Planting and Weeding Having just spent all morning (since 9:30, and minus breakfast) working in my backyard planting and weeding, I consider myself something of an expert gardener. And in those many long hours (an entire lifetime for some bacteria), I’ve collected nuggets of wisdom that I thought I’d share with the world. Here are [...]
This is one of the most clearly articulated arguments that I’ve heard for incorporating Digital Media Assignments (and other disruptive learner-centered technologies) into learning. And a professional video to boot.
I should write more. I forgot how much fun it was…. Scarecrows This is of scarecrows, leaning. Of skeletal wards in secondhand garb bound to oakposts in much younger plots, This is of beacons, of old soundless stalks shaped like men, standing rows in grim watch. This is of old weathered faces fixed out at [...]
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Things Needed: wheelbarrow keys hose fence renter for 2-BR Advice: um… (I guess this new “wiki” plugin still requires folks to login, get an account, etc. — pain in the butt. Just add comments below, and I’ll update. Thanks!)
The Twitter feed was gushing (#elifocus) during the EDCUAUSE event on Mobile, and every time a URL flew by, I opened another tab. I’m still sorting through them 2 weeks later. This one struck me because it demonstrates the mobile is not only for consumption. It can be a fantastic tool for student-created content. Use [...]
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The UW-Madison Writing Center has a blogging workshop: “Productive and Professional Blogging” — I’m going. I’ve been pretty open about the ideas floating around in my head since an incident in my undergrad years when a group of colleagues realized we’d been thinking the same thing, but each thought s/he was the only one. Blogging [...]
GENERATION M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds A Kaiser Family Foundation Study. JANUARY 2010 My post headline is purposefully… what’s the word? Inflammatory? Because this report is significant and important, and heralds in a much larger message beyond the report’s main point that “Kids are consuming more media.” It’s this important: When [...]
(pics follow commentary) A month into my job at the university, I’d just moved out of my friend’s Sundstrom St. house to give my roommate and his newly-moved-from California fiance some room to nest. So I found a three-month gig house-sitting in the Willy street neighborhood, and started thinking about where I’d live in April. [...]
