Yoshi has a trans partner. Nintendo always been almost progressive on issues of gender and sexuality...Except that whole princess thing in Mario and Zelda.

ReadingNovember 10, 2019

Thr Day the Dinosaurs Died

Fascinating tale about the last hour of the dinosaurs.

ReadingNovember 10, 2019

The Secret Life of a Professional Statue

Good memoir. Trace the story and the closing chapters of Toby.

ReadingAugust 6, 2019

From Trump to Fox News to 8chan: the web of white supremacist rhetoric is wide

The fact that so many of Trump’s Facebook advertisements overtly appeal to white nationalism should disgust us. It should also alarm those who run Facebook. How they can go to work each day knowing that they directly profit from the spread of ethnic hatred is beyond me.

ReadingJuly 18, 2019

Horseflies

Horse-flies or horseflies (for other names, see common names) are true flies in the family Tabanidae in the insect order Diptera Think about defining these terms. Will be hard The mouthparts of females are formed into a stout stabbing organ with two pairs of sharp cutting blades, and a spongelike part used to lap up the blood that flows from the wound In gen

ReadingJuly 3, 2019

Lessons From Sociocultural Writing Research for Implementing the Common Core State Standards #EDU407Sum19

What we mean by “the role of context” is the recognition that writing is not just a cognitive process but a social and cultural one. Writing and writers develop through interactions with one an-other over time. Such ideas about the role of context and culture in writing development underlie a sociocultural per-spective that pays particular attention to the w

ReadingFebruary 9, 2019

Digital Minimalism

Starting this book as part of https://weareopen.coop/ book club and to model how online book clubs work for #edu307. No irony in doing a book club about digital minimalism from my blog. In fact, going big the first step in going small. When you have a website you design your world, the smallest and largest piece of real estate online.

ReadingFebruary 5, 2019

March

#wanto

ReadingFebruary 2, 2019

The AARL Ham Radio License Manual

Took a practice test without knowing anything and go a 65% I wonder what you need for a passing rate. Time ti study.

ReadingFebruary 2, 2019

https://qz.com/1525661/your-digital-identity-has-three-layers-and-you-can-only-protect-one-of-them/

Will the real digital you please stand up? It's called get a webstie or blog. Go #IndieWeb

ReadingJanuary 29, 2019

How Little People Can Be Invisible in the Open #cccert

This is a story of how powerful people’s voices are louder, get heard, used, perpetuated, even when they’ve been influenced by little people. And power here is relative, of course. Most people in this story are not the littlest Even worse: I see many people acknowledging different perspectives on open pedagogy now BUT STILL going on to use David’s “OER-enabl

ReadingJanuary 25, 2019

Brief History of Seven Killings

Found my next #wanto after reading https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/28/why-marlon-james-decided-to-write-an-african-game-of-thrones

ReadingJanuary 18, 2019

Trump's battle with Pelosi intensifies

Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) argued it was one thing for Trump to travel to Iraq to visit U.S. troops during the shutdown and another for Pelosi to do so. "I think the president of the United States represents the entire country as commander in chief, I think if he wants to speak to the troops, that it certainly honors our entire nation," Turner told CNN's Wolf