Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2008-04-21

  • Worked out tonight. Have to log on; have not been online all weekend. Strangely freeing. #
  • @skydaddy It is both relaxing as well as odd. Strange, even without us online, the Net does not break or Web 2.0 does not go away. #
  • @injenuity Wonder if it were directly related to me not being here?! #
  • @gsiemens Who knows what such an international collaboration may bring? #
  • @grisonne So, when are you going to upload an image to Twitter? #
  • @cogdog He costs us a LOT of money to protect, that is one answer! #
  • @pinoyboy Never tried it. Does it work and will it help me lose weight??? #
  • @dmcordell I wonder where they park that thing, not to mention how they send it around . . . #
  • @eich0041 Wish I could wear such Prada and ermine. #
  • @pinoyboy and amazingly popular. Who would have thought? I remember reading him a few grad degrees ago when I studied systematic theology. #
  • @ChefMark Don’t you love all the freedom? Idiocy comes at a price, you know. Where is George Washington with his axe! #
  • @injenuity Did you save me some of your hair for my plugs and extensions? #
  • @skydaddy How right Heraclitus may be . . . #
  • @pinoyboy I am talking about yours! #
  • I love that Wikipedia even speaks about the Papel shoes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_shoes #
  • Some interesting (scary?) comments about Pope Benedict’s shoes http://tinyurl.com/6rteqq #
  • Busy morning in the office. Realized it was noon; have to stretch and get food. Could not find my coat in the closet; still on the chair! #
  • @arjunsingh Keeping hoping, Arjun. At the rate they are going, there will be nothing left to stop McCain. #
  • Gadzooks, the day is flying by! #

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Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2008-04-20

  • At J Crew. Seems either sizes are getting smaller or I am getting larger. Perhaps a combo of both? #
  • Tired of shopping. Nothing fits me today. Need more fiber or Metamucil. #
  • Think I will go on a grass and twig diet. That should last about five minutes. #
  • Bought shoes. At least they fit. #
  • Finally sitting down to rest before go home. Busy weekend helping the US economy. #
  • Little to show of it save worn out shoes. #

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Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2008-04-18

  • Been rereading and still processing @brlamb’s excellent reflective post-NMC Mashup blog post http://tinyurl.com/3p2ywy #
  • @maniactive Have never tried it out loud. Interesting thoughts about it. #
  • @scope_community I think the premise is interesting, that of a national research agenda. I can not think of anything similar in the US. #
  • Happy work wired us so we can print directly to the large Ricoh copier. PDF’s can go directly to b/b and stapled. #
  • See a sign that JCPeney is opening a store in the Manhattan Mall in June 2009. The store is so complicated it takes 2 years to build it? #
  • @gsmith Perhaps you are working with hipper clients? #
  • World Trade Center rebuilding plans found by a homeless man in the trash? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7355139.stm Only in New York! #
  • @injenuity Love the hair in the new shot. Very jealous. #
  • @maniactive and people think our multitasking can be problematic! #
  • @injenuity You can make some sweet vacation money for that . . . #
  • Weekend, here I come! #

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Further Musing on Brian’s NMC Mashup Session

Brian Lamb shared an amazing blog post about his recent NMC Mashup session. Not quite sure why I did not get a trackback for Brian’s work as he mentioned me (and my comments) by name, so thankfully I got a Google blog post alert about it.

I spent a lot of time thinking about Brian’s post–his reflection, authenticity, model instructional strategies to discussing educational experiences, and the like–so finally posted my own musings on his blog this morning. I copied and pasted it verbatim (save for one spelling correction) here as a record of my own thinking.  

I have been reading and rereading this post for a few days, Brian, and appreciate your reflection and then sharing this for open discussion. I suppose this is becoming a metareflective opportunity, and I think I need to finally process my own thoughts enough to share them as well.

I saw Philip Glass’ opera Satyagraha this past Monday evening, and your presentation came to mind when I started to process that work. I was expecting an opera about the early life of Gandhi, yet with it sung in Sanskrit, intentionally without subtitles, the focus is forced to change. The hypnotic chorus, repetitive music, and postmodern set together made this a work that was not only unexpected, but boundary-pushing for the Metropolitan Opera (and me as well).

I see my role as an education professional to push my students to expand their boundaries (learning) while facilitating the process and maintaining some sense of safety for those who need to hold on while confronting the learning ahead of them. I felt that at the Met (the safety of being at the premier US opera stage with its desire to promote and expand culture in this art form), and have been considering why I have such a hunch there is some connection between it and your work during the Mashup.

I have heard you present and read your work for some time now, and that is the stable (safe) part of your presentation. I trust you not to take us someplace meaningless, and that is why I attended the entire session rather than leaving it mid-way when I was completely disoriented (to be honest, I don’t dance in the first world, either). Had it been somebody I did not know or was not known by those people I read, I would not have even bothered to comment at all, chalking it up to an unusual experience, period.

The fact you lose sleep over comments demonstrates (to me) that you take your work seriously and are in many ways helping to move education in an electronic age along. Pushing boundaries is never an easy business to be in, and having a hard skin seems to me to be a great asset when people are used to the status quo. So much for non-educators thinking education is a safe and easy profession to be in . . .

I am convinced that education challenges the status quo, and as educators sometimes we need to shake things up to help people see there are other ways to look at issues. Where else can growth come from?

With this said, I am really glad that this session has sparked discussion–the educator’s dream! Without it, we never know what we have done has worked if at all. As we often do not see the results of our work, these online discussions are testament that reflective practice and learning is happening. I am now beginning to wonder where it is going . . .

I think there has been such great discussion on this event, and wish more educational initiatives sparked the same sort of interest and reflective practice.