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Our Introduction to the Learn Something module in #edu106 @scsu using a #connectedlearning lens in our #literacies class

We began class with a check-in. Every class begins with an entrance slip where students blog about their writing. I use this technique to take advantage of instructional minutesd but also allow students who have back to back classes across campus make it before we start new material. We then went over expectations of our second module "Learn Something" We fi

Wow Princeton goes fully online in face of covid-19 . https://twitter.com/Princeton/status/1237006918259965952 I think it will be good for the ConnCSU

Wow Princeton goes fully online in face of covid-19 . https://twitter.com/Princeton/status/1237006918259965952 I think it will be good for the ConnCSU system, kick in the ass faculty needed, shame it tok an epidemic that may devastate the economy.

Our professional orgs addicted to cash flow brought in from conferences....but we as an academy need to say enough is enough...we don't need to rely o

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Our professional orgs addicted to cash flow brought in from conferences....but we as an academy need to say enough is enough...we don't need to rely on models that think knowledge is a scarcity held only by a few lucky with 9k honorariums

...oooh of course "Wall Street" needs to make list of Boomer movies..maybe that's how you set it up movies of Boomers contrasted to those of their kid

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...oooh of course "Wall Street" needs to make list of Boomer movies..maybe that's how you set it up movies of Boomers contrasted to those of their kids ex 1984 great cinematic year b needs a critical eye to see rampant racism &rape culture

@dwhly As long as we remember the rule, "highlighting without purpose isn't annotating, it is coloring"

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@dwhly As long as we remember the rule, "highlighting without purpose isn't annotating, it is coloring"

Speaking of which , I heard my kids use "boomer" as a playground insult for the first time. We were playing pickle and if you biffed a play they would

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Speaking of which , I heard my kids use "boomer" as a playground insult for the first time. We were playing pickle and if you biffed a play they would just "you boomer" #literacies

What grated on the nerves last time was the blatant disrepect and bias @iesresearch reviewers show to faculty who teach at #realcollege #literacies "I

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What grated on the nerves last time was the blatant disrepect and bias @iesresearch reviewers show to faculty who teach at #realcollege #literacies "It was not entirely clear if the institutions supporting the research team offered the fairly sophisticated resources needed to mount and manage the online platform that is central to this project. Also, two of

@foundhistory Breakfast Club ain't Boomer movie, I'd put that in the nihilistic Gen X high school genre, Harry Met Sally, Diner, Poseidon Adventure, B

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@foundhistory Breakfast Club ain't Boomer movie, I'd put that in the nihilistic Gen X high school genre, Harry Met Sally, Diner, Poseidon Adventure, Birds, Oh God you Devil, Jerk, Manchurian Candidate, Psycho, anything post 84 too late

Really separate film festival. Tracing black cinema through disco, blaxploitation, Kung Fu & Hip Hop, break dance movies of 80s, up through Bad Boys &

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Really separate film festival. Tracing black cinema through disco, blaxploitation, Kung Fu & Hip Hop, break dance movies of 80s, up through Bad Boys & Independence Day when black lead (and former white safe rapper) Will Smith makes bank

rather than shoehorning in Black Cinema through tokenized nod to blaxspoitation films would leave them out and discuss absence of narratives, maybe br

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rather than shoehorning in Black Cinema through tokenized nod to blaxspoitation films would leave them out and discuss absence of narratives, maybe bring in hiphop culture through kungfu and breaking (use Breakin II: Electric Bugaloo)

@ltaub Hard to believe its gonna take an epidemic to convince faculty that this "online thing" is a a thing. administration has known...but that is mo

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@ltaub Hard to believe its gonna take an epidemic to convince faculty that this "online thing" is a a thing. administration has known...but that is more a bottom line and enrollment thing, they bosses, don't know much about pedagogy

Here is my coronavirus app idea: a meal delivery service called "last mile" Driver doesn't get out of car but instead uses a remote control robot to b

Here is my coronavirus app idea: a meal delivery service called "last mile" Driver doesn't get out of car but instead uses a remote control robot to bring food from curb to door.

makes "Boomer" more derogatory fact people get cast as children of "Greatest Generation" who squandered advances in civil rights, equal rights, decide

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makes "Boomer" more derogatory fact people get cast as children of "Greatest Generation" who squandered advances in civil rights, equal rights, decided to ignore decades of science of climate change and allowed racism to continue unabated

@spkowalski Pencil still fav tool for annotating. Ha built in undue feature at top, and recharging done with any sharp object. For online tools I like

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@spkowalski Pencil still fav tool for annotating. Ha built in undue feature at top, and recharging done with any sharp object. For online tools I like hypothes.is, HTML element blockquote, and built in highlighting and comment of gDocs

Dumb shit you hear in #HigherEd "Well we know the program isn't working but we have accreditation coming up in a few years so we can't change anything

Dumb shit you hear in #HigherEd "Well we know the program isn't working but we have accreditation coming up in a few years so we can't change anything now"

@LisaG724 Far-right co-opted a story line in a Dean Kootz novel about a virus called Wuhan 450, or something @drpaulgosar is being very deliberate in

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@LisaG724 Far-right co-opted a story line in a Dean Kootz novel about a virus called Wuhan 450, or something @drpaulgosar is being very deliberate in use of conservative dog whistle to blame this on the "international deep state" and Chinese

@foundhistory All why I love the clip from a 1 million ways top die in the west where they talk about the wooden wheel toy rotting kids brains: https:

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@foundhistory All why I love the clip from a 1 million ways top die in the west where they talk about the wooden wheel toy rotting kids brains: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXOsCi_F7w8

@SarahLWasserman The active learning strategies matter more than the delivery technology. That said I like Zoom for the Brady Bunch view which doesn't

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@SarahLWasserman The active learning strategies matter more than the delivery technology. That said I like Zoom for the Brady Bunch view which doesn't privilege speakers and use a lot of smaller breakout rooms for small group chat.

Here is link to proposal that @iesresearch has deemed below" Outstanding to Excellent" https://jgregorymcverry.com/questiontheweb so forced me to do w

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Here is link to proposal that @iesresearch has deemed below" Outstanding to Excellent" https://jgregorymcverry.com/questiontheweb so forced me to do work as free labor as "creative activity" which I do because I believe in the mission of digital #literacies

Use personal delivery is a lead loss, the real money will be in the gorverment contracts to keep students who get two free meals a day at school fed.

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Use personal delivery is a lead loss, the real money will be in the gorverment contracts to keep students who get two free meals a day at school fed.