Unaffiliated, but definitely not unconnected, individual digital alchemists (see a list of all Open Alchemists)
However busy I am, I try to make time for two daily rituals – one the DS106 Daily Create, a daily challenge open to anyone to participate as they wish, the other a Daily Doodle prompt I’ve been following for some time with my CLMooc friends. I glory in all my tools – my pens, my crayons, my paper, my inks. Old friends and new friends, as Terry says. Micron pens to outline (sometimes with a pencil first). Crayons for […]
Karen Young on Can you make any character the heroic center of a story? Try this one..Need a disgusting character for ur fiction? Just sat next to a woman who picked off her fake nails 1 by 1 & then used 1 to pick her teeth.— Alyson Indrunas (@AlysonIndrunas) April 13, 2017Take this character and write the opening paragraph to a story in which this unlikely person saves the internet from it’s dark, greedy overlords.She stood there, in plain sight, working at separating each of her […]
tellio on Found this and felt the need to get back into it. Some annotations and here’s a poem that rises up in the process: Annotate? Navigate? Negotiate? Matters not. Just touch and play upon Each stone and back to home base. How Behavior Spreads by Damon Centola
tellio on Kevin Hodgson, @dogtrax, recently cited Austin Kleon’s newish book, Reading with a Pencil, in the tweet below. Reading with a Pencil https://t.co/nAvUhUgGSQ #clmooc #marginalsyllabus (this is a next explorations of how to own a book by writing in the book) @telliowkuwp pic.twitter.com/GphpKmmtOa — KevinHodgson (@dogtrax) February 10, 2019 I responded with my own tweet and scanned sample page where I read with a pencil (and pen and highlighter and marker). @grammasheri @EatcherVeggies @tutormentorteam #clmooc Here’s a sample of […]
tellio on tellio on tellio on No Title No Description This is where we are in some states. My Kentucky legislature is not quite here yet, but they are edging the Overton window toward all guns, all the time, and everywhere. There is a bill being considered now that would allow conceal carry without a permit anywhere it is now allowed with a permit. Next step is to allow conceal carry everywhere: bars, churches, and my classroom. That is when I quit. When I read this […]
Karen Young on So here is my trigger. The latest move by New York to allow women to control their bodies and allow abortion at any stage to protect their physical health has stirred up a whole host of friends within my social network to post nonsense about late term abortion and just abortion in general. A big issue for me as a woman, as a mother and as an human being. I'm pro-choice-who else is going to advocate for my health except […]
dogtrax on This week’s Studio Visit in Networked Narratives was with Anne-Marie Scott, and I put the video archive into Vialogues for those who want to join me in another round of slow-listening and commenting in the margins. Anne-Marie will be watching the discussion, so feel free to leave her questions there. Go to the Vialogues Peace (in listening in), Kevin
A defective mirror image …
dogtrax on This is a helpful video with John Greene about reading deeper, and understanding, digital information and digital media. Greene, author (The Fault in Our Stars) and vlogger (often with his brother), digs into how we can understand what’s behind the veil of what we read online, and to understand the move he calls “lateral reading.” Greene’s key question of inquiry that we must always ask ourselves: Who made this and why? He explains that we have been taught to read […]
He’s listening. Always listening.
Gone missing …
A confusion of voices
dogtrax on Surveillance flickr photo by Simon Aughton shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license I’ve been taking my time, listening over a few days to the classroom conversation that the always-intriguing Chris Gilliard had with Networked Narratives the other day. Chris is insightful in his look at how technology impacts our lives, bringing to the surface not just the privacy issues but also the concerns of how our data might be used against us (and is being used against us) by […]
