the hawk

how many times have you been this close to a free hawk, and with a camera to take a picture?

I have never been that close, but someone at the office was. 

Beautiful!

the calendar

thinking about the concept of “time” and how we force known paradigms into infinite possibilities to actually squelch them….

there must be SOME structure, I agree.  but then, what if I want to do podcasting and benefit from the coaching and activity offered in this workshop— but later…. how could this interaction be packaged in a manner that benefit could be reaped when the time is right.

And that is my wonder about schooling in general.  whose idea is it to formulate training, programs, courses, hey– even the syllabus iseems confined in the linear structure of education.

and then I gather, that literacy, self directed learning, and education benefits from the development of social skills.  and that is what we really are to gain within the confines f these 6 weeks.

I enjoyed the comments left here… that was the extent of interaction that I received during the workshop.  It would be nice to keep that going.

so about time,,, structure, gains and the like… I say:

that I trust that the best use of it comes up with the art and sciences of life!

at the moment, I have all I can with stabilizing the windows operating system in my laptop which is acting out with the audio device, the dial up switch and the task bar flickering….

so that becomes a priority suddenly

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how to select a reliable online audio stream to broadcast weekly in a community radio show?

I wouldn’t have a clue about how to start on this task.  But it would be an ideal setting for distribution and eventual syndication of audio streams.  There is usually a distribution of studio recorded programs out as streams.  In this case, I am thinking of identifying an online source which could then be played on the local airwaves, which would ultimately become available on that radio station’s stream.

So if you know of such an online resource about Latino issues worth pursuing, please let me know.

stuck

some things are sometimes best left unseen, and untold too.  So I will not say much.  I will only transfer an image that could help move things around.

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literacy of the means, the process and the product

I’ve been looking into the reciprocal impact of language teaching using technologies in the web, and how the English language is instrumental to the use and learning of these tools.  English literacy skills are a tool for gaining information technology competencies.  And that includes both soft and hard ware.  Not only are we increasing our mechanical language and technological skill, we are manipulating large chunks of information and making them knowledge.  My concern with tagging and retrieval parallels vocabulary building.  But, in terms of thought and creativity, I still rely most prominently on my understanding of psychological processes.  No, I am not a linguist… and currently I am extending my common sense”sical” view of culture into realms beyond context.  Quite liberating actually.

How could I build an rss feed which would publish posts in the yahoo group?

I managed to do that with blogger once, but have been unable to figure it out here.  Ideas anyone?

form follows function?

these technologies,,, can they really serve to achieve intended purposes.. products, results.

OK, my scanning lead to my review of the whole post over the group emails to witness the signaling of the reflections of where teaching is going highlighted below.

and interesting to see it heading into the economy of knowledge distribution. I am actually interested in the construction of knowledge, the archiving and retrieval…. as you can see with all these links, feeds and potpouri of this and that.

definitely technology has a huge influence in the way we now teach…. I think the impact is comprehensive. albeit in different levels of concreteness.

the product of the teaching is different. just look at variations in the workshops being offered at the evonline sessions. It would be interestingto see a list of each offering since it started.

for know, the wiki seems central to the teaching…  ok, i am not that behind…. although I am not interested in the readings.. opps!  better offer alternatives… definetely the Moodle writeup that is due yesterday!

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