#ecalifestream

[findingtheconnections]

Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files - Issue #38 - I was first introduced to you by my stepfather in the early 80s. I was around 8 years old. I wo

Dear Nick and David, I very much understand your distress. It is often difficult to look at the world through anything other than an apocaly

Thanks to @austinkleon for sharing this reflection- it makes me wonder if, as educators we also take on this opportunity to share the beauty and wonder of our world and its people. Or are we too busy covering curriculum and preparing for tests? It is so easy to be overwhelmed by our horror saturated media- are we giving students the capacity to see through different lenses? #ecalifestream

[findingtheconnections]

Clickbait, consternation and that elusive silver bullet: Falling down the rabbit hole

Clickbait, consternation and that elusive silver bullet: Falling down the rabbit hole

Feature image: Image by Computerizer from Pixabay Growing up, my parents demanded that my sister and I were quiet from 6pm until around 6.15pm every evening. This 15 minutes was when ‘the news’ – specifically ‘the headlines’ were on the television, and if Mum or Dad missed hearing the bulletin because we were playing noisily, they became very annoyed. Channel 7 news was their TV station of choice,…

View On WordPress

[findingtheconnections]

Creating a Navigable Rabbit Hole I only caught the tail end of the Common Place Book session at #IndieWeb camp online as it fell right during

To read and ponder...advice to guide my lifestream/commonplace book project

[findingtheconnections]

Memes Are Our Generation's Protest Art

Internet jokes have turned into serious commentary, and can provide comfort and joy to people fed up with the way the country is going.

Another area I find fascinating, the potential and influence on literacies I believe to be under-researched.

[findingtheconnections]

Make.Hack.Play.Learn

More goals for the lifestream. This is what I want. How to get it.

[findingtheconnections]

Indieweb comes to the rescue? Is this an app that I can use to streamline my processes? Connect all the parts?

[findingtheconnections]

Chris Aldrich

Chris Aldrich's thoughts on science, research, mathematics, information theory, microbiology, IndieWeb, entertainment business, and education.

I love the list of content types and topic areas at the top of this page; goals for a lifestream!

[findingtheconnections]

How And Why To Keep A “Commonplace Book”

Some of the greatest men and women in history have kept these books. Marcus Aurelius kept one–which more or less became the Meditations. Petrarch kept one. Montaigne, who invented the essay, …

This is another way of thinking about my lifestream. It’s a place where I am trying to keep track of all the thoughts, resources, ideas, images, songs, words, links (many links) that I encounter and that I might find useful in my role as an eca.