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Grandpa's Suspenders: June 2015
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Monday, June 29, 2015. Talking about string games on Peeragogy In Action. Here's a link to the Handbook. Http:/ peeragogy.github.io/. Monday, June 22, 2015. Wednesday, June 17, 2015. How improbable it is that any movie at all turns out to be good.". This post's title is a quote from a piece in Vulture. By Adam Sternbergh,. Why Did This Movie Starring Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper Go Straight to VOD? It's likely that an insider to the movie biz would say, "It's really all the director's fault, ulti...
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Grandpa's Suspenders: Discipline Systems
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Thursday, July 16, 2015. Then I realized that a lot of my hesitation about the whole topic is rooted in my ambivalence about the elephant in the room: by far the most common way that teachers use or encounter the word "system" is as part of the compound, discipline system. The more externalized the system and the more demanding it is of compliance, the less likely kids are to be interested in learning for its own sake. I recall him talking about how the military abolished hierarchies in the buildup to WW...
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Grandpa's Suspenders: About
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It's the string figure, not the suspenders, that matters here. I was delighted to find the variation of Jacob's Ladder which is called "Grandpa's Suspenders." The kids generally love it, and it makes for an interactive piece which is quite easy to do, even for early primary students. I can readily show them where they need to place a finger from each hand, and simply pull down. Mom's MiniVan. Which you have to know first. Grandpa's Suspenders starts at 1:19 in this video. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Grandpa's Suspenders: Not a ranger, a gardener of love
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Wednesday, July 29, 2015. Not a ranger, a gardener of love. The "Ranger Me" Challenge never grabbed me, and I couldn't quite figure out why. I could have just moved on and payed attention to something else, but something made me want to figure out what was bothering me. Then I realized, it's putting myself in a uniform. Was a kind of mystical inspiration. I began assembling my dossier to establish that I was a Conscientious Objector to War by the time I was 13. That's the communal outhouse on the hillsid...
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No soap, radio: December 2013
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No soap, radio. Friday, December 13, 2013. Turning Tricks With Technology. I love technology. I wrote the first system-wide technology integration grant for the Watsonville schools and pioneered efforts to teach teachers how to use technology so their students could create and express themselves more effectively, and I still do that same kind of technology teaching – how do we use technology to help our students share their voices with the global audience the Internet affords? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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No soap, radio: November 2014
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No soap, radio. Wednesday, November 26, 2014. The Rhinoceros Up the Tree. When I asked my brilliant granddaughter how to frame my water string stories for Ebb and Flow. She said, "Humor! I am not known for my humor. I have quite a bizarre sense of humor, I'll admit, and tend towards the obtuse, which is about two turns of a Möbius strip. How does a rhinoceros get up a tree? She climbs on an acorn and waits. Saturday, November 8, 2014. By STAR FM 93.9. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The Rhinoceros Up the Tree.
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No soap, radio: July 2014
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No soap, radio. Tuesday, July 29, 2014. Formulaic writing as the "Gateway Drug" to Genre Theory. I am now thoroughly convinced that Genre Theory in the context of the Anthropology of Communication provides a framework by means of which to liberate student voices and transform our teaching – not just our teaching of core literacy, but of the sciences, the arts, and of all the skills needed for civic and working life. Multi-change (doesn't read right without the dash [I think]), growth, and expansion of a ...
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Grandpa's Suspenders: TORUSFLEX
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As I continue elaborating this string game work, I would like to offer an appreciation and. To James Murphy, whose webspace bears the title “TorusFlex,” referring to the reality that a loop of string is, mathematically, a torus. Here’s a link to his page:. Http:/ www.torusflex.com. Http:/ www.torusflex.com/. James Murphy displays one of his elaborate figures. I highly recommend his eBook, Why String Games? Last I checked it was only available for the iPad. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Of Arts Council Sant...
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Grandpa's Suspenders: Collaborative games/example with string for #CLMOOC
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Tuesday, July 7, 2015. Collaborative games/example with string for #CLMOOC. As I jumped into Terry Elliott's Thoreau Game. Creating a HackPad for String Games. Can we use a particular string game to analyze or deconstruct? How about to empower? How does it empower with its string design? I have lots of questions to tease out that deep deep knowing that rests within you and yearns to be free. Here's a first response:. Making a star with string. This group in the photo above is not following my directions!
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Grandpa's Suspenders: Worms, gardening, and curation
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Monday, July 27, 2015. Worms, gardening, and curation. This little guy is the Chosen One, but what's it to her? All she ever wants is to get back underground, away from this useless [to her] light which only means the danger of drying out, so she wriggles along, fishing in the interstices of the burlap for a way to make an exit. She finally found one, and I actually made a little movie of her escape. Our Blatantly Obviously Sexually Mature Chosen Specimen of the Worm Group Makes Her Daring Escape! 160; I...
