Narrating and Demonstrating the Work We Do
Social media manager tool, Buffer, has added a nice image plaything called “Pablo”. Think of it as Canva for Twitter. Here is what it looks like under the hood: Here is the finished sample. I have been listening to Pico Iyer’s The Art of Stillness and this quote jumped out in all its quiet grace. … Continue reading PABLO: TWITTER IMAGE TOOL VIA BUFFER →
Social media manager tool, Buffer, has added a nice image plaything called “Pablo”. Think of it as Canva for Twitter. Here is what it looks like under the hood: Here is the finished sample. I have been listening to Pico Iyer’s The Art of Stillness and this quote jumped out in all its quiet grace. … Continue reading PABLO: TWITTER IMAGE TOOL VIA BUFFER →
Kevin had a bit of musical bio this morning on his website. It inspired me. Real self-insight into what makes this polymath tick. And I’ll give you one clue–it’s what comes out of the horn. Yes, music. Saxophone music to be specific. Kevin’s got a real gig with his band coming up so I am … Continue reading Sing it, Saxomophone Man! →
One of my grand joys has been using a fountain pen. When we were kids my parents let us fill our own ink cartridges with syringe and a bottle of Shaeffer peacock blut “Quink”. I never had a ‘stick’ pen until I went to junior high school and I sharpened my pencils mostly with a pen knife … Continue reading Petty Joys: A Series | Part Two: If You Can’t Open It, You Don’t Own It →
(mouseover gif above) I asked students to respond to a Google Form for class last week. The point in doing so was to see what students made of the data from that form. I wanted them to look over what amounted to a snapshot of community activity. (If you are interested in the data, just … Continue reading Discoveries from ‘Data’: Not New Landscapes, New Eyes →
I am no believer in Fate, but I do pay attention to what the British philosopher David Hume called “constant conjunction”. In this case I have had two instances of “reading aloud” conjoin my path. This I do not ignore. The first was from a recent episode of the highly recommended Gweek Podcast that featured … Continue reading El Lector →
I am embedding a PopcornMaker Mix here so that others may share in it and play with it. PopcornMaker allows for such collaborative play. Join in. Not sure how this will work but that is the nature of the infinite game of play and life. You can watch the progress here throughout the course of … Continue reading Following the Bouncing MultiMedia Ball: Playing in the Popcorn Fields →
Some of the best long form reading I have done of late has been on Medium including the Hans de Zwart one on Ai WeiWei (and, apparently, on the entire universe of privacy). I ran across another from my RSS feed this morning by Rob Walker, How To Pay Attention: 20 Ways To Win The War Against … Continue reading Don’t Abandon the World | Attention Must Be Paid →
I pulled a quote from this delicious post by Laura Gibbs about her best tech friend forever, Inoreader. I got the quote from the end of the post and the more I dwelled on it with Weavly as my “close reading” tool, the deeper it got. I share this with gratitude for Laura’s work now … Continue reading Celebrating Laura Gibbs & t/ #DailyConnect with Weavly →