The same poetry lesson I open up with in Kindergarten I use in my #HigherEd classrooms, 1:) write with the senses, 2:) describe a picture with two different moods. Storytelling and writing is embodied, use the affordances of your world #ILAchat
All of my kids have had blogs since kindergarten, make sure we realize how we write has shifted from print to pixel as well. Meaning making often involves as much design as copy. #ILAchat (quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com/s/yTxAd)
All of my kids have had blogs since kindergarten, make sure we realize how we write has shifted from print to pixel as well. Meaning making often involves as much design as copy. #ILAchat
why #ScienceOfReading such a dangerous meme pushed by parent activist groups not science. People forget footnotes of history but NRP noted that time and budget did not allow for the exploration of writing research and impact on reading #ILAchat (quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com/s/2gYN6O)
why #ScienceOfReading such a dangerous meme pushed by parent activist groups not science. People forget footnotes of history but NRP noted that time and budget did not allow for the exploration of writing research and impact on reading #ILAchat
#ScienceOfReading #ILAchat
Oral language is needed in emergent writing at every stage of emergent writing, let students explain their scribble stages to you as a story. It means something, just ask, #ILAchat
Oral language is needed in emergent writing at every stage of emergent writing, let students explain their scribble stages to you as a story. It means something, just ask, #ILAchat (quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com/s/pNxGb)
Like most research know temergent writing skills predictor of later literacy abilities (National Center for Family & Literacy 2008_) ,like most literacy research doesnt mean increase in instruction of skills leads to the desired outcome #ILAchat (quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com/s/2a7Wag)
Like most research know temergent writing skills predictor of later literacy abilities (National Center for Family & Literacy 2008_) ,like most literacy research doesnt mean increase in instruction of skills leads to the desired outcome #ILAchat
They play at writing they play with language, we mix in a bit of instruction on systematic basics while creating fun ways to engage with text throughout the pre-school classroom. #ILAchat
If you focus more on assessing the space of your classroom as a community of writers rather than just individual writing skills of emergent writers we will improve our classrooms #ILAchat
They play at writing they play with language, we mix in a bit of instruction on systematic basics while creating fun ways to engage with text throughout the pre-school classroom. #ILAchat (quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com/s/nJbmK)
If you focus more on assessing the space of your classroom as a community of writers rather than just individual writing skills of emergent writers we will improve our classrooms #ILAchat (quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com/s/cK4wt)
okay remembered to turn off cross posting during twitter chats
It is a universal truth want better readers, encourage more writing, want better writers encourage more reading #ilachat ...other universal truth...pre-school teachers know best (quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com/s/4ZuEa)
It is a universal truth want better readers, encourage more writing, want better writers encourage more reading #ilachat ...other universal truth...pre-school teachers know best

I was already partway there, but following on Ryan Barrett’s excellent suggestion, I spent a few minutes today and added several of my favorite Twitter lists to my feed reader. I spend less and less time in Twitter because all the notifications come to me via my own site and webmentions. I’m not unfollowing people to completely clean out the timeline just yet since there are a few people who have private accounts and I’d need to refollow or do something unique to cover them.

I do wish someone had a simple method of following the one or two people who have blocked me (I’m presuming they did so accidentally or I’ve been rolled up in a larger block list and they weren’t aware.) I was half-hoping that some API and list workarounds would work, but I’m stuck with creating another account and following separately or manually revisiting their feeds at scheduled intervals. I don’t need to interact with them so much as I have to read their excellent work. If anyone has ideas to fix this, I’m open to suggestions.

#indieweb #social-stream #feed-readers #twitter

Later today, Jared Pereirah will be interviewing me about my website BoffoSocko.com as part of his course Learning with Personal Websites within the Hyperlink Academy.

Join us this afternoon on a live stream at 3PM EST / 12PM PST to chat and ask questions about my website, how I use it as a digital commonplace book, and the IndieWeb movement.

RSVP and Zoom link here: https://www.mixily.com/event/2998111357898639657

Syndicated copies to:
#indieweb #journalism #domainofonesown #hyperlink-academy #personal-publicity awarm.space

My website is closing in on 17,000 posts (this one will make it 16,998), so I was looking at the gargantuan size of my database. When you’ve got this many posts and 17,160 comments, I’m thinking that just my Akismet (anti-spam) meta data is somehow actually larger in size than some people’s  entire blogs. I’ve backed it all up and am going through and cleaning out some unused digital exhaust to give me some room to grow.

Who knew that in owning your own data you could accumulate so much of it?!

#indieweb #social-stream #wordpress #akismet #data-exhaust #mysql

I thought I had done it ages ago, but gRegor Morrill’s post reminded me and upon checking I realized that I hadn’t made the update. So tonight I’ve added my pronouns to my profile card on my website.

I remember grabbing an identity button at a recent fundraiser for Planned Parenthood. That night I think I talked about 10 others into wearing them after emphasizing the importance of helping to normalize proper pronoun use.

Four people in cocktail attire pose for a photo in the lobby of the Langham Hotel.Four people in cocktail attire pose for a photo in the lobby of the Langham Hotel. Sonia Solin; Chris Aldrich; Kerry Ayazi; Spencer Kook at the Planned Parenthood Pasadena/San Gabriel Valley fundraiser in 2019. Sonia and Spencer are wearing their pronoun buttons; I haven’t gotten to Kerry before we took the photo.

Like gRegor said so well:

This removes any ambiguity and helps normalize the practice of sharing our pronouns. Not everyone uses pronouns that match the gender they present as and some people use non-gendered pronouns. If only those people shared their pronouns, it would make them feel “other.”

#indieweb #social-stream #administrative-note #pronouns