Just a few more personal tasks and I’ll be ready to face this week of eternal Caturday. Probably.
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This trend of animating favicons can die a flaming death, and not soon enough.
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Important must see talk about the covidtracking.com by @kissane at #jamstackconf
to provide up-to-date data about the COVID-19 project, @kissane and a team of people stepped up and built the amazing buff.ly/3da0r5M #jamstackconf
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I just published today's #poembox #poetry "Cline Poems" a reflection on the geography of partisan divides https://jgregorymcverry.com/mypoetry#audiopoems #clmooc #writingcommunity
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Obligatory “my dog is nicer than yours” post lol
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Ugh I just drank orange juice after brushing my teeth. It’s been so long, I forgot about the collision in taste.
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I’m reading Sapiens and the idea of the Replacement theory versus the Interbred theory is wild. Like the Interbred MAKES sense given the time window but then racism will know NO bounds, it’ll have a new scientific bearing.
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Come for the history of @spacex. Stay for the stories of high speed car crashes.
It's time.
acquired.fm/episodes/spacex
@SpaceX @elonmusk @gwynne_shotwell @Astro_Doug @AstroBehnken
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Hey #edu407 just hanging out in our Open Design Studio feel free to stop by and share any questions and concerns, you can leave the chat open and just work silently if you feel the need or desire to hang with people/ #literacies (quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com/s/1ciFnd)
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Hehe @zachleat 😆
Hey congrats on the big @eleven_ty shoutout!
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I don't post selfies often. I don't cut my own hair often. I never wore a mask until this spring.
So here's a rare treat! 😂 lol
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When we put pen to paper we invite our audience to join us on a journery as we line the path with prose. pointring directions
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"text": "When we put pen to paper we invite our audience to join us on a journery\u00a0 as we line the path with prose. pointring directions with our thoughts and signaliing turns with our transition.Often we use metaphors as a map to illuminate the way. Why do these metaphors matter so in our writing? How do metaphors, even when mixed, provide a compass to steer readers into safe harbors.George Lakoff notes that we learn by strengething the relationships in our synapses by relating it to other \"circuitry that is already fixed.Lakoff then went on to describe how color only exist in our interactions with the world and we use this to beautify our world, much like writers do with words. George continues:\"We repurpose the motor system, the visual system, and other embodied systems for thought, these are called primitive schemas.\"Metaphors allow authors to tap into a metaphor.Why Write With Metaphors?You have learned metaphors long before language. Drawing on this experience makes writing more accessible.A Ready Made ToolAn easy tool to grab from your toolkit. As a writer we often get stuck with \"writers' block?\" Except there is no such thing, just a lack of strategies to get started. Reaching in and grabbing a metaphor provides you a way to get started.A metaphor consist of a source and a target. You aim existing meaning at a different word. If you chose reading and musin for example. You would describe your trageet, reading with the meaning and language of music.Metaphors Draw in the AudienceLanguage and learnign are embodied experience. Your audience does not want you to tell them a story, rather show them the journey. If you can take a metaphor and extend it through a blog post or reading reflection you draw on the emotions of the reader. Your words must be truthier if they spark a response.How to Write with MetaphorsChoose a metaphor. Think about your topic or target. What emotion do you want to spark in your audience. Choose a target.Make a quick t-chart, and then jot down a few main points about your topic you want to make. Then on the left think about the characteristics about your source and how they relate to your ideas. Bonus points if you jot down a few adjectives or adverbs that express your connotative goals (the emotion you want in reader).Always make sure your source is appropriate. Too often we use metaphoprs rooted in mysoginy or violence. Business is war...anyone...no war is war. It is horrible and using it as a metaphor can be a trigger to veterans and refugees.Once you have completed your pre writing decide if the metaphor is going to be used just as an introduction or weaved through the entire piece. If you do do just as an intro make sure to do a call back in your conclusion. If you weave it through the entire piece think carefully about your transitions.How will you move the reader between the characteristics of your source and the points you want to make about the source? In our example of reading and music I might move between a paragraph on harmony and shared stories to scales and phonics with a sentence such as, \"As we hear the shared tunes of popular books on the tonuges of readers everywhere we can see how words can be broken down into their scales of meaning\" Then the next paragraph I go into phonics.If all else fails write a poem. Metaphors do the hard work of meaning making in\u00a0 poems.#EDU407",
"html": "<p>When we put pen to paper we invite our audience to join us on a journery\u00a0 as we line the path with prose. pointring directions with our thoughts and signaliing turns with our transition.</p><p>Often we use metaphors as a map to illuminate the way. Why do these metaphors matter so in our writing? How do metaphors, even when mixed, provide a compass to steer readers into safe harbors.</p><p></p><p>George Lakoff notes that we learn by strengething the relationships in our synapses by relating it to other \"circuitry that is already fixed.</p><p>Lakoff then went on to describe how color only exist in our interactions with the world and we use this to beautify our world, much like writers do with words. George continues:</p><p>\"We repurpose the motor system, the visual system, and other embodied systems for thought, these are called primitive schemas.\"</p><p>Metaphors allow authors to tap into a metaphor.</p><h2>Why Write With Metaphors?</h2><p>You have learned metaphors long before language. Drawing on this experience makes writing more accessible.</p><h3>A Ready Made Tool</h3><p>An easy tool to grab from your toolkit. As a writer we often get stuck with \"writers' block?\" Except there is no such thing, just a lack of strategies to get started. Reaching in and grabbing a metaphor provides you a way to get started.</p><p>A metaphor consist of a source and a target. You aim existing meaning at a different word. If you chose reading and musin for example. You would describe your trageet, reading with the meaning and language of music.</p><h3>Metaphors Draw in the Audience</h3><p>Language and learnign are embodied experience. Your audience does not want you to tell them a story, rather show them the journey. If you can take a metaphor and extend it through a blog post or reading reflection you draw on the emotions of the reader. Your words must be truthier if they spark a response.</p><h2>How to Write with Metaphors</h2><p>Choose a metaphor. Think about your topic or target. What emotion do you want to spark in your audience. Choose a target.</p><p>Make a quick t-chart, and then jot down a few main points about your topic you want to make. Then on the left think about the characteristics about your source and how they relate to your ideas. Bonus points if you jot down a few adjectives or adverbs that express your connotative goals (the emotion you want in reader).</p><p>Always make sure your source is appropriate. Too often we use metaphoprs rooted in mysoginy or violence. Business is war...anyone...no war is war. It is horrible and using it as a metaphor can be a trigger to veterans and refugees.</p><p>Once you have completed your pre writing decide if the metaphor is going to be used just as an introduction or weaved through the entire piece. If you do do just as an intro make sure to do a call back in your conclusion. If you weave it through the entire piece think carefully about your transitions.</p><p>How will you move the reader between the characteristics of your source and the points you want to make about the source? In our example of reading and music I might move between a paragraph on harmony and shared stories to scales and phonics with a sentence such as, \"As we hear the shared tunes of popular books on the tonuges of readers everywhere we can see how words can be broken down into their scales of meaning\" Then the next paragraph I go into phonics.</p><p>If all else fails write a poem. Metaphors do the hard work of meaning making in\u00a0 poems.</p><p><a href=\"https://quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com/tag/EDU407\" class=\"p-category\">#EDU407</a></p>"
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#edu407 Daily Writing Prompt Two:
Writers every where carry a mouth, nose, eyes, ears, tongue, and hand in their toolkits. Draw on sensory writing in our next writing challenge.
Return to a memory, or a previous post, and write with your senses. Show us what you heard, felt, touched, tasted, smelled. Bring us with you, deep inside the writing.
Give us a few more details than a sentence (teachers fault, when you provide no expectations or models it is the logical decision for students to pick path of least resistance)
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