Choice Projects – A Change Process
During the 2017-18 school year, my high school Graphic Design & Interactive Media students and I collaborated on a Change… Read more Choice Projects – A Change Process
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Cuidad de Mexico Urban Sketchers at the Museo de Anthropologie
Yesterday I embarked alone on a journey to the city”s center, to Chapultepec Park, where I met more than 20 Urban Sketchers with whom I had communicated by means of their Facebook page. These mostly young architectural students have bi-monthly … Continue reading → -
Persuasion
by Jane Austen “You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare […] -
Exploring my Colonia (neighborhood). San Mateo
After catching up with a few pages in my journey daybook this morning, I set out by foot to find a few grocery items and to look for the nearest parish church. Yesterday I found both. The Churubusco Mercado is … Continue reading → -
Podcasting on WordPress.com
It’s no secret that we’re big fans of podcasts — their beautiful storytelling and engaging news delivery add a whole new dimension to the media landscape — and podcasters. We happily support podcast creators, from sponsoring events like Podcast Movement to supporting embeds from services like RadioPublic. Did you know that WordPress.com … -
Casita de la Palma
On Monday Mimi and I arrived in this beautiful district that has many interesting neighbors: the houses of both Leon Trotsky and Frida Kahlo, the University of Mexico, the School of Art Restoration, and several historical museums. Our home for … Continue reading → -
Sharing Options from WordPress.com to Facebook Are Changing
by @llilli5163 July 23, 2018Starting August 1, Facebook will no longer allow third-party tools to automatically post to Profiles. Here’s how it affects you. -
Creating happiness and flow
by amiddlet50co-operation, creativity, experience, flow, Happiness, learner engagement, learning space, making, motivation, self-esteem, social, SyndicatedJuly 22, 2018Listening to 6 Music this morning, Marie-Ann Hobbs noted how both Viv Albertine and Johnny Marr could not equate happiness with creativity. Instead, creativity seems to be something quite separate. – a drive to be productive. I do a lot … Continue reading → -
Final ds106 Daily Creates
I choose Iceland, because it is beautiful! #tdc2382 @ds106dc #diglitclass https://t.co/3jEkhGsOrC — RTNicole (@RTNicole1) July 19, 2018 New Olympic Event, BIRD CUDDLING! An epic showdown of pure adorable cuteness! #tdc2381 #diglitclass @ds106dc pic.twitter.com/jLvxD5gMEC — RTNicole (@RTNicole1) July 19, 2018 While not perfect, one of my favorite walls in the house. #tdc2380 #diglitclass @ds106dc pic.twitter.com/twWEcUSA7y —… Continue reading Final ds106 Daily Creates → -
The balcony
I wish I had a balcony, covered with wild ivy and enchanting mystery. I would pretend I was in a magical rainforest, far away from cars, machines and the fast-paced reality. Colourful parrots would join in on my morning routine, and blue butterflies would sit on my teacups. Warm humid air would let me sit… -
ds106 Daily Creates Week#3
#tdc2379 #diglitclass @ds106dc pic.twitter.com/iTvYhniPIL — RTNicole (@RTNicole1) July 15, 2018 #tdc2378 #diglitclass @ds106dc pic.twitter.com/hacyZdsJcH — RTNicole (@RTNicole1) July 15, 2018 My journey today…. it’s been harrowing 🧙♂️#tdc2377 #diglitclass @ds106dc pic.twitter.com/ZMbCDD1mA0 — RTNicole (@RTNicole1) July 15, 2018 What I heard on a walk today.https://t.co/Lbrq0CcUQz @ds106dc #tdc2376 #diglitclass — RTNicole (@RTNicole1) July 15, 2018 What is important… Continue reading ds106 Daily Creates Week#3 → -
The tweet is the new photograph
by amiddlet50agency, Digital Placemaking, Instagram, Literacies and intelligence, mediation, photo, photography, Possibilities, Snapchat, Social Media, social media for learning, Syndicated, tweet, twitterJuly 15, 2018I am reading Susan Sontag’s seminal book On Photography from 1977. It’s interesting reading the book in an age where the act of photographing the world has exploded beyond what Sontag could have imagined – even though her critique of … Continue reading → -
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Productive failure, drawing and erasing – exploring visual literacies #twalk #possibilities
More walking, talking and Twalking (just about) I co-led a Twalk today on the subject of visual literacies as part of Sheffield Hallam University’s Learning & Teaching Conference with my colleague Helen Rodger. It was billed simply as a learning … Continue reading → -
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Scott Lang: Year One
by B. Short July 8, 2018Scott Lang didn't get a solo ongoing title until 2015, a tremendously funny series written by Nick Spencer and penciled by Ramon Rosanas, a tie-in to the Paul Rudd-starring Ant-Man movie from that same year. And that's a long time on the shelf, because the character of Scott Lang was created in 1979. -
Ant-Men and the Wasps in…QUANTUM FORCE
by B. ShortAnt-Man, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Gutter and Splash, How about a job, Marvel, Quantum Force, Syndicated, The WaspJuly 8, 2018So if I were going to pitch a comic to Marvel that somehow related to Ant-Man and the Wasp or one or the other, I'd give them something called Quantum Force. That name doesn't refer to anything in the Marvel universe yet--at least, I don't think it does--but it does have a super cheesy, late 1990s New Universe kind of vibe to it. -
Read my Stuff! “Diorama”
My short story “Diorama” is part of the return issue of Shotgun Strange Stories. You can check it out here: http://www.deadlightshorrorfiction.com/shop/ -
ds106 Daily Creates Week#2
The motto my boyfriend and I live by. He is a pilot. So to us “Home” is a verb that means to return. #tdc2371 @ds106dc #diglitclass pic.twitter.com/V97JMgC7pX — RTNicole (@RTNicole1) July 7, 2018 Haha now that was fun! #tdc2369 @ds106dc #diglitclass pic.twitter.com/Fvsd4k1lyq — RTNicole (@RTNicole1) July 7, 2018 I LOVE to read! This bookshelf has… Continue reading ds106 Daily Creates Week#2 → -
“Burnt Offerings”
900 bucks to rent a giant sprawling estate for the whole summer. It’s too good to be true, of course. It’s a horror movie, after all. And the house in BURNT OFFERINGS puts its summer inhabitants through hell. A family, led by Karen Black and Oliver Reed, rent a decaying mansion for the summer. They […] -
“TerrorVision”
A movie that really leans into the horror-comedy hybrid, TERRORVISION is a campy monster romp with a killer opening theme song. A suburban family who’s a wild collection of extreme 80s spoof stereotypes gets a satellite dish. While the thing’s getting installed, a weird electrical bolt from outer space hits the dish and infects the […] -
Love #quote
“Love is more than just a game for two, two in love can make it.” Nat King Cole Advertisements -
Original Recipe Ant-Man and the Wasp
by B. Short July 6, 2018Further complicating the "Are these really Ant-Man's stories?" question is the fact that, in Tales to Astonish #49, Ant-Man changed his suit, broadened his power set to include size increase as well as size decrease, and became Giant-Man. And although he was always Giant-Man on the cover of the comic, Hank often shrank down to Ant-Man size in the pages of his adventures, meaning that effectively categorizing these stories is just slightly bothersome. -
“mon mon mon MONSTERS”
A quartet of total high school assholes frame a fellow student with stealing class dues. Their teacher assigns community service for the frames student… and makes the asshole quartet join him. Their assignment: assist elderly folks who are living in a strange underground apartment complex that’s pretty much absolute squalor. But the elderly don’t live… Continue reading “mon mon mon MONSTERS” → -
How to Write a Peer Review for a Journal Article
As an editorial collective member of ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies and as someone who once managed WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly for three years, I know how difficult it is to find appropriate and available peer reviewers. I often seek out graduate candidates (ABD students) who would offer that strong expertise but may not have the have reviewed journal articles or many journal articles before. I remember how awkward and nervous I was–and how many, many hours I devoted (oy)–when I wrote my first peer reviews.
Thanks to various search engines, I’ve read quite a few posts on how to write peer reviews. Many of them are written by publishers, peer review corporations (yeeghads!), or from other academics. These are all helpful in that they structure the work of peer review, but I found the former to be too detailed and formal, and then more anxiety-producing …
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What a driverless world could look like !
What if traffic flowed through our streets as smoothly and efficiently as blood flows through our veins? Transportation geek Wanis Kabbaj thinks we can find inspiration in the genius of our biology to design the transit systems of the future. In this f... -
Crashing or connecting? Navigating the #twalk boundaries
by amiddlet50Academic innovation, active learning, Applied Learning, belonging, blended learning, boundary crossing, connected learning, Digital Placemaking, hybrid learning space, learner engagement, learning space, Possibilities, social media for learning, Syndicated, twalk, twitter, walkingJuly 6, 2018The #connectedlearning space, in its many and various meanings, is central to my thinking about the future classroom. This is obviously epitomised in the concept of the #twalk. It was lovely to hear that Alex Spiers was leading a Twalk … Continue reading → -
Making Sense of Blog Post Content Data? My Own Spanner Found in the Bottom of the Toolbox
For the obviously obvious statement, WordPress is built on a database. The question is, besides data like visitor counts, what can you infer from the data in the posts and metadata itself? The question was swirling in preparation for a research interview I did today with David Porter and Valerie Lopes for the Ontario Extend […] -
Joining the University of Kentucky Department of Geography
by jgieseking July 2, 2018As of today, I’ve joined the Department of Geography of the University of Kentucky. I am thrilled to be on this new adventure in my work. While I was hired with a focus on digital geographies, I will be still be devoted to my feminist and queer research and teaching. My spring courses will be an introductory undergrad course, Digital Mapping (re-versioned from the pedagogy of Wilson and Zook; how fun), and a grad seminar, Social Geography: Geographies of Queer Theory. The latter will give me a chance to have conversations with geography grad students about how they read the geographies of queer theory. Scholars like C. Riley Snorton (Nebraska, the church), E. Patrick Johnson (the South), Eve Sedgwick (the closet), Ann Cvetkovich (the archive), Michael Warner (publics), Lauren Berlant (the nation), and so on have always put geography forward but with little consideration of geographic thought and theory …
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“The Suckling”
THE SUCKLING is bonkers. Playing like a horror film made on the fly by a few amateur pro-life filmmakers, this movie is one of the weirdest flicks I’ve seen in a while. It’s an anti-abortion missive wrapped up in a monster movie/exploitation film hybrid. A teenage couple get pregnant, and they decide to get rid… Continue reading “The Suckling” →
