The other day, I wrote about a collaborative poem that folks in #ds106, and #clmooc, and beyond had contributed to. With 106 lines in its construction, the poem has now become a place of possible remix. I had joked at one point at trying to write a Sea Shanty with some of the words (ie, […]
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Book Review: Stamped (Racism, Antiracism, and You)
Jason Reynolds reminds us again and again, This is not a history book. But it’s a book of our history, of our country’s racism and of how our country finds itself where it is, with huge divisions over race. Stamped (Racism, Antiracism, and You) is Reynold’s ‘remix’ of Stamped From the Beginning (by Ibram X. […]
Slice of Life: The Assorted Odds at the End
(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.) I don’t have any Slice Moments in mind so … here are some odds and ends for this […]
Collections of Covers (Animated Book Covers)
Covers from Henning M. Lederer on Vimeo. I just wanted to share these out because they intrigued me, for my love of books and my love of animation and my appreciation for any artist who remixes what’s already there into something new. More Covers from Henning M. Lederer on Vimeo. The animation is by Henning […]
Missed The Marathon; Found Some Poems
My National Writing Project friends at the Morehead State Writing Project hosted a post-election Writing Marathon last week that I had hoped to join but then could not. Luckily, they shared out the prompts afterwards and so I spent a few mornings, using the prompts to inspire some small poems. I’m sorry I could not […]
How I Am Using #Writeout With Students (Week One)
This year, as part of the Write Out project, which is a partnership between the National Writing Project and the National Park Service, I am fully integrating the concept of connecting writing to place into my online learning platform for my students who are not in the school but are at home, doing independent work. […]
Poem: Reading the Morning Newspaper
Advice From An Old School News Reader Read the paper backwards, from the funnies first to front page last so as to begin the ink with a laugh and end the reading with rage Note: My eyes go to the front page of our delivered morning newspaper (yep, we still get the local newspaper during […]
On Rhyming Images: A Poetic Inquiry
Poems flickr photo by Pascal Maramis shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license The other day, Greg and Sarah began an inquiry into the question of “how to rhyme an image” based off a tweet that Sarah posted after she watched a short presentation from Greg, and her query became the heart of the third […]
NaPoWriMo: For People of Good Will (In a World of Algorithms)
(I am participating in National/Global Poetry Month as I continue to write small poems each morning. – Kevin) Day Twenty Four: For People of Good Will (In a World of Algorithms) Face it – it’s fake – this world’s overflowing with modern-day data-mining automated Argonauts mixing fame and fortune, remixing the game we think we knew rules […]
Six Years Later: Still Resonating with Rhizomagic
(Note: this art is created by using a Gephi visualization of early Rhizo posts on Facebook, according to Sarah, that I put into motion with an app called Pixaloop and then layered it on top of another image and filtered with another app called Fused. As Daniel notes, the constellation effect is a reminder that […]