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Creative Activism Project?

Reflecting on openness and what it means it teaching -- Part 1

"So much of the science is visual," De Kok-Mercado

Courtney takes the Multimedia Blogging Challenge -- and so does Charlie!

Meaning Project is also known as Roots & Wings Project. Challenge is to read a book on creativity and/or digital storytelling and create a video response known as a bookcast.

"On Monday, the American Library Association its list of the "most-challenged books," that is, books that have received the highest number of "formal, written complaint[s] filed with a library or school requesting that a book or other material be restricted or removed because of its content or appropriateness." Dav Piley's Captain Underpants tops the list, and is joined by books like Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner, Toni Morrison's Beloved and E.L. James' Fifty Shades of Grey."

Dude, that's the worst thing about adulthood: when u realise that your blanket can't protect u from "things" in shadows D: Reply · 1

Why students need to fail Moira MacDonald, University Affairs, December 4, 2013 Interesting article on the design of a course that has students act as instructors, drawing their presentations from dense and difficult texts, in an environment that is challenging and often results in failure. The course, taught by Concrodia University professor Vivek Venkatesh, "was really about thinking on your feet," says Tieja Thomas, a PhD candidate who took the course. "You had to come prepared . . . It really was a deeper form of learning."

Fun way to generate words for a challenge

Gallery shows in Second Life

Joanne's photo essay -- innovative way to reflect . . .

Cool activity for learning about assumptions