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Screenreaders, Twitter and OCR
In between living with sink-lessness and unpacking in my old-new home, I find some time to read the #DigiWriMo tweets. After my guest blog post on Digital Inclusion, there were several people who tweeted about the Twitter tips and how my suggestions might begin to have them rethink how they write or tweet. It was good to read about these “wonderings” and to have folks talking about digital inclusion. @brunowinck @Maha4Learning @yinbk are uppercase chars generally easier on dyslexics? #DigiWriMo #a11y — ℳąhą Bąℓi, PhD مها بالي 🌵 (@Bali_Maha) November 6, 2015 @drgbz @40houradjunct…
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#DigiWriMo Day 2: Changing My Countenance
I love writing, I love writing, I love writing… I am not overwhelmed. I am dazzled. By the range of ideas that have surfaced in the contributions of participating “writers.” I prefer to call them composers; they craft compositions of text, sound, collaborative stories, blinking images, and links. Manifestations of writing in various forms. Maps, Thinglinks, poems, audio recordings. Opus 1, Volume 2, Act 3, Symphony No. 4. I’m game to try them all. I’m inspired. I haven’t written daily in my journal, 笔记簿, since I was seven? 老师说， 天天写笔记会帮住我掌握语文。 说得一点也不错。 [Transl: My teacher said,…
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My #DigiWriMo AltCV
[Note: In this sketch I’m the little girl of 5 standing with my uncle who brought me to enroll for primary school. He allegedly picked the wrong school and I ended up getting enrolled in a school where English is the medium of instruction instead of Chinese. Nothing is a mistake, I believe! 3 banners at the top highlight the 3 things I want to introduce to my readers. They are explained in the text below.] #DigiWriMo is here! And I’m ready with my introduction, finally. I noted what Maha…
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Why I Write
In response to Kevin’s prompt (@dogtrax) on the National Day of Writing a few days’ ago, I thought at a meta level about why I write and why I love writing. I write because I love to hear the sound of words (or Chinese characters :)) reverberate in my mind. To trip the light fantastic… In twenty ways could he trip and dance. – Chaucer Come, knit hands, and beat the ground, In a light fantastic round. – Milton I write because it’s a privilege to write. To have the…
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New Directions in Virtual Space
This will be a short post. I just want to say … This city girl is back in the city! Yes, I’m in Singapore, my birth country. To keep being connected to my learning network, I try to tweet and stay in touch with as many Twitter pals as I can. It wasn’t and hasn’t been easy. Due to some home renovation, I had no electricity and water for a few days. I still have no kitchen cabinets or a sink to wash dishes. I have 2 bathrooms though and…
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Global Citizenship & the Embodiment of Connected Learning
Venue: FedEx office. Yin: How much will it cost to ship this to Singapore? FedEx: Where is Singapore? In China? Although I’ve heard such comments before, repeatedly, it doesn’t mean I will get used to it. The truth is a majority of Americans do not own passports nor do international travel. More than half of the American population can’t travel to Canada or any other country in the world. If we analyze the numbers state by state, “the state with the highest percentage (of passport holders) was New Jersey with 62%, followed…
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Adieu for Now, Inclusive Teaching Community
Thank you Mary Shelden and Idella Glenn, co-leaders of the Institute on Inclusive Teaching, and everyone who I’ve come to know and will miss in our Inclusive Teaching community. You have all taught me much and will always be in my heart. The Institute and my work on the planning committee gave me a language to make sense of my struggles in the United States regarding race, diversity, and more. Here’s to more lives being touched by the Institute for Inclusive Teaching community! A toast to friendship forged in a shared understanding of what it…
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Why I Teach a CL Course, or, Any Course
@yinbk @GoogleGuacamole @merryspaniel @Autumm absolutely. so much to unlearn before ppl can even start. why i made #ed1to1 slow/low-stakes. — Bonnie Stewart (@bonstewart) July 16, 2015 #Students are the #heart of my work & always will be. They are our #hope. #WisconsinIdea #OurUW — Sara Goldrick-Rab (@saragoldrickrab) July 17, 2015 To reflect is to think, ponder, or meditate. Some people write blog reflections in double-quick time. I can’t. Thinking takes time; and in my world, blog reflections consume time, which I don’t have a lot of now, particularly when an online…
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Digital Abstract
I’ve been creating representational art with pastels since I started learning to express myself with the medium, for a rather functional purpose — to de-stress while writing my dissertation. I love pastel painting but I feel it sometimes cramps my style; I want to be more loose, imaginative, expressive and create from within me.So at times, I play with PicMonkey to turn my imagination into reality. I took this photo with my Samsung mobile phone: I like the look created by the interweaving of the branches, but the image still…
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Modalities, Me, Kevin, Anna and More
Our conversation is enlarging in scale and ideas. First, I asked Kevin an innocent question about which modality was his favorite one for expression of thoughts. He responded with a blog post, embedding within his post my initial question. Some time before this dialogue with Kevin, I got to know Anna Smith, scholar-educator, who writes about literacies and writing, and more! I myself had been creating my Seeing Your Thoughts course from the ground up, looking for resources to make it a worthwhile learning experience. I sought out Nick Sousanis’…
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Twitter, Online Voice and Safe Learning Spaces
I commented on Mr. Robert Paris’ blog a few days’ ago. It was in response to his concerns about Twitter and how to provide a safe space for students to fail and not be subject to ridicule. My comment was so long that I think it’s worth reproducing on my own blog for others to comment on. Hi, I’m an ALT Labber who is currently teaching an online course (I do not use the term online class as I see an association of a “class” with a physical space). I…
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Designing a Course Worth Learning 3: Course Video Make
Transcript of Video (Google Document) Thinking and talking about the course has turned into action. Yes, UNIV 291 has begun. I did not create a navigation or orientation video because I had provided a lot of instructions on the website. The students didn’t seem to be lost. They knew where to start. I had a Get Started button, to be sure. Most of their questions centered around Learning Activity terms we use in Connected Learning. Were they doing things “right” and questions about social media. Why aren’t my tweets showing…
