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Today in the #tech4teens camp we practiced nested semantic #html5 elements as we built our Movie Posters. I love this project we designed originally with Mozilla and Girls Who Code. It lives on with Glitch but it is by far one of the best digital storytelling tools. The task was to create a scary Halloween movie about technology. Sure students build websites
Greg McVerryLooking for a an action packed day today. -Early on I had some ideas for the #cmmcab working group that kept festering on my hike yesterday. So did some hacking on Working Group tasks before house woke up. -Dropped kids off at school and checked the six online classes I teach this semester. Dropped in to share my love of Erik B and Rakim (this week doing bes
Greg McVerryWe had a wonderful meeting of the cmmc-ab objectives and assessment working group yesterday. Spent some time discussing the difference between knowledge and skills, nouns and verbs, and how these make up bodies of knowledge in the domains of #cybersecurity . Now we return to the CP, CA1, CA2, and CA3 draft objectives to ensure we have these "families" or dom
Greg McVerryOur democracy is threatened. People doomscrolling into depression. All facebook's fault. Join #IndieWeb for #Blocktober
Greg McVerryI will probably just give A's to everyone who did most of their work or never gave up, and those in between. Surviving a pandemic, taking 5 classes (equals 45 hours to meet fed requirements) and work 35-50 hours a week. All the evidence I need of knowledge growth. ...I want my annual report to say the same: I survived a global pandemic, went weeks without po
Greg McVerryMantras, a sanskrit word , derives from meditation practices of Hinduism and Bhuddisum. These short phrases, represent universal truths people use to focus their minds away from the material. "Mantra" by A literacy mantra repesents your worldview to how we and children learn to read and write. Your epistemological views , what you think about knowledge, and
Greg McVerryIn my previous post I shared pictures of a hand carved spoon I am shaping from wood. I used this tool as a metaphor to explore my goals for #edu522. Got me thinking about what would the shape of the sotry be if I stretched the metaphor just a little too far. Knowledge isn't Spoon Fed In this class you design your syllabus, well the important parts. I still c
Greg McVerryIn every conversation you hear calls to get back to school, to "Get back to Normal." I don't like the old normal. Normal did not work for the majority of our children. Especially black, brown, and indigenous kids. I want to serve up something new. So to illustrate my subjectives for this class I decided to learn a bit more whittling and carve up a spoon. I b
Greg McVerryIn many ways though I see the dominance of argument to be a central problem with the enlightenment theory that tried to quantify inequality based on sex and an artificial construct of race. It goes farther then the Enlightenment The whole idea that man was given dominion over the natural world, which traces further back to Greek ideas of argument in logos, p
Greg McVerryI 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
Greg McVerryMake 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
Greg McVerryWe are launching Tech 4 Teens Club. An #IndieWeb club for teens to learn web design, podcasting, photography, video editing, and coding.
Greg McVerryWe 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
Greg McVerryIndieWeb 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
Greg McVerryOur #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
Greg McVerryIn 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
Greg McVerryWhen we write we often capture what we observe. Scientist write formal observations. Mathematicians may observe patterns. Literary experts see poetry. Each discipline takes its own spin, but the basic skill remains. Every writer should carry an observation notebook. In fact journaling may improve student writing and positive perceptions of learning (Connor-G
Greg McVerryHow does the EPP collaborate with partners to provide expertise on new technology in professional development for teachers in partner schools? For advanced-level specialists? We host and organize a free 2 day professional seminar for building personal websites in NYC and New Haven: https://indieweb.org/2019/New_Haven https://indieweb.org/2019/NYC https://ind
Greg McVerryFirst run preparing for the Lemonade Club 5k Remote Challenge
Greg McVerryMantras, a sanskrit word , derives from meditation practices of Hinduism and Bhuddisum. These short phrases, represent universal truths people use to focus their minds away from the material. "Mantra" by A literacy mantra repesents your worldview to how we and children learn to read and write. Your epistemological views , what you think about knowledge, and
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