There is a poem nestled in my email each morning. It’s the Poem-A-Day from the National Academy of Poets. I often skip it by, moving into the more urgent emails first. And then the day goes by without reading the poem. One of my resolutions for 2014 is to actually read the poem first. Today’s ...

I spent a bit of time browsing the aggregator in hopes of finding potential blog post fodder. I loved Tom Woodward’s rif on quotes and authenticity but could find nothing of any consequence to add except to say thanks for providing the link to Michael Livingston’s blog, which has been added to the aggregator. So, ...

Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach described her New Year’s commitments and challenged the rest of us to do the same. As always, she makes a powerful statement and I found myself nodding my head in agreement as I read. Dealing productively with digital and emotional distractions, finding a work/life balance, and pursuing excellent in everything…these are all worthy goals. ...

Happened to read Tim Owens’ blog this morning and discover the ds106 assignment of creating an animated Muppet gif. Rainbow Connection is my favorite Muppet song so here’s my gif of Kermit singing in the swamp: What’s so amazing that keeps us star gazing and what do we think we might see? Someday we’ll find ...

I wish I could take credit for this assignment but it comes from my student at WM, Rachel.  She is in my undergrad pre-service class and one of their assignments is to do a ds106 assignment.  Here’s hers… This is the assignment: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/haiku-it-up/ This is the pic I chose: http://www.flickr.com/photos/valerio-bulla/6197088865/ This is my haiku: they see us ...

At the beginning of the year, I dove into The Daily Create, part of ds106. Then, real life intervened: the semester started at the two universities where I teach, the to do list for my day job got longer, and, this week, the spring gardening season too...

I had a LONG day…teaching a newbie how to use Twitter and then running a webinar. But I was determined to complete The Daily Create. I fiddled around with my SL avatar but there was too much delay. Then I found the PERFECT avatar at Voki–I am witchyrichy after all–but trying to convert the resulting ...

When my husband took a tour of the old farmhouse last year, he was sure he would be able to convince me to buy it when he saw the library. Floor to ceiling bookshelves covered three walls of the room. Many of the shelves still held books as the former ...

Another View from the Porch, a photo by TheRichardsons on Flickr. Today’s assignment was to merge two photos of contrasting places together. I decided to try to do it in one photo: I took the picture from the porch of my 19th century farmhouse th...

Doorknob, a photo by TheRichardsons on Flickr. Since my photos from flickr seem to have issues with the aggregator, I’ll post my photo assignment here, too. I don’t think this is really extreme enough but it’s the most extreme my came...

The Kettle Is On, a photo by TheRichardsons on Flickr. One of today’s entries in The Daily Create from ds106. The assignment was to take a photo that visually represents a sound. (http://tdc.ds106.us/)

I joined ds106, the open online digital storytelling course, almost on a whim this week. I was vaguely familiar with it, having seen some of the projects that were created last semester. It just seemed like the jolt I needed to reacquaint myself with t...

Lately, as I’ve followed the conversations about teaching and learning in the 21st century, I find myself increasingly taking a negative stance. It may just be my natural need to be the devil’s advocate, but I think it’s also a frustr...