I love this piece by Maisha Winn on a similar thread: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10749039.2014.990037

I usually avoid extra modifies. I find them repetitive and redundant, but if any can bring radical to the writing classroom it is Marcelle M. Haddix

As English teachers we often begin by asking what exemplar text would you use. So let's start to curate a list of what kind of healing text you would use as models to admire and pick at or simply wiggle around in our heads?

This is not a very original suggestion, but I offer it more in hopes to start a healthy thread here. What is the post-Trump sylllabus?

It Can't Happen Here

• find healing power
• pedagogy
• giving students space
• to write,
• a place to be.
• Check out our feeds
• Though the honesty and openness falls
• on engendered roles
• much pain still hidden
• behind masculine masks.
• or Expressed in Anger
• Justified? Misplaced?
• Heal without hate
• Let healing writing scream
• in quiet tears
• embrace your space
• and simply try to be

I think we should have a disclaimer that teachers are mandatory reporters and trauma education can lead to situations you must report.

Students should be aware of these obligations before these efforts begin.

I find giving my students a domain and the freedom to write leads to healing through words. To data I have had students discuss their journey with dating violence, bulimia, and addiction.

Looking back as I write this, however, it seems the ability to engage in healing writing is an engendered practice. Not sure I have had any students who identify as male take a risk in their healing.

I appreciate the reflection here while you share your practice. It certainly encourages others to do the same, and probably makes them feel safe to admit if they don't know how to begin.

Interesting point on gender. I taught middle-school writing in north Denver. One of the most powerful pieces was a male student reflecting on his father's death. But, to your point, the ratio of those that took the biggest emotional risk skewed heavily toward female students.

Appreciating these notices/insights from your classrooms and they made me think that this annotatable chapter from Bronwyn LaMay's book might be of interest: https://via.hypothes.is/https://educatorinnovator.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/LaMay-Ch5.pdf

Bronwyn is a Bay Area Writing Project teacher and the book is called Personal Narrative Revised: Love and Agency in the High School Classroom ... and this chapter focuses on her work and relationship with a student named Abraham.

It wasn't the morning after for me. I saw three county returns in the middle of Florida and new we were done.

compare to the distributed nature

If failure an experience?

Working towards completion?

Can this be a response to trolls? When you have power of your domain.

If we want a democratic society we need a democratic educational system. This requires in digital literacy folks to have their own domain.

Educational is this sense is can be both and negative.

An interesting critique of libertarianism in the tech world from Dewey.

For Dewey democracy isn't a set of laws but a way of living.

the collective feed

Having a domain is collective action

Make a parallel to the rise of commercial silos.

How does this fit the web?

This is what we seek:

I disconnected my IFTT. I ended up breaking my pocket integration and started worrying about data leakage.

The less third parties the better IMO

Yes we have all been playing with this idea we need to figure a way to build in a page

Keep for "how-to" section

Think we should frame this as a disciplinary literacy study.

Cover this is Extending and Clarifying Previous Research

Need to decide on writing measures.

Try to have the package delivered by classroom teachers without us teaching in last year.

Usability study included in the methods of the pilot year.

A turnkey social reader turned LMS that can be applied to any #IndieWeb blogging environment (license up to vendors and partners) as well as openly licensed learning materials and assessment tools.

HTML is handwriting and composition

Would have to use an Author citation here 🙂

I think you can see this growth in writing over time. By having students engage in multiple pieces of authentic writing we may be able to parse growth.

Think about annotations and developing a code book to annotate over time. That is clearly demonstrable growth thaty could easily be analyzed.

Tools that make teachers more reliable are just as important.

We need to explain why the current model of writing is insufficient.

Taking back the web is the long term strategy and to do that we need students who can read and write the web.

Will read grant if submitted by April 1st.

We will start with one setting in the development year, two settings in the pilot year, and four settings (2 high and low in two SES districts in two states).

The idea that owning a domain changes the act of learning is essential to Open Pedagogy

Use this as a measure for the grant.

At the same time perezhivanie must accept this identity work was being compelled and their s a power imbalance where the student will try to please outside factors. Some may not share the mist critical funds of identity in a school setting

Almostt all of the new literacies studies as of late focused on identity ad naseum with the JPG flair.

but then we get to new identities requiring crisis. Not sure I agree.

There is cultural meaning here of the cat as a metaphor for lazy. Think Garfield.

I also see how I misunderstood critical as crisis.

This reminds me of the pre and post test we used to give as part of the New Literacies Institute. Choose one picture that represents you before and one after,

Wondering what happens to students who could not use the software. Just being more skilled in specific software signifies identity.

In my work on critical evaluation I want to explore what happens when students interact with bias avatars doing read alouds.

I think we can leverage this in learning by allowing students to "unlock" bounty boxes similar to the in-app economies of most games.

Sounds like Piaget here to me.

I think there can be many small episodes that build over time

Very similar to Gee's Big D little d discourse model

It is this that scares me. We are no longer just having students define themselves.. Well actually I believe we project many MEs and have many other MEs projected back onto us.

Yet they are no longer in control of how their life experiences get shared. A social algorithm determines what events they see from friends and what friends see of them.

Notification provide gratification while reinforcing specific funds of identity.

What is the meme version of of historically accumulated. Clearly memes are deeply influenced by funds of knowledge as evident by Black Twitter yet they are more temporal and draw heavily on pop culture. At the same time having a deep meme game also signifies status in digital culture.

I believe in a digital world we need to ensure students control the spaces where they are defining themselves.

This what scares me. We have added silos as an intermediary in the positive and negative experiences students have.

An algorithm gets to decide which friends a friend shares communication. A hidden box controls what experience gets reinforced in youth culture.

Think about that. We have handed off the creation and curation of identities of children to corporations.

What does this mean for digital culture?

I am okay with people calling places like Twitter and Google+ open in the ways they were used in clmooc. Are you? Can open learning happen on closed systems?

Where would this research go if G+ was...mitigated? Any online project that can be closed for whatever reason is not totally open, is it? I don't think I would go quite that far in my definition. But an electomagnetic pulse might not be so forgiving. I think open can happen anywhere even on closed systems. I sponsor an open version of Zeega. Anyone can join and i will honor it as long as it can still work withing existing software and cloud and hardware systems. That is open, I think. I am not prepared for any academic overthink on this ;-)

The word "open" is undergoing some real trials in academia where it is supposed to be synonymous with "perfect," or "pure." Can we reground the conversation in a more accessible place?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEBzztj3lto

But what is more Open? A Mastadon instance that only those with a development background could ever launch or a Google+ community any teacher could join, even if they don't own their data or it isn't remixed.

Especially if everyone was interacting from their own domain.

Be like bringing your sketchbook and hanging photocopies in the coffee shop.

We welcome you to share thoughts and ideas as we come together and reflect on so many years of #clmooc Just remember to tag posts clmooc, plus any other tag you want

plumbing and pedagogy

I like your phrasing better as I hiccup unhappily before the august presence of five-syllable words.

People

@troyhicks try to avoid these meta organizational sentences I know it is expected in the genre of academic writing but we can be more creative in our transitions and laying out how we organize.

We will journey through the past of digital writing and then explore the possibilities together so you will know how to reach out and rekindle....

or something

I applaud almost any attempt to think out loud about almost anything. And this is not an academic fixation on my part. The biggest issue my students have reading is that the text is often so polished as to be impossible for them to grip. Pound some damned pitons in your writing. I sure need them.

Just trying to model to educators how we can use the margins as a feedback tool.

While Troy reduced the inferential reasoning required by the reader by laying out is organization I would rathe the rely on headers and effective transitional sentences.

Plus I really hate reading, "In this paragraph I will talk about..."

One of those is good feedback and one of those is not.

It's a matter of preferences, isn't it? I like these types of signposting when I see them, though I also like headings (and, of course, the latter are good for accessibility when done properly).

Yes it is, but not headers. Those are required in good academic writing and on the web for accessibility and every day readers.

The fields of wild flowers, dried and shriveled

tamed by power. Mowed down for convenience.

No one would walk this hills to see wild flowers

Now plucked, gone.

Genetically engineered and packaged and patented

Take this seed and we will plant it.

We know best

We provide the water, light.

Grow your seed. Blossom your network

Just don't leave our walled garden

Everyone is here, its better we look the same.

Lovely blue flowers for all.

Poems in the margins make me smile ...

My raspberries are planted and my grandkids ready to pick them. We continue in hope.

Every morning I save a firefly that has wandered into the house lured by an LED I suppose. I do it selfishly. My grandchildren will appreciate future generations I have afforded by gently saving their ancestors.

I hope it was OK to grab your poem, Greg. I just extruded it through Lumen5 for fun and sharesies: https://youtu.be/jxDA2oUBtvA

Often the wrong way. We went from an open web where everyone controlled where they published to a homogenized world of corporate silos where alogrithims influence what we read and thus what we write.

Web 2.0 became the corporate web.

True critical digital literacies must begin by taking back control of your identity.

Let's hope the kids kick back at it ...

hope... and encourage

I need to check this out.

Link:https://voyant-tools.org/

And I took the next paragraph and run it through the tool. The results look like this:

Just tried Voyant. Fun way to see a Wordle and graph of key words from a blog post.

And taking it one step further, using Troy's words as analysis and then into a poem about losing the meaning of words through analysis like this:

I think we are moving into the third and not second decade. Although you and I presented at some of the earliest NCTE sessions on digital wrting and those were in 2007.

There is a history ... and I think it was Paul Allison at one NWP meeting who talked about it going way way back even further, to the 1970s, when the world of teaching composition began to fracture a bit as people contemplated what we might mean by that term: composition.

Yes the technology has changed but they we we learn to write is not the fundamentally different.

Pedagogy first. Always

Agreed.

Pedagogy in service to the learner first?

Yes.

I think this is why we need to really focus on the idea of being "tool agnostic", a phrase I'm digging into in my current writing and something I thought about while teaching in a Title I. school. Technology tools will change. Our responsibility is to ensure our students master skills.

This is why I get frustrated when I see things like PD's offered on Pear Deck, instead of a PD focusing on what Pear Deck (or quizlet, or pinterest, or google forms, etc. etc. etc.) is asking students to do? Trends change, free apps disappear or go behind paywalls, change happens.

Here is the thing the next decade of digital writing would be best served if it looked like the digital writing of yesterday.

Let's stick to html on domains students own.

I can certainly agree with and understand this point, especially given the recent demise of sites like Kidblog and Wikispaces. In the same way, we also need to help teachers find "a domain of one's own," outside of the school LMS, and as a way to create their own professional digital identity. That way, they can learn how HTML (and GIFs, and embed codes, and other types of media) function, and can make those tools – and their purposes – explicit in digital writing instruction.

I've been trying to follow your IndieWeb adventures, Greg. Can you point us to what you are up to? (I did see your note about how Edublogs seems resistant to integrating with IndieWeb feed .. or did I read that wrong?)

@dogtrax….hmm how to keep up with my #IndieWeb stuff….well I will give you my #IndieWeb answer: Check out my blog: You can see all my note Tweets first published as notes All of my quotes of blogs I read and replies to other tweets. quotes replies But Kevin you are one of the most #IndiewWeb people I know. I often hold you up as the standard of being #indie but using services like Google Sites or EduBlogger. It comes down to owning your content, controlling your identity. Having the technology to connect with the community is an important but distant third to the first two values.

Edublogs is a special version of WordPress. In order to ensure stability for users they do not allow too many plugins. You can add an h-card, which is like a business card, to your homepage, header or footer but that is about it.

We are going to organize a virtual IndieWebCamp for some time in August. We should see if @ncte wants to get involved at all.

Though @dogtrax you know I have been RSS or Die since day one...but....what has me most excited about digital writing in the next ten years are the new kind of readers being developed by the #IndieWeb community. Check out: a description

I 100% agree. Could just get rid of cursive, an a8th century technology for the telegraph and replace with html, a 20th and 21st technology for the web.

Cultural knowledge or folk knowledge as Campbell put it?

Even Dewey felt a critical stance was a specific type of thought. I believe this is essential in our networked world.

Chalk this up to another definition of the web by John Dewey

This reminds me of Gee's circuit of reflective thought. or Kaku's Human consciousnes:

involves the ability to create a model of the world and then simulate the model of the world in order to obtain a goal. Maybe reflection is consciousness. Can one be conscious and not be in a reflective state. Is that the primitive brain?

Or when we are far down on Maslow's scale. Then again a hungry or shlterless person would reflect on that a lot.

Maybe its just when automatcity must take over either due to skill or situation.

Seeing again this delineation between thinking and critical thinking.

Three kinds of thinking: 1. thinking is being conscious of a thing 1. two we only think of things not present 1. thinking is limited to evidence and testimony

Defining things is hard.

This sounds very much like disciplinary literacies to me. Also has the who dispositions focus is all the rage.

Too bad we don't know much more about measuring dispositions now than we did 118 years ago. Go back to "multiplication of studies" not what Dewey meant but love the irony?

Sound familiar?

It is important to recognize how culture influences orality.

Use as text zero

Save for vocabulary module

How does Pruitt still have a job?

Says @spearkerryan the man who sent dozens of repeal Obamacare votes he knew would never become law.

Such hypocrisy.

Just found this pencast from @chrisaldrich it is great.

Going to use this as a guide.

Maybe even make an embedded how to guide, or we could use annotations as a way to make pencast a bit more accessible.

This is the problem. Our tax code shouldn't be messed with just to win elections.

Politicians should try to change laws because they believe what they are doing is right.

We could take notes and then also use the tags as a form of qualitative codebook.

Machine learning can be leveraged here

How can we measure critical collaboration skills? It is clear authentic tasks and models are necessary. Digital Field placements can make this happen

We must focus our use of edtech on this area.

Technology plays a peripheral role

I wonder why if it was about nothing why the meeting wasn't reported

I don't know.

This is a bold statement. Yes the authors have been successful in business but I am always weary of absolutes and shy away from them in my writing.

Generating Buzz

I think this customer satisfaction is the key differntiator

When you bootstrap you are forced to make customers the only priority.

These are always cast as less exciting, boring in a sense. Reminds me of the Zapier article and the story of the mortgage shop.

because this is the job of robots. Let them issue the low hanging fruit badges while humans handle the participation based badges. AI could be trained to know if a film maker grasps the principle of Thirds but the Kick-Ass Kubrick Shot badge gets awarded by the community.

https://vimeo.com/48425421

The claim to rape was about pregancy or STDs related from rape. Both considered pre existing claims and having "access" to healthcare is way different than "affordable" health care.

use this as a timeline event?

Couros model of open pedagogy

interesting metaphor for open here

cite this for the failing social compact and the importance of open

Can open be the new compact?

open was the original goal of land grant institutions.

permeable boundaries and identities. Is permutation an important metaphor?

distributed human and physcial capital is important.

This seems to be one of the oldest defintions I could find

John Seely Brown suggested open pedagogy would emerge.

open planning open products open post-hoc

woodward describng #thoughtvectors

Tom Woodward defintion

Be as open as poissble, use modern online learnign pedagogies Use OER peer tp peer over self study use social learning leverage massive participation

Remix is part of open pedagogy

There is an insight here with pedagogy. Not sure what. As we use open pedagogy we oursleves become more open. Maybe part of the them that open is really a journey and state of mind.

Open pedagogy may have positive results for learners.

I think this has more to do with the domian rather than the nature of open learning. I coudl have open learning in basic physics where mroe traditional models of measurement coul;d track progress.

Is this a benifit or a quality. Chick and egg?

maybe networked , rather than expansion. I find students need many scaffolds of community to start.

A key principle is agency. Though could be combined with choice.

Yes we can (and shoudld) openly license our course work but what in our couse design must shitf when working in the open?

All of the descritpions of open pedagogy seem to put the openness on the content and artifacts and not in the learner.

This sets up a binary. You can not be "open"unless you are fully open? What does that mean when I draft a document on Google Docs? I have granualr control over permissions but someone own's my data. Is it open? Must learning occur on on a FOSS (free and open source software) to be considered part of open pedagogy?

Did they not ask for lists of scientists working on climate change during transition? Did they not wipe any mention of climate change from whitehouse.gov on a day one? Did they not put a gag order on science?

Make this into make a new comic strip about copyright encouraging creativity.

There has to be a good gif of different kinds of art flying at you. That will make a cool scene

Have a frame with two characters one for each motivation.

Make this a pop up character. Pointing for more info? Possibly one reoccurring scene.

I need to resize these gifs.

The problem with observations is they have been too minimal. One of the key differences to high performing charters when compared to their urban peers has been the amount of observation and coaching involved in the classroom.

This is what happens when economists speak of teaching. They see it as merely controlling students and ensuring that they are all in their seats like good little cattle. Don't forget all of these VAM models came from agriculture. My students aren't cattle.

Could we not make the same argument about the test scores? If NAEP and TIMMS growth have been stagnant for the last 25 years doesn't that mean accountability based reform are a waste of money?

The idea that any employee should go through the year and not have an observation and be evaluated by their supervisor seems silly,

We needed a study for this.They are uncorrelated because they are different measures. That being said we do not pay enough attention to capacity of evaluators nor do we use teacher observations in growth models.

Just because we should doesn't mean we can. I just do not think enough unique variance year over year can be teased out from teacher effects

A good observation report should make the connection to student learning. Too often evaluators do not focus on the learning.

Actually a good teacher observation model is much more than a checklist approach. It is not a dichotomous measure as the author suggests

Slow and low, that is the tempo Let it flow, let yourself go

Another way to phrase the statment

how

what

Compare players

who

why

when

where

So life long learning can only happen in "the open?" Seems like Hegarty is describing their ideal arc rather than the arc-of-life learning.

I also wonder when we stop describing learning and we are just talking about being a human. Is there a difference?

Binaries are never fun. Open to me is more of a continuum.

Hyperlinking is how the workflow of most classes built on open pedagogy work. Usually students run their own blog and then syndicate to some course hub,

One of my favorite thought leaders when it comes to networked learning spaces.

Writing in threes. We as humanity are drawn to it.

Essential in development of open pedagogy. Really inseparable. It is the tool of the action, and the activity lead to the evolution of the tool.

Not necessary in truest sense. Look at Rhizo14 and Rhizo15 for great learning with no direction and no assignment.

Reciprocal teaching has always focused on strategy instruction what I see is more a strategy exchange in open pedagogy. There is a collective toolbox and some people hold more parts than others.

This is much smaller than remixing. Though in many ways a summary is a remix. Still I wonder if the effet size would hold as the degrees of freedom of the derivative work grow.

What does teacher clarity mean when the community is the teacher which is often the model found in open pedagogy?

Does a non-derivative license by definition make something open or less open?

This is critical. In most fluent of open pedagogy spaces participants are there to create what they believe is the highest expression of art in their domain.

Hattie's work is also very influential in my world view. In fact it forms the background to all the facilitating I do around teacher observation. Yet Open Pedagogy speaks to so much more than efficacy. In many ways it isn't always as efficient, yet the messness is where real learnign occurs.

When I think about Open Pedagogy I am also drawn to Friere:

David as written a lot about Open Pedagogy. Explore his stuff.

Open is both an attitude and a continuum. Together they make open a journey. When it comes to open pedagogy we are now simply referring to the map and the compass. Some paths are well carved but others are still left unexplored.

I thought our mind were to be clear of thought or is to be a single focus on this thought?

A strong vibe of staying in tune with nature. Again getting at how nature is defined will be necessary for understanding.

An important critique for our attention economuy

Seeing many connections to Ram Das and "Be Here Now"

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

— Ram Dass (@BabaRamDass) December 19, 2014

Must we accept fate? Can it not be shaped by our actions?

II need to think on this some more. Seems to be a key consideration. there free will in this model or is man's will as apart of the whole simply another step in the same cosmic dance.

The inevitability of our monir existence on this planet. It is a little ironic to read something over 2,00 years old writing that our lives our mere winds. I guess some blow harder than others.

To control desires, squash passions, and eat sparsely one must have control over the physical as well as the mental body.

Interesting so is hope not considered a kind of passion,. What is the rationality of hope?

Why not just deserved occasions? Is it best to only criticize laterally?

Country Dumb?

Looking then for a definition of nature. Will it be elemental?

Is there rejection of pain and passion a worthy endeavor? What is gained by losing or having?

Western individualism.

Need a better translation for these but seeing a lot of dichotomies. opposite forces that must be avoided

Interesting connotations here in terms of refraining from passion and the rise of fame. It is hard to imagine accomplishing noteirity without passion in a subject.

What are your markers of credibility? How do you know if an author is an expert?

Future of work section

Have a section for EDU106 News on Future of Employment include this

You can be an effective teacher and still have students score low on tests. They are two different measures. The idea that student scores are low so majority of teachers must be ineffective is a false claim.

Would you expect the majority of doctor and lawyers to be ineffective? No, people with decades of experience and 8-10 years of schooling are surprisingly good at their jobs.

We can not fire our way to greatness. Instead we should invest in our teaching corp.

This is the first reading. Please read chapters one and two

We need to think about the literary practices of teens

Here is the piece by Bly Lauritano-Werner

Yes us giving up our privacy in content silos like facebook or advertising networks like Google is very profitable.

A few of us are working on an open research project examining literacy practices and text moves and leadership development in open online classes.

We will use the tag #rhizome as we read and develop subtags such as #methodology or #literature.

I also wonder how we train supervisors.

Yes but we still see issues of access and inequality. There is wealth concentration never before seen.

Ludicrous Speed

I think memes can be a great way to reach students. Here is an easy project I made: https://thimbleprojects.org/jgmac1106/1979/

This seems like my defintion of a blog.

Please, enable killfile. Offer the level of functionality and user control that were available with Usenet newsreaders like 'nn'

This is an issue we have dealt with at Mozilla with x-ray Goggles for quite some time. There is still debate whether proxies "copy" a text. Legal review says the law is on our side..but I am sure other lawyers disagree.

It is a fascinating issue. To the extent that the author of the work is protecting it via common copyright regimes, several murky questions arise.

@jgmac1106 - A read of Mozilla's legal review would be fascinating. Has that been published? If not, can it be disclosed?

@matt_paz

I was mistaken. X-Ray goggles does not use a proxy. Here is what @pomax said

x-ray goggles doesn't use a proxy as you point out, way too much legal issues with them. if a resource is locked down for third party embedding, then too bad, it won't load in a goggles remix, and such is the nature of the web (and that's a teaching/learning moment(

Have an abuse reporting feature for authors. That's it. Greenwald's assertion that citation is appropriation is nonsense.

If an author reports abuse of annotations, and that is verified by staff or a trusted community member simply disable annotations on a case by case basis and delete the accounts of abusers.

:+1:

However, in Germany there is a lot of censorship and lots of media pages disable comments because they don't want to hear the opinion of the readers (which often question the messages of their articles).

I think there have to be real legal reasons for disabling comments -- not just "you can't debunk my lies".

Anything that is covered by "freedom of speech" should be allowed -- I think "freedom from speech" is not a good reason to disable/remove comments.

:+1: In the same way I can bookmark, copy&paste, view source, tweet any web ressources, with or without author's consent, I should be able to annotate and share it. They are the same act of re-writing. Web annotation only (and happily) add a citation link between ressource and annotation. That's something "authors" should love, especially if they like to be called "author".

This was not and is not by choice. It is a threat of sovereignty by nations trying to impose their laws on to the web and other nations.

I have to disagree. Granted my disagreement is coming from a place of privilege so I have not faced the same level of harassment but if opt-in was the default open annotation would be dead. Killed by the tyranny of the default.

Yeah I'm really struggling to understand how people who want to post things publicly start recoiling at the thought of people responding to it publicly. If they don't want people to discuss it, then they should restrict the content to a private community.

You mean I broke your A/B testing...Awwee shucks. Watch how many things load on a modern website. I do not think this is a real issue for small indie publishers and bloggers.

Many sites (you can't annotate the Common Core Standards) already block proxies. If sites want they can employ the same tactic.

Can web mentions be integrated into annotations? This of course would mean authors would have to have the right plug-ins and javascript installed but it would be nice to be notified if someone annotated your website.

Imagine if a writer of a book could ban writing in the margins.

Do you mean remix? That is how I read this definition.

Not necessarily true. I run into sites that block proxies all the time. You can not annotate there.

Yet the characters are often quite static. I think as children get older they will also need exposure to more complex texts where everything is not as black and white.

FYI-This is a bad, bad, idea on so many levels. Look at Serafini's work on his tripariate model for more info on picture books.

Yes the focus on remix is key. Awesome quote.

This is also important. By citing who Warschauer cites Shawna traces the perspectives and bias in the piece.

Once again this is done succinctly with a predicatable text structure requiring minimal inferences on part of the reader.

Plus its done in a way that doesn't make you want to pull your eyes out from boredom. That is the real hard part.

Concise Creativity

Yes using tech to simply showcase learning is a waste of instructional minutes.

Stop what you are doing and go read everything Bransford wrote.

Examine Shawna's first sentence. She clearly indicates to the audience that this post will be anchored in a literature review.

More importantly Shawna is able to give the title, author, and a summary in once sentence.

Shawna used a connection to a personal detail to support the claim that the debate between skills and knowledge plays out.

I do think Shawna should have taken a stance around this part of the post. I am interested in her voice. I want to know where she stands on the issue.

I would say the danger between separating skills and content is there is no separation.

Content is comprehension. Yet at the same time those who thrive in digital spaces can become self-programmable learners and back fill content knowledge.

But this ability is still directly ties to background knowledge. Less knowledge requires greater skill and more knowledge requires less skill.

Shawna finished with her position statement. This is very common in literature review and literary analysis assignments.

• Intro (author, title, summary)
• Deep Summary
• This is what I believe

Except in blogging you may want to take a TLDR, or what we used to call, "top of the fold" make your position evident and early. Do not feel afraid to use call out boxes, blockquotes, etc to draw the readers attention.

Fix this sentence.

You may want to model using the same format the students will use.

In my plan, I did it on both chart paper and paper they will be using. I thought it would be good to show it both ways so they can see it. Should I have just used the paper they will be using?

Is this connected to the books being read? Are they writing to the characters or the author?

They can write the letter to anyone they would like. The goal was for them to understand the basics of letter writing and to be able to write a greeting, one sentence and closing. In your notes below, I see that I should have stated the objective as you stated-"write a letter with a greeting and closing."

Thank you for the feedback.

You may want to refine your objective so it is more measurable. Such as, "write a letter with a greeting and a closing"

Then is paying attention what you are tying to assess?

I encourage you to rethink your assessment strategy. What are you going to use to see if students can distinguish fact and opinion?

What will you do for students in conferences who have met this standard? What will you do with students in conferring that have not met your learning target?

You would be conferring with the students. You can read to them. Yes not having to focus on decoding may help the students to look for facts and opinions but the teacher is the best scaffold in your tool box.

Base on this lesson you never looked for fact and opinion in a text with students.

The anchor charts are important. Graphic organizers scaffold the text and serve as an external storage of our memories.

You underestimate the power of conformity in an elementary classroom.

I like how you are defining fact and opinion with a personal example but you need to model it with the text as well.

@laurenbarry Be cognizant of when and why you make the decision. Nothing beats having your teacher read to you.

Not saying there isn't a place for audiobooks. I enjoy them and they are great for reinforcing fluency.

You also have to be careful making digital copies of books. It is okay to record yiurself reading a book, but displaying a page by page turn as a close-up is usually a no go.

I think the Three Little Pigs would be a good story for this standard because it changes settings and has easily identifiable characters.

Students need to be able to pint out characters in stories.

A kindergarten student must know a definition of a character

Is self-promotion the end game of your social media presence? Is that your purpose in sharing your story?

I use the word class way too much in these three sentences.

I am glad to see a reference to what I consider our largest national embarrassment. Our prison population and how many men of color we lock up.

Yes. btw, i fyou all haven't read "Just Mercy," you should. It not only covers incredibly important issues, but it is very readable and compelling.

Agreed. I've been very pleased to see the pardons that have pushed back against mandatory sentencing laws. But this doesn't cover what happens next for those freed felons.

Based on precedent money=speech. The government can not tell someone how to spend their money.

This would take a constitutional amendment or grassroots efforts at the state level.

What would also help would have been scientific methods of sampling for the census but a literal read of the constitution does not allow this....

Or just a change in state law … he's referring to gerrymandering. Independent, nonpartisan district drawing exists in California and elsewhere

I agree state level change is nice. I also like the states saying they are willing to assign their seats at the electoral college over to majority winner once enough states sign on.

Have you compared either our physical infrastructure (crumbling) or our digital (monopolized and non-existent)

And capital gains taxed at a far lower rate than the income of lower and middle class.

Nothing is going to happen on taxes until the next census. Gerrymandering after 20110 was just to deep a red cut.

The only tax reform Paul Ryan will take is a txt cut.

While critics will claim the gains caused by early childhood ween by third grade I do not see this as an issue. Universal pre-K will be a game changer.

The idea that America has had the number one education system in the world is not true. I think our success has always been as being the place the best and brightest want to be.

We are a country built on immigration not our educational system.

It this thinly veiled American Exceptionalism?

Not sure. I do know when I travel abroad you do not see the same "I can crush it" attitude.

Another good topic for YV Live. Some have claimed that "fairness" like this is actually undesireable socialism

It's actually not uniquely American. Australians have the concept of a "fair go"

I think the "unique" part is the work hard. The idea that anyone can stack they just need a dream and a work ethic.

A call out to Trump and "Make America Great Again"

Alliteration and consonance are under valued rhetorical devices.

They bring power through cadence.

Interesting three neats in actual speech.

I too am enjoying the craft of good speech writing!

or until December., which ever comes first. I wouldn't take wagers on things getting done.

Seems like an odd time to be saying this.

It's possible Obama is hinting at his post-presidency agenda.

kidscancode and everyone needs to code mantra comes front and center. Not sure that is our strongest educational priority.

but if Obama has been weak on anythign it has been education.

Yeah, maybe "learn to write" would have been enough.

Weak leadership with Duncan.

LOL!

Indeed.

Truly. Writing computer code was an odd choice.

What is with everyone talking about coding? Coding is cool, but why has it risen to national focus all of a sudden?

Low bar problems (it is an election year) and lets not ignore the fact the big pharma has made millions on prescription drug abuse.

Though look at the sentence structure in the paragraph. Sets the bar low and then dangles low hanging fruit with a call to action.

But problems nonetheless. The criminal justice system does need reforming.

Amazing work being done by high school students on youth voices on prisons: http://youthvoices.net/search/node/prison

A call back to the election. A preview of #nextprez to start the election

Ah - someone's here! I wasn't sure if we were here or on medium.

The remarks of a politician, one of the most talented this country has ever seen.

Half of my life has been under President Obama. Anticipating the next election is thrilling but bittersweet. I wonder how Obama feels to be saying goodbye right now. Also it's funny because Iowa.

Notice the rhetorical technique. You have the metaphor of turning the page along with the strong "But" as a signal word to start.

Is this an example of 44 passing the blame back on to 4 or simply a statement of reality?

It is quite the negative connotation to start

Did the bloggers make the assertion. I do not think the authors did. In the abstract they clearly refer to this as an "article"

This may change if we add a stream.

only going to be...this statement gets me. This is exactly what a teacher evaluation system should strive to be.

An effective feedback tool leads to growth. In fact we know from John Hattie's work that effective feedback has some of the largest impact on learning.

I want evaluation systems that are based on being effective feedback tools for teacher growth.

Here I agree. We need to make it easier to give principals control over hiring and firing. There needs to be some flexibility in tenure systems.

There is zero evidence that this is even statistically possible. In fact the AERA and a majority of Deans at Schools of Education have come out against this practice.

This is silly we need different leadership and instructional capacity rubrics for school leaders.

This is because SLO's are a failure. Trying to have all teachers base their goals on student growth is a fallacy. I know the "alternative" is to judge teachers solely on HST testing but then you have art teachers judged on reading scores...that's silly...so in an effort to create "objectivity" teachers have to right SLO's. These contribute to overtesting, fall victim to Campbell's Law, and make no sense.

Why can't a goal for an art teahcer be: "Create a community based art show that connects students to local artists..."

Because it can't be quantified.

SLOs need reform.

There is some statistical reasons for doing so. If you are going to use Value Added scores you need multiple years of data. Switching assessments reset the clock.

A delay was statistically required.

Why is this hard to believe? That a majority of teachers would be effective. This idea that we must have a witch hunt to "weed" out ineffective teachers makes NCTQ reports suspect.

Could you imaging saying the same thing about doctors or pilots? Wouldn't you want the vast majority of those flying you throw the sky or taking a scalpel to your skin to be effective or highly effective?

This is the key information the user will want. What are the pros and cons and what is the best approach to me.

Either a three column table or three "profiles" and why they chose each of the three options.

Thanks Greg!

Linking to other blog posts in our posts is a great idea to really share the love.

Stealing this idea of mini-event blog rolls at the end of posts.

Me too. This is so simple an idea I can't believe I've never done this.

What a wonderful metaphor.

I am totally going to go this lesson at my fir Mozilla Club meeting next semester.

One thing that struck me about Mozfest was how often tech was never present in a session.

Refreshing.

I am going to use this piece in my class as an example of leadership and advocacy.

This is a wonderful definition of distributed leadership. We need to recognize horizontal and vertical pathways of community support.

That is awesome. Congrats. This is my favorite #mozfest post. It details how leadership and advocacy spread across the web.

This outreach, right after #mozfest is a good idea.

Check out the image annotation.

Is balanced to weak of a word? An agreement? A compromise? Or a dissolution of both positions?

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This lede is just historically inaccurate. #Edchat started in 2009. I don't think Bieber released an album until 2010.

Educators, beyond the tech class, were the first to embrace Twitter.

I am going to try this now to build a teacher feed.

It worked for me in Feedly. I am a pro user. not sure if that makes a difference.

Another false dichotomy

Going back and reading the first thing I ever published. This may be the most dummest of sentence I have wrote.

Connecting to standards and assessment was something baked into the DNA of national standards.

Seventh

Goes sixth

Goes fifth

Goes fourth

Goes third

goes second

Goes first

I think the author has understated how feedback works in incremental theory. Neither feedback option is better. They should be connected to the stated learning outcome. The key feature is feedback shoudl not be about the student or pleasing the teacher but about the goal.

Hello my name is Greg. My favorite color is something only I see and they can often confuse the shit out of me. Welcome to the network.

This is why I need to finish one read before I am done annotating. Authors often address earlier doubts. Its good writing.

The tools do mediate the spaces. Specialized language, an OG tool, has always signaled membership in and out of networks.

As someone who is colorblind I want to stretch this metaphor somehow. Play with it semantically.

Good point...that said, hearing about your experience of color would be interesting! I think anything could sub for color provided it's a unique personal descriptor

The CSAIL study proved what YouTube producers have longed figured out. Shorter more frequent videos work better. MOOCs aren't new. We just used to call them YouTube,.

Glad to see the University reinforcing body type and gender stereotypes right into their MOOCs

Either these costs are grossly inflated or universities are doing this totally wrong. If I dedicated 25% of my workload to teaching a MOOC (and teaching makes up about 50% of my job) that would come nowhere to reaching the costs.

I can build a MOOC tomorrow for about $40 bucks in hosting.

Sage advice for any new teacher.

This will be an awesome feature for submitting feedback to students.

Though the next question would be is pedagogy itself a performance?

This gave rise to the whole language movement

I wonder if this had to do with the space race? It was the start of the "schoola are failing" trope.

I agree. I have tried to "escape" the LMS only to recreate it. I can use open-source tools and variety of networks but if students see them as completion channels and not communication channels all I get is a stream of assignments handed in.

Totally felt the same. Twice I've used blogs through LMS for journaling. I tried to tell my students to not just write an entry, but to also read their peers' entries and leave comments. I admit, I didn't push hard. I really envisioned this online space to foster community and knowledge construction. But, as you say, got a bunch of assignments turned in. I can totally understand why teachers turn to Facebook or Twitter.

I agree we have handed over text-construction to the crowd. Coiro et al argued that this is self-directed text construction but I think it is more social. Our networks influence what we read just as much as what we click.

Does this have to be another dichotomy? Knowledge and skills need to be part of pedagogy. Hated to have a plumber who spent who whole education thinking about how the o-ring really feels.

You should encourage everyone to tag their annotations ob101 so we can sort the annotation stream.

Is it “safe” as a tag? Nobody else using it?

“Obi-Wan, oh one”

I don't think hypothes.is is that popular yet, so we're probably safe for the moment...

Agreed. Will fold into instructions.

Confused on the difference between methods and function. Te author refer to methods more often.

These are often Fry phrases. They were identified by Dr. Fry and are still taught today,

This is the piece I adapted to make my phonemic awareness teaching video.

You need to know the difference between consonant blends ands consonant clusters.

The #CCSS are actually much more demanding than this.

Memorize this table. You may want to cut these out and turn them into flashcards. You will want to be able to repeat these with automaticity.

The interesting link is the web of skills and knowledge. We build knowledge by reading but the more you know the easier it is to read. This creates a cycle that can reinforce gaps over time.

But wait...I thought your promise of accountability fixed the drop-out problem. If it is a problem still then it sounds like accountability based reform did not work.

This same kind of data could be gathered without annual testing. Newsflash: Being born white and rich has its privileges. Do we need to spend hundreds of millions each year to prove this point?

This is fear-mongering in conjecture. Include annual testing or graduation rates will plummet. Such a base rhetorical move.

I find it hard to believe you can have communication as a process without mobilization and leadership. They all enable each other.

I believe the need to #teachtheweb to ensure the Web stays Open and a source of empowerment around the globe is a common problem of our time.

methodoloy papers can act as a scaffold but a rhizo analysis shoudl follow its own flight as you map.

This is a good guide to trying rhizomatic methods.

skills of participatory culture

How would I map the makes in #walkmyworld?

Need an agreed upon way to look at the data representation.

I can then see this as being a tool for distributed research analysis. Will work on a plan.

What does it mean when these spaces become networked? Are we disembodied or new embodied? I know I pace and pull on my hair when I learn in networked spaces.

Need to track down Butler as Leander's work has been so influential in the way identiy is reterritorialized, territorialized, and deterritorialized in literacy research.

If there is greater deterritorlization in the world should the map not be placed on two axes? should they be unbalanced?

So progress is always deterritorilzation but at the same time the Web is leading to greater homogenization. We have machinations of stability and distability pushing on the Web. Here I think the machinations of assesmblages do take deliberate effort.

If you remove the territory of both language and content you have to say then they exist on the same plane as if they transverse the same space.

Content is defined as the machinations of assemblages so this work around machines having no function to do what they do is interesting.

NVM D+G do get at the idea of movement being multidirectional.

I really like this idea that language moves bodies. Gets movement, trajectories and agency built in. Though I could see language being used to decelerate bodies. Agency given and taken with language

I really like this definition of language. Defines agency, but I think language can be used to decelerate bodies as well. Give and take agency.

Since reality is constructed language does not represent reality but it co-constructed with it. There is nothing to be represented so therefore language can not be separated from stuff.

D+G definition of content.

This assumes humans are not organized to maximize and seek out different affordances and tools. Maybe the assemblage that emerges is the most logical.

I refer then of course to verbocentric definitions of reading as Leander & Rowe put reading in quotes. I do think you can read any encoded text. I draw a line there between universal sign systems and what we read in nature versus texts encoded through human activity.

Seeing connections to Blake here. This idea that everything is born of desire. I contrast this though with Kristeva's focus on the abject or aversion. As if meaning is antithetical to desire. Is one a more feminist interpretation of intertextuality where one class finds aversion in the desire of others? Where pain is a byproduct of someone else's desires?

This would mean we should be examining for assemblages of our content in our analysis. So we could look for assemblages of identities, textual knowledge and uses etc.

Key definition. There is the idea that connections and ways of being more important than the identification.

This is what the "in-crowd" feeling that some of the "introverts" to which I will now mislabel as "hesitant to enter" creates.

By rushing into the complexity we are stratifying the chaos in ways that organize the learning space.

Anyone using this article as a guide for rhizoanalysis, which you should never do (make up your own), should substitute their own work here and think about each of these four terms.

Here I struggle as well. Things are predictable. That is a basic function of humanity. We can look at patterns of past histories and pick from predictable futures.

Identity is abound here.

The unexpected takes a skill level though to be truly unexpected. If you look at enough pieces long enough a pattern does emerge.

Key definition. I can get behind this intertextually but in terms Immanence as if reality were a projection with ever shifting centers...above the pay grade.

This does get at what I have loosely been calling socially complex texts.

Variants are important in defining reality. So are patterns. Equally so.

This is the key. I always struggle with the post modern idea of nonrepresentation. You end up unwishing yourself into being. Like the teenage subcultures a new conformity is born,

but thinking of texts as becoming.. There is something to that.

Tis just means I am thinking about my unit of analysis wrong. Stop thinking about it as separate events attached to one identity. Look at the performance of the Learning Event in its entirety.

I start to take slight issue with many post-modern theorists. Here. I agree with Kress on the issue that while nth interpretations of readers exist authors use the affordances of text to constrain these possibilities.

I see how this can play out in the analysis of performance. Wonder if performance can be followed a map created from the #walkmyworld data we have.

What does this mean in terms of texts? Do we analyze them solely in terms of the purpose? Can they be analyzed once separated from the act of creation?

identifying what is present means counting. Does the latter involve counting?

The concept of research and though being non-representational begs the question, "What's the point?"

I am seeing some connections to what what [Laura de Reynal] (https://twitter.com/lau_nk) and Michele Thorne are doing with the #webjourney. They invented a really cool methodology. I call it reflective network design.

Critiques of representations. This is essential in understanding rhizoanalysis.

Is this the truth with any retelling regardless of mode?

This is bound to happen to matter the methodology. We are naming things by exploring variants in phenomena.

Read these. Have read some. Track down the rest.

Identity as being central to meaning making and literacy practices. Yet these are mandated practices what does that mean?

Leander is still exploring embodied meaning. he and his team have a study group at the Literacy Research Association.

Discourse analysis?

I like the graph. I have to follow the roots of this unlearning literature. Feeling a legacy of Piaget in this sense of "crisis" or "discomfort" that is required for deep learning.

I know I throw things when writing, yet there is also a sense of elation and drive.

I find the or strange. I wonder if It should be and. Many students put in time without effort and get no where.

I also think you can reach understanding instantaneously (though I think Sam refers to more designed learning than natural learning). I think about Kristeva and the abject. It isn't so much unlearning but a reversion.

My dabbling in this makes me wonder if we would need tools in the chart or the activity...wait we would be stuck with Engstrom's triangles again.

Or is this a recognition that you have so much more to learn? Is understanding from this framework nothing more than the motivation from greater knowledge?

This puts deep learning in the hands of the individual I am beginning to wonder if understanding is something that belongs to the collective. It is too subjective in the individual.

It could be just not encountering enough variations across multiple case studies.

I also see many parallels to the idea of what we are calling synthesis here.

I agree with this statement but I do not by into the science of unlearning. You are not "unlearning" when your perceptions shift. It is a movement or trajectory.

I need to explore this more but the field of research in misconceptions is much stronger in the hard sciences. I am not too comfortable with it, but ill-defined and well-defined domains do behave differently. Oops I just anthropomorphized knowledge. Mistake?

To me the idea that of starting with the learner is wrong is wrong. Deeper learning does not have to begin from here.

Truth. Art. Simple words. Complex Meaning.

Going to move on to this next.

This has more to do with people than it does brand and product. We can not lose sight of that.

I borrow heavily from Gee's affinity spaces when thinking about web spaces for learning. I also steal his circuit of reflective inquiry when thinking about what makes us smart.

Finally we are striving for the Network Fluidity outlined by Castells and Cardosa and they call for self-programmable learners.

Lets add another stage. Maybe the data is not there yet but hopefully when you return in the year the need will be there to add Teach and Advocate as stages.

We are limited by the affordances of print. We have gotten a lot of pushback around the web literacy map being displayed in a grid format. Literacy researchers called us out for reinforcing deficit metaphors rather than recognizing the continuum to which you refer.

Down the road we should think about the design challenge of displaying both the map and the journey in non-linear ways,

Instead of "steps of engagement" I think we have to focus on building communities of support across the web journey. In the web journey community is the content. Connections are the curriculum.

Just as important will be the club captains and mentors who will enculturate learners into the discourse practices of the open web.

This will be critical to identify. Once we do I think the basics in the Club Curriculum should cover all of these before we get into different pathways.

This is a minor detail and more of a personal preference but I think you should try for parallelism when naming constructs.

In the graphic leverage and creation are put on equal footing but they sound like different stages in your writing. Are they on equal ground? Clarify.

I also think it should be Aha Moment(s) it is a gradual transition from basic use (unless the data pointed to avery specific and unique moment across your cases).

To assume that creation isn't going on every step of the journey is wrong. In the basic use I might be making photo montages, curating good reads etc. You can create for the web without being a web developer. Maybe builder (possibly maker) it is a better construct here. Whether you are a "user" or a "builder" you are still creating meaning and identity.

Creating meaning and identity within larger discourses is the essence of literacy practices.

to play?

I get the negative connoation and trying to fight the idea that "Facebook is the Internet" but you are downplaying the identity work that happens in Basic Use (and across the Web Journey as a whole).

I agree. We have been discussing this in #rhizo15. The map contains more subjectives rather than objectives. We recognized and were blatant in the values we want to teach.

Skill levels are often more subjective than the dispositions and affective states of learners. I wish I knew the answer to the question. Do the skills build the dispositions or the dispositions build the skills? Is it both?

There is more to this rejection around gender. It is a deliberate reinforcement of inequality. It isn't no access but access being blocked. I believe the ending of poverty begins with empowering women. How can we help?

I think this sums up the goals of Teach Like Mozilla and the #mozacademy

I am sorta okay with the branding effort of "Teach Like Mozilla." While it seems strange to sick a company name on good pedagogy.

I have seen the empowering effect of folks in developing nation of being attached to something bigger.

I also have seen the added credibility to programs when being attached to Mozilla.

Plus future club mentors will have little to no pedagogical training.

Why is this text so small?

I take slight issue here. The Web can improve my life can happen with the social elements of basic use.

I really like what you did here, but there are things that are missing. I would draw on Gee's Circuit of reflective inquiry. There also needs to be something in terms of assessment, and reflecting.

I think I am a little adverse to the term. Fluency (same reason I don't like literacy) is dichotomous. You are fluent or you are not. For me its more of an Open Mentor Continuum or "The Teach Like a Mozillian Continuum"

I think you have gotten far in the unique characteristics of effective blended teaching. Specifically the online stuff.

There are other fundamental elements there could be missing. I also wonder if the grid approach if most beneficial. There maybe better heuristics to represent what it means to be a webmaker mentor or leader.

Are these archived. i could see myself geeking out on those.

I have been arguing this has to be a distributed classroom and not a destination classroom. If the Mozilla Academy is everywhere we will need Kraken like tentacles all of the interwebz.

Add a link to the GitHub Issue. I'd have to search my email or notifications to find it.

Try to define your key terms for you readers as soon as you use them rather than a few sentences down.

Lot of overlap there. Maybe because understand is such a soft word that is so clear to everyone we all try to avoid it. Much in this column takes modeling. Especially the open thinking and participation.

Also we don't have to limit ourselves by writing in threes. There may be more knowledge,skills, and dispositions of teaching like a Mozillian

I even hate typing it. Why are we trying to brand people all the time? As a top header I get it, but I will just say teaching on the second instance.

Do not underestimate the power of community here. We are focusing on a humanistic view of the individual. Maybe we have to build a network first or better yet build the leaders while we all build the network.

I could feel a focus group and case study going here. Depends of course on the timelien of delivery on the project., but why identify and ask them what they have in common.

I like the second sentence much better. Learning is something people do rather than have done to to them.

Just because accountability is inescapable does not mean it has to be done incorrectly.

Says nobody ever who has had to waste countless hours doing SPAR reports.

Because we do not already spend in ordinate amount of time and treasure on accreditation?

Yes because we are all bad and hate improvement. More blame the teachers stuff.

So the leading experts on measurement could not agree on how to hold schools of education accountable for student learning and the government went ahead and did it anyway? That isn't inevitability that is stupidity.

I would argue Way more important. The text structure provides important cues to signify meaning to the audience but I would rather read a poorly argued substansive study than an empty but well structured study.

Never thought about argumentative grammars as a method to evaluate research.

Key definition of argumentative grammar.

Claiming all research is an argument, basing lens on Toulmin, I wonder if this act reinforces the dominant narrative in educational research. What if research was meant to not persuade but inform or enlighten?

In other words, let your RQ's drive your methods.

Do claims also silence or implicitly ignore other narratives and storied truths?

I need to read this.

Getting to the point where you can't turn without bumping into Toulmin.

Even the need to put edpscyh and learning sciences in the same sentences separated by "or" shows the power of grammar. Why was the legacy field of psych put forth? Are these two equal field?

And VERY specific modes if there are funding desires behind the research

Maybe break off a small piece of this pie for an educator innovation fund.

$250, $500, or a $1,000 dollars goes a long way for teachers. Devs make constraints. Users push their limits.

It was a fun rhetorical bit. I love seeing the new places developers take us.

It's an interesting idea. We'd love to explore with you a bit more.

Why leave me with the idea that your post is less than optimal?I would either revise this sentence or add a screencast.

Though that begs the debate are screencasts better. I have leaned more to animated gifs embedded in lists.

If anyone in learning sciences or instructional design is looking for a quick and dirty study that would be it. You could go Rich Mayer on the format of instructional tutorials and tweak so many different variables. It would be fun.

yes, embedding a screencast video (or even a 5-second animated GIF) would illustrate the point much more clearly

Here's my quick-and-dirty version of a screencast to illustrate your concept. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09QN6n2-VFo

You could break this down into shorter stages and embed animated GIFs into your text

• upload a local PDF to the web (drag to a WordPress media library)
• view it as a web PDF in your browser with Hypothesis
• drag copy of local PDF to your browser, view with Hypothesis
• comment on one PDF automatically appears in other

Annotate the image. Add an arrow pointing to the hamburger menu.

Ecstatic is more like it!

+1

Ditto. Just wishing it worked outside of Chrome.

does this work if you aren't online?

It does not. The client still needs to contact the server to read and write annotations.

We also need to build the know-who. In fact we are the know-who, and those who know more than us in our networks.

Go Team Tiger. Excited to see what comes out of this.