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Greg McVerry / Writing & conversations
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Read Bottom Up Remind me of @amirad recent post on not being silenced as a Muslim women in face of security theater "Sangita ... https://t.co/vkFB5M5QAP — Greg McVerry (@jgmac1106) December 28, 2015 This is how #gearupworks we need to make participation a cultural norm among youth groups. "Youth are judged b... https://t.co/ImNEjKwtye — Greg McVerry (@jgmac1
Greg McVerryI had a wonderful conversation today with Dave Bovill and Ward Cunningham about Federated Wiki today. For over an hour we hacked around with a tool designed to support the open Web. Federated Wiki works as a space between wikis and blogs. Wikis seek a collective voice. Blogs represent individual thinking. Fedwiki is about forkable thoughts. I was turned on t
Greg McVerrySo You Want Your kid to code? Read them literature. Code is copy pasted, It is taught. Portable Beauty, however is learned. Shared. So you want your kid to code? Let them play. Friendship bracelets music, chess, sports. puzzles and patterns Passion designing passion So you want your kid to code? Let them lead. in who they are and in what they care then other
Greg McVerryIan O'Byrne : We need to open up publishing by connecting to the #indieweb Christina Cantrill Has playdough, pipecleaners, and rubber bands for us to make and play Amy Stornaiuolo Phil Nichols < Phil then moves into finding publics as a part of making There are different ways to finding publics. The more authentic the student driven the audience the more mot
Greg McVerryAmira opened up the Mozilla Foundation comparing the MozFest journey to a magical carpet ride. What a journey. So many of us took flight and explored a confernece built on making, hacking, and playing. flickr photo shared by ChristosBacharakis under a Creative Commons ( BY-NC-SA ) license Yet in almost all instances magic is an illusion. flickr photo shared
Greg McVerryI asked by students to approach the edge. To find that balance o fear fear and enjoyment that gathers around our personal precipice. Its Ignite Talk time. flickr photo shared by kirtapatrik under a Creative Commons ( BY-NC-ND ) license These 20 slide presentations are image driven and the slides advanced every fifteen seconds. Within the panic and passion st
Greg McVerryEric Anderson up first. Has teaching background. MA from UCONN and 6th SCSU. Has three goals 1. Responsible budget that passes first time. Wants transparency. 2. Wants to concentrate on high school accreditation. He has done it before. 3. Embrace identity has small school district. We can't provide what large districts provide.
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Greg McVerryAs Networks evolve you begin to rely on the connections and nodes you have made. Not just for the identity work or self branding, not…
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Greg McVerryIn my last edition of the #edu106 newsletter, Albatross News , I detailed how I was going to open up our private class stream. I flipped the switch And I might have ruined my workflow. In the class students have their own blogs. I use an RSS feed and the class stream to aggregate our work. I would leave comments on both their blog and the private stream. On
Greg McVerryIf you have a second I am joining a discussion on social reading. This is what collaborative inquiry means. We as teachers are exploring problems and designing solutions together. We are talking about Hypothes.is http:/ / www.youtube.com/ watch?v=2wK4mNmikB8
Greg McVerryAs part of #edu106 we are learning about collaborative writing.So I decided to ask a bunch of people I don't know about something I know nothing about. Basically to help me collect source. This was the orgininal post on Medium: I keep reading hints that there is a debate brewing among technologists that the mobile web is dead and should die. Read recently th
Greg McVerryAsking for a quick favor. We are working feverishly on the #FeministIn(ter)ventions conference. As a steering committee we just released the RFP. Please spread the word. The 22 nd Women’s Studies Conference “#FeministIn(ter)ventions: Women, Community, Technology” To be held on the campus of Southern Connecticut State University Friday and Saturday, April 15
Greg McVerryToday we held our second #MakerMonday Challenge in #EDU106. Last Monday we had off. The first challenge (two weeks ago) I collected a bunch of junk from around the school and said make me something. This week I threw HTML at the class and said make me something. For most of the students they would look behind the curtains of the Web for the first time. I tur
Greg McVerryHello everyone I got a few questions about the workflow for the class. I know it has felt chaotic with the new tools, the tight space, and the classroom renovations. I want you to know that everyone will get off the ground smoothly. This class is organized into modules. Each module last two weeks. Each module you will iterate on one project we make in class.
Greg McVerryI recieved a question from a teacher at Northwest Catholic High School . I am helping the school launch a 1:1 iPad initiative . As part of the workflow teachers can set up a classroom website using Known ,an open source learning platform designed for educators. We do not yet use a Known Campus licesened site yet. During the pilot year teachers are building t
Greg McVerry@jgmac1106 @heatherwalder Incognito doesn’t filter out IP address influences, right? Does DDG? (I’ve never considered this.) #digped — Chris Friend (@chris_friend) August 12, 2015 As part of #digped folks were Googling themselves. I discussed how search results are now curated and influenced by those we follow, where we are, and what we have searched for in
Greg McVerryAs part of our language arts class we had to choose from a few options for a cumaltive project. I chose to work on the "flipped classroom" videos that have emerged as an instructional genre. In the flipped model background knowledge and lecture material are delivered out of class so the work with the material can be done inside. I use the term more loosely o
Greg McVerryAs part of a graduate class we have been discussing what it means to learn to read and write. We have discussed the correlations between core skills such as phonemic aawareness and phonics while reading Heath, Au, and Gee. Much of the discussion has revolved around the boundaries of explicit instruction, the role of poverty, and if reading is taught as a cul
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