Shifting Realities: A Story of a Poem
Someone asked me about the genesis of a recent poem. This is the behind the stage #clmooc #literacies
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Test Blueprints, Test Objectives, and Learning Objectives? What is the difference
In the field of measurement and assessments educational psychologist use very similar terms to mean very different things. Test blueprints, test objectives, and learning objectives often get new teachers or graduate students mixed up. Yet the terms mean different things for three critical documents in the learning process First all three begin with a standar
Greg McVerrySome History on the Critical in "Critical Race Theory"
To everyone who criticizes Critical Race Theory as "marxist" let's explore some history. Not so much on Marxism, go read up on Friedrich Engels on your own time (Marx a crappy writer IMO, Engles easier to get through) First if you use any systems thinking that includes the individual, an agent, or a subject you have Soviet psychologist Aleksei N. Leontiev to
Greg McVerryWriting Up Regression
Social support significantly predicted depression scores, b = –.34, t(225) = 6.53, p < .001. Social support also explained a significant proportion of variance in depression scores, R2 = .12, F(1, 225) = 42.64, p < .001. This is from the APA. I don't usually care about if it predicted. I want to know the amount of variance explained and the effect size. In t
Greg McVerryLinking at the Eiffel
you deleted me but agree with everything I say Happens to the best of us I deleted you? Blew me away I searched you Heart was instantly shattered I don't even know who you are We kiss When I discover myself #smallpoems
Greg McVerryCommon IT Policy Template on blogging
1. Blogging by employees, whether using [Organization] property and systems or personal computer systems, is also subject to the terms and restrictions set forth in this Policy. Limited and occasional use of [Organization] IT Systems to engage in blogging is acceptable, provided that it is done in a professional and responsible manner, does not otherwise vio
Greg McVerryWarriors of Peace
Warriors of peace do not fall Rise, rise A sweet mother of all be our eyes, our heavenly love always above. For we have shown this world not worthy for such abundant love Rise, rise A sweet mother of all Warriors of peace do not fall #smallpoems
Greg McVerryWe Stand In Solidarity with Asian and Asian Americans of Atlanta
The tragedies come to quickly. The hate flows to freely. It must stop As a nation we face a moment of heightened violence, bullying, and discrimination against Asian and Asian American children, businesses, teachers, families, and community members. We send out love and solidarity to all of our community members impacted by this racism, misogyny, and violenc
Greg McVerryHappy Birthday Baby Bobby #smallpoems
"Eastern Bluebird-HB 10-3-16-14" by mountainman0826 is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND The Border is a line that birds cannot see A beautiful piece of paper folded on the wings of time Así que baila en líneas entre la sombra y la luz Poeta Prícipe Guerror Poet-Prince-Warrior take flight in eyes opening on Sol's Revolution, a bird of myriad voices who perches on t
Greg McVerryThe Capitol Riots and Martin Luther King's Question of "Where Do We Go from Here?"
I have seen many people ask today, "What would Dr. Martin Luther King Jr say about the seditious attacks we witnessed on the Nation's Capitol?" Dr. King would begin with prayer and end with a call to action. In fact he already did, for in his speech in 1967 at the 11th Annual Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Dr King already asked, "Where do we go fr
Greg McVerrySome Thoughts on Parler OR Censorship is Free Speech
Free Speech Not how Free Speech works. Corporations have had the same rights as people since 1886. You want to make a free speech claim need to focus on that precedent. Amazon has the right to allow whatever speech they want on their service or not. That is their free speech right. When this is combined with a Term of Service that Parler signed it is more a
Greg McVerryMy Decemeber #ukulele songs #clmooc
The #ukulele underground curriculum has three course, but on top of the classes you work on two songs a week. Then drop those songs. Howver you mix in 1-2 older songs from previous weeks. In December I worked on: Waiting in Vane Stand By Me Friend of the Devil Fire on the Mountain Jambalya Waiting in Vane A good song simplified to a different key practice a
Greg McVerryMy Ukulele Curriculum
I had my first #ukulele lesson with Aldrine Guerrero today. As a goal we wanted to develop a curriculum for my playing. I decided to take lessons as I learned a couple chords, like to make noise pretending I knew scales, and had annoyed everyone in my family pretending to know a few songs. Basically hit a wall in learning teachers can only break. You can pra
Greg McVerryTen Tips for Online Teaching Online from LRA Coffee Hours #lra2020
Tip 1: Do intro videos and two check in videos twice a year Tips 2: Schedule individual sessions ask students to come with a question Tip 3: Rely on what you know about good teaching Tip 4: Use synchronous meeting Tip 5: Use breakout rooms Tip 6: Simple navigation improves learning Tip 7: Build in offline activities Tip 8: Make podcasts for students so they
Greg McVerryEDU106 Portfolio Module
Goal of the Module You will create a portfolio website that tracks your efforts to make yourself or the world a better place. There are a number of ideas you can choose from: Learn and teach a classic family recipe. Join an online movement Do a two week long quantified self project (diet,exercise, reading, digital detox) Making a mental health guide tracking
Greg McVerryReflections on Rumi: Is there a Shared Voice in American Poetry
I am reading Rumi's poetry right now. I say reading for I can not truly hear the meaning. Unless of course I find the emptiness to not listen. Until then I do try to find audio versions of poems in Persian to miss meanings in Cadence of quatrains and tone of odes. Prosody of the voice carried by a 1,000 past tongues. Alas, I rely on Coleman Banks like everyo
Greg McVerryOn Being Woven
The metaphor of weaving has meant a lot to me this past year. As the world unwinds around us we need to wrap oursevles in love. Femedtech and the Quilt project, exploring why epochs get defined by war and not weaving. Looking for a new metaphor of knowledge brokering and settling on weaving. Considering how multi-species worlding links our spirit and nature
Greg McVerryHey @scsu #edu106 here is your MidTerm
You need to create a spreadsheet or document to answer the following questions: Did you post a reflection of your reading by tracing the shape of a TV show (2020-09-06) Did you write a blog post on how shapes affect stories 2020-09-06 Did you complete a free choice blog post? 2020-09-06 Did you trace the shape of a popular communication tool like email? 2020
Greg McVerryWe do dumb stuff with data around #teacheredchat in Connecticut #literacies #ctedu #edchat
We get data and teacher training so wrong in Connecticut. Let's ignore that the teacher training regulations are older than every single new teacher (circa 1996) but we break almost every rule when it comes to even passable sniff test measurement. Let me give you the SCSU perspective -Field work a rubric in CPAST (a growth model of different rubrics for diff
Greg McVerryWhere do we store our memories? #literacies #cognition
Been reading about this paper on spiders and extended cognition https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-017-1069-7 and thinking back to all the work I read this summer on the networking and communication between fungus and tree roots. Maybe our belief in human supremacy deserves a punishment of Promethean proportions.. ...also further evidence on th
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