  Stillness of a zen moment while we bring the learning down from the tech mountain.
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      Stillness, pause, attention, Not learning but living.
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      Didn't want it to feel all Moses and messianic. I did not want to bring the learning from the tech mountain - but to say - hey - this mountain is here - there could be beauty - there is some danger - there is risk - go on - check it out for yourselves...
  • Terry Elliot’s zeega on learning
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      Right click on the zeega above, open in new tab.  This is easily and overall the best one of these I have ever done. Thanks for showing.
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      Pinball, pinball, pinball. Subliminal, peripheral, capture. Learning ecology.
  • Develop a Digital Me: http://learning.londonmet.ac.uk/epacks/posters-digital/
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      This little url is a triumph for all especially for your perseverance.  Let it shine, girl, let it shine.
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      Timetable unstable
  • staff were not given the space and time to play with the new technology
    • Kevin Hodgson
       
      This so typical, no matter the learning institution ... even in elementary schools, where you would think play would be the heart of learning. But not for teachers, apparently ....
  • Develop a Digital Me
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      I imagine this becomes an intersection of reflection and introspection and identity exploration for many of them. http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/66131/2083019/identitycrisis%20copy_860.jpg
Terry Elliott

dogtrax: In trying to capture moment... - Notegraphy - 2 views

  • maintain sanity
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      2 true
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  • trying to capture moments
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  • something rears
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      OED rear, v.1 (rɪə(r))  Forms: 1 rǽran, 3 ræren, 3, 4 reren, 5 reryn; 4-6 rere, 5, 6 reere, (3) 6 reare, 7- rear; (6-7 rair, 9 dial. rare).  [OE. rǽran (:-OTeut. *raizjan) = Goth. -raisjan, ON. reisa, to raise. OE. had also árǽran arear (in use down to the 17th c.).     The main senses of rear run parallel with those of the Scandinavian equivalent raise, but the adopted word has been much more extensively employed than the native, and has developed many special senses which are rarely or never expressed by rear. Hence, on the one hand, rear has in many applications been almost or altogether supplanted by raise, a process which is clearly seen in the usage of the Wyclif Bible (see note to raise; in the version of 1611 rear is found only in 1 Esdr. v. 62, while raise is freely employed). On the other hand, it is probable that rear has sometimes, esp. in poetry, been used as a more rhetorical substitute for raise, without independent development of the sense involved. As in the case of raise there is some overlapping of the senses, and occasional uncertainty as to the precise development or meaning of transferred uses.]  I.I To set up on end; to make to stand up.  1. a.I.1.a trans. To bring (a thing) to or towards a vertical position; to set up, or upright. = raise 1.    Frequently with suggestion of senses 8 or 11, and now usually implying a considerable height in the thing when raised.     a 1000 Cædmon's Gen. 1675 (Gr.) Ceastre worhton & to heofonum up hlædræ rærdon.    c 1205 Lay. 1100 Heo rærden heora mastes.    Ibid. 17458 Mærlin heom [the stones] gon ræren [c 1275 reare] alse heo stoden ærer.    1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) V. 455 Þe place þere Oswaldus knelede and rerede a crosse.    c 1400 Sowdone Bab. 2658 Thai rered the Galowes in haste.    1530 Palsgr. 687/2 It is a great deale longer than one wolde have thought it afore it was reared up.    1571 Digges Pantom. i. xxix. I j b, Fixing o
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  • it beautiful head
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  • the blue sky beckoning in a wash of quiet
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  • off-kilter reflection
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      Top 10 horror shots from hiagne
  • we arrive here,
Terry Elliott

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

  • Sandra Sinfield
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    • Terry Elliott
       
      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.
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      or Heather Nova ...
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      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.
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      Go to the Vialogues above to comment.  Here is the link if you have probs with the embed: https://vialogues.com/vialogues/play/19196
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      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
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      Lots of stuff you can stuff inside things that weren't made for stuffing ...
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      We Have Arrived
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      I was having trouble embedding a hackpad until I remembered about Embed.ly.  http://goo.gl/1DCgSx
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  • text box
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  • celebrating her post
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      Oh yeah ...
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  • text annotation machine
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      freaky
  • sound file via Soundcloud
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    • Terry Elliott
       
      Gotta love that Farfisa Combo. 
    • Terry Elliott
       
      Here is a Wikipedia book I made this morning titled "Rock Lobster:the Birth of the B52s and Fictional Lobsters"
  • Three things to note
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      and one to share: Beware the Dog
    • Terry Elliott
       
      Irrepressible music just like my daughter's beagle/pug cross.  This music is a puggle.
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    feel free to help annotation this piece about annotation
Terry Elliott

Teaching Beyond Tropes - 1 views

  • Time.
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      time is so relative...if you're a freaking time lord!
  • it's been a long.
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      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
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      Passing through your personal event horizon.
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  • maintain
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      maintain, v. (meɪnˈteɪn, mənˈteɪn)  L. phrase manū tenēre, lit. 'to hold in one's hand' (manū abl. of manus hand; tenēre to hold). 
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  • after which I got lost in VA someplace as my phone died and darkness fell and the Famous Virginia Traffic Overtook).
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  • 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.
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  • I have been yearning to connect
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      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.  
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      Scroll down in this annotation.
  • Capture Moments
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      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.
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      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/
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      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
       
      '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.
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      So kind.   Why is  chess such an affinity drug? Because We  war together  against the  game.
  • (You wanna?)
    • Terry Elliott
       
      I lost your invite to play. Please send it again.  
  • meditation-doodling
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  • Zentangle
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      QUANTUM ZENTANGLEMENT
  • I need a cMOOC.
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Terry Elliott

Personalised learning lets children study at their own pace - tech - 02 January 2015 - ... - 0 views

  • "A world-class education in the palm of your hand."
    • Terry Elliott
       
      Classic mistake of overgeneralizing--not everybody learns this way.
Terry Elliott

Reflecting on Papert, Palmer and FreireReflecting Allowed | Reflecting Allowed - 1 views

  • There’s Papert’s Mindstorms, Freire’s Pedagogy of Hope, and Palmer’s The Courage to Teach.
    • Terry Elliott
       
      These three book along withDeschooling Society, any John Holt book, Whitehead's The Aims of Education, and Fukuoka's One Straw Revolution (an outlier here I admit) were my guides on the road to unschooling all three of our kids.  Oh yeah, and Neil Postman and the Whole Earth Catalog,
  • distances students from their inner reality
    • Terry Elliott
       
      as if we don't do this enough already in our own lives as a really bad coping mechanism.
  • devaluing inner reality
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  • opportunities of engaging with students’ souls
    • Terry Elliott
       
      Sometimes it seems like an active avoidance of students' souls.
  • with Freire’s ideas
    • Terry Elliott
       
      Yes, reading as a social activity--have you read any Frank Smith
  • creating space for learners to make meaning from what matters to them, rather than having teachers or policy-makers make those decisions for them.
    • Terry Elliott
       
      I have been experimenting with the word 'substrate' as the bare minimum structure upon which a bare minimum of content (there can be many growing media).  I am thinking just enough, vetted for bias as much as possible, and willing to be remixed as needed.  
  • how fiction can be a person’s (inner) reality, that it’s not a lie to a child.
    • Terry Elliott
       
      Our kids used to have a big box of legos, blocks, plastic creatures AND they called them their 'guys'.  And they would go play guys.  And we were not allowed to play guys with them. It was their domain.  We could play in other domains, we could read aloud to them, but their guys were their guys, not ours.  They owned their own imaginations and still do.  If imagination be fiction, then let us have more of it.
  • Which brings me back to Palmer
    • Terry Elliott
       
  • Landfillharmonic video
    • Terry Elliott
       
  • And his idea is to leave them to build on their own and figure out what the role of teachers/schools would then be, if it is not to impart knowledge/content.
    • Terry Elliott
       
      Dignity.  They own their own knowledge, deeply.
Terry Elliott

New Clues - 0 views

  • Once were we young in the Garden...
    • Terry Elliott
       
      Is the internet really a new thing?  isn't it just another iteration of the human need to connect? Isn't it just laying down a new network over the old, but the old tunnels are still there (actually in Paris with pneumatic tubes).
Kevin Hodgson

The Connected Course - 0 views

  •  
    The overview
Terry Elliott

Howard Rheingold Connected Courses - How is #ccourses going? Where should it go? Let's ... - 6 views

    • Terry Elliott
       
      I see it as a a rich space where I am responsible for my own learning and knowing.  But I am also responsible for those who are with me.  I worry that I don't get more of a sense of who has skin in the game and who doesn't.  I am trying to use these tools in my own connected courses, I am trying to connect with students here and in those classes.  How do I make connecting as routine as a syllabus AND how do I make it as valued as a syllabus.  I want to know more about how I can navigate the existing sharky waters of hied. How have others used aikido moves to enable connected values and principles in what amount to mostly unconvivial sharing tools.  
    • Kevin Hodgson
       
      My only wonder/concern is that other than you, Howard (and Alan, to some degree, earlier), facilitators seem to be absent from the online conversations, other than the scheduled video hangouts.  It can feel a bit ... like the classrooms that Connected Courses is trying to remix, where the knowledgeable person in the front of the room (or in the hangout on my screen), talks and shares expertise, but then is not all that active in the ancillary conversations going on outside of the classroom (hangout).  Tell me I am missing those conversations, and I will be happy/content in that knowledge.  When I bounce around the blogs, I am most often likely to see you (Howard), Terry, Mariana, and a few others in the comment sections. Maybe more plans for projects like #WhyIteach are in the mix (hope so) and ways to get folks to make content (a shared ethos of open learning? A collaborative letter to a Dean about the need for more connective learning? etc) connect deeper will emerge (doubly-hope-so).
    • Maha Bali
       
      You just reminded me: I see nothing in the course design that helps people who are TEACHING students and involving them in #ccourses to help those students interact with each other. I am mostly seeing other educators here...
    • Maha Bali
       
      Agreeing with Kevin here. There are a couple of other facilitators active in some spaces. Helen on twitter and blogs (did not realize she was a facilitator at first, though); Mia Zamora (she's a facilitator, right?) and Jonathan on Google+ and Mimi is starting to respond on Twitter now. But in general, I would have expected the facilitators to be active throughout and across. The only ones who are really doing that are Howard and Alan. As in, they were there from the very beginning (pre-pre-course) and everywhere in all spaces, "listening" & responding. Not every facilitator can read/listen to everything (though Alan/Howard almost seem like they do! don't know how!) but given the sheer number of facilitators their responsive presence has potential to be so much stronger.
    • swatson217
       
      I am agreeing with Kevin and Maha.
  • a better sense of how the course is being perceived and how participants would like to see it go in the future
    • Howard Rheingold
       
      I hear you and we're working on it. Give it a few days and you'll see some action.
    • Terry Elliott
       
      You guys are the greatest.  Really proud to be working with you.
    • Kevin Hodgson
       
      I realize, too, my comment goes against the grain of Connected Learning. While I appreciate all the facilitators, I shouldn't sit around and wait for them. As Howard notes, "What it is, is up to us."
    • Maha Bali
       
      I don't think its going against the grain, exactly, Kevin. It's a kind of speaking out. And it's also the case that some learners need more direction, or more support or explicit permission in knowing they can take their own direction... If that makes sense?
Kevin Hodgson

Connected Courses MOOC (#ccourses) and #oclmooc: Assessing Connected Learning... - 1 views

  • the gold standard is to ask what impact the learning eventually has not only on the learner, but on the community the learner ultimately serves. And it encourages us to take the learner’s point of view into account rather than focusing solely on the learning facilitator’s or learning organization’s vantage point.
  • Do we follow up with our learners to see “whether learning made a difference in their lives?”
    • Kevin Hodgson
       
      I don't think we do much follow-up of our learners, particularly at the university level. Down in the K-12 level, we have lots of data around where students have been and where they end up. So might say, too much data, but I find it handy as one tool to get a sense of areas of strengths and weaknesses. And I am curious to know how former students are faring.
  • “It’s not just what kids got out of the course…but what happens next, “Ito reiterated.
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    an overview by Paul
swatson217

Unconference & Backchannels as Sidorkin's Third DiscourseReflecting Allowed | Reflectin... - 3 views

  • backchannel conversations with people via social media; and unconferences
    • Kevin Hodgson
       
      In many ways, this is the value of the open education movement -- the chance to interact without direct instruction from the "talking head" in the classroom. It's a dip into the unknown, though, and requires a certain social media/reading skills -- what to ignore and what to pay attention to, and how does it all connect to the learning and discovery
    • swatson217
       
      I agree about the talking head!
  • one’s own nonsense may be someone else”s sense
    • Kevin Hodgson
       
      This could be an alternative tag line for my blog!
  • by focusing on my small groups of people (often not even using the hashtag to be honest; sometimes in DM or in private hangouts; other times in public on blogs) I am making my own path as I intersect with others’ paths.
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  • Sidorkin suggests the latter is the best part of a good party.
    • Terry Elliott
       
      This reminds me of MIT's unhangout software with breakout rooms.
  • But then the best part of a conference
    • Terry Elliott
       
      Yes, I can remember at every conference there is a canceled presentation where folks gather around and just chat about...stuff--ad hoc and improvisational. We need a simple discussion protocol that is quick in and quick out, save for asynchronous discussion.
    • Maha Bali
       
      Did you see that post by... A wordpress site called emergentbydesign (Simon shared it, i think) where the author suggests a kind of mindful chat roulette based on interest?
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    on the value of the backchannel conversations
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    on the value of the backchannel conversations
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