Getting Ready for SXSW: Thinking Aloud
This coming Sunday, I will be joining Dave Lester, Gardner Campbell, Stephen Downes and Jim Groom on the Edupunk Panel at SXSW–wow, what a line-up they are–to chime in as one who left formal education...
View ArticleDigital Explorations: If you’re looking for me, you’ll find me here
After months of dreaming, planning and working flat-out with my merry band of advisors, board members and Fellows, and with the encouragement of so many of you, the new nonprofit, Digital Explorations...
View ArticleDear Charles…
You’ve taken me to task. Rightfully so. I thought of you yesterday as I spent a couple of hours with a remarkable group of students (some of whom you see here) who touched my life four years ago during...
View ArticleEarly July Return–Briefly, Perhaps
I am sorting out whether it’s time to mothball bgblogging as I move into the second year beyond school. Most mornings I think about writing a blogpost, but I want to write about life in a rural...
View ArticleResurfacing
A couple of recent comments–one by the inimitable Joe Lambert to my husband about missing “bg’s blogging days” and the other made both by @jonmott and @tuchodi on Twitter about whether a show I’ve...
View ArticleTacit and Tangible: Two Sides of the Creative Teacher
“…I think of how much beginnings have to do with freedom, how much disruption has to do with consciousness and the awareness of possibility that has so much to do with teaching other human beings. And...
View ArticleLearning from Writers, Learning from Readers: Hearts and Minds in Balance
What an interesting time. As I continue to shed my classroom-teacher identity, I am learning more and more about the imposter syndrome and semantic gaps in our culture between professional expert and...
View ArticleSo This Is What It’s Like… Sort Of…
With a less than a week left of the Motley Group reading of Joyce’s Dubliners, I am lingering a bit too long, I realize, mid-collection, thinking about what I’ve read, how the stories talk to one...
View ArticleIn case you’re wondering…
I’m moving (mostly) to a new blog, to a new chapter in this post-school journey. Finally I think I’ve discovered how to weave together the various strands of my interests and abilities as I grapple...
View ArticleHead Over to My New Website
If you are an old reader of bgblogging posts, you might be interested in heading over to my new blogsite, attached to my consultancy, Community Expressions, LLC. I hope you will visit me there and put...
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