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Terry Elliott

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]
Terry Elliott

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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.
Terry Elliott

touches of sense...: At heart. - 4 views

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  • At heart
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 28 Sep 14
       
      Be at heart Beat heart Be at heart Beat heart
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 29 Sep 14
       
      Beatitude Beat attitude Be attitude Be at Blessed are those who be and breathe Together To gather Each  other.
  • heart beating
  • space
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  • keeps us breathing
  • together
  • How does together
  • express together
  • as of one
  • embryonically aware of being contained
  • precognitively aware of being connected
  • Rejoice.
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      LOVE LOVE LOVE cello
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      I played this while I read and reread your post.  Perfection.
  • I am one of yours, my friends.
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      None of this seems possible, yet it is.
  • I feel your presence.
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      To think about people I have never "met." Have we met? It feels muchly like that answer is yes.  
  • edge of my reason
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      we are all on edges, out here together, in some kind of weird edge-filled connected space...I seem to have found my people, far-flung throughout the planet.
  • How does singularity feel? How do we express being a part, being apart?
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 28 Sep 14
       
      yes yes yes good question good questions
  • Hunger  to move?
Terry Elliott

RhetCompNow | Always connect! - 8 views

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  • 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
Charles Greenberg

International Games Day @ your library - 0 views

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  • Charles Greenberg on 29 Sep 14
     
    Coming soon. Still time to support a local academic or public library.
  • Charles Greenberg on 29 Sep 14
     
    Teach them connected learning at the same time.
  • Terry Elliott on 03 Oct 14
     
    Not all hidden agendum are bad. Some are just lurking. Backgrounded.
Terry Elliott

Leveraging your "Why?", in answer to Mike Wesch. « PHONAR - An open undergrad... - 2 views

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  • It’s the thing that’s informing everything that I do.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 30 Sep 14
       
      Finding that kernal of drive is important, and then reflecting on it .. even more important.
  • I realised in retrospect that people paid for the mode of delivery, never the mode of information.
  • This next paradigm shift is where the image is breaking away from the photograph
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 30 Sep 14
       
      Fascinating concept here ... and a way to look at the world of digital media, where concepts are breaking away from itself.
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  • visual storyteller. One, I need to make something that you couldn’t make with a mobile phone. I could make a print that lasts 200 years for instance. Number two, I needed to be trusted and credible. And number three, I needed to be heard.
  • they’re also about locating yourself on the internet
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 30 Sep 14
       
      Social identity? Digital identity? Important concepts to teach and to understand, particularly with the sand shifting beneath our feet almost daily (it seems).
    • Tania Sheko
      Tania Sheko on 30 Sep 14
       
      Being part of online networks linked by passion or cause or course or anything else, can mean a long term supportive relationship with people but it takes time to learn how to do that, and it would help if it was taught explicitly to school students but in context.
  • Most of my students it turns out weren’t in the room, and I began to have quite close relationships with a number of them.
  • The class moves out of the classroom.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 30 Sep 14
       
      Hello, open education!
  • What these people need is to be able to be trusted and to be heard, and these are the people that aren’t in the class.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 30 Sep 14
       
      This makes me think about equity and access issues, for some reasons, and how to ensure that entry into learning is available for everyone. Certainly, that is the guiding ethos of open learning spaces, right?
  • a second paradigm shit at the moment
  • how do we propagate and sustain interest driven learning?
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 30 Sep 14
       
      Interesting choice of words--propagate.  There are lots of ways to propagate.  And like the biological world some of them are a real pain in the ass.  Take the pawpaw tree. Please.  In order to fruit (seed propagate) it has to have a very specific carrion fly to get into its flower (as I recall anyway, I am not a botanist, YMMV).  If it doesn't, then no fruit.  Luckily the tree also propagates rhizomatically.  So...in learning terms we need to be prepared for difficult propagation and easy propagation.  And these vary wildly from discipline to discipline.
  • Kevin Hodgson on 30 Sep 14
     
    Jonathan responds to Mike, and we should annotate the response, right?
  • Tania Sheko on 30 Sep 14
     
    Jonathan responds to Mike, and we should annotate the response, right?
Maha Abdelmoneim

Key Pedagogic Thinkers - Dave Cormier - Journal of Pedagogic Development - 2 views

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  • when I think about MOOCs I think there's a connection between them and really good conferences, where people expect them to come around every year, and they get a tone and a feeling
    • Maha Abdelmoneim
      Maha Abdelmoneim on 30 Sep 14
       
      Idea! In some conferences there are break out rooms dedicated to different topics. How about using hangouts and Google docs to create those spaces for synchronous and asynchronous conversations?
Kevin Hodgson

How to Stay Connected (collab poem) - 1 views

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  • Kevin Hodgson on 03 Oct 14
     
    with podcast link added
Terry Elliott

Everything Connects: a book review by Harold Jarche - 1 views

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  • Terry Elliott on 03 Oct 14
     
    A quiet little review by one of my favorite bloggers and trainers, Harold Jarche. Great quote here: They suggest dating new ideas from three main sources, of which the second is the most important in my opinion. The media you consume. The people you see. The events you attend.
Terry Elliott

touches of sense...: Reaching out. - 1 views

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  • The person is often only aware of feeling of constraint. We pick away at those constraints little by little. Meaningful time spent with one person has a viral effect on other students who are witnesses to the uniquely meaninful dialogue. Such moments of connection become virtuous, viral messages.
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 03 Oct 14
       
      I absolutely love and identify with this paragraph.
  • Meaningful time spent with one person has a viral effect on other students who are witnesses to the uniquely meaninful dialogue. Such moments of connection become virtuous, viral messages.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Oct 14
       
      This is a full tru dat moment.
swatson217

Tellio * Supertasking and Mindfulness - 1 views

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##ccourses

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  • we subsequently become addicted to the mentality of the anticipation of experiences in the future v
  • I believe mindfulness can assist our abilities to selectively remove and reduce tasks that are just an byproduct of mindless conditioning into thinking we are being more productive and happy, when in fact they are simply creating layers of noise to block out the more significant signal of training our ability to be present.
  • Laura Gibbs on 06 Oct 14
     
    Don't think I knew about your Tumblr - thx!
Terry Elliott

The Filter Bubble - 0 views

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filter_bubble ccourses literacies

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  • Terry Elliott on 05 Oct 14
     
    How much do we suffer from the ill effects of the filter bubble (both external and internal)?  How is the filter bubble different from the echo chamber?  As facilitators in #ccourses what can we do to range out of our normal, self-drawn Venn diagrams?
Terry Elliott

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  • #ccourses Module 2 - Trust and Network Fluency
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Oct 14
       
      Wow. You can annotate the text in a zeega.  Need someone else to verify that they can see this in the Group
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Oct 14
       
      Love the counter turns of the two women in the focus of the gif's frame. And the implicit question.
  • Do we have the right to be forgotten?
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Oct 14
       
      As a teacher I think that ideally we need to be forgotten.  Our students need to make their learning their own.  It is generation of their capability that we celebrate not ours in midwiving/husbanding it.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Oct 14
       
      Yet the kitty hides, blissful like a child playing peekaboo.
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  • The "Reservoir of Reciprocity" -
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Oct 14
       
      Sometimes I don't trust anybody.  Sometimes I lay myself open, vulnerable and without shield.
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