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I require that the students in my New Media class comment on at least two blog posts written by their classmates during the marking period. When I wrote that blogging unit, I thought the commenting assignment would provide students with an opportunity to receive feedback on their posts the way people who blog both professionally and personally experience this part of the blogging process. I knew I had to set guidelines: comments of “first!” and “great post” did not earn credit. Rather, I wanted to see reflection and discussion occur as students wrote, read, and responded during the 8 weeks of classes. Unfortunately, this assignment did not produce the results I expected. Instead, the teacher (me) learned that you can’t force a...
23 Adventures
My 17 year old son came home last night holding his shoes in his hands. They were sopping wet. “What happened?”, I asked. “My shoes were all muddy so I hosed them down,” he said. “How did that happen?”, I asked. “We went on an ADVENTURE!”, he said. Anyone who has a boy, knows a boy, or is a boy understands that boys go on adventures (I have no idea when this ends – perhaps never). This got me to thinking: what kind of adventures have I, a grown woman, had in my lifetime? In the spirit of the “Week of 23”, here are 23 adventures I have had in my 48 years: Drove across the United States in a Toyota Celica in a week. Drove across the United States in a Nissan Sentra in 52 hours. Rode an ATV. Rode a motorcycle (many times). Refused to...
23 blogs.
The theme of this week appears to be “23″, so I decided to spend the last day of the Scintilla Project creating a list of the 23 blogs I’ve discovered as either a result of this project or (in the case of the first 3) the now defunct reverb project. As this project comes to a close, I am so much the richer mentally, emotionally, personally, and communally than I was at the start on March 14, 2012. Thank you to the following writers for making this experience so incredible! inkytwig kimperative uncletypewriter lolsangria stories of conflict and love brandeewine little yawps love letters and suicide notes tales from south jersey me, my dogs, my life faithfully geeky mrs. mediocrity noel rozny m a brotherton cat-e-whompus a wondering...
Me at 23.
I’m participating in the Scintilla Project, a fortnight of blogging. Today’s post is a response to one of the bonus prompts from the weekend: What is it that you’re sure you’ll never forget about being this age, or an age of your choice? My twenty-third year started on a sunny beach in San Diego, California and ended with a 52 hour cross country trip to the residence of my future ex-mother-in-law in Hazlet, New Jersey. How did this happen in the space of 12 short months? When I turned 23 in January of 1987, I’d recently been transferred to my employer’s Carlsbad office as administrative assistant to that location’s manager. Excited to have a female boss for the first time, I thought the challenge and experience of...
23 Books (& Movies)
I’m participating in the Scintilla Project, a fortnight of blogging. Today’s prompt: Write a list of 23. (23 things to do, 23 people you owe apologies to, 23 books you’ve lied about reading, 23 things you can see from where you’re sitting, 23 ten-word hooks for stories you want to tell….) I’ve had the idea for this blog post in my head at least since last summer when my son and I discussed how much more it meant to him to read American Psycho than Catcher in the Rye. Recently, after he finished The Stranger, I asked a few students if they read that at the school where I teach. They don’t, and out of the conversation that ensued, I realized that there are certain books everyone should read in their later teens and...
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