Narrating and Demonstrating the Work We Do
We had an exciting visit to Kenyon by David Rosenwasser and Jill Stephen, authors of Writing Analytically. (Dave and Jill are absolutely charming and wonderful workshop facilitators; if you’re having a campus conversation about writing you should look them up.) One of their techniques is to have students keep a commonplace book. As a classroom … Continue reading Every one of them words rang true →
A #walkmyworld remix
by Greg McVerry
So I just finished this remix. It is for #walkmyworld.
I started by first reading and annotating my two sources. Today I stole from JPG’s Anti-Education Era and Marlene Scardamalia and Carl Bereiter idea of knowledge communities
I wanted to play with Gee’s work so I made a series of Gifs. One for each element of the circuit of reflective inquiry. Gee’s premis is that we are dumb alone but groups and tools can make us smarter…if we engage in the circuit of reflective inquiry. To make the gifs I just held my smart phone and used an Android App Video to Gif. Took some experimenting to get the file size down.
Then I found images from #walkmyworld to remix with Scardamalia and Bereiter’s work. All of the words are straight lifted from here.
I then end the obligatory think on this questions.
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Before jumping into the youshow with my first crack at an ‘icon story’ assignment or, “Describe Yourself in Four Icons #ysdaily14“, I watched this video. Make a four icon collage of symbols or icons that describe you or your interests. Try to find ones that are graphically uniform in design – the ones above are from … Continue reading Myself in Four Icons