The relevant quote. In plague times it doesn't matter what your profession is--it all went bang and boom.

Nice, new genre. Fit that right next to cli-fi.

This sounds like a 21st century skill par excellente

This is Rao's flex--he connects the unconnected. It is a great mental model. He did the same thing with Ricky Gervaise and The Office

To generate value, you have to decide how something is valuable to you. If you are working in a network/institution/job, those values are largely preset. This invitation to connect via annotation is about as value neutral as possible. It is of value to you, right, and you define that.

My values here?

1. understand and apply a new term in a new context
2. discover a good Internet rabbit hole
3. share with others why I value certain annotated text
4. to reciprocate
5. to find others who like to reciprocate

You can share my values if you like or you can lay out your own in a page note or respond to this page note.

Facts. But are they accurate facts? what is left out when you state the facts?

Now it's capital T.

Another way into the poem is to look at what Dickinson wants to pay attention to because of repetition. The "t's" for example in the first line. Tell, truth (lower case!),tell,it slant

Also this is advice to the poet, but remember she is telling this truth (lower case) to us slant so we need to be careful about jumping to conclusions about what the truth is.

Success /Circuit: repetition of s and soft c in an echo. Iambic af.

One stance to have is to be aware of Dickinson's metacognitive journey in most poems. So...what is D's overarching point about poetry as a craft, as a vehicle, as a way of being and knowing?

Dunno why. Am reminded of this quote-- “An eye for an eye will leave the whole world blind.” Ghandi

Well...she does point to this as her occupation, what she is occupied with. So fun. She is occupied and she occupies. Noun and verb. She is occupied by possibility and she occupies that possibility.

I love the term "adjacent possible" as applied to poetry. Here is Stuart Kaufman's definition and Steven Johnson's application in his book Where Good Ideas Come From. In poetry the adjacent possible is metaphor. Poets like Dickinson play the metagame by jamming house next to poetry. What sparks fly when you do that? Can they help you fly?

I=eye? This possibility didn't occur to me until I heard the reading by Al.

This is an example of one of the 'possibilities' Miss D mentions. She uses a simile that the house's chambers, inner rooms, are possibly rooms but tree-like, cedar like. Maybe an adjacent mention of the Cedars of Lebanon.

Never hurts to flatter the reader.

And this is what I do, this is what poets do: we gather Paradise. Again a reference to Blake's invocation in "Milton."

I use this invocation every morning when I write. It is the adjacent possibility of the creative act and I dwell in it to draw power from it and I advise you to share it with me:

O Muse, Come into my hand by your mild power descending down the Nerves of my right arm, from out of the Portal of my brain where by your ministry the Eternal Great Humanity Divine planted his Paradise.

The gambrels are the trusses that hold up the everlasting roof and they, the gambrels, are "of" the sky. The sky holds itself up forever and a day. The hint that the gambrels might refer to a horse's rear legs is interesting. Perhaps the idea that poetry is alive, kinetic, and awake unlike the static house of prose.

We all know that the roof is the most vulnerable part of any house once the foundation has been established. Only the house of poetry has an everlasting roof.

Unseen. Unable to be "breeched" is what impregnable meant early on from the French. Question: why is it important for us to know that these poetic chambers cannot be seen? Makes them special. Makes poetry special. That seems a bit infantile as an argument.

Also might be a play of wit: you cannot breach what you cannot see. You cannot come to know what you cannot see. Or perhaps Dickinson is arguing that prose is so plebeian as to believe that what you cannot see does not exist where poetry makes clearer what is impregnable to eye.

Here is a poem that fits Dickinson's, Pattiann Rogers' "In Order To Perceive"

Here is a really spot on journal article that addresses why poetry and metaphor might be superior to prose: "A Fairer House than Prose: Poetry, Science, and the Metaphors that Bind".

I think the references to Ricoeur and Lakoff/Turner/Johnson are apt and useful as well as practical.

She judges that poetry's possibilities are better that Prose's certitudes. In "Proverbs of Heaven and Hell" Blake wrote a similar axiom: The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

In what sense fairer? Shakespeare does this ambiguity thing: fair as in beauty or fair as in business or neither or something else?

The possibility of Archimedes with his lever and fulcrum, ""Give me a place to stand on, and I will move the earth." Begs the question which is Dickinson, the lever or the fulcrum. Is the poem the lever? Is the poet the fulcrum? And what is being moved?

Blake and Dickinson connnected throught the "ancient of days"

Reminds me of Blake's invocation at the beginning of "Milton"

Come into my hand

By your mild power; descending down the Nerves of my right arm From out the Portals of my Brain, where by your ministry The Eternal Great Humanity Divine planted his Paradise,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baE6nF37bSI

taking in not taking from.

This abstraction doesn't work for me.

peer through that sweet splash peer through its sweet splash sing through that sweet splash.

Just experiment toward the concrete and see if it works better. If not, do whatevs.

Love the tentative rhythm and intent that seems to imply maybe never.

Reminded of the contrariness of the story of the prodigal son. The goal is not to disagree, but rather just to be.

Didn't John Berryman have a series of poems about a 'mad farmer'? Or maybe he was just a mad poet.

Notice all the caesuras in the poem?

karmic

Berry has an extraordinary unfinished way of ending this poem with a voice that is high and then low, "one" and then "way" and which is another iconoclastic bombastic Truth.

No truer words than the realization that we are the sum of our destinies and the gods who has driven us mad.

Today is August 30, 2021:

'tis a poor sign

for planting.

The stars are in Gemini,

the arms.

Just weed and cut and dock and castrate

now

or not.

Who the hell is the mad poet

and farmer of words,

you

or some rubbish Muse?

I thought so.

Echoes of Amen.

resonates with stage directions

Hilarious half-rhyme of contrariness and inheritance, worthy of someone rapping off the dome.

Don't forget to listen to Berry.

Directions

The sheer gall of me offering directions to reading a Wendell Berry poem. Just enjoy, you are immune from guilt or shame when you approach the poem with same creative play that Berry intends. Get messy or go away.

This is a valid metaphor for sharing with older voters.

Why should the rich take this leap of faith. What they believe in is Mammon, not mutual aid.

Recycling the failed terms of the Republican part seems a dead headed approach.

This seems secondary here. I thing it is primary.

https://youtu.be/YhELpSeeipg

I think that one of the hidden issues with social annotation is that it is not quite social enough. It cannot bridge the final mile of personal connection. What I mean is that there are lots of non-automatic actions that have to happen before the poet gets to look at the rhizome we have grown. It is an alive thing, that its poet/mama doesn't even know exists.

This shared set of directions makes me happy.

Here's some more resources.

I am not sure why my user experience drew me to her explication after I had read it aloud.

So much depends upon a poem glazed with rain water scuffed from oblivion.

#nwpstudio

As opposed to an "even" poem?

Even poem : haiku :: Odd poem: __

Make sure you check my notes on the Flickr pic.

What are we doing here? Socially noting this marvelous poem. Filtering it through our own experiences in whatever idiosyncratic manner that seems apt.

This process of moving toward the "why" is very idiosyncratic, very personal. And it is manifold not monolithic. I move through many reasons "why" I write. At one point in my life it was how I made my living. Now it is more a way of surfing a creative crest. The reason why we write must emerge from the writer. We can waste a lot of time and talent by pruning away adjacent possibilities by suggesting that there are not an unlimited variety of "whys" for writing.

We must help them discover why others write and how that might be a way toward writing. Writing is too chaotic an act to think that a reasonable explanation might be enough to get young 'uns to adopt it is as a way of acting in the world. I have always been astonished by how few of my students to adopt Richard Rhodes' advice: words are like a life rope. Or that words are like trim tabs. Or that writing is a creative vehice that can carry them a mile a minute down the road.

Begs the question: why stagnant? and what do we mean by stagnant? like swamp water? These kinds of water are often the most full of life:turtles, single celled creatures, salamanders, leeches...

The idea here is to share notes, ideas, directions, stories, experiences with explaining why we write. And we want to comment on the author's purposes. Empathy with purpose and audience might also be helpful. In other words, how might we share this empathic point of view: explaining why we write.

Create more page notes if you want to add to or correct the general instructions in this note. Write your own dang instructions.

I agree that local mentor texts are the best, if you can find them. Not many rural mentor texts.

Start with student self-curation using analog versions of hypothes.is (paragraphs on half sheets of paper with plenty of room for sharing). Move on to Hypothes.is or NowComment to do digital annotation.

There is no way to even make this count in my brain. I can't account this. Nope.

Writing is essential to thinking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krHMryvxcX8

No, the finance metaphor is so fraught with capital and considerations of the bottom line that I really buck against this. Writing at its best has never been about using it as a currency. It is not BitCoin.

Are our skills a pool of whiskey? Hell, why not.

Classic understatement as rhetorical..

The essential question: where is the class conflict that should be central to a wildly unequal such as this?

I am thinking about that. There is no way to build wealth in the middle class--the class-based party system no longer works for these folks. Remember $7.50/hour for working couples only gets you to $15/hour. And why do people forget to lop 30% off the top of that at least for all the taxes that middle class folks pay (sales, FICA, Medicare, state, local)

I looked this up and have begun a conversation here using Hypothes.is: https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwid.world%2Fdocument%2Fbrahmin-left-versus-merchant-right-changing-political-cleavages-in-21-western-democracies-1948-2020-world-inequality-lab-wp-2021-15%2F&group=__world__

Here is the Comparative Manifesto Project website.

1In India’s traditional caste system, upper castes were divided into Brahmins (priests, intellectuals) and Kshatryas/Vaishyas (warriors, merchants, tradesmen), a division thatmodern political conflicts in Western democracies therefore seemto followto some extent.

I have no idea what this means. Here is Wikipedia to the rescue (if you can trust that source): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylized_fact#:~:text=In%20social%20sciences%2C%20especially%20economics,have%20inaccuracies%20in%20the%20detail.

Like the institution of slavery, Jim Crow, the new Jim Crow for African Americans?

I love this term. As opposed to "economic populism"? Or do they come together some way?

Defined

F. Alvaredo, L. Chancel, T. Piketty, E. Saez, and G. Zucman, World Inequality Report 2018 (Harvard University Press, 2018)

I came here from Remi Kalir's comments on his article. I expected to see some comments from him here, but maybe later.

Wanted to "translate" your opening quote from Rebecca Solnit here. Or maybe recontextualize.

I suggest that the real power of annotation is not necessarily with academia. We need to go beyond academics and find ways to engage with others outside. For example, I have tried to engage Matt Taibbi on his substack article: https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftaibbi.substack.com%2Fp%2Fcongratulations-elitists-liberals&group=__world__

Gotta love the alliteration, but more than that I appreciate how Matt gives us a dense set of concrete examples from The Daily Beast.

I tried to create a Google ngram using Putin "apologist" and red baiting, but got nothing for Putin apologist. Instead I used useful idiot and red baiting. Here is the result: https://www.screencast.com/t/xQqJvJ0nA

There is a website called, "Journalisming is a Verb".

I can hear them responding when anyone pushes back, "I was just asking" and then "Can't you take a joke?" Who writes these headlines anyway?

In case you didn't know here is a definition.

And here is one I hadn't heard of, an alt to horseshoe, the fish hook.

Or to take it to its humorous extreme, the pretzel theory:

1917 not 1937, but I can't imagine there would be much difference.

The mistranslation of Kentucke. Here is a site that explores the myth of Kentucke as meaning "dark and bloody ground"

Bio of James Still

Why the old spelling?

I was a big Cincinnati Reds fan growing up. this guy was part of what the broadcasters called "The Big Red Machine". I think one year they set the record for total wins or came close to it. This guy was part of that era. I felt a pang of sadness.

Here is the place for awe-inspiring numbers.

Browser extension for fetching and formatting Hypothes.is annotations into markdown bullet points, ready for copying into Roam, Notion or similar apps.

Here are our annotations so far fetched by Fetch:

• Muse Matters

  • Source: https://impedagogy.com/wp/blog/2021/03/19/muse-matters/

    • ^^Please respond in any way you wish to the blog post. I will take our responses and share them in another blog post as well as use the responses for remix, sharing, and other creative uses. Please tag your responses if it seems appropriate.^^
      • Muse
    • ^^Reminded of Chapter 11 in The Odyssey: I am likely going to retire this year and I find resonance in this as it appears that I will be accepting a "voluntary" buyout at the end of this fiscal year. My long sea journey, 25 years worth in teaching, will be officially over. Hence...the appeal to propitiate the gods, to let all the pain go, to ask forgiveness of the implacable Poseidon. ^^
      • then convert that
    • "then have them convert that"
      • describe how you might go about creating a poem, short story, or play from the blog post. 
    • ^^I am always a little surprised by how few students choose this option. I should ask them. ^^

I am always a little surprised by how few students choose this option. I should ask them.

"then have them convert that"

Reminded of Chapter 11 in The Odyssey:

I am likely going to retire this year and I find resonance in this as it appears that I will be accepting a "voluntary" buyout at the end of this fiscal year. My long sea journey, 25 years worth in teaching, will be officially over. Hence...the appeal to propitiate the gods, to let all the pain go, to ask forgiveness of the implacable Poseidon.

Please respond in any way you wish to the blog post. I will take our responses and share them in another blog post as well as use the responses for remix, sharing, and other creative uses.

Please tag your responses if it seems appropriate.

Am I missing the link somewhere in plain sight?

These are values worth the money and time to inculcate, are they not?

https://youtu.be/sdQCPlAZjbY

Hypothes.is and close reading are synonymous. But the idea of "response" as a concept is utterly changed by this social annotation software. Like using the video response below.

https://youtu.be/VlGCxMDEknk

Or this:

Or this:

https://soundcloud.com/hugo-kant/sets/the-point-of-no-return

I know exactly what you mean. My experience? There are very few tools worth adopting for the long haul, ones that repay the time invested. Hypothes.is is a worthwhile investment of time and talent. I would not advocate for its use to my students if I did not think it was a net gain in the brain.

definitions not clear or carefully written, for example, the left.

bad motivations for writing imlied

Who is at greatest risk for job disruption? According to Brookings and Stanford it is: men, white and Asian-American workers, and midcareer professionals

Big bucks and growing.

Yes, the sociopathy of no empathy. From Biden all the way down...

Astonishing chain of logic

https://www.wsj.com/articles/software-bots-multiply-to-cope-with-stretched-resources-11611615504

cheap, easy to use and compatible with their existing back-end systems.

cutting jobs not improving working conditions--yes, too true when bottom line thinking is king.

Companies big into "robotic process automation"

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/05/technology/workplace-ai.html

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41571-020-0329-7

https://images.law.com/contrib/content/uploads/documents/397/5408/lawgeex.pdf

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2019/10/08/wells-fargo-predicts-that-robots-will-steal-200000-banking-jobs-within-the-next-10-years/?sh=50f3cabb68d7

[site something thatbots are doing in rhetcomp that might mean the beginning of the end

The chatbots are coming for me and my job.

Just a fantastic template to use for my blog/newsletter.

Why use Reddit?

None of my friends have stopped a train.

This is a poem about power.

We were watching through the vegetation.

My brother and I were in a nearby ditch on our bellies hiding and not breathing so as to remain hidden.

I never would have guessed this.

I know my students want more than courses, more than Carnegie units, more than what I give them. Every once in awhile something shines through. Learners want paths with mad skills to help them get through, to shine through, to bore through the pandemic, the climate debacle, the ongoing extinction event. It is hard to argue for general education in the face of an extinction event that is happening NOW! Nero fiddles, the orchestra on the Titanic plays a waltz, and we offer courses.

Maybe and morosely, Howard Beale is still right after over 40 years:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGIY5Vyj4YM&ab_channel=KingstonHomeless

Or if you want a model for how we might all just wing it, listen to The Boss improvise here with his band and 50,000 people. Now that's a fucking Pandemic University:

https://youtu.be/L-Ds-FXGGQg

My response/translation: https://rumble.com/vdcrp3-you-never-know.html

You guys interested in little nitpicky correction suggestions? If so, I have a few.

https://youtu.be/LM8JhvfoqdA

I made a copy of this and I wlll get rid of Bellingcat's links because, you know, Bellingcat is a CIA cutout.

Crazy how so many Western media outlets treat @Bellingcat as a reliable, independent source without mentioning that it receives ample funding from Western states & cutouts. A UK gov't agency even privately noted that BC is "somewhat discredited." https://t.co/RsCKOto2Ns

— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) December 15, 2020

BTW, this is a nice interface for sharing.

Whoa! Super organized site with lots of ways to find these little apps.

One of my fav toppings is to use Google Forms. Sheets is integrated completely there. In fact this is practically my only use case for google sheets so I am grateful for discussion of add-ons and other uses.

Use case #1. How might I use it? How might others use it?

Why do you use a sprinkling of icons in your newsletter. I really like it.

For me the key is use cases within my discipline--teaching and how students can use them. I don't like to teach stuff that won't reap students dividends in productivity, learning, sharing, gathering info effectively, time saving.

delete "a"

An imperative, but is the assertion true? If I compare this hope to the treacly hope of politicians (Obama comes to mind), then I think it is right to assert this. Berry's hope is 'grown=ass human" hope.

Echo of the Lord's Prayer.

This is what Scott calls legibility.

Too true. We start with a common humanity. That's why I teach humanities: writing, research, literature and all the tools needed to understand humanity.

n

Do you keep the promises you have made and lay them up against your daily actions to see how they square? Is this what we mean by ethics and reflection?

Is Ortiz talking about a promise made or about the promise implied by our very identity, our very selves.

We (meaning, just plain media jills and joes) do not stand a chance of getting on a soapbox much less speaking in this media maelstrom.

Hence the ever increasing importance of books like Nick Sousanis' Unflattening.

and promptly describes one solution--unflattening.

Here is Sousanis' blog. Worth every minute.

Do we see this in the margins of tools like Hypothes.is? Is every annotation indistinct and homogenous? At least with an outline you get an idea of the hierarchy of thoughts. With the "tray" in Hypothes.is. Or do some forms predominate. For example, is a video more weighty because of its use of image and sound and text? I think this content collapse turns the Hypothes.is tray into a stack, all the same. I reckon that means we have to assign our own weights. Can we do that using tags.

Fast forward three score and more years. What does that menaced look like now? End of empire, failed state, apocalypse--is this what it looks like now. Is this the best we could have done given almost 70 years since Baldwin wrote this? I find we have even less vision now than then. Surely, exponentially less hope. Again, what good is reform when what is needed is a revolution.

This phrase applies to us all. Baldwin speaks of black children here learning about who and how oppression is represented in their lives. The idea that oppression has a shape to be discovered reminds me of this:

There is a difference. The shape of oppression actively brutalizes the one who is touching it. And DuBois would argue that it shapes the one who is oppressing as well.

I marvel that many of us even got work given that the Socratic attitude is anathema to being "civilized" or socialized in the conventional ways Baldwin suggests.

Is Baldwin talking educational reform or revolution?

To play devil's gadfly here, what could motivate me, older/white privileged dude, to give up his meal ticket and his family's meal ticket in order to "go for broke" for James Baldwin? Abstractions don't work for me. Solidarity comes close, but it is still a teflon ball, doesn't stick.

Here's a resource for understanding this idiomatic expression.

(Too bad you can't embed very much in these annotation boxes.)

too many adverbs, too many words

I think this makes this fall in the category of values. What do we value that we want to be drawn toward in the future. Feedforward.

How To Write This Poem

begin here …with TIME

where words

are layered with text

where the pen

etches into screen …

then go here …

(https://www.vialogues.com/vialogues/play/61205)

… only to leap from one place

to another,

where my mind goes

I hardly every know,

only that it ventures forward …

(https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/How-to-Read-a-Poem-by-me--A9AH3OSbHZqKqxia0PQOSa1~Ag-pHyO4XNCl1aIq4KoX22Be)

… heard by hearts,​​

and scattered stars,

​​where I see the sky fall,​​

you find the debris …

our thoughts.

(https://nowcomment.com/documents/234044)

Might we be permitted them?

The dragonfly

rarely yields her ground

to the critics among

us.

Kevin's Response

How To Write This Poem

begin here …with TIME

where words

are layered with text

where the pen

etches into screen …

then go here … https://www.vialogues.com/vialogues/play/61205

... only to leap from one place to another, where my mind goes I hardly every know, only that it ventures forward ...

https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/How-to-Read-a-Poem-by-me--A9AH3OSbHZqKqxia0PQOSa1~Ag-pHyO4XNCl1aIq4KoX22Be

… heard by hearts, ​​and scattered stars, ​​where I see the sky fall, ​​you find the debris …. ​​https://nowcomment.com/documents/234044

Your thoughts?

Do you have a bookshelf? What percentage of the books that you own are paper and what digital?

I haven't even spoken of rhythm. Each of the last three lines has three syllables. I don't know why. Explicating rhythm is so difficult for me. As a poet I don't articulate it often to myself. Mostly, I step back and hold the line in abeyance. I needed something with weight at the end to serve as an anchor for the flexing light and heat of the rest of the poem. What better image than the dragonfly, the top of the foodchain insect predator on my farm.

And predacious is exactly the sound and sight of them flying commando next to me on a tractor as I mow a field.

Almost ended the poem here, but that muscular, flexing I spoke of above really attracted me. The meteor and minnow skipping on the surface. Implied here are the images of fingers.

I am drawn to the minnow metaphor, the meteor metaphor, the ardent heart making words do more and better, to carry more with less and less.

A catalyzing agent encourages two to get together as one, the physical "fire" of a book--how it fits into our senses as real-- and the abstract--its content of words, sentences, paragraphs that re+mind us to turn and re+turn to them for warmth and purpose. All fires are practical and useful.

I adore the assonant fit of ardent and heart. I keep a copy of the OED handy, a digital version. My paper copy is at school. Ardent comes from the Old French verb "ardere". The OED mentions "ardent spirits". The word has slowly and inexorably shifted from concrete toward the abstract--just like the poem where the books move form concrete, physical things toward the abstract and toward me. Re+mind and re+turn both make us consider physical moves. Like dance, a perfect entanglement of concrete and abstract.

I thought about using "fireflies" or "lightning bugs" instead of meteors. I still might. I just liked the idea of a paragraph flashing across the sky, a spectacle of wow burning up in the sky.

Then I thought about another kind of bright, the silvery flash of minnows, a-leap as they are chased by larger fish, in the morning light. Passionate and seeking safety, burning to survive. I feel something animal in the poem flexing its muscles. And that word--minnow, something very like ...well, I don't know. The word fits for me emotionally.

A physical container for ideas and words--paragraphs. Are we crossing over into abstraction and metaphor. Yes. Metaphor in the original Greek meant "to carry over". That is what I am trying to do, carry the reader over from their world to mine, a world of magic in text.

More physical imagery. When they are lit they give off heat and light, but the word "blaze" above, with its ambiguity, should give a strong hint that I am doing more than create a sensorium even as important as we all think of that--the touch, smell/taste, sight, sound, and heft of books.

More physical images to accent the sheer physical power of books. And then...light and heat as if on fire.

Re+turn should bring to mind re+turn. Hidden under this is the argument I am making for physical books. I have been walking by my bookshelves for thirty years, turning toward them over and over again like compass needle to north. They are my lodestone even though for many they would be an albatross. Have you ever picked up a box full of encyclopedias? Yeah, dense with epistemologies.

This word is ambiguous. It has several meanings. This is what poet thinking is all about for me--subverting the routine. First, the word is about fire, right, but if you have every looked at my posts (count on two hands my very fine viewership) you know that I write about trail blazes. I want the word to be a fork and to mean both of these simultaneously. My poems are designed to carry a lot of freight. What do you think about ambiguity?

What ethical blazes have books kindled in you? Most poetry tries to freshen the language. Most poets are work necromancers. They bring what is routine and everyday back into clear and plain air. This is called a metaphor. Values don't really burn, but I am trying to conjure up a feeling here where what we believes has the intensity of a fire. I am trying to do that with a few words and not a lot like here. Maybe poetry is all about translation and summary put together. What do you think poetry is supposed to be or do?

What do you love? What values do you live by?

For me, I have books that remind me that there was a reason that moved back to the land over 30 years ago. One of my books is A Continuous Harmony by Wendell Berry. Here is a recent reading from that book where I talk about my values. Books remind of these values.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAra-yL45hs&t=87s

Have you ever thought about the word re+mind? To "mind" again? What does that mean? Poetry is meant to de-cliche words and expression. That is a mental model to keep in mind as you remind yourself with this filter in mind.

Use Hypothes.is to annotate the poem. I have seeded the poem with questions and comments that you can reply to.

https://youtu.be/EkOmaLlXiVs

Instructions for navigating page and for working with the poem.

1) Read the poem and annotate with Hypothes.is

2) Listen to a recording of the poet performing the poem. Respond in Hypothes.is

3) Read our discussion of the poem in Hypothes.is

4) Then join others reflecting on what others say.

Big mistake making empathy and rationality as two points on a linear scale.

This is wrong. Empathy is rational. It makes logical sense for example to empathize with your reader if you are a writer. Seeing the world through their eyes makes the writing better for them. Logical, yes?

Yeah, not really caring about the free riders. What a bunch of losers they are. And when it comes to applying what they learned, they well and truly, aren't they.

How can I do this, too? We shall see. However we might measure, it must be something that is simple and sustainable over an entire semester or school year.

Too true. Too often we label learners as "at-risk" or "underachieving" or "underprepared" when we really should be looking at their "assets" (although I despise the adoption of finance metaphors to human beings). Maybe fortes or blessings might be better.

I work with my students from this assumption. How do I measure the quality of their learning networks? Are their social networks the same as their learning networks? What combination of bridging, bonding, weak, strong connections are best for each student. Definitely not one size fits all.

Makes me think about Dave Snowden and the kinds of "networking" stories that we need to be gathering from our students. I ask students to reflect each week on their research work, perhaps part of the reflective work each week should be a reflection on who they gathered information from.

Points to how carefully we must approach the "naming" of phenomena. Applies also to the measuring as well. I am not opposed to measuring,but we have to be just as careful that what we are measuring actually points to some causative pulse/event/thing. Really unfortunate that the connotations inherent in "Weak" and "Strong" are so overwhelming emotionally.

A different kind of nothing? A something that looks like nothing?

a form of forgetting what we never knew?

https://youtu.be/VFPBf1AZOQg

Money talks, bullshit walks? Listen to Brother Randy. Your call.

https://youtu.be/-3HoMOmoxzU

implied word here is "riches", but a different kind of rich. As she says later--hunger, cold, no privacy.

Hinting already that the word 'privilege' is a fucking minefield, a different mine for a different class of privilege, but all quite harmful.

Yeah but wouldn't you rather be comfortable? Comfortable in your privilege Uncomfortable in your privilege

on whose terms? What I mean was this an assigned essay for a class that was evaluated and judged 'failing'? Or was this a failed understanding of what privileged means?

I don't mean to trivialize this, but I can resist thinking of this scene in The Big Lebowski

Careful, there's a beverage here man.

It seems everyone in this movie could define themselves as 'marginal' or marginalized. Margin and center are spatial. Without one you could not have the other. One person's margin is another's center. Where does this leave us?

Here's something to share from the margins--George Carlin. Like Carlin, we in the margins need is to crash into the open and yoke academic power (good ideas, clearly expressed, and openly political) to systemic change. Open education seems too tame to do that. Prove me wrong.

https://youtu.be/Nyvxt1svxso

Here's another question:

Why does the open education movement seem unable to break through their margins to take on the man?

I do not understand this.

What if, like me, they are voices considered to be in the center, assumed to be full of while privilege, not on the margins and not wanting to imagine much less create alternative, new worlds? I would argue that as an adjunct, someone over 65, and a farmer at the end of a half-mile hollar, that I am mos def on someone's damned margins. And who's to say otherwise.

John Seely Brown even talks about how the margins of open education create their own margins:

Open source communities have developed a well-established path by which newcomers can “learn the ropes” and become trusted members of the community through a process of legitimate peripheral participation. New members typically begin participating in an open source community by working on relatively simple, noncritical development projects such as building or improving software drivers (e.g., print drivers). As they demonstrate their ability to make useful contributions and to work in the distinctive style and sensibilities/taste of that community, they are invited to take on more central projects. Those who become the most proficient may be asked to join the inner circle of people working on the critical kernel code of the system. Today, there are about one million people engaged in developing and refining open source products, and nearly all are improving their skills by participating in and contributing to these networked communities of practice.

(Seely Brown, John, and R. P. Adler. “Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0.” Educause Review, vol. 43, no. 1, 2008, pp. 16–20.)

So... if the margin can also be the center, then who and what is at the margin of this marginalized center? I suspect I am there. So who is at my margins and what are they countering? This map is an undiscovered territory.

This is a rather large island. We have a map to the side called a Table of Contents. I am sure there is hidden treasure, but I don't have a map. Where shall I start?

Everything about this begs for this to be annotated here.

First, the title says for us to "open at the margins". It is an imperative, a command. And sure enough, there is a tool that opens at the margins.

Second, Pressbooks is designed to be opened at the margins with Hypothes.is.

Third, this is where the conversation begins if that is what the authors and editors want. So often we say we want a discourse, we want to share, but we don't do the extra work that now needs doing. It is as if the gardener planted the seeds and walked away from the hard work that Voltire advocated for at the end of Candide: cultivating these gardens.

https://youtu.be/-DROkQJc_F0

FAscinating how infrequently the authors join in to the margins. Why is that? Some might consider it a snub. There are all manner of issues that arise when authors don't reciprocate. Dishonorable?

One very important video annotation tool is missing: vialogues.com This tool has been around for nearly a decade and is served by Columbia University. I hope it never deprecates. It is awesome. Why don't more people know about it?

Sooundeth worthy.

Sooner. Yes, sooner.

If it is a contract, it is one of "adhesion" and not enforceable.

Learning grows from the soil of mutual aid. Creativity is only expressed within communities. Creative expression comes through collaboration.

Summed up correctly and fairly? I ask a question of my community. Can anyone help me.