(This is a Slice of Life post, in which we share out the events of the day. It runs through March and then every Tuesday throughout the year, and is facilitated by the folks atTwo Writing Teachers. You write, too.) Yesterday was one of those literary convergence days, where a bunch of books I had […]
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Vine: Crafting a Video Poem That Eats Itself
Way back in June, when I first started to use the Vine app (with its six seconds of video limit) with the Making Learning Connnected MOOC, I pondered how one might conceive of it as more than a documentation of life. I wondered if there were ways to tell a story in just six seconds. […]
The Abandoned Book: When Gimmick Overtakes Storytelling
It’s painful to write this post of why I abandoned a book, and the fact that I got this particular book as a gift from my family (after openly expressing interest in it) made me stay with it longer than I would have otherwise done. I’ve got some guilt today. So, believe me when I […]
#WalkMyWorld: A Social Media Experiment
I’m a sucker for ideas, particularly ones that seek connections between people and their lives and technology. So consider me intrigued by a project by friends Ian o’Bryne and Greg McVerry (and a few others) called #Walkmyworld, where, as they describe it: Over the next ten weeks, we would like you all to share (once […]
Some Warmth on a Cold Day
Yesterday, I received this in the mail (and recorded it in Vine): It is from my friends Franki and Mary Lee over at A Year of Reading. It’s actually been eight years of reading/sharing for them, and as a celebration, they are planning to spend each month donating to charity in the name of a […]
CodeBits Forking for the #Nerdlution
The other day, I noticed something new over at the CodeAcademy site. Called CodeBits, it is series of small projects that bring to mind the work being done with the Mozilla Foundation with Thimble and other coding projects. With Codebits, you can tinker with code and create/adapt small projects. I took a postcard and revamped […]
Six Word Biographies and the Making Learning Connected MOOC
I was so very pleased when folks in the Making Learning Connected MOOC began to pin themselves to our collaborative map. Partly, I was just intrigued by where my fellow maker/writers were located. Partly, I wanted a visual map (which connected to that week’s activity around mapmaking). And I also wanted to prompt folks to […]
Thimble-izing the Making Learning Connected MOOC Reflections
I used two Thimble Projects from Mozilla’s Webmaker Kits to begin to reflect a bit on being part of this summer’s Making Learning Connected Massive Open Online Collaboration. I still need to do a bit more writing – that’s how I get my head around ideas — but both of these Thimble projects intrigued me. […]
More Vine: A #vineoffmonday Challenge Accepted
A friend in the Making Learning Connected MOOC has challenged those of us experimenting with Vine (6 second video app from Twitter) to a Monday Morning Challenge — capturing the start of the week. Here’s what I came up with: my feet. Peace (along the vines), Kevin
Considering Twine as Video Haiku: Letter to the Future
Yesterday, a colleague in the National Writing Project’s Making Learning Connected MOOC made an observation about the Twine video app that brought something into focus for me. Elyse Eidman-Aadahl observed that while the six second limit on the video is short, one could almost imagine using twine as “haiku” and that reminded me of an […]