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What Counts Can’t Always Be Counted
I loved the two annotatathons I have been a part of this week. Or as I told Jeremy Dean in a Tweet: @dr_jdean I have been digitally annotating for over ten years now (mostly Diigo),last night was a...
View ArticlePicnic Preparations: HOMAGO with Daniel Bassill and Simon Ensor
This morning I am meeting with both Daniel Bassill and Simon Ensor to discuss…well, just to sit down to a morning picnic of emerging ideas (cheese) and practices (wine) and observations (bread). We...
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Oracles Among Us
Word Clouds are fun. And they amount to an I Ching of sorts if used in an open and oracular way. You have to ask the text a question and then create the word cloud and then interpret the cloud as an...
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RSS in Hypothes.is: Reality
I have been doing some informal work with Jeremy Dean and Jon Udell on their killer annotation layer, Hypothes.is. I asked in a recent email, I spent hours this morning checking out blog posts on Jon...
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First Assignment: Spring 2016–Strategies for Participatory Culture in the...
[I have Hypothes.is enabled as a plug-in here so feel free to annotate. You may also find this on my Dropbox site as well where you can comment and add to it.] I teach three sections of Writing in the...
View ArticleA new podcast from Wyoming is turning hosting on its head – Poynter
A new podcast from Wyoming is turning hosting on its head This can include anything from taking notes on a book to writing introductions for segments to writing out interview questions for the host...
View ArticleBlazing the River
Another installment of reflection on the nature of teaching and learning at the root level, my root level. I am trying to rive the smoke from the fire and the wake from the boat. Vialogues is such an...
View ArticleRage, Rage, Rage | Beat, Beat, Beat | Soar…
This is a repeat for the dark interregnum that seems to be settling upon the land. Suffice to say, we must do our best Dylan Thomas imitation and rage, rage, rage. Happy Days A fictional complaint
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Follow the Yellow Brick Road Down the Rabbit Hole as We Make the Way by...
Breaking smart is what happens when improvisation meets ‘oooopsortunity’ at a roundabout. What I am doing with the rest of this post is showing our work. I don’t think we make enough of the profound...
View ArticleTrailblazing with Doc Searls
I just got access to a Chrome extension called ‘Trailblazer.io’. It is tool for blazing your public Internet trails as you make them. In this case I took a Doc Searls post, Pile o’Links, and just...
View ArticleYouTube, Vialogues, and Screencasting: PROFESSIONAL | PERSONAL | PEDAGOGICAL...
I am presenting on Thursday evening to the WKU Writing Project Spring Conference about using some handy tools for personal, professional, and pedagogical reflection. All of these tools were tested and...
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Showing My Work OR The Fruits of HOMAGOSO...
I shoulda done more in last week’s pop-up MOOC with Joe Dillon, but I can’t beat myself up too much because out of last week’s work with memes/gifs and political candidates arose classroom work with…...
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Transplendance
We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows. Frost Transcendence Uploaded by TERRY ELLIOTT on 2016-04-29. the eternal burlesque, the transcendance, the...
View ArticleImprovisational Translation on a Wet May Day in Derby Week
I was inspired by this video: Making of Japanese handmade paper of Kyoto Kurotani Japanese handmade paper of Kyoto Kurotani kurotaniwashi.jp Film by Kuroyanagi Takashi vimeo.com/user20501044 Music by...
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Function Follows Form Follows Funky Fun
Simon posted an intriguing image on his blog this morning. He called it a blank page, but you can see it is far from blank. It is a canvas. Perhaps a field with metes and bounds to be surveyed or...
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Liminal Thinking and Ziggurats of Understanding
Caulfield’s argument in favor of David Gray’s “liminal thinking” is very appealing but emotionally and cognitively a big leap. Why should we spend our time and our social capital clamboring up...
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The Genius of PJ Harvey, John Donne and Daniel Bassill
I dedicate this post to John Donne, PJ Harvey and Daniel Bassill. I posted yesterday in a fit of confusion. I think that was my point. I wanted to share how fine the line is between noise and signal....
View ArticleKQED Teach
KQED Teach KQED Teach is a fun and social online learning platform for educators to improve their media literacy skills KQED has been committed to helping teachers and learners for as long as I can...
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The Whole World Is A DJ
I ran across this quote reading a forum here on how to keep your mixes from getting booted off Soundcloud. The whole world is a DJ In the context of that forum the point was that the tools are...
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Daniel’s Touch
Daniel Bassill is one cool mapmaking daddio. Here is his latest outlining all the groups he has touched in July. The sheer breadth of this breathtaking. Remember this is groups, not individuals. I...
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