It happens over here, too. There's a really horrible anti-foreigner comic that circulated here a year ago that I dug up today. Just as offensive as it was when I saw it last year.

I saw this in the video, too. Thankfully, I really haven't been exposed to this kind of thing.

These crack me up.

Exactly, refers to my previous point about creating their own memes from their own lives.

Of course, here, memes are mainly shared via wechat, and they are usually put into emoji form or as gifs but otherwise convey messages the exact same way as an Instagram post, etc. Lately, people use photos or videos of their own lives, turn them into labeled gifs to share.

I know you're probably tired of hearing about this, but I'm in lots of online groups that share martial arts memes, and I think they're hilarious. Some of them are also mean-spirited, sort of that dark Louis C.K. type of humor, too. That is a very clear affinity space.

I have noticed with the high level competitors I train with, that there is a powerful on-off switch in which they emotionally de-personalize the competition. I have never really been able to do that.

This reminds me of the Couros book we read in the last TIP class, when he said you have to innovate "inside the box"; meaning, develop and innovate within the parameters you are given. I see this a lot with the sports I watch. When someone develops a new strategy or technique, he/she has an advantage over everyone else until they catch up.

This reminds me of the Couros book we read in our last TIP class, that you can innovate "inside the box." Meaning, even if there are rules and parameters, people can innovate to varying degrees. I notice this a lot with the sports I watch. They evolve in real time, and when a new strategy or technique appears, the one who has developed it has an advantage over others, until they catch up.

Larsen-Freeman wrote an interesting chapter about Systems Theory when studying English as a Lingua Franca (what I study), showing that it's hard to parse out specific aspects of language or literacy or study because everything is affected by everything else. That was a helpful concept for me to give perspective.

I still cringe at how, can I say, Anglo-American-centric my teaching (and general attitude) were when I first got here.

I love these different types of conceptualizing broken down. Interesting.

As George Couros said if you use technology this way, a laptop just becomes a $1000 dollar replacement for pen and paper. It's not the technology itself. It's how you use it.

Modern and historical, no?

I think it's really interesting that they included "space" as a mode. How would that be manifested? Proximity? Environment? Atmosphere? I suppose all of the above. It always surprises me that, when out in public, personal space is really nonexistent here; however, when you get inside and around familiar people, the "rules" of personal space seems to go back to "normal" (whatever that is).

This one struck me because, when I first got to China, I really didn't know a single word of Chinese. So, I became incredibly proficient in gestures and body language to get my point across. Part of what I study in English as a Lingua Franca is how people use multilingual, multimodal repertoires to communicate however they can. Gestures can be incredibly expressive.

Yes, I browse sports memes a lot. They can be so funny and so REAL.

This will allow my inner geek to come out?