Monthly Archives: July 2016

“You want it one way”

Posted on July 31, 2016 by phb256

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 →

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Scouting the moon

Posted on July 24, 2016 by phb256

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

Posted on July 24, 2016 by phb256

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 →

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My old school look

Posted on July 22, 2016 by phb256

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 →

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Timely connections

Posted on July 15, 2016 by phb256

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 →

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Same as it ever was

Posted on July 11, 2016 by phb256

@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 →

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