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Comment on It is about the students (and we are all students) by Tom

Tom — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:52:31 +0000

or maybe just bitter and whiny sounding.

Comment on It is about the students (and we are all students) by Tom

Tom — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:31:21 +0000

In certain ways I think it’d be foolish for Jim to try to determine the student role in his edupunk idea. The students ought to be saying what they think their role is.

I don’t particularly like her tone but then I can be pretty hostile towards strangers. She seems overly arrogant and claiming both punk and DIY as the domain of the young seems pretty misguided. Punk is now history. DIY is pretty eternal and certainly has been led by people older than teenagers.

I don’t really see the chance to wait for the traditional student to take the lead. They have been brainwashed into apathy for far too long. She has to go back to the 60s for examples of youth leading change. I’m not saying no students are active now but the percentage is pretty poor.

The whole thing irritates me. If you want a voice- step up and say something useful, better yet do something useful. Whining about not being included or deciding someone is too old to fit your definition of punk or DIY is useless- just as useless as arguing over whether you’re an edupunk or an edufolkie.

I think I may swear off posting anything other than lesson plan ideas for the rest of my life. The petty philosophizing and subsequent hair splitting makes me tired. Or maybe just angry.

Comment on It is about the students (and we are all students) by Terry

Terry — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:20:51 +0000

Bryan,
Some folks in the Dean’s Office of the School of Arts and Sciences installed a NING site (not sure my technical terms are right there) and started inviting folks to join. Then some of us started setting up groups for committees we have going and inviting committee members to join. We have been using Bboard for committee “archives” but this is a real step in an interesting direction. A few people are doing some blogging within the Ning. I have seen that there is an event calendar that they are hoping folks will use (it is for the whole UR Ning –not sure yet if we can do private group calendars…) So, basically, we are just playing with it to see what it might be able to do. So far I have been surprised at the number of faculty who are jumping on board. I think it makes a nice alternative to Facebook, since faculty and students can have a social networking environment without the “TMI” that currently comes with Facebook.
If you know of others using it, I would love to hear more about their experience.

Comment on It is about the students (and we are all students) by Bryan Alexander

Bryan Alexander — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:47:05 +0000

What are your campus folks doing with Ning?

Comment on Of birds and blogs by Terry

Terry — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:17:55 +0000

thanks, Tom. I’ve had that same experience of being a bad predictor of which posts will generate discussion! The blogoshere is wild and unpredictable : ) But I still always have my own archive in this blog of ideas I have had, experiences I’ve enjoyed, links to return to, etc…

Comment on Of birds and blogs by Tom

Tom — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:04:13 +0000

That’s a nice shot!

I struggle with the idea of blogging final product vs. thoughts and ideas quite a bit. I get self-conscious, in part because I think of the audience too much at times. I end up thinking I’m wasting their time but the posts I think are sure will be popular are often completely dead while the ones I thought were utterly useless are very popular. So clearly, I have no idea what I’m doing.

I’m trying to run with that idea and just relax.

Hope the presentation goes well- I’m sure it will. Great idea by the way.

Comment on Meme:Passion Quilt by Tricia

Tricia — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:59:38 +0000

I love the notion of “getting out of the way” of learning. We do need to let students open those doors on their own.

Thanks for playing! This is a great post.

Comment on A REAL Assessment of Teaching? by Meme:Passion Quilt : compos(t)ing

Meme:Passion Quilt : compos(t)ing — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 22:24:24 +0000

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Comment on A Little Dreaming by terry

terry — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 21:12:42 +0000

Julie,
I am trying a different WP theme. It should play more kindly with GoogleReader. Please let me know if you have other troubles subscribing…

Comment on Who is this “We” we are talking about? by Terry

Terry — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 22:40:17 +0000

link fixed! thanks…