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Becoming, Making, and How Do We Do Equity: some quick thoughts as an informal lit review
I was given a pretty cool opportunity last week to think with some pretty cool people about equitable design of digitally-distributed, studio-based STEM learning environments (think makerspaces – but at the same time destroy you idea of makerspaces and rebuild it to mean something more… at least that is what I ended up doing). It…
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Digital Citizenship Digital Environments Digital Identity Digital Networks Digital Pedagogy Digital Scholarship DigPINS Open Education Rhizomatic Learning#OpenEd18 Lightning Talk: #DigPINS, We are Open … But sometimes closed
I’ve made it to Open Ed 2018 and I’m excited to present a lightning talk on Friday at 3:30 – 3:45 with Sundi Richard and Joe Murphy on our collaborations with #DigPINS. If you are at the conference please consider coming by and if you are not I’m hoping this blog post will give you…
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Further Defining LOOM: autonomous persistence in relation to ethos
I was asked to be part of a panel discussion at the Winter Symposium on Digital Literacies in Higher Education as a part of my work with Virtually Connecting. This time I not only had distance as a barrier but also time – I had a meeting scheduled at the same time. The panel was…
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#MyDigCiz as Critical Experimentation in Opposition to Best Practice: Self-Reflection After #DigPed PEI or why I thought you might care about my soup
It was 2007, I was just finishing up my BS degree in communication technology when I received a google alert on my name one day. Honestly, I had felt a little vain when I set it up but I saw how this could be helpful especially considering the uniqueness of my name. Someone had written…
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Now You’re Talk’in My Language: a #rhizo16 preface | or A Case for Interest in a World of Resilience
Yet philosophies of esthetics have often set out from one factor that plays a part in the constitution of experience, and have attempted to interpret or “explain” the esthetic experience by a single element; in terms of sense, emotion, reason, of activity; imagination itself is viewed not as that which holds all other elements in…
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In Defense of Kindness in the Rhizome: A complex balance of many often opposing forces
“Reality is subjective, and there’s an unenlightened tendency in this culture to regard something as ‘important’ only if ‘tis sober and severe. Sure and still you’re right about your Cheerful Dum, only they’re not so much happy as lobotomized. But your Gloomy Smart are just as ridiculous. When you’re unhappy, you get to pay a…
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To Err is Human: Listening, Forgiving and Forgetting
It t’was the MOOC before Christmas And through the interwebs All the creatures were stirring and… … I actually found it kind of hard to keep up with everything but that was ok. (I know that part doesn’t rhyme – I’m not that kind of poet) It’s not every year one gets a Graduation Solstice…
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A call for more #HumanMOOC discussion groups. Or. The very human problem of access with more thoughts on the Interpersonal Multitudes Barrier (IMB)
So I planned this participant led discussion inside of #HumanMOOC. In terms of process I tweeted that I wanted to do this and asked who else might be interested. With those that responded I opened a DM channel and configured a time. Then I advertised the time on the tag to see if I could get…
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A Sort of “In Love”: What is it About Play?
Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. ~ Jane Howard About a month after #rhizo15 someone asked me “how are you” and I lit up like bulb to say “I’m doing wonderful” and continued to tell them…
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Why We Rhizo
There is no dark side of the moon really. As a matter of fact – it’s all dark. The only thing that makes it look light is the sun. ~Gerry O’Driscoll Doorman for Abby Road Studios partly heard on Pink Floyd’s Eclipse When questions about reasons and why collide with WEs and THEMs The “Why do they…