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On Listening and Beauty: Freire hears a Horton and I hear a call
Bryan Alexander’s most recent book group around We Make the Road by Walking has caught my attention. There are several reasons for this but a big part of it is the community response; especially the Temporarily Embarrassed Millionaires post by Bonnie Stewart where she calls for a community to develop around the teaching of digital…
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Presenting on #Tomereaders at #aacugened16
Here we go. I’m presenting my work developing the #Tomereaders online reading group today at the AAC&U Gen Ed conference in New Orleans. This is a part of collaboration with Laura Gogia and Jim Luke on bigger overarching theories (see below). You can check out blog posts from them about the presentation as well (Laura’s post and…
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Final Prompt and Call for Help with Eval #tomereaders
#tomereaders 2015 Summer book reading group is coming to an end. Matt and I decided to put out our final reflection/prompt together as a dialog rather than two monologues. The video is kind of long so I want to pull this out in the text – we need your help!!! We need to evaluate #tomereaders.…
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Prompt 2 Response with Kevin Hodgson (@dogtrax)
So, Matt and I decided to try to branch out for this prompt and try to engage more directly one on one. It was a real treat to talk to Kevin Hodgson also known as @dogtrax for our first distance response to the transformation prompt. One of the big take aways was on time and how transformations may take…
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#tomereaders Prompt 2 – Transformation: A call for conversation
Matt proposed the prompt for this focus area – Transformation We each made a video around it And in conversation with Matt around where we are at in the book group we wanted to attempt to take this up a notch. We have had some great conversations both online and face to face but we…
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Under the Tree: Further Aspects of #TomeReaders
The second focal date for #tomereaders is approaching and that means that we will have our second face to face meeting under the tulip tree. I was chatting with Greg Zobel the other day and he was like “you do #tomereaders face to face as well?” Yep – that is actually how the whole thing started…
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#tomereaders Prompt’nBlog 1
Calling all #tomereaders – Prompt 1 is here! Matt and I each took a stab at it. Though I have done a fare amount of video work I think this might be my first time addressing the Internet in a video… maybe Matt too??? (He’ll have to comment and let us know). Check it out.…
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Lighten up already
I decided we needed some lightness on “She’s So Heavy”. It was a treat today when I got home and checked my mail. I found a fun little package marked Royal Mail. (Guess it must be from the queen bee) There was a nice card inside. With a skinny little hand knitted infinity rhizo…
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Reflections on the start of #tomereaders: Disclaimer on a living artifact
Well, #tomereaders is set to “start” this week and I am feeling a little out of sorts. I mean what the heck was I thinking opening this thing up to the whole world? I’m not Dave Cormier or Jessie Stommel – I’m just some girl with a twitter account and a newly christened blog. What…
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Travel Guide for a Living Artifact: 2015 Summer Reading Circle #tomereaders
Tomereaders 2015 Summer Reading Circle Online Participation Outline/Travel Guide Facilitators/Fellow Nomads Autumm Caines Twitter:@autumm Matthew Cook Twitter: @matt_t_cook Every summer I facilitate (or at the very least instigate) a book group on my home campus and sometimes include a small group of friends. This year, inspired by my participation in #rhizo15 (don’t worry if you don’t…