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Monthly Archives: July 2016
“You want it one way”
Sometimes there’s a tension between the way it is and the way we want it to be. Marlo pointed that out to the security guard in The Wire, and Maria brought it up in The Water Knife. Sometimes people see … Continue reading
Scouting the moon
The Scout Report always turns up some interesting sites. This week’s collection includes Black Quotidian, “a digital project designed to highlight everyday moments and lives in African-American history.” I like the idea behind it: While this allowed me to find … Continue reading
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Do the Funky Narmer
Some images are just asking to be GIFfed. Tom Woodward’s bionicteaching tumblr sometimes reblogs images from the Internet Archive Book Images’ Photostream, an awesome resource. When I saw this image this morning, I couldn’t resist: http://bionicteaching.tumblr.com/post/147865024853/image-from-page-250-of-osiris-and-the-egyptian The image is a … Continue reading
My old school look
Yesterday I had the opportunity to speak at the PA Forward Information Literacy Summit. I talked about Open Education and Information Literacy, my pet topic, using Open Educational Resources and the ACRL Framework as hooks. My main point is that … Continue reading
Timely connections
The race that controls the past, controls the living present And therefore, the future Who controls our memory machines will control our future. (They always have.) (http://hackeducation.com/2016/07/13/memory-machines) I’m working on a few projects at the moment. One is a weeding … Continue reading
Same as it ever was
@ds106dc #tdc1646 My response for Today’s #ds106 Daily Create is “And you may tell yourself …” pic.twitter.com/N0Mm4ORn8C — paul bond (@phb256) July 11, 2016 I always liked Magritte. It was nice to see him acknowledged in today’s Daily Create. The … Continue reading