LOL! We are all W.C.Fields

https://youtu.be/ytgPGr6JhLo

or Candide

https://youtu.be/fUKqJalCLpI?t=4h2m50s

John, you sent me a link for this which I promptly lost in the siliconslide that is my puter. Can you send it again? I will UX the shit out of it.

This was the first one I saw that wasn't the equivalent to a rollercoaster. It did make me empathic where I had not been before.

https://youtu.be/ecavbpCuvkI

I don't know whether IRL field trips are much benefit either.

Who knew?

Who knew?

Who knew?

https://youtu.be/43mA_ypfwKg?t=1m18s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISJWZpFIAlQ

Yes, a bubble. Wait for it. Wait for it. Just click your heels together and say to yourself, "Second Life, Second Life, Second Life."

Prima facie evidence of the foolish practice of futurology. As Jesus said in The Big Leboski, "Laughable."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3_ww66EeN8

I agree with N. Taleb that black swans are only retroactively predictable. I always predict that it will always be something else. I am always right.

I recall my most recent introduction to VR was one of the early NYT attempts. This one showed a food drop in Sudan. I really felt something new with that VR video. I felt empathy because I was surrounded (something I could see AND feel around me) by folks who were racing to get at the parachuting food palettes drifting down and landing. The point being that the experience was embodied. For some small percentage of people VR is incredibly embodied--they get very powerful motion sickness.

I have no idea what this means. I need more context, more examples, more 'embodiment'.

I am thinking to myself, "Self? What kind of knowledge is this that can be tested in such ways?" I would answer, "Pretty inconsequential." But the adjacent possibilities this tool opens is not.

I would rather students make their own damned quizzes for themselves or their peers here, then as a group create a collaborative quiz and critique what is being tested and what isn't. I guess what I am saying is that this is a very potent tool. Let's not just use it for its lowest purpose.

A: I think it is because it all because we are all playing the copyright-brand-registeredtradmark lottery. You can win if you don't play. Your chances at the jackpot are astronomically low so I say, "Don't play that fucking game." It is for the 'commons illiterate'.

A: When the system is sick, no one is whole.

Can't argue with the humanoid brand though, can you.

And what if they don't? Is Doctorow a closet Darwinist here? This smacks of the phrase, "If you so smart, why ain't you rich?" Or modified here:

Reminds me of the novel, Ishmael by Daniel Quinn where he talks about givers and takers.

In connected learning, as we connect we learn. The network is the way we learn and we learn together. Learning is by definition a commons, shared and unbranded. What we create together WE own together with all the rights and duties attached to that knowledge and learning.

At some point we have to acknowledge that all creation arises from culture and zeitgeist in part. What percentage of this new creation that is owed to culture and what percentage is new thinking by an artist in that culture has yet to be decided, but I think it is inarguable that everything we create arises 100% from one person. How much of Walt Disney's fortune is due to the public domain stories of the Brothers Grimm? You cannot argue 0%.

Join us here on Audrey's page.

Remember that this is someone else's field. Be playful and be kind, but be true and honor the work with that truth.

I have always found this hashtag ironic. How can a picture be silent? What follows is a riff on this rhetorical question.

Stone steps, jackrock stones, limestone from a nearby fallen foundation cemented into a back 'stoop', and a weed.

Weeds are plants that we can't use that are in inconvenient places. Here is part of the story about this one. Our old weedwhacker finally gave it up after long and loyal use. I did my homework and much to my consuming surprise I discovered that electric string trimmers have entered the world of real work. So I got one. It was lighter and quieter and better balanced than our old Echo model. And the only sound it did make was more like a hive of busy bees than the angry ones the old trimmer made. Big win. My wife went nuts trimming around the back stoop, but she left this flower intact. She decided at some point to redefine what this plant was. Not a weed. In moments like these I can scarcely believe the depth of feeling that rises up. I would have saved the weed, too, just like we save errant box turtles in the road and luna moths confused on the ground and birds that crash our glass but survive if given a safe perch.

Why must "silent Sunday" photos always be panoramic or colorful or perfectly composed or a tower of mastery? We know the colorful birds, but we deny the brown and dusky night jar with its incredible "whipporwhill" call. I wanted to celebrate the weed. I do not know the names of most weeds like this. It is possible there is a cure for diabetes hidden in here, but that is not why I value it. I love it for its persistence in the face of all that wants it dead including the lame aesthetic that values big, beautiful, well made compositions. I love it for is don't give an effing eff attitude. I love it for its I will be back even if you pull me out.

I love it for this wee white flower that says, " I am not the macro or the mondo, but I am in the micro bigger than all the others." I am a mystery. I serve no purpose. All I do is live with desire for history or celebrity. In fact I would rather no fuss be made at all.

Mostly, I love this because it makes me realize how much I love she who spared it. It is that same compassion that makes me a better man than I could have ever hoped. We work together and we share a happy ethos that knows our time is very short on this planet and that we must save what we can, even the humble weed on the back door stoop. Especially that week. I am that weed.

Here is the link if you want to join in

Mostly, I love this because it makes me realize how much I love she who spared it. It is that same compassion that makes me a better man than I could have ever hoped. We work together and we share a happy ethos that knows our time is very short on this planet and that we must save what we can, even the humble weed on the back door stoop. Especially that week. I am that weed.

I love it for this wee white flower that says, " I am not the macro or the mondo, but I am in the micro bigger than all the others." I am a mystery. I serve no purpose. All I do is live with desire for history or celebrity. In fact I would rather no fuss be made at all.

Why must "silent Sunday" photos always be panoramic or colorful or perfectly composed or a tower of mastery? We know the colorful birds, but we deny the brown and dusky night jar with its incredible "whipporwhill" call. I wanted to celebrate the weed. I do not know the names of most weeds like this. It is possible there is a cure for diabetes hidden in here, but that is not why I value it. I love it for its persistence in the face of all that wants it dead including the lame aesthetic that values big, beautiful, well made compositions. I love it for is don't give an effing eff attitude. I love it for its I will be back even if you pull me out.

Stone steps, jackrock stones, limestone from a nearby fallen foundation cemented into a back 'stoop', and a weed.

Weeds are plants that we can't use that are in inconvenient places. Here is part of the story about this one. Our old weedwhacker finally gave it up after long and loyal use. I did my homework and much to my consuming surprise I discovered that electric string trimmers have entered the world of real work. So I got one. It was lighter and quieter and better balanced than our old Echo model. And the only sound it did make was more like a hive of busy bees than the angry ones the old trimmer made. Big win. My wife went nuts trimming around the back stoop, but she left this flower intact. She decided at some point to redefine what this plant was. Not a weed. In moments like these I can scarcely believe the depth of feeling that rises up. I would have saved the weed, too, just like we save errant box turtles in the road and luna moths confused on the ground and birds that crash our glass but survive if given a safe perch.

I have always found this hashtag ironic. How can a picture be silent? What follows is a riff on this rhetorical question.

That's a lot spinning plates.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CJzIXG0T1A

Of course, schools have ever been tools and it all depends on who has grabbed the handle. Well...who? Wanna get used? Go to school and be a tool.

Here's my go at your antispam-genesis:

The kids said I had an apish run. Considering much of the dna of apes and homo sapiens is the same, that shouldn't be a surprise. I prefer it be called a shambling run...with my path in the tops of trees. That really would be apish, wouldn't it. Or so Professor Emery would say. That brings back memories.

The three p's: personal, professional, pedagogical. Here is a Venn diagram

Instead of imagining the boundaries as fixed, think of them as permeable, then imagine they are lungs, breathing. Sometime we are breathing in the pedagogical realm and it expands to our personal lives.

https://youtu.be/kP5O_NUhrK0?t=47s

Ya gotta have some fun in the margins, but I am showing here how easy it is to use video as an annotation. All you have to do is paste the url for the video here.

Just to show you that you can embed Vimeo vids here as well, here is another version via Oscar Peterson:

https://vimeo.com/71646902

I am using this annotation to show you a head-to-head matchup of two video annotation tools, Vialogues and Vibby.

Vialogues

Vibby

So far not much difference except that you can share an individual vibby comment via twitter. Of course, Vialogues is a not for profit tool and Vibby isn't. Also, you can highlight certain parts of a video with Vibby.

I took a photo of my book with my Android phone imported it into SnagIt using a cool app call TechSmith Fuse. This app directly imports it into my desktop version of SnagIt. Then I 'inverted' the photo to get the photoneg effect. Voila and uploaded to my blog. I could have also used the same embed trick by uploading it to my Google Drive. Don't know why I didn't.

I downloaded the audio as an mp3 using Peggo.

Then I saved it to my Google Drive where I have tons of space. Once there I got the embed code from that file and placed it in here. I like the spare audio player and I like that all the stuff is served from my Google account. More teachers should take advantage of the embed function in Google Drive.

How to break the filter bubble, a guide by DuckDuckGo.

I created this image using Pablo directly as I was writing the post. Once installed on Chrome, Pablo is in the right click menu no sweat and handy for improvisational meme and quote making.

I created this image in Pablo. So easy. So effective. So satisfying.

Hey get defining: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=keep%20head%20above%20water

AYKB is an an acronym for the TV trope "as you know, Bob"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IueMdK9I4Qg

This is just to say I Ioved the poem on your blog yesterday

Forgive me I commented but it did not show up

This reminds me of the wm carlos wms poem

This Is Just To Say

I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox

and which you were probably saving for breakfast

Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold

American exceptionalism might be how we got in this mess.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em3T5KnLAX0

Squirt guns? Caulking guns?

Here is the oppo view, pretty ugly. Hard to climb up that point of view, ain't it? Why can't we get along? Because some of these fuckers are just wrong. Wrong like below.

For some reason I was reminded of the Talking Heads song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWtCittJyr0

Well we know where we're going But we don't know where we've been And we know what we're knowing But we can't say what we've seen And we're not little children And we know what we want And the future is certain Give us time to work it out

Yeah

We're on a road to nowhere Come on inside Taking that ride to nowhere We'll take that ride I'm feeling okay this morning And you know We're on the road to paradise Here we go, here we go

We're on a ride to nowhere Come on inside Taking that ride to nowhere We'll take that ride Maybe you wonder where you are I don't care Here is where time is on our side Take you there, take you there

We're on a road to nowhere We're on a road to nowhere We're on a road to nowhere

There's a city in my mind Come along and take that ride And it's alright, baby, it's all right And it's very far away But it's growing day by day and it's all right Baby, it's all right Would you like to come along You can help me sing the song And it's all right, baby, it's all right They can tell you what to do But they'll make a fool of you And it's all right, baby, it's all right

There's a city in my mind Come along and take that ride And it's alright, baby, it's all right And it's very far away But it's growing day by day and it's all right Baby, it's all right, yeah Would you like to come along You can help me sing the song And it's all right, baby, it's all right They can tell you what to do But they'll make a fool of you and it's all right Baby, it's all right

We're on a road to nowhere We're on a road to nowhere We're on a road to nowhere

We're on a road to nowhere

repetition is so that you can easily memorize the poem--that is my thesis. This is an experiment in orality. I think memorizing could be in for a comeback as we move out of the Gutenberg Pause.

Nice 'turn' here from the octet. Repetition. Q: difference b/t not leaving and not going away?

repetition of the word "of" helps readers remember so that they can become "reciters".

Adore this line of present participles, logs-ox, and what reminds me of the zen series of ox pix.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_TZO-oAQMM

Assonance of "leave these". Purpose? A lyric aid to memory. I think you will find an attention to detail in this sonnet of Still's that is all about helping the reader to memorize the poem. I used to have eighth graders memorize this poem in an 80 minute block. Not possible without the careful attention to lyric rhetoric here. The assonance, repetition, rhyme, alliteration, and all the other lyric tools reside in this eminently memorizable poem.

yes. we can suffer that lot.

I certainly don't feel I am any of that.

What do I really believe in and like to do every day in my writing?

If the tools and their assumptions define practices that are anathema then can they co-exist with whatever status quo is out there? Depending upon your own personal power in your teaching setting, there are different answers to that question.

Now here's the question I have: what is the fraud?

Is anybody seriously arguing this point. Straw man?

Tried embedly to get single annotation. Very manual and clunky. You have your work cut out fot you, but I am looking forward to it. New kinds of digital rhetoric could arise out of this.

Love your work here, but can you tell me why Hypothes.is can't have a simple "copy to clipboard" function? Not blaming you, just asking.

I am sure this is a non-trivial problem, but none of my non-text media were published in the post, i.e. no pix/vids/gifs.

What is the limit on annotations per page? I had about twenty for the user tag page? I would need more than that with a large class.

Why do poems have to do anything? If they are instruments then they are knives that can cut any number of ways. Poetry is a weapon?

The ultimate realpolitik:

O WESTERN wind, when wilt thou blow<br> That the small rain down can rain?<br> Christ, that my love were in my arms<br> And I in my bed again!

We already know what works. We already know what works in Chicago. So...the problem is the solution?

All of these folks are attempting to leverage from their own spots, but no one knows whether the rock has moved nor whether we are leveraging against each other. Have we reach a level of complexity that is impossible to find a good place to wedge the bar? I certainly hope not. I do not despair as long as we keep trying.

I have done this, too. The NYT article and the flood of comments is a classic example of what we need to do as teachers in this country. We need to curate constantly (summarize, analyze, critique) and show others how to do it as well. We are doomed to curation-by-bot if we don't

Yet everything fits, yes?

Interesting Googage here: https://goo.gl/9knDOY

And here: http://goo.gl/Op1qu5

And here: https://i.imgur.com/wReGFDI.jpg (NSFW)

I am reminded of this telling James Scott photo that defines the difference between legible and illegible:

Perhaps there is a Fibonacci sequence in your Padlet. You never know with an unknown unknown.

OR A MAZE?

Susan, did you read this comment. Kinda captured my own lostness but not quite. I get the feeling that I need to give up some of my...contextity? That's like saying "Hoist anchor" in a storm. And that really is a way of breaking smart if it saves your damned life. Our political life is exactly like this now. The contextity is killing us. Hoist the fucking anchor or be dragged down with it when the storm batters hell out of you. Here I am again trying to put down the meaning anchor. This is hard to do when you have spent your whole life trying to understand and do and drive uncertainty and ambiguity to ground. I think maybe the key for me to is to feel my way with a new set of antennae, nascent and emergent antennae.

disintertwingle--sounds like a quantum state being done some amount of violence. Break bad by not disintertwingling too soon.

Maybe we need to rethink the rhetorical notions of audience (the who) and be more concerned with being more sure as readers and writers about where we want to go with a text and how we want to go there.

Feeling quite lost here, but in an interested way.

Channeling James Carse here? Infinite play has no waste because that would require one to have a set of criteria before starting. True play has an infinitude of rules that be more like guidelines, arrrrrrrr, mateys.

How to break smart--increase your ambiguity tolerance.

mistaken insight into the pattern.

the problem of faulty analysis

Here is a wormhole for more annoting: https://via.hypothes.is/http://www.wired.co.uk/article/eureka-moment-cognitive-psychology-john-kounios

Are you an "analyst" or an "insightist"?

http://www.slideshare.net/tonyobregon/developing-your-analytical-skills

Play is haptic. It has a feel. And that feel is very idiosyncratic (and not customizable).

Aphorist heaven

Tension. I think that is what we are feeling here. How much tension (this v that, spy v spy) are we willing to accept at any one time before resolution. Objective correlative anyone?

I wonder how, in its use here, ambiguity is akin to curation. Noun v verb? Is v am?

The question that ambiguity evokes: what am I looking at? The question that uncertainty evokes: what do I do with what I am looking at?

Does the first question precede the second as we move through the world?

What Rao sez,

We live in a world with gradually increasing levels of uncertainty and ambiguity. Over the last few decades we've become much more comfortable with uncertainty, but still suck at dealing with ambiguity. Ambiguity is not knowing what you are looking at, as in those trick drawings that look like a rabbit one way, a duck another way. Uncertainty is not knowing what to do with what you're looking at. Unlike uncertainty, which is about missing or noisy information, ambiguity can exist even with complete, clean information. It is about interpretation and meaning, and is as such a truly creative act of seeing.

Sorry, I can't think of a corporate hierarchy chart and think "happiness". Just can't...with a little smirky lift of my lips. My bias. How can a corporation be happy? Aggregate of all the happy workers? I aint never seen no corporation smile.

In other words acknowledging that the solution to the problem might live in how you set the uncertainty and ambiguity levels when you frame the question/problem.

You can choose ambiguity and uncertainty levels? I thought they just came to you as part of the problem. Exogenous.

Startling a fox in the woods! What an idea--ideas like black holes, always collapsing and constraining, trapping the reader in a monad.

Susan. Maybe I spoke too quickly when I said the response to Deleuze was gibberish. That has too much negative tone to it. It is gibberish to me. I get lost in it and ask myself, "WTF is this?" and "Where the hell am I?" This post in ribbonfarm blog makes me feel the same way, but happier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzeoLe6nSrU

I wonder if this learning world has changed even over a two year period?

Could it be....

Perhaps the whole idea of a "course" needs reconsideration, subversion, or even outright rejection?

Maybe they make unconscious connections CommonCore/ConnectedLearning?

Maybe/maybe not

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNZwCNSSWlI

Partying in the margins?<br>

Soiunds like an inquiry machine.

Is this your way of hinting that "There are no second acts in American lives."? Cuz I don't see no nothing here between Act 2 and Footnotes.

Be sure to check the comments below.

Check him out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McGinnis

What a tiny echo chamber this dude lives in! He could probably touch all four walls without moving.

I would like learning to be more like magic and bar tricks than like TED talks and badges.

https://youtu.be/zgMnlptZt7I

I accidentally ran the tiller through my strawberry bed this spring. Who knew? Strawberries are antifragile.

“The irony of the process of thought control: the more energy you put into trying to control your ideas and what you think about, the more your ideas end up controlling you.” ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Different types of cells in the body are being replaced at different rates. Brain cells are the oldest in the body. I wonder if that has to do with memory?

Be responsive to gifts of love by your own best lights.

Words are a garbage dump, random, not a landfill where the shit is organized.

This is a feldgang, but with a twist. I see you taking on different identities, passing on to the next one some "baton" and then carrying on the conversation within that new set of bones. Or maybe it is a strawberry runner putting down roots and making a rhizomatic mat and carrying on, passing on hyphae and rooting ever on. All I know for sure is that I want to draw a random walking line down your post's page. I don't know why, but that is what I see in my crystal self.

The Age of Indifference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldSkPqZKBl0

First blush: do these words belong together? Curriculum and wide-awakeness? When I think of curriculum, I think of a track that I am running in, that the rules do not allow variance, that is pre-set and pre-determined. Wide-awakeness seems to be opposed. Perhaps as the terms are defined my thoughts will change.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJLIiF15wjQ

"Exquisite Corpse was a perfect parlor game, involving elements of unpredictability, chance, unseen elements, and group collaboration—all in service of disrupting the waking mind’s penchant for order."

And the small rayne down can rayne...

Initial conditions for learning circles:

local spaces networked & lightly facilitated.

Welcome to the Granny Cloud.

Sometimes it is this far and not one step further. Sometimes the gravity of the time, the zeitgeist tsunami sweeps us all away. Sometimes I wear seven league boots and eat up the time and space beneath me like some meth-fueled hillbilly.

loves me some directionalitus constitutificationobus. Especially soaked in the brine of orphans' tears and cooked sous vide with brimstone. Yummy.

I am interested in the idea of cities that grow organically from the needs of its residents as opposed to the desires of those who think they control. Christopher Alexander comes to mind:

Or as Linus Torvalds wrote, Interested not in how it got big but how it got small. In other words--the roots of community and community building.

Love is the only sword that will slice through the chains of bitter Puritanism.

<script async="" crossorigin="" src="//&lt;a href=" http:="" <a="" href="http://genius.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">genius.com="" annotations="" load_standalone_embeds.js"="" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">genius.com/annotations/load_standalone_embeds.js"></script>All You Need Is Love<br>― The Beatles – All You Need Is Love

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_You_Need_Is_Love

conclusion

transitions to effects on library programs generally.

a transition from asserting that the cuts are disastrous to describing what those disastrous consequences are.

First paragraph describes the dire conditions in U of Wisconsin system because of budget cuts.

Sums up the paragraph above.

So happy for anyone to join in the exploration here. Personally, I will be adding a point here and there on this important issue.

Curiosity is inate. Learning is the result. But learning can be other lesser results as well.

Scene: Two poker players, green felt table, chips in the middle. Smoke. Drinks with little water rings on cardboard coasters. Well past civil hours.

You: I am a dustballfilled ramble through inate obscurity where curiosity is the center. I am on tap a decent beer to drink with a meal. So what are you?

Me: I might be your friend with tough questions and no solutions or a librarian contrarian or a dust bunny with no center except the curiosity that opens up in a little corners of the world, ones we didn’t quite know were there.

You: Deal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apUAK5EQiaw

So sayeth he.

Listen to the first part of this podcast and note how grades are a fraud and that they defraud. The farther grades take us away from feedback, the more fraudulent they are.

Syllabi ain't what they used to be?

Love the sentiment and the practice here. Also I want teachers to add an "idler" element into their practice and into their students lives. I wouldn't even mind a bit of the ol' slacker either. Abe Lincoln oft-quoted about taking the time to sharpen the axe.

Is this happening here?

What would this mean?

emw intern supervision?

Remind? Alt communication channels like Twitter?

What does this mean?

colleague recommendations? other data besides SITES

describe an exemplary lesson? describe an exemplary course? Describe an exemplary service moment?

how much can this informal part be a part of the process.

what documentation will we expect?

teaching and service--service to university, faculty, students?

One of my favs is "college and career readiness"

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet_de_loi_Devaquet

“The general principle of antifragility, it is much better to do things you cannot explain than explain things you cannot do.” – Nassim Taleb

I learned about:

• 1. "civic hacking"
• 1. We need [digital community organizers. (https://hyp.is/AVPmNYDrH9ZO4OKSlke8/tutormentor.blogspot.com/2016/04/arts-tech-learning-center-why-not-in.html)
• 1. Getting attention for important work might be just about as important as the work itself.

OK, we need you to take six months away from your busy schedule to write this book: "Rules for Radical Digital Community Organizers" written by a kinder, gentler Alinsky-like leader--Daniel.

Daniel has been modeling this digital community organizer role for as long as there has been a graphical environment. I know that he has paired with some folks at Indiana University to help with his work and would love to hear how that is turning out.

I think this is a profound question you have raised: building levels of understanding, how to do it. The understanding comes from the connectivity, connectivism at work, right? Now I see why you valued your time at CLMOOC with folks who know that knowledge, learning and ultimately wisdom are the result of interaction, relating, sharing, playing and being in a shared space. In areas of poverty, that is the richest resource--each other and what we can make together. You can substitute a lot of capital with human caring and sharing. A lot. We need digital community organizers. We need them badly! Stand aside, Obama, and make room for the Digital Community Concierge

Everything appeared to work for me. I assume that you need volunteers to update information. Ideally, you need API's that help you do that automatically. This represents a real opportunity for someone to help you automate your system. Or...scary thought...rebuild it. The problem is always how do we keep up with the data. Since this "keeping up" represents a huge investment in time (hence, dollars) I can appreciate your difficulty.

William Gibson's aphorism--the future is here, just not evenly distributed--applies here. I appreciate how Daniel sees Little Black Pearl's work and attaches his own to it--as in "Let a 1000 little black pearls grow." What he likens learning (the tutor/mentor connection) to is company distribution system. Corporations could be that learning distribution system. Any organization could be part of that distribution system. It is a profound piece of a new way of looking at learning as apart from schooling. Let's get to evenly distributing Daniel's ideas. They deserve a much wider listening circle.

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