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Greg McVerry / Writing & conversations
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Yesterday I got the chance to catch up with the Participation Team as we continue our development of the Leadership Toolkit . Everyone is off at all-hands in Hawaii. I joined remotely from Connecticut to hack away at some work. It was great to catch up with Mikko, Verena, and Emma. When it comes to developing resources for open pedagogy on a global scale I c
Greg McVerryThe past few years at LRA @wiobyrne and I have been exploring Open Pedagogy. We started the Alt. Pub study group trying to push open research and publication. We have developed and pushed a research agenda around open pedagogy. The two of us have decided its time to get all our ideas together and focus them on a book. We are going to try and make the entire
Greg McVerryStudents should do school Not have it done to them And the less dough a district has The more doing schools do Let’s make the students our Subject Not the object of our 96 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-
Greg McVerryEDU106 is a great class. I work with students on recognizing how literacy shapes our lives. In this week's maker party, which is really a drop in design studio time, I had a wonderful discussion with Joe Freer about personal brand and identiy . What I want students to realize: It is isn't about social media marketing or branding its really about living and l
Greg McVerryIn our recent conversations around credentialing and the workforce. Bryan Mathhers recently brought up how the cover letter and the resume reinforce privledge and do little to show what you can do. I thought about this in terms of my ideas around presence rather than simply portfolio assessments. I thought I would give it a try...It is also for an undergradu
Greg McVerrySource: https://www.instagram.com/p/BKBr_DiD79l/ I am looking forward to lurking on #HipHopEd tonight. I learn a lot on this chat as I listen. I am drawn to spaces of literacy scholars where words and meaning are seen first as tools of both agency and oppression. Tonight I will be looking forward to curating inspirational quotes. Our GearUp work with student
Greg McVerryAnnouncement: Due to Labor Holiday We Will Move Mandatory Class to Wednesday Every Wednesday in #EDU106 we throw a maker party. Today marked the first event for this semesters class. EDU106 New Literacies: Digital Texts and Tools is set up for hybrid delivery. It succeeeds when a community emerges to support each other no matter where we gather. We meet for
Greg McVerryOver the last few years I have explored a variety of tools for open course development. Asa refresher I design my online learing space with three elements: a hub with materials, an individual site for each learner, and a class stream. I am debating how I want to present my hubs. I orginally created a Wordpress site with multiple courses. Last year I tried bu
Greg McVerryI asked AERA Division K for help lookign for research. We really cannot dismiss the social when discussin locating on the web. Its a go to: Haigh, M., & Ell, F. (2014). Consensus and dissensus in mentor teachers' judgments of readiness to teach. Teaching and Teacher Education, 40, 10-21. Haigh, M., Ell, F., & Mackisack, V. (2013). Judging teacher candidates'
Greg McVerryflickr photo shared by carolinazuarq under a Creative Commons ( BY-NC ) We were asked in an email newsletter, on a GitHub issue, or a Discourse thread (can't remember), "What Mozilla should work on next." With the sunsetting of Snag-It for Chrome . I realized something. Firefox needs to have a feature like Snag-It for Chrome built in...or Nimbus the screen-c
Greg McVerryflickr photo shared by John Tann under a Creative Commons ( BY ) license I had big plans for these last two days. I was going to catch up on reading and posting to student blogs. More importantly I have blocked out large swaths of time to spend with my family. They deserve a break from 70 hour work weeks as much as me, probably more. Yet now I find myself ut
Greg McVerryAhsoka Tano, until Rey appeared, fought as the only female Jedi in the official Star Wars canon. Disney now has the chance in Star Wars "Rebels" to finally answer the question, "Who is the female Yoda?" The Female Yoda Yes I know the prequels and the Clone Wars have many female Jedi. Yet look at the make-up of the Council in Attack of the Clones. Looks like
Greg McVerryLast night Trump trounced the Republican party. A brand mogul whose bravado lead this bashing Trump will either be the Republican nominee or see the party ingore the will of the people at a brokered convention I see Trump's rise as a direct result of gerrymandering after the 2010 mid-term elections. Obama was cast as a socialist boogeyman. Republicans ignore
Greg McVerrySo the notification went off. I pulled down the shade to take a look. @Ebonyteach @jgmac1106 @mmanderino Just might use this conversation in the LRA Presidential talk. Condenses racialization to 10+ tweets! — patricia enciso (@patriciae1) March 1, 2016 I looked at the previous Tweet and my interest grew. . @patriciae1 Twitter's been powerful for advocacy bc
Greg McVerryGitHub made a recent update to their web interface that now makes me believe it is a place every educator belongs. flickr photo shared by Bernie Goldbach under a Creative Commons ( BY-NC-ND ) license You can now create and drag and drop files into your repos. Think of a repo as a cabinet,that holds both files and folders. Attached to your "cabinet" is a clip
Greg McVerryNot one minute. Not one dime. I made that promise May 19th, 1999 when I woke my brother Perez up from his slumber at the midngith release of Phantom Menace. I would never watch the first prequeln or give George Lucas any of my money for the movie. For sixteen years I kept that promise. Last night the credo blew up as predictably as some planet size laser. My
Greg McVerryflickr photo shared by Hldrmn under a Creative Commons ( BY-ND ) license We held our first session of Power and Passion-Writing for Change as part of #GearUpNH. I am always inspired by the scholars who join us. This semester Gear Up New Haven is offering after school academic programs on our main campus. New Haven Public Schools has donated the transportatio
Greg McVerryI know the goal is to have one universal rubric of effective practice for each school district. Yet after evaluating over 200 teachers and working with numerous rubrics and frameworks I have come to realize the instruments are tilted heavily towards better performance in lower grades. Especially if classroom climate is an entire domain. I am sorry but it is
Greg McVerryThe end of the chronological timeline means nothing for most people complaining about the change. For those who may not know last week the Internet blew up when rumors swirled of an algorithim based timeline over at Twitter. It came out today. For those loudest during the protest please stop talking. You have not been to the Twiiter web applciation in years.
Greg McVerryflickr photo shared by hackNY under a Creative Commons ( BY-SA ) license The Good Fight Fighting for diversity at Southern Connecticut State Univisity looks a little different than it does at other universities in New Haven. While debating the use of words like "headmaster" or discussing the balance between free speech, safe spaces, and halloween costumes ma
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