Weekly Tweets (2011-09-18)
- @LisaMLane @jane92123 A Moveable Feast is a great read, though almost as fictional as his actual fiction! in reply to LisaMLane #
- @gsiemens Ah, got it. And I agree. Note it! in reply to gsiemens #
- Why didn't anyone ever tell me that switching to Mac would make me into a creative, productive, twice-as-handsome person? Or it's the pills. #
- @draggin @giuliaforsythe @sleslie And so my uncharacteristic near-silence at those events is explained… in reply to draggin #
- @sleslie Have no fear… no one will hear. As long as my demands are met. in reply to sleslie #
- @giuliaforsythe @injenuity As evidenced by Hall & Oates "Maneater" in reply to giuliaforsythe #
- @sleslie Keep in mind that there is some unreleased audio floating around out there… in reply to sleslie #
- @sleslie @giuliaforsythe It was definitely you, Brian, Jim, Alan… some of it sounded like NV party at Brian's, some like actual Moosecamp in reply to sleslie #
- @giuliaforsythe Me too! Takes me back to NV and Chez Lamb… in reply to giuliaforsythe #
- @sleslie That's it! The Mooscamp/NV was a nice followup… in some ways seamless, which was also kind of sad (lack of change) in reply to sleslie #
- @sleslie Probably. I don't listen to DS106 Radio much
It was followed by some Moosecamp/NV audio in reply to sleslie # - Interesting how many people's voices I know (and don't) on this #ds106radio "2008 Open Ed Reflections" show #
- @klconover We recently used SnapFish for a lot of wedding photo books and they are quite handsome. Service generally pretty quick. in reply to klconover #
- @davecormier Just man up and get yourself some clay and wattles… in reply to davecormier #
- @gsiemens @brlamb Not very much good in that good kind of messed up from my pov in reply to gsiemens #
- From a note in my email this morning: "Can you help? Because if this keeps up, I'm going to start to get testes!" That *does* sound bad. #
- @Galennnn Having a good night? in reply to Galennnn #
- @csessums Thanks for the reminder… there's some great stuff in that Hemingway interview: http://t.co/fH6TfePi in reply to csessums #
- @LisaMLane I think Hemingway's short fiction is better than his novels. If you like short stories, try his collected… in reply to LisaMLane #
- @mikhailg "clip, clip, clip, clip, BANG, BANG, clip, clop…" in reply to mikhailg #
- @rushaw That kills it for me… in reply to rushaw #
- @rushaw I guess that would be the transition from virtual cub scout to virtual eagle scout… when you start putting it on your CV in reply to rushaw #
- @rushaw It just seems like a crazy overreaction to a not uncommon game mechanic used all over the web… in reply to rushaw #
- Are people trying to make some kind of joke with outsized, overstated reactions to "the badges"– an homage to the fanfare of the release? #
- @GardnerCampbell @jimgroom Can I play? "Fire exists the first in light" –Emily Dickinson in reply to GardnerCampbell #
- I really need to learn shorthand. Or obtain a bionic arm. Or something. #
- Seriously, though, I do need peer-reviewed writing about MOOCs if any exists! #
- WM jumping through badge-like hoops seeking peer-reviewed writing about MOOCs. Edupunk, denigrating answers need not apply… #
- RT @timmmmyboy: Am I looking forward to your paper.li faux-newsletter coming out? http://t.co/7F1VvG0f [I need to make a "no" page] #
- Badges in education = uninteresting. Badgers in education = totally awesome. #
- @gsiemens Are you sure about that? in reply to gsiemens #
- @giuliaforsythe Does that mean you don't want to tweet about tweets about tweeting with me? in reply to giuliaforsythe #
- @LisaMLane self-reflexive? In poetry poems about poetry are usually called "crap" in reply to LisaMLane #
- @sleslie Hopefully are paths will cross again sooner rather than later! There's always Skype/Google+/etc/… not the same, but not nothing in reply to sleslie #
- @sleslie FYI – post #1 – http://t.co/NyugJGpX and then #2 – http://t.co/QVMN01Kt in reply to sleslie #
- @sleslie Based on @hrheingold's posts about it, I've decided to give Cathy Davidson's book another chance when I have time… in reply to sleslie #
- @sleslie Cool… keep the links coming. I clearly need to read more on this! @clintlalonde chili lime cashews FTW in reply to sleslie #
- @sleslie I don't think I grok that. My problem, not yours in reply to sleslie #
- @sleslie This is probably too big for Twitter, as I'm assuming you don't believe mind/body have a supervenient relationship. in reply to sleslie #
- @sleslie body, then another way is that this is an avenue for deeper insight, possibly to contemplation and meditation in decision making in reply to sleslie #
- @sleslie That's one way of looking at it, based on one interpretation. If being right in the world involves understanding out mind and in reply to sleslie #
- RT @jonbecker: In your face, Malcolm Gladwell! http://t.co/e7ekhLt #
- Yes, that is the reason (I discovered) I studied creative writing, lit, and lit theory. But it not the *only* way to truth(s) #
- @DrGarcia Thanks! I have access through our library so I will check it out. Damn non-open mofos in reply to DrGarcia #
- from "Who Are You and What Are You Doing Here" – Education has one salient enemy in present-day America, and… http://t.co/IT3h9Hz #
- "Education has one … enemy in present-day America, and that enemy is education-university education in particular." http://t.co/ElD8Peq #
- .@sleslie some interesting tidbits here about cognition, will, philosophy… http://t.co/5WVKXW3 #
- @jimgroom I'd definitely buy the book with those posters: http://t.co/GCT4vi6 in reply to jimgroom #
- RT @pomeranian99: Why I wish the Internet more closely resembled Vanevar Bush's memex: http://t.co/QwYApGt [paging @GardnerCampbell] #
- Let me join the kudos to @mweller, not just for his book being published, but being available in an open version too! http://t.co/N7ghea8 #
- Funniest political Tweet of the week… or month… or year: http://t.co/mEbz5Wu #
- @DrGarcia I loves me some quick/micro/nano fiction… particularly in that nebulous area where it and prose poetry procreate… in reply to DrGarcia #
- @dlnorman Can you be a hipparchist? in reply to dlnorman #
- @mweller It might be that Twitter isn't the best place for this discussion? in reply to mweller #
- @HHG So a neutron walks into a bar. "How much for a beer," he asks the bartender. The bartender says, "For you, no charge." in reply to HHG #
- @courosa can't watch it. Nope. Can't do it. I get scared on ladders and hotel balconies. in reply to courosa #
- @jimgroom Glad it's better. That happened to be the interregnum between dark dictatorships in my head. in reply to jimgroom #
- @jimgroom Was that back when you were young and your heart was an open book? in reply to jimgroom #
- @jimgroom Real football or that american version with pads and use of the hands and all those other crutches? in reply to jimgroom #
- @courosa I'm certainly too lazy to work it out. ClipMenu it would be… in reply to courosa #
- @courosa You could possibly use Yahoo pipes as an intermediary to create OPML from sheet to import. Not sure about folders/tags though in reply to courosa #
- @cogdog Distance from Strawberry AZ to NYC: 2400 miles. Distance from Strawberry to Fairbanks, AK: 3400 miles. A mere hop. I'm just sayin' in reply to cogdog #
- @davecormier I don't know why people wait so long… in reply to davecormier #
- @davecormier yeah… but the campaigning begins 36 months prior, during the mid-term campaigns for congress. in reply to davecormier #
- @davecormier Too many numbers in that figure… it confuses Perry. It's the Bush nightmare all over again in reply to davecormier #
- @melaniemcbride @BryanAlexander @notjessewalker It's another reason why understanding of participation is key. Make more good stuff. in reply to melaniemcbride #
- @melaniemcbride @BryanAlexander @notjessewalker I've been promoting this idea for a few years now, since the big "digital footprint" debates in reply to melaniemcbride #
- @brlamb @gsiemens @sleslie Dysentery! in reply to brlamb #
- @sleslie Sadly, I *don't* think the discourse has progressed, though some of the battle has gone underground and more to the political arena in reply to sleslie #
- @sleslie So you won't be subscribing? in reply to sleslie #
- @mweller Successful artists are predominantly self taught in their art, and there's a reason why, and it has little do with "genius" in reply to mweller #
- @mweller and that small part not being served well by research that is quantitative (generally) and not tied directly practice in reply to mweller #
- @mweller those studies are, again, not like most educational research, and 3) the part of education that can benefit from research is small in reply to mweller #
- @mweller like research (this isn't to say that there aren't a ton of creative writing programs, but that they mostly fail in their job and in reply to mweller #
- @mweller the arts is the best I can come up with, 2) the study that artists take part in is, in the vast, vast majority of cases, nothing in reply to mweller #
- @mweller My points are simple: first, that there is a significant part of teaching that is impervious to research and the parallel with in reply to mweller #
- @mweller No, in fact they do not. The vast majority of writers have never been involved with a creative writing program (as a student) in reply to mweller #
- @mweller You keep throwing "genius" out there, presupposing that success without research must mean genius in reply to mweller #
- @sleslie I didn't see the articles date, but I know what Commentary is… in reply to sleslie #
- See also http://t.co/poy92gx @skipvia #
- .@yorufukurou you are awesome. I regret taking a while to get that your name wasn't some kind of punny juke. #
- @sleslie George posted miss. And widely. in reply to sleslie #
- @sleslie There's a world of difference between the responsibility of science and the possibility of science, something some in the review in reply to sleslie #
- @davecormier If speaking generally, I feel your pain. W/R/T Ross, then I can only hope you haven't read him… in reply to davecormier #
- @lottruminates Andrew Ross's work should be considered a kind of fiction, much more enjoyable to read (and write I'm sure) that way! in reply to lottruminates #
- @davecormier Right, and some of those mentioned in the review are, in my opinion, serious cranks. Talk about easy targets. in reply to davecormier #
- @davecormier Not to mention that postmodernism has excesses of its own that most wouldn't point out as exemplars, much less boast about in reply to davecormier #
- @gsiemens Which I know you didn't actually do, incidentally. in reply to gsiemens #
- @gsiemens Tossing out research in whole would be like, without attention to kind and result, would be like dismissing all social media… in reply to gsiemens #
- @gsiemens I agree completely with over- and under- in those terms in reply to gsiemens #
- @gsiemens includes utility. in reply to gsiemens #
- @gsiemens A smart-ass would ask if they are the same thing But sure. Hard to argue against the need for more quality research if that in reply to gsiemens #
- @gsiemens true enough. But there are a lot of different monkey wrenches constantly tossed into a lot of different works in reply to gsiemens #
- @gsiemens Do you think education is a field that is under- or over-researched? Or neither? in reply to gsiemens #
- @gsiemens practice. in reply to gsiemens #
- @gsiemens Maybe it's fatigue. Or maybe the difficulty of generalization and repeatability make a lot of research practically divorced from in reply to gsiemens #
- @gsiemens possible given the multiplicity of variables and the vagaries of the human beings involved– at every place in the process in reply to gsiemens #
- @gsiemens For those things that it makes sense to study in that way, repeatability/reliability. I'm just not sure how much of either is in reply to gsiemens #
- @gsiemens akin to studying literary theory, which I don't dismiss, but don't think very applicable to practice, particularly in terms of ROI in reply to gsiemens #
- @gsiemens In one sense, the proof is in the pudding, so one criteria is whether there is any resulting positive change (otherwise it's more in reply to gsiemens #
- @gsiemens Ed research I mean, which is studying a different animal than most science… it may not even be an animal at all in reply to gsiemens #
- @gsiemens I could formulate my position about research as a "there and not there" formulation akin to your thoughts on social media… in reply to gsiemens #
- @gsiemens I don't know about @davecormier, but that books is arguing against something entirely different from my position on ed research! in reply to gsiemens #
- @mweller It's funny that you equate solitary with lack of study, though. in reply to mweller #
- @mweller There's a HUGE difference at work here in reply to mweller #
- @mweller Not talking the myth of the solitary genius, talking about the difference between study (reading) and ed research, which is meta in reply to mweller #
- @mweller ed researches its practice… in reply to mweller #
- @mweller Actually, not. Most good writers are NOT products of English Depts. And even so, most "study" by reading. That's not how in reply to mweller #
- @gsiemens Is that a two letter post? in reply to gsiemens #
- @suifaijohnmak @davecormier @mweller The part of teaching that is like that, which isn't all of it by any means, benefits VERY little in reply to suifaijohnmak #
- @suifaijohnmak @davecormier @mweller I'm just not sure how much research is of value to Philip Roth or Lucian Freud or insert X here. in reply to suifaijohnmak #
- @DrGarcia As long as they want the top 2/3, you should be good… unless you are applying for an academic administration position… in reply to DrGarcia #
- @wmrandth So you don't buy tests and research that show cans are as good or better? I prefer bottles because they are better ad hoc weapons in reply to wmrandth #
- @cogdog Yes… and I'd point out my tweets but they're gone forever. How hard could it be to maintain a search engine? in reply to cogdog #
- @gsiemens That's really a working definition of "terrorism," no? After my rant, David Foster Wallace spoke to this: http://t.co/d472Frn in reply to gsiemens #
- I've now been assaulted by three mad-loud-hummers in a row at the coffee shop table next to mine. Can't you all see this is my office? #
- @courosa only time I've seen that is with really old items that for some reason Google has decided for me can't be kept unread (I guess) in reply to courosa #
- @davecormier Obviously you underestimate the power of the google in reply to davecormier #
- @courosa Maybe you are getting a special new Google Reader beta. Sure wish I would get a beta that supported authenticated feeds… in reply to courosa #
- @gsiemens Is (ed) discussion so hidebound it all has to be Homeric? No room for Basho? in reply to gsiemens #
- @gsiemens made *me* give up social media! in reply to gsiemens #
- @gsiemens Maybe part of your frustration is missing little cues like my smiley thing? Though some of the comments on your post would have in reply to gsiemens #
- @gsiemens Isn't that why you gave up on social media? Twitter's not the place for complex discussion… but sometimes sparks make a fire. in reply to gsiemens #
- @lottruminates I did not buy any beans though. I love and hate you a little bit right now. in reply to lottruminates #
- @davecormier I went to that store last Jan when I was in Lahaina! in reply to davecormier #
- @davecormier Can you deliver? Can you draw me a nice little flower in the crema? in reply to davecormier #
- @mweller teachers, rather than the equivalent of critics, study, rather than research? I'm with @davecormier — it's a case for narrative in reply to mweller #
- @mweller Of course people do learn to become better writers, mostly through reading and writing, not meta-study of process. So what should in reply to mweller #
- @davecormier Dude, it's 7a on a Sunday. I should be waiting for my chef to poach some eggs or something! in reply to davecormier #
- @suifaijohnmak @davecormier @mweller I'm not arguing research is valueless in all respects, only that it is in at least SOME and overvalued in reply to suifaijohnmak #
- @mweller In fact, a good case could be made that study of fiction as a theorist or critic, for example, makes for WORSE writing in reply to mweller #
- @mweller Which is kind of my point. in reply to mweller #
- @mweller I'm not sure that's true. Studying writing that way makes for better literary theorists and critics. Writers? Not so much. in reply to mweller #
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