Narrating and Demonstrating the Work We Do
For the You Show daily today, we were asked to create a Wordle from our blog. I didn’t use this one because there is so little on it as of yet. Instead, I used the blog I’ve had for years, here. I noticed that the Wordle, even though you can give it your blog’s RSS …
Although I have never worked with clay, I am reaching for the pottery metaphor here. This site, this series of reflections, these bits which may assemble as a portfolio, I […]
The theme I set up for the SPLOT site is a landing page style one called Onsie (free one page responsive theme from Graph Paper Press). There is not much […]
The 21st century has much of society unattached to the problems in the world, the people around us, and even from ourselves. We have a lot to learn outside of our schedules, emails and news feeds, and many individuals don’t take the opportunity to reflect and learn from everything between the lines. Self-reflection is something far more…
One of the projects I have started the year with is a Google Form survey. I have asked students to fill out this form. Tomorrow we will look at the data in this spreadsheet that the form above generated. There is an amazing cache of data in there and I have asked my students to find … Continue reading Feedforward in the Garden of Your Mind →
Flipboard makes curation a snap … Make your own magazines …
I have a bit of a weird relationship with the arts. I appreciate the beauty of a wide variety of music, architecture, literature and such. I married a woman with a degree in music whose major instrument throughout her degree was voice, but who is also an accomplished pianist and can play a guitar, a […]
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Over the years I used to try to keep track of what I read. Slips of paper and scribbled notes blew around the house and drawers and backpacks. Then I found Goodreads. The first year I used it in 2003 I read 29 books. Last year I managed 17. Although I have 5 or 6 that I started in 2014 and hadn’t finished before the 1st of January.
This is part of what I am reading over the next while. I am tempted to bore you to death with why all of these books are on my shelf. What I think of them before reading and what I think of them after reading.
My GoodReads app lists the following books in my Currently Reading section:
The Abominable – Dan Simmons
The Persistence of Vision – John Varley
After Dark – Haruki Murakami
The Child Garden – Geoff Ryman
How Music Works – David Byrne
The Twelve – Justin Cronin
Dhalgren – Samuel R. Delany
The Way of Shadows – Brent Weeks
I have realized that I go through cycles of reading physical books, then online only (blogs, Reddit, Facebook, etc). Not sure why I make the switch.
I guess the point of this post is to remind myself to keep reading, and that GoodReads has been a good app for me. D’arcy said that he likes doing the photo a day challenge because it helps keep the memories accessible. He can remember each and every photo. It is the same with blog posts and other online writing and image posting. Helps me to remember.
As I am preoccupied with other commitments this week, I am missing out on all the fun and games at The You Show! I’m eager to see the results of everyone’s efforts with image editing and drawing!