I am reaching out because the Concepts for Adaptive Learning (CfAL) at the Farnam Center (formerly Farnam Neighborhood House) 5 Science Park is launching a virtual summer program (Tech4Teens) for teens. We ask, respectfully, that you share this information across New Haven and within your networks. Tech4Teens is designed to empower youth to share their passi
Make a Podcast Here is my 2toPonder series and my son's podcast series . Want to make a podcast, just record on your phone or laptop and upload the file somewhere. Use Paper In my literacy mantra I made a flip book like explanation. I just stacked my phone camera on a bunch of books. I also do little clip art talks with paper cut outs You can do "In Plain En
We often talk about the tool's it a poet's toolbox. Ideas like including two unrealted subjects, writing through senses, emotions, and observations. A poet who writes in English can also take advantage of homophones and homonyms to stretch and bend meaning. They allow you to indluce a double entendre, letting a word inhabit two meanings. Hopmophones and homo
IndieWeb West, a remote conference rapidly approaches, and I just proposed a session on webmention badges. For the last two years a group of us have explored how we could created a simple badging system using webmentions. One link, verifying that a second link contains evidence that meets specific criteria. That's it. Two permalinks talking and veryifying ea
Our #edu407 class has gotten busy crafting documentary poetry. As we study disciplinary #literacies this lesson gave us the chance to look at connections between history and Language Arts. If you want to get involved we added lesson plans and examples to our class wiki I wrote mine today about the Strawberry Moon (the first full moon in June). My origninal i
In a great #IndieWeb chat this morning we were discussing the ethical implications of reactions from the Buddhist perspective of trishna, or the craving of attention, and how this relates to the UX around reactions. So I took a look at my likes and reposts for the last 24 hours I do not do reactions from my own website. Too much work for a quick ephemeral no