385 Posts Categorized "Open Participants 2017"

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Open Participants 2017, The Network

Hashtags as Roots of Resilience

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(Note: I wrote this piece quite some time ago, thinking it would be submitted to a new publishing site. That got stalled. This piece sort of floated in my Draft bin. Time to release it. — Kevin) A funny thing happened on my way to the Rhizome sometimes last year … the hashtag got switched. Now, normally, this would not be a big issue. But I have come to realize more and more how much I rely on the columns of […]

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A Strange Concoction to Consider: Fan Fiction and State Testing

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aafad 225/365 under new management … flickr photo by lamont_cranston shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license We’re into state test prep season (our ELA test is a few weeks away) and our state of Massachusetts is in the midst of some pretty significant changes to what we call MCAS. The state claims to have moved away from PARCC, but that’s not really the case with its MCAS 2.o or MCAS Next Generation. Everything MCAS is moving to computer-based testing […]

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Driving to the Nashville Airport, April 4, 2017

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Driving to the Nashville Airport, April 4, 2017 In a ten year old Honda on I-65 I drink in fresh redbuds through the wet slap of wipers Breathing back and forth, intermittent arcs, respiring. Dawn is small and the spring rain tastes inviolable. I drive my daughter to the airport. The galaxy spins in my car’s backseat with hazel eyes and rings tattooed on her fingers She is flying away. Again. I don’t care. I really don’t. The wiper blades judge, […]

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Slice of Life: The Social Media Illusion

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(This is for the Slice of Life challenge, hosted by Two Writing Teachers. We write on Tuesdays about the small moments in the larger perspective … or is that the larger perspective in the smaller moments? You write, too.) My pre-teen son confided in me that he had gone back into his Musically app the other day, for the first time in a few weeks, only to find out to his surprise that he was Number One on their charts […]

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Visions of Elsewhere

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"Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky."~Willa CatherNetworked Narratives Intercept 9 starts this way.The following poem is another interception constructed from this video of Mia Zamora and Alan Levine chatting.VISIONS OF ELSEWHEREOur sense of scale is correctedputting self into perspectivewhen we view the sky orthe view out another persons windowwe need this correction to seeour relative unimportance in the worldI feel the need of 'elsewhere' timeopen space and […]

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Taking the MOO out of MOOC

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Maybe you thought I'd be talking about massive, open and online things.....but it's really just about a cow in a paddock eating grass.This is the 'outing' and closing of The Jolt project. Way back when, like December 2016, I was chomping at the bit (oh that is a horse reference and he will come into this story as well) to get started on Network Narratives course. I think it was being promoted as a MOOC and due to the well […]

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