About raptnrent: I got the name from my keys - R Apt and R Ent for the back door to my apartment and the back door to the house. I liked that they were also words: Rapt, meaning enthralled, riveted, captivated, and Rent, meaning torn asunder, violently wrenched. I thought it made for an interesting juxtaposition, open to all kinds of interpretations.
Monthly Archives: November 2017
of comprehension, context and compassion
The great Jane Secker published a list of student views of information literacy earlier today: I've now written up the post-its about what is Information Literacy and why it matters in a Google Doc: https://t.co/Qelx0oayql thanks so much to #citylis … Continue reading
“It’s the end of the world.”
I have been seeing information on Twitter that someone is plotting the end of the world, as well as the end of ds106. It occurred to me that this is just the type of thing that requires superhero involvement. Even … Continue reading
Ergot sum
The setting: 1960s Boston, the US capital of conservative Catholicism. The Catholic Church had made the decision to change the language of the Mass to the vernacular, so in America it was changing from Latin to English. This was rather … Continue reading