The Voice We Hear
Assignment #3 for #ds106 crept up on me, so much so I almost missed it. I will keep the text short and get to the actually product? Assessment? Art? Whatever we are calling it for this course. I think...
View ArticleWe Are Echoes and Refections
Whenever I speak with people about openness and sharing, I feel the need to preface my philosophy by saying, “Well not everyone will feel comfortable sharing as much as I do.” It is almost as if I am...
View ArticleImages Tell Stories
I am on an image kick lately, but here is what happened in my class today. It was powerful: The grade sevens have been doing some research about Afghanistan for our upcoming book, Boy Overboard. We...
View ArticleCopy Wrong
I have an hour to write this post and I am pissed. Can I say that on the Interwebz? Let me warn you, that although I often advocate for measured tempered writing, this post is rooted in anger and...
View ArticleWhat It Might Be- Authentic Student Blogging
I started writing, blogging, whatever you want to call it nearly seven years ago. I started with some important questions, What if we are English teachers and we talk all day about why writing is...
View ArticleCommunity, Content and Commodity
I remeber being nervous and stingy and naive when I first joined Flickr nearly five years ago on February 3rd 2007. I knew little about networks or online sharing or photography or copy right or...
View ArticleFrom Mine to Ours
take me use me share me i’m licensed to be re mix ed. those ideas these words the painted scrawling blathering ruse moves us from mine to ours. i can feel it in you just as you’re feeling it in me:...
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