They are not about citizenship. Citizenship is about duty and obligation, one to the other. It's like being an EMT--you can't just "treat" the ones you like. All or none. Either we are all citizens or eventually we will all be prisoners.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6OFL5xY3aM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk97KgC_XMw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBW0ScWx0P4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6OFL5xY3aM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk97KgC_XMw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBW0ScWx0P4

Here is an image annotation tool to share a discussion about the art here? ANd by sharing I mean asking questions, answering questions, observing, generalizing...the full catastrophe.

BTW, what should be the end results of this conversation? A collaborative transcript and reflection? Begin with the end in mind or just grow the result like a crystal?

An article tailored exactly to social annotation, yet the crickets blare their silence. We are called by Byrne to attend, but I can't see any comments. This is one of the most serious problems with online life--we live in a zero sum 'attention" world. There is only so much to go around, but that attention is neither honored when lavished or respectfully asked for. We invite people to attend (or at least Byrne did) and we do not attend or at least not for very long. And what happens to the products of attention once they have been given? I think that the person who asks us to look is duty bound to make sense in some way, to curate the responses into something genuine. The responses should not be allowed to just languish in the margins. I find the digital "look at me, look at me" attention culture we live in is...shallow and devious. Is the time I just spent here, is the attention and energy I just gave justified by the request to be here? It might be. It is a paying forward of Byrne's worthy writing, but I want it to mean something more than that ethical and intrinsic value. I want the question to be a quest.

adjacent possible?

Now this is a fascinating possibility, texting for some is an almost direct oral crossover from speech where you hit enter "everytime you would have taken a breath"

While I found your attempts to include me as a virtual participant, if I had not insisted, I would not have been included. And Digital Pedagogy Lab was not particularly inclusive nor were the other f2f participants in the channels that were available to me. In fact I felt that my marginal questions were considered invasions of the space, subversions of their private and closely held conversations. Could I have tried harder? Of course, but the ignoring, the not listening and the inevitable silencing of this white male was felt as well

What is an open online space? In a world where half of the world does not own a cell phone, what definition of "open" and "online" even makes sense?

Why is this so? Responsibility is a heavy word.

put in my Tweetdeck rotation.

my fav

Yes, I do.

ephemeral experiments

Is paper a realm? Have never thought of it that way. Every medium is a realm? Is it helpful analytically to make this distinction? Similarly, it is helpful to make the same distinction between digital and not digital?

Who's he?

Here is the link to the Wikipedia article on Meulaboh.

Z

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyH0lmP4N7Y

Glad he addresses the corollary to the first myth: work smarter not harder. I...despise...that expression. Substitutes one boomer value for another.

What matters?

changing human lives for the better

really giving

affirming and improving life

A lot of vaguery here. Let us get specific on this Hackpad.

How doing something that matters matters. Well, put and very humble. I love the one that says, "If in matters it won't kill you."

Amen. "Hard work" is one of those powerfully foolish abstract nouns. Don't let it hold sway.

Millenial experience as opposed to Boomer values. Be a flaneur

https://vimeo.com/19873779

If you do a cursory look up of the word it is wide ranging across many disciplines--in more general terms, a recapitulation is a mapping.

Imagine that. Cool.

Feedback and assessment. Is this another one of those false binaries? I'd argue not. The latter is what the USDA does in a meat packing plant. The former is what a chef might do if she could advise her lamb provider how to grow a better quality lamb for her restaurant clients. Yeah, I know, that feedback doesn't exist. I don't think assessment is moving in another direction unless it moves toward feedback and away from ...assessment.

This is the best advice of all. How often do we advise students on the emotional temper that we need to have when we write? Shouldn't that be part of any "template", the emotional design?

This binary is the bane of our profession. It's all process and its all product. Is this a distinction without a difference?

I know this is what we do as teachers...we design. We construct 'safe' environments for students. Up to a certain age I think the only skin in the game that learners should have is what they decide to ante up themselves, their passion for learning, no grades just observations. But at some point, they gotta eat some dirt. I am not for throwing kids in the deep end (see this week's This American Life: http://goo.gl/NfuhNo) but that scaffolding has got to come down at some point and their ladders have to come out. It may be a weak analogy, but they have to get strong. Tools like Troy Hicks MAPS are just that, a tool. There are others. Like weight training regimen, most of them work until they don't. Why? Because we don't make them our own. It is somebody else's template. And that is fine up to a point. I can rarely get folks to agree with me on this, but in the end learning must be personal and mostly idiosyncratic. And by that I don't mean that all learners are iconoclasts but rather that all learners worthy of that name have their own style, angle, strategies, and reasons. You must move past the intentional design to an internal design that is you, unique as your voice and as singular as your brain waves.

I asked my students last week what kinds of apps, programs, web links they could be showing me. I said to put them up on our Twitter hashtag, on our Remind account, on a Hackpad I have set up, on a G+ community "we" are using. My hope is that with many redundant channels the message will break through my thick skull. THEY DO NOT KNOW THAT THEY HAVE A UNIQUE AND CLEAR SIGNAL THAT IS WORTH SHARING.

Me, too, but for a different reason. Hindsight is perfect. We justify ex post facto. History disposes, turning facts into what it says is truth. The quote by Sibberson is actually quite nuanced, a helluva lot more than my teaching is. Franki says that writing in the classroom is a conversation, one that by definition is at least a two-way channel. Too true, but the devil of facilitating that channel is in the details that are always shifting underfoot. No one way. No true way. And the truth that I have discovered (notice that is a little "t") is that most people given half a chance are not particularly passionate about writing. Most aren't given even half a chance at any point in their reading and writing 'careers'. I am still figuring out at the university level how to promote passion or, failing that, how to instill an attitude of careful craft. I work with students who have been failed in horrendous ways. They are categorized as students who need remediation. Ugggh. Never. What Sibberson advocates for here is more close listening to the channel, more careful translation, more careful risk-taking. It is hilarious (and sad) how badly words fail us as we try to share with each other how to do that. Hilarious and sad.

How much today?

I don't know how to respond or if I should respond. I guess I already did. Fuck it, dude. Let's go bowling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG09C25LQlU

No shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhfygIZSr5M

https://vimeo.com/19873779

Eitherororneithernornor, such forks are horrors

Forks Charles Simic

This strange thing must have crept

Right out of hell.

It resembles a bird’s foot

Worn around the cannibal’s neck.

As you hold it in your hand,

As you stab with it into a piece of meat,

It is possible to imagine the rest of the bird:

Its head which like your fist

Is large, bald, beakless, and blind.

Talk is cheap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uiVt21bp_s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xmRWj7gJEU

It can hold, it does hold, just not forever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le-3MIBxQTw

“If you don't like my story,write your own” ― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart

raw...like meat...like real...like Iggy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mZ0sSStW6Y

Dance to the beat of the livin dead Lose sleep, baby, and stay away from bed Raw power is sure to come a-runnin' to you If you're alone and you got no fear So am I baby let's move on out of here Raw power is sure to come a-runnin' to you Raw power got a magic touch Raw power is much too much Happiness is guaranteed It was made for you and me Raw power, honey, just won't quit Raw power, I can feel it Raw power, it can't be beat Poppin' eyes and flashin' feet Don't you try, don't you try to tell me what to do Everybody always tryin to tell me what to do

Look in the eyes of a savage girl Fall deep in love in the underworld Raw power is sure to come a-runnin' to you If you're alone and you got the shakes So am I, baby and I got what it takes Raw power is sure to come a-runnin' to you Raw power got a healin' hand Raw power can destroy a man Raw power, it's more than soul Got a son called rock and roll Raw power, honey, just won't quit Raw power, I can feel it Raw power, honey, can't be beat Get down, baby and a kiss my feet Everybody always tryin' to tell me what to do Don't you try, don't you try to tell me what to do Everybody always tryin' to tell me what to do Don't you try, don't you try to tell me what to do

Raw power has got no place to go Raw power, honey, it don't want to know Raw power is a guaranteed O.D Raw power is laughin' at you and me

This is what I wanna know Can you feel it? Can you feel it? Oh, honey, feel it Can you feel it? Can you feel it? Can you feel it? Raw power Raw power Raw power Raw power Can you feel it? Feel it Raw power Raw power Raw power Raw power Raw power Raw power Can you feel it, baby?

Perimeters. Landscape. Equilibrium. Look out. There be rocks, abstract noun kraken tearing apart the ship of feeling. What a gavotte, a fucking Morris dance that I can't dance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSdkPMc7aEo

looks pretty versatile

final test of the thngy for the thingy

testing the orphan tab

testing with hypo.

testung with a post

So...I am aware to some degree or other about othering. Now what?

I like to think of this word in one of its earliest meanings: either.

The word and its world is locked in a yin yang. And why not? We are bipedial, binociular, binary brained, two-handed. The other and othering is embodied. Utterly. The world on the other hand (you see) is manifold, multilateral, messy and amusingly non-compliantly

Does this work?

Thanks for giving me a venue to vent. I just spent hours upon hours that I won't get back trying to engage with folks who don't really care about me except to other me with their ideas of white male privilege. Yes, I am white and privileged because of that. OK, now what? Do you want me to change? How do you want me to change that condition? Of course this is tripwire territory. I don't give a shit. Let the claymores jump up to chest level and do what they do best.

You can't talk to a hashtag.

I think Twitter is Google's Stupid Translator. Then again I think of journal articles as Stupid Expanders.Words are hopeless hooligans but I'm with them as long as they buy the first round.

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

YOu can't close read reality as it happens? That is what the gut and the soul are for--those wordless, non-complexity reducifiers?

Yet...they just did. Words about complexity reduce complexity. so....fucking....what.

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

Well...fuck. I guess thinking reduces complexity. Don't let complexity be the enemy to doing shit.

Yes, there is a tendency to consider the US as monolithically privileged in these conversations. It is not. I live in a rural area that is extremely lucky to have any utility service at all. If it were not for the New Deal in the 1930's and the development of rural telephone and electic coops, there would be no internet in the boondocks. if we had to electrify the boondocks today, certain political elements would shrug and say, "I got mine and the devil take the hindmost." We are not all the same in the US.

Ever consider using Periscope or one of its variants for doing adhoc livestreaming from #digped? I know I am fond of laying extra work on youse guys, but perhaps we need to have a streaming jockey at conferences--and there only job is adhoc, getting the flavor of the conference, person on the street interviews.

Do you even need teachers in this system? Perhaps we will call them concierges and pay them like Trump would pay his hotel and casino workers. You would certainly need more of them under any kind of coaching, mentoring regime.

This is the difference between these two products. The agency is direct with Google. I use Google Classroom. Here it is flipped. Facebook uses you and your inputs to filter out--what? Is there any proof that what FB filters is connected well with the incredibly complexity of learner curiosity and passion. I can only say that Zuckerberg and his minions must have poured over Skinner's pigeon experiments because now he is giving us all the bird.

I am assuming that there is strong data that establishes a strong correlation between this LMS and resourcefulness-timemanagement-college success? How many acts of faith can dance on the head of a pin?

How can they say student-directed. It's a Facebook algorithm.

Which student-teacher relationship? It is not monolithic. The power relationship? The sharing relationship? Or the whole relationship? When they are done will there be teachers anymore? If it can be done by a robot algorithm then is should be done by a robot algorithm?

Not quite. There are two other classes of participants: lurkers and virtual connectors. I am one of the virtual participant who is both allied to one of your inner circle of participants, @vconnecting, and as a free agent. For example, I wanted to share the keynotes via the video annotation cloud program, Vialogues.com. For some reason they are unembeddable, Your cloud tag of participants has an impermeable boundary that keeps my message from getting through. I finally did make contact with @cogdog and Alan tweeted out some support. As of now...no response. Is this because you have a pre-set mesh, is it because the IRL demands of the institute demand inner focus, or is it because designing for virtual participation was at best an afterthought?

I am drawn to the work of James C. Scott, Seeing like a State. The best summary of his idea of legibility is on V. Rao's web site Ribbonfarm. Since we can also annotate with images, the one on that site from Scott's book is dispositive.

Thanks so much for doing this Chris. For those of us who are connecting virtually these road maps help us quell the FOMO and embrace the JOMO.

My attendance as a virtual participant makes me connect with the marginalization of those who are on the outside looking into #digped. It is unconscious for the most part and mitigated by the work of folks like Virtually Connecting. I understand the distraction and pressure on organizers to satisfy the needs of those who signed up and attended. In truth, they are in the first class seating. Unless you do serious pre-planning or a separate virtual institute, well...you get what you get. It does, however, violate my own personal online ethos

I really enjoy the mapping out of curatorial intent. Useful.

Haven't read this in years. I had Service's selected poetry when I was in junior high. Loved it.

I feel the weight of the zeitgeist sometimes and think I know what is going to happen. Or I think I know what I want to happen. But I feel so much like a man from the future viewing the throne of Oxymandias. Instead it is limestone building with stone columns with the names of long dead white guys inscribed in stone on the frieze. My building on my campus...

LOL, the more purely useless, the more potentially useful.

The map is not the territory, but this comes damn close.

This was the Sanders message. I am anxiously waiting to see how it is taken up among my students.

I hope you don't mind. I adapted this line to fit a poster with credit. It really is this simple when you come down to it. Like so many complex behaviors, they almost always start out as a couple of simple initial conditions.

Most def gonna steal this.

Yeah, perhaps, but what I think you are talking about here is tempo. Different media have different tempi. Some largo and others allegro.

Maybe we can call it fat longform writing. In need of trimming but, meh, let it fucking stand.

Sounds like a poem

the morning

the unknown

the simmer

done

Like how your images also invoke mood as well, little windows into your mind's eye.

neat sculptor metaphor here, maybe a potter on a wheel. Here's the clay blank and here you go.

raw material

Got me thinking about a nuts and bolts on how my writing gets from zero to done.

Gotta love all your thinking out loud here. I love "process posts" like this one and I really want to hear more. I have put you in my feed reader and will be checking back regularly.

I would be very careful here. I am not suggesting that you not do this. Do it! Be aware of the unknown unknowns that lurk in every one of these visualizations. This is my grain of salt lecture, sorries. What is revealed is amazing and lulls us into the bias of WYSIWYG. I just listened to a grand podcast on Radiolab called from "Tree to Shining Tree" It is a must listen in order to recalibrate our hubris meters. You will love it and I think it is a way to leaven the work you are contemplating here. I look forward to hearing more.

http://www.radiolab.org/story/from-tree-to-shining-tree/

I really like this, but here is my guess: 100%

If they use Twitter. I would like to a Snapchat or Whatsapp version of this or an Instagram version.

Here's another version of that graphic snapshot but more conventional and parsed out.

Here it is.

Nice.

been wanting to do some podcasting myself, don't know how to start, especially don't know how to carry forth after the first one.

Week Three theme for #clmooc

I ain't buying this as actually the young Billy Collins. These are not puerile thoughts. I guess I am projecting my own puerile self here, but this is the young would-be poet being channeled by the older poet. As seen in Yeats' "When You Are Old"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvx0AS1h2us

Here is a Hackpad if anyone wants to go off book and add to the context of 'marginalia' in any way. The hackpad is editable as well as embeddable.

As always if the page is too crowded just let me know and I will make my public notes private.

lest we fergit--it's all about the money Lebowski! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV59cxMsFnU

Who? Straw man setup here.

I think we need to do the opposite, back off. Maybe the only opportunities we need to give them are ones that invite them to make their own....opportunities.

Assumption here is that unless we "give them opportunities" to socialize, they won't. Exactly the same assumption many in education have: if we don't teach them they won't learn. Rubbish. I am confused here. Surely someone who has spent so much of her research life being in on teen zeitgeist would not ever take teen agency away. I see teen agency all the time, just not in my adult spaces.

Reminds me of this cultural appropriation:

Turkle argues the our definition of screen time has been made moot by Pokemon Go because you take the screen into the world. When I take a picture or shoot a video am I taking the screen into the world? I am suggesting that Turkle is the one with the naive approach. I suggest that any tool is marked as such by its ability to "take you into the world" . I take a picture of my tractor brakes before I take them apart. I guess if I wore a pair of WR goggles I could be like the Honda mechanic who wears a pair of Google Glasses in order to find parts in the inventory and videos with repair suggestions, but I am not at all sure that the reality there is substantively different than looking in a parts book to do the same thing. Is virtual real? Yes, considering that reality is all constructed in the mind anyway including what comes from our sensorium. It is real. Not exactly news, is it?

Huh? An example here?

As opposed to addressing virtual problems. See above: real and virtual problems are both...problems. distinction without a difference? Well, I suppose a real knife in PokemonGo would be quite different than a virtual one, but both are problems, yes?

There are a black hole's worth of assumptions in this world and its binary virtual-real.

Hope isn't very much but what it is. Hope you don't mind what I did with the repetition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgyh-drUu_o

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

The original strip where I quoted from.<br>

I B Loving yer gimme cap. That's what they calls 'em 'round here.

Another version of feedforward as a tool: http://faculty.medicine.umich.edu/sites/default/files/resources/feedforward.pdf Wanna try it?

Thanks for playing the game, a seriocomic game.

These questions are partly addressed here: https://via.hypothes.is/www.digitalpedagogylab.com/hybridped/higher-education-bulwark-uselessness/

From the Occupational Handbook w/ some attitude.

hoss = horse

I have included a video of the greatest thoroughbred horse ever. A 'hoss' if ever there was one. For those who are not aficionados, note that Secretariat's 1:59 second race was a track record that is still the track record. The field may have had the very best speed horse ever, Sham, and the best gelding to ever race, Forego. The race itself is scintillating with Secretariat lurking at about sixth until the final turn. And then the big hoss just takes over. In racing this is called "rating", getting the measure of the other horses and then beating them, demoralizing them. If you notice in the stretch turn, Secretariat strays way out from the rail, a bad idea for most horses because you are asking it to run more track than those along the rail. Some jockeys get fired for this, but Ron Turcotte here, planned this from the beginning. He knew what champion he had. He didn't go to the whip at any time. That horse wanted to beat the others pure and simple.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74Usj3K4oZ0

If you are wondering what some of these boundaries might be, then check out this pen pal workshop for more guidance on boundaries between pen pals and prisoners. Here are a few of the listed boundaries if you want it quick:

"Having trouble deciding if you want to visit your pen pal, or should you send money or packages, or how to respectfully set sexual boundaries? This workshop will open up the challenging conversation about setting personal boundaries as well as developing/maintaining respectful, accountable relationships through letter writing with pen pals inside prison walls."

The crossover is an elite move on the basketball court that involves the whole body in an attempt to fake out your opponent as you drive to the basket.<br> How does this apply to the post on the left? I am always advocating that teachers need to read outside their disciplines, to 'crossover' to other disciplines as you drive to the hoop. Well, I guess the metaphor breaks down quickly, so I hope you get the idea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DefPFtiL4AE

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

Have at it in the best spirit of real work in the realest of worlds--fiction. Gr8 work in the class and great work in drawing out the process undergone and well done.

Recommend a podcast that fits here I think:

https://soundcloud.com/roman-mars/220-the-mind-of-an-architect

Every question is a "barn raising"?

One-to-one, no mutual common aid, no working together. Lone scholar/genius mentality.

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

Have you seen Johnson's PBS series? Here it is.

Sounds to me like "infinite play". "There is no rule that says you have to follow the rules."

yes.

Wow.

yes

Ineffability of the infinite game.

Reminds me of gun nut argument: the solution to mass gun death...is even more massive gun ownership. Tech solutionism is ubiquitous and corrupting.

Windows=right-click Mac=context menu

Diigo is my 'comfy' link, image, and pdf collector. It serves the same function as Hypothes.is--annotator and aggregator. It has many more functions than Hypothes.is including outlining, screenshots, autoblogging.

Zotero is my go-to academic info database. It gathers meta-tags so that it can automatically create citations, bibliographies, and reports. Unlike its competitor Mendeley, it is open source and free. It works as a standalone and as an extension.

LOL! We are all W.C.Fields

https://youtu.be/ytgPGr6JhLo

or Candide

https://youtu.be/fUKqJalCLpI?t=4h2m50s

John, you sent me a link for this which I promptly lost in the siliconslide that is my puter. Can you send it again? I will UX the shit out of it.

This was the first one I saw that wasn't the equivalent to a rollercoaster. It did make me empathic where I had not been before.

https://youtu.be/ecavbpCuvkI

I don't know whether IRL field trips are much benefit either.

Who knew?

Who knew?

Who knew?

https://youtu.be/43mA_ypfwKg?t=1m18s

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

Yes, a bubble. Wait for it. Wait for it. Just click your heels together and say to yourself, "Second Life, Second Life, Second Life."

Prima facie evidence of the foolish practice of futurology. As Jesus said in The Big Leboski, "Laughable."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3_ww66EeN8

I agree with N. Taleb that black swans are only retroactively predictable. I always predict that it will always be something else. I am always right.

I recall my most recent introduction to VR was one of the early NYT attempts. This one showed a food drop in Sudan. I really felt something new with that VR video. I felt empathy because I was surrounded (something I could see AND feel around me) by folks who were racing to get at the parachuting food palettes drifting down and landing. The point being that the experience was embodied. For some small percentage of people VR is incredibly embodied--they get very powerful motion sickness.

I have no idea what this means. I need more context, more examples, more 'embodiment'.

I am thinking to myself, "Self? What kind of knowledge is this that can be tested in such ways?" I would answer, "Pretty inconsequential." But the adjacent possibilities this tool opens is not.

I would rather students make their own damned quizzes for themselves or their peers here, then as a group create a collaborative quiz and critique what is being tested and what isn't. I guess what I am saying is that this is a very potent tool. Let's not just use it for its lowest purpose.

A: I think it is because it all because we are all playing the copyright-brand-registeredtradmark lottery. You can win if you don't play. Your chances at the jackpot are astronomically low so I say, "Don't play that fucking game." It is for the 'commons illiterate'.

A: When the system is sick, no one is whole.

Can't argue with the humanoid brand though, can you.

And what if they don't? Is Doctorow a closet Darwinist here? This smacks of the phrase, "If you so smart, why ain't you rich?" Or modified here:

Reminds me of the novel, Ishmael by Daniel Quinn where he talks about givers and takers.

In connected learning, as we connect we learn. The network is the way we learn and we learn together. Learning is by definition a commons, shared and unbranded. What we create together WE own together with all the rights and duties attached to that knowledge and learning.

At some point we have to acknowledge that all creation arises from culture and zeitgeist in part. What percentage of this new creation that is owed to culture and what percentage is new thinking by an artist in that culture has yet to be decided, but I think it is inarguable that everything we create arises 100% from one person. How much of Walt Disney's fortune is due to the public domain stories of the Brothers Grimm? You cannot argue 0%.

Join us here on Audrey's page.

Remember that this is someone else's field. Be playful and be kind, but be true and honor the work with that truth.

I have always found this hashtag ironic. How can a picture be silent? What follows is a riff on this rhetorical question.

Stone steps, jackrock stones, limestone from a nearby fallen foundation cemented into a back 'stoop', and a weed.

Weeds are plants that we can't use that are in inconvenient places. Here is part of the story about this one. Our old weedwhacker finally gave it up after long and loyal use. I did my homework and much to my consuming surprise I discovered that electric string trimmers have entered the world of real work. So I got one. It was lighter and quieter and better balanced than our old Echo model. And the only sound it did make was more like a hive of busy bees than the angry ones the old trimmer made. Big win. My wife went nuts trimming around the back stoop, but she left this flower intact. She decided at some point to redefine what this plant was. Not a weed. In moments like these I can scarcely believe the depth of feeling that rises up. I would have saved the weed, too, just like we save errant box turtles in the road and luna moths confused on the ground and birds that crash our glass but survive if given a safe perch.

Why must "silent Sunday" photos always be panoramic or colorful or perfectly composed or a tower of mastery? We know the colorful birds, but we deny the brown and dusky night jar with its incredible "whipporwhill" call. I wanted to celebrate the weed. I do not know the names of most weeds like this. It is possible there is a cure for diabetes hidden in here, but that is not why I value it. I love it for its persistence in the face of all that wants it dead including the lame aesthetic that values big, beautiful, well made compositions. I love it for is don't give an effing eff attitude. I love it for its I will be back even if you pull me out.

I love it for this wee white flower that says, " I am not the macro or the mondo, but I am in the micro bigger than all the others." I am a mystery. I serve no purpose. All I do is live with desire for history or celebrity. In fact I would rather no fuss be made at all.

Mostly, I love this because it makes me realize how much I love she who spared it. It is that same compassion that makes me a better man than I could have ever hoped. We work together and we share a happy ethos that knows our time is very short on this planet and that we must save what we can, even the humble weed on the back door stoop. Especially that week. I am that weed.

Here is the link if you want to join in

Mostly, I love this because it makes me realize how much I love she who spared it. It is that same compassion that makes me a better man than I could have ever hoped. We work together and we share a happy ethos that knows our time is very short on this planet and that we must save what we can, even the humble weed on the back door stoop. Especially that week. I am that weed.

I love it for this wee white flower that says, " I am not the macro or the mondo, but I am in the micro bigger than all the others." I am a mystery. I serve no purpose. All I do is live with desire for history or celebrity. In fact I would rather no fuss be made at all.

Why must "silent Sunday" photos always be panoramic or colorful or perfectly composed or a tower of mastery? We know the colorful birds, but we deny the brown and dusky night jar with its incredible "whipporwhill" call. I wanted to celebrate the weed. I do not know the names of most weeds like this. It is possible there is a cure for diabetes hidden in here, but that is not why I value it. I love it for its persistence in the face of all that wants it dead including the lame aesthetic that values big, beautiful, well made compositions. I love it for is don't give an effing eff attitude. I love it for its I will be back even if you pull me out.

Stone steps, jackrock stones, limestone from a nearby fallen foundation cemented into a back 'stoop', and a weed.

Weeds are plants that we can't use that are in inconvenient places. Here is part of the story about this one. Our old weedwhacker finally gave it up after long and loyal use. I did my homework and much to my consuming surprise I discovered that electric string trimmers have entered the world of real work. So I got one. It was lighter and quieter and better balanced than our old Echo model. And the only sound it did make was more like a hive of busy bees than the angry ones the old trimmer made. Big win. My wife went nuts trimming around the back stoop, but she left this flower intact. She decided at some point to redefine what this plant was. Not a weed. In moments like these I can scarcely believe the depth of feeling that rises up. I would have saved the weed, too, just like we save errant box turtles in the road and luna moths confused on the ground and birds that crash our glass but survive if given a safe perch.

I have always found this hashtag ironic. How can a picture be silent? What follows is a riff on this rhetorical question.

That's a lot spinning plates.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CJzIXG0T1A

Of course, schools have ever been tools and it all depends on who has grabbed the handle. Well...who? Wanna get used? Go to school and be a tool.

Here's my go at your antispam-genesis:

The kids said I had an apish run. Considering much of the dna of apes and homo sapiens is the same, that shouldn't be a surprise. I prefer it be called a shambling run...with my path in the tops of trees. That really would be apish, wouldn't it. Or so Professor Emery would say. That brings back memories.

The three p's: personal, professional, pedagogical. Here is a Venn diagram

Instead of imagining the boundaries as fixed, think of them as permeable, then imagine they are lungs, breathing. Sometime we are breathing in the pedagogical realm and it expands to our personal lives.

https://youtu.be/kP5O_NUhrK0?t=47s

Ya gotta have some fun in the margins, but I am showing here how easy it is to use video as an annotation. All you have to do is paste the url for the video here.

Just to show you that you can embed Vimeo vids here as well, here is another version via Oscar Peterson:

https://vimeo.com/71646902

I am using this annotation to show you a head-to-head matchup of two video annotation tools, Vialogues and Vibby.

Vialogues

Vibby

So far not much difference except that you can share an individual vibby comment via twitter. Of course, Vialogues is a not for profit tool and Vibby isn't. Also, you can highlight certain parts of a video with Vibby.

I took a photo of my book with my Android phone imported it into SnagIt using a cool app call TechSmith Fuse. This app directly imports it into my desktop version of SnagIt. Then I 'inverted' the photo to get the photoneg effect. Voila and uploaded to my blog. I could have also used the same embed trick by uploading it to my Google Drive. Don't know why I didn't.

I downloaded the audio as an mp3 using Peggo.

Then I saved it to my Google Drive where I have tons of space. Once there I got the embed code from that file and placed it in here. I like the spare audio player and I like that all the stuff is served from my Google account. More teachers should take advantage of the embed function in Google Drive.

How to break the filter bubble, a guide by DuckDuckGo.

I created this image using Pablo directly as I was writing the post. Once installed on Chrome, Pablo is in the right click menu no sweat and handy for improvisational meme and quote making.

I created this image in Pablo. So easy. So effective. So satisfying.

Hey get defining: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=keep%20head%20above%20water

AYKB is an an acronym for the TV trope "as you know, Bob"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IueMdK9I4Qg