Narrating and Demonstrating the Work We Do
There are three ewes ready to drop. Or so it would seem. I got up early this morning (2:30 am) to see if they were going to lamb. I don’t know who was more expectant, me or them. Me, I guess, because there were no lambs. The expectant leaving me expecting. I am glad, but … Continue reading A Shepherd’s Journal: February 22, 2015 | The Night Stage →
This post started off as a very short comment on the chart below. It has become the monster below. Please, dear reader, forgive me, but please read me. I need all the help I can get. Audrey Watters has a salutary chart in her most recent blog post at HackEducation. The chart below is a summing … Continue reading False Horizons or Failure of the Imagination or … →
Going on about the weather is trite when the weathermeisters natter on. But when I have to get up at 3 am to check on the lambs, it is not. Verily it is not trite. In fact the past week has been an exercise in the depressive grinding of its miserable self down onto me … Continue reading Hope Full in February, the Honest-to-God Cruelest Month →
When it is -11 degrees Fahrenheit (-24 C), the snow doesn’t so much crunch as it …squeaks. I wait in the dark at the gate. Again. Yesterday was a meal best left behind for the post trauma to come. Today I voice a prayer for ‘no new mamas’. I listen deep inside like an equitorial tracking station pinging for … Continue reading February 19, 2015 | A Shepherd’s Journal: The Fragile Crack of Frozen Stars →
An Improvisational portfolio on the subject of Ferris Jabr’s “Why Brains Prefer Paper”. For class, Friday the 13th, February, 2015 1. Here is the article for summary: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/reading-paper-screens/?print=true 2. Here is the diigo annotated link: https://diigo.com/07c2ai 3. Here is the diigo outliner that scraped all the links and little bit more as I attempted to ‘Backward engineer’ … Continue reading A Portfolio Response to Summary →
I wait at the fence. Pause for the tell of a new born lamb. Nothing to skip a shepherd’s heart. Check the corners of the fields. & clank the gate chain. They think it is time to eat. I count. Pause. Hungry wooly purses and sweet silent capital. Accounted.
I have a reason to be about inside this beastly hour scrubbing the moony fields for lambs. a mule braying at distance. Mars two handbreadths away from a waning full moon. shadows full as noon. Young toms touching whisker trading sniffs of where they’ve been. neighbors a mile away security lights ablaze. stars even farther. … Continue reading February 7, 2015 | A Shepherd’s Journal: Nothing. Done. →
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 →
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 →