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Kevin Hodgson

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  • Kevin Hodgson on 22 Sep 14
     
    Wanted to add this list of blogs to our Diigo and point out the "random post generator" -- I've been doing regular travels around the CCourse blogosphere because it seems as if commenting is not really happening on any grand scale here.
Kevin Hodgson

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  • Kevin Hodgson on 22 Sep 14
     
    Give it a try ...
Kevin Hodgson

Teaching Beyond Tropes: Needle in a Haystack - 4 views

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ifttt delicious diigo

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

Hyper-connected learning - using Diigo to share reflections on a post reflecting on ano... - 2 views

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    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Sep 14
       
      One powerful quake and this brittle system goes down.  Is the same true of all our digital spaces. Access is already limited enough as it is.
Terry Elliott

touches of sense...: Zootopia? - 0 views

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  • Terry Elliott on 05 Oct 14
     
    A touchstone piece, universal in that each of us can find a fractal piece or ourselves in it.
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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.
swatson217

Chicken/egg reflections on intercultural maturity, criticality, & open-connectednessRef... - 1 views

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  • Then again, it might just be because I now know them enough to understand their humor
    • Tania Sheko
      Tania Sheko on 07 Oct 14
       
      Me too, born in Australia but from Russian and German background - both parents born outside Australia. I've always felt that I am both and neither.
  • I still feel kind of hybrid)
  • our ability to share humor might be a function of how well we know each other
    • Tania Sheko
      Tania Sheko on 07 Oct 14
       
      Yes, there is the connection between friends who respond to the same humour and share interests, but there is also the shared history that allows common responses. 
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  • Then this got me thinking about the difficulty of sharing humor not only across cultures, but online
    • Tania Sheko
      Tania Sheko on 07 Oct 14
       
      Because, of course, open online environments do not discriminate on the basis of race or anything else.  Humour is such a tricky thing. You can live in the same house for decades and still not get somebody's sense of humour. It's almost a language in itself.
  • And some “i have nooo idea what you’re talking about” things
  • It’s interesting to study the effect of this on how well creative brainstorming works…
    • Tania Sheko
      Tania Sheko on 07 Oct 14
       
      What do you mean by that, Maha, your point about creative brainstorming?
  • how I never got the refs to Greek mythology
    • Tania Sheko
      Tania Sheko on 07 Oct 14
       
      Me too, and at Uni I studied literature, and was too busy to catch up on all the reading I needed to get the references. So when my first son proved to be a big reader, I made sure he read a lot of the mythologies - Greek, Roman, Norse, etc. I'm sure that kind of roundedness helps with self confidence. There's so much referencing - how much of our culture is referenced from history!
  • In my PhD research, I ask a chicken-and-egg question about intercultural maturity and critical thinking.
  • empathy
  • is likely to be open-minded, curious, willing to question one’s own views, interested in understanding different world views – all of which mean this person is likely to behave positively in an intercultural learning experience
  • A good critical thinker
  • intercultural
  • exposure to diversity
  • But how to develop these characteristics?
  • If you’re closed minded and not curious, you’re unlikely to seek intercultural exchange
    • Tania Sheko
      Tania Sheko on 07 Oct 14
       
      Can you change students from being closed minded to open minded? I hope so, because otherwise education is a waste of time. But sometimes I meet teachers who are so closed minded (in terms of trying new ways of teaching) that I give up hope.
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 08 Oct 14
       
      Can you change teachers fro being close minded to open?
  • So which comes first?
  • But if you have never been with people different from yourself, how do you learn to behave in these situations in such a way that helps you learn from it?
  • and so you keep finding yourself in situations and you take advantages of opportunities to connect openly, and then you reap the benefits of that, which fuels you further?
    • Tania Sheko
      Tania Sheko on 07 Oct 14
       
      This is such an important question, and one I've been thinking about over the years. Do I give up with certain people and just focus on convincing those who are open? My job as a teacher librarian depends on convincing teachers that it's worth collaborating with me. Otherwise I can't work with students apart from traditional resourcing.
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 08 Oct 14
       
      yes yes yes
  • how do you get someone into intercultural experiences
  • Is it that you start out as someone who loves openness and connection
  • Same questions could be asked of open/connected learners
  • how do you develop critical thinking needed to develop intercultural maturity without being in an intercultural experience;
  • But how would you “get in” if you don’t already have that attitude?
  • That question plagues me with reference to whether we can actually draw people into open/connected learning
  • Like Laura Gibbs, i’d take curiosity over security any day.
  • A lot of people are monuments/avatars/objects before we decide to engage
  • Someone said her students were shocked when a book author (Howard Rheingold) replied to their tweets. As in, they had not before really thought of him as a real person. Funny.
    • Tania Sheko
      Tania Sheko on 07 Oct 14
       
      Yes, my students are confused and very surprised that a 'real author' would even consider connecting to them online. Once an author was involved in my students' blog comments, and one student said he would rather not know him as a real person because he wouldn't be able to live up to his 'imagined' persona (my words).
  • is it possible for someone to get interested in open and connected learning, to become a connected educator, without first experiencing the beauty, the potential of that, if they are not originally of open/connecting attitude? Or not digitally literate, even.
    • Tania Sheko
      Tania Sheko on 07 Oct 14
       
      I still wonder if what I experience as an enjoyable connective experience is unique to me and those who have chosen to participate. Maybe some teachers wouldn't find this kind of thing interesting or enjoyable.
  • How do you draw them in to try? If you give a workshop on it, hands-on, will they come? Will it sound like gibberish and feel overwhelming?
    • Tania Sheko
      Tania Sheko on 07 Oct 14
       
      And how do you sustain that even if the workshop is successful?
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 08 Oct 14
       
      I struggle with this with my teachers.
  • about how joining an academic conversation midway feels? It’s the same for joining an open online community or finding oneself in a new culture
  • It takes time to figure out where to start, whom to talk to, how to talk, how to engage in culturally acceptable ways, etc.
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 08 Oct 14
       
      Maha, this is a great question!
Terry Elliott

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  • 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
       

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    • 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
       

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

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

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

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  • "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
       

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  • "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
       

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  • "Yes, that seems better."
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 01 Feb 15
       

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  • 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

Mimi Ito - Weblog: Trust Falls and My Whys for Connected Courses - 0 views

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    "paper"
Terry Elliott

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

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  • which is a strange month anyway because aren’t we always connected?
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 08 Oct 14
       
      Yep. If you just connect in October, you are not really connected ...
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Oct 14
       
      What happens if you do like Doug Belshaw does with his BlackOps month--no overt connection for a month.
  • the moment you open up your classroom and your thoughts to the world, people will have an opinion on it.  And sometimes that opinion hurts.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 08 Oct 14
       
      A connection to the theme of trust and fluency, and also, identity. Who do we portray as ourselves in the world?
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Oct 14
       
      Or worse you put stuff out into dead air and get no response.
    • Tania Sheko
      Tania Sheko on 03 Dec 14
       
      I don't know which is worse, they are both disheartening.
  • We are awfully good at praising one another
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 08 Oct 14
       
      Echo Chamber Effect ...
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Oct 14
       
      Yes, the temptation is the gr8 valid8
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  • And then there is the feeling of constantly needing to produce
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 08 Oct 14
       
      Internalized pressure ...
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Oct 14
       
      I am trying to use some tools for this from Greg McKeon's book Essentialism
  • Being connected to a global PLN had taken the place of the local connections because somehow the exoticism of the global collaboration seemed like it would be more beneficial, yet this is not ture.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 08 Oct 14
       
      I know this feeling, too. How to balance that reaching out and reaching in so that both have value?
  • Not like this, not in this way.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Oct 14
       
      There are overt and covert connections.  There are connections we are aware of and ones that are unknown to us.  The hard fact is that we are always and everywhere connected.  That means we live in the world and the world lives in us--for good or ill.
  • thus we look incredible online.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Oct 14
       
      MDR!
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The Best American Comics 2014: Scott McCloud, Bill Kartalopoulos: 9780544106000: Amazon... - 1 views

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  • Terry Elliott on 08 Oct 14
     
    Especially for Kevin
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Mimi Ito - Weblog: Trust Falls and My Whys for Connected Courses - 1 views

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connected courses #ccourses mimi ito trust why

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  • o although I am one of the hosts/facilitators I am doubly a n00b in the connected courses sense - new to cMOOCs as well as new to course design. Which means I am thoroughly enjoying taking the plunge as a learner in all of this and muddling through the why of my teaching as I go.
    • Tania Sheko
      Tania Sheko on 08 Oct 14
       
      Nice acknowledgment
  • best kind of trust fall exercise for someone who is used to pausing and polishing before sharing.
    • Tania Sheko
      Tania Sheko on 08 Oct 14
       
      Thinking in public = trust exercise. Excellent observation.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Oct 14
       
      Lowering of boundaries is often not encouraged in traditional academic structures.  Too bad.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Oct 14
       
      And so glad you are taking the risk and jumping through the ether into you know not what.
  • encouraged me to keep thinking in public
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  • I feel very much buoyed by generous ways in which the connected courses participants have responded to the inevitable glitches in facilitating this course, and my thinking aloud in public as we go.
  • we are all bringing our heterogeneous whys to this experience.
    • Tania Sheko
      Tania Sheko on 08 Oct 14
       
      Love: 'our heterogenous whys'.
  • he other is the connected course that I am designing together with other DML colleagues.
  • there can’t be a singular why for connected courses
  • Even with different dispositions that pull in different directions, I like that connected courses is pushing us both into productive discomfort and growth.
  • ach facilitator brought a different angle and expertise, and we wanted to honor that and give people space to stretch out and develop their own whys.
  • For the mission statement, first there is the what:
  • he why more broadly
  • ur goal is to build an inclusive and expansive network of teachers, students, and educational offerings that makes high quality, meaningful, and socially connected learning available to everyone.
  • Our goal setting out was to provide a professional development opportunity for faculty who are setting out to teach a connected course
  • the why that we may have set out with as instigators of the course is not the why that all participants bring to the course.
  • And this is a feature of a connectivist experience that should be embraced.
  • every co-learner is facilitating by participating.
  • So if I take off the organizer hat, as a co-learner my personal why is that I want to experience and learn more about the cMOOC approach
  • Connected courses is my first time living through this kind of learning with my own professional community.
  • So as a learner, I guess at least some of my why tracks to the explicit learning goal that we set up as organizers when we started out.
  • newly emergent whys
  • building more ties between educational practice and research
  • I’m starting to geek out on engagement metrics for the course, and thinking through how we can track the cascading effects of an experience like connected courses as it influences educator practice and in turn shapes student experiences.
  • How can we better tell a story through research and evidence about why these kinds of connected learning experiences are important?
  • And can we mobilize our networks to tell this story in a way that supports the diverse collectives that are intersecting here?
  • issues that @mdvfunes and Jenny Mackness have raised on the “tyranny of the open” and the pressures of normative expectations of participation
  • it seems worthwhile to reflect on these more pervasive kinds of risks or exclusions, silencing and just feeling plain old overwhelmed
  • I like this idea of “heterotopia” that Ferreday and Hodgson suggest as a way of charting a pathway through these dynamics.
  • I may be idealistic about this, but I do think it is possible avoid the tyranny of the majority and support and value multiple forms of participation and the varied whys that each co-learner brings to this network.
  • Tania Sheko on 08 Oct 14
     
    #ccourses Unit 2 Trust
  • Terry Elliott on 09 Oct 14
     
    #ccourses Unit 2 Trust
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touches of sense...: Zootopia? - 0 views

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  • I would like to imagine that in the future our children will look at the enclosures in which past generations were kept as absurd anachrosnism.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 05 Oct 14
       
      The first time I used blogs in the secondary high school I first taught at it felt like a not only opening up the cages, but also knocking holes in the walls so that no one could ever use them as cages again.  At least for the students who I was working with, I think this was true.  Once they tasted that freedom there was no going back.  The ultimate check valve.
  • Whatever happened to grand narrative?
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 05 Oct 14
       
      Well...maybe it's all grand narrative all the way down.  For example,  I had a grand day outside.  Frost was expected last night so we had to dig our peanuts and check out the sweet potatoes to see if they were ready to dig (tradition here is to dig them after a frost).  I think we are going to get about a five to one return on the peanuts (yield per pound planted) and God knows on the sweet taters.  That is a grand narrative isn't it.  One of the grandest narratives.  Agriculture.  And it is not one that without its...sad side.  I was introduced to a grander narrative only a short while after we had battened down the garden to save the tomatoes and peppers and flowers from frost.  My wife discovered a corn snake trapped in some bird netting.  Corn snakes are the glory of the constrictors round these parts.  Bright orange with diamonds patterns and black and white bellies.  Astonishing.  If you catch sight of of one in the wild you cannot believe that such a creature could hide from anything.  Too bright.  Too shiny.  Yet...I have seen them slither away and disappear like the Cheshire Cat.   We cut the netting away from him/her.  Took her away from where the chickens might do her in (chickens are notorious snake enemies) and released her.  She immediately serpentined about in a threatening "s" to let us know that she was not to be anthropomorphized. Three feet of grand narrative, millions of years old, with a legacy that lives on in one of the parts of our triune brain.  I was unconsciously sweating the whole time I was cutting her away from the netting with scissors. I could not help it.  That narrative is a potent legacy, not to be thrown off by my rational self that told me over and over that there was no danger.  That is a grand narrative.   So here I relate the narrative with words (pix to follow in a blog post).  Whatever happened to the grand narrative?  Is anyone an island entire unto herself?  Should we not consider the unveilin
  • fellow 'students' appeared to have their lives mapped out.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 05 Oct 14
       
      Maps into the future--nothing inherently wrong with that.  The danger is in thinking that any cartographer could draw one for us.  We are not alone in this struggle, but we are still Daniel Boone when it comes to blazing our own trail.  Any other map is the wrong one pulled from the cosmic junk drawer, the Procrustean one that will make us fit.  Now that is a myth that comes true every day. 
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  • He had become too dependent on his comfort.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 05 Oct 14
       
      I was looking for a reference to the paradoxical phrase "risks may be our safeties in disguise" when I found a post I had written in Blogger in 2001 (http://tellio.blogspot.com/2001/06/my-eyes-are-shot.html).  The takeaway quote is this: "I think John Berryman once said in a sonnet that risks may be our safeties in disguise. I put my hope in that paradox. I put my heart in the safety of change."  So, Enso, the grand narrative is this: [Animated gif of the undrawing of the enso]
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  • Terry Elliott on 05 Oct 14
     
    Looks like Known, but open source.  Perfect for a closed, Path style limited or private alternative to Twitter et al.
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