Narrating and Demonstrating the Work We Do
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 … →
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 →
When I search Google for “engagement WKU” or “student engagement” I get a hot mess of stuff. In fact it clarifies for me how the word has lapsed into confusion (at least for me). The Google nGram chart below for “student engagement” indicates that before 1962 there is no record of the use of the … Continue reading Engagement: I Do Not Think It Memes What You Think It Memes →
(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 →
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 →
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 →