Scott Robison @Otterscotter@mastodon.social
Rethinking the roles of teachers and students
@Otterscotter Hope, and love, and wonder. Kindness, too. Thank you. Such stories brighten the day.
Our youngest (5.5 yr old boy) woke me this morning.
Lad: Do you miss mamma? (she is traveling for a few days).
Me: Yes, sure.
Lad: Would you like a stuffie?
Me: Yes!
Lad: Would you like a cat or a dog?
Me: A dog, please.
The kid climbs to the top of his bunk bed and brings me a stuffie to snuggle with.
I don't know how we've helped a kid think about wanting to meet the needs of others, but this feels like hope...
First bike ride of the year... there are trout lilies, which cover the forest floor
Was cruising the redwood grove in the #hoytarboretum. This... https://mastodon.social/media/m6oUlA2_dwjNmGPw12w https://mastodon.social/media/W9Nik_QfcYjVzKMbhEc https://mastodon.social/media/KzOykbLn2-127tHQ6cM
Anyone looking for a remote IT job for a good cause?
Systems Admin at Translators Without Borders
https://translatorswithoutborders.org/twb-systems-administrator/
#it #systems #Jobs #job #nonprofit #language #crisisresponse
Moving to the city of Portland I wondered what stars in the sky I might miss. Turns out, I can still see a good handful. Any time I take the recycling over at night and I see the belt of Orion, Dire Straits' Romeo and Juliet streams through my mind. Every time.
"What did the wolves howl?" Earth asked.
"Nothing," Moon said.
"But you blushed?"
"..they called me large, round, and beautiful."
"You are."
#MicroFiction #tootfic #smallstories
@Otterscotter @fgraver @clhendricksbc ok. That matches the thought I had that I was in high school then and busy playing AD&D.
@Otterscotter I not only watched it, but bought the dvds and ALL THREE of my children have seen every episode. We love it 😃
Five more days to #facebookfree...
Big day today! I am now officially a Canadian citizen!
It's hard to express how great a feeling this is for me. I have lived in Canada as a permanent resident for many years, and somehow I still felt like an outsider. Today I started really feeling more at home. Like this is it--this really is my home now. And I am so, so happy about that.
Pic of me and partner after citizenship ceremony (we both became Canadian citizens today). Eye contact. https://mastodon.social/media/80o98WFabv--c_k0E8Q
So I initiated the process to delete my #facebook account. I'm now in the 14 days of purgatory until the deletion is finalized. Oddly but not surprising, the wait period is considerably longer than the one needed to purchase a handgun in the U.S. 🤔
It already feels like some weight has been lifted. Like a piece of my brain is free again. I didn't rely on FB that much but maybe it festered in the back of my mind more than I realized.
Shwew.
#FacebookFree
#smallstories https://mastodon.social/media/lQty8KFBDjE8Ga2e5a0
@fgraver @Otterscotter @actualham @Downes @lauraritchie @clhendricksbc @cogdog @courosa @tellio @dogtrax @Tdorey @KevinCarson1 @GeoffreyGevalt @RussSharek @katebowles
The joy in branching....
reaching out
gathering in
to be social
is to share the grins
also the pain
of our common humanity.
#smallpoems
i wrote a blog post about what mastodon is. i know that it's a tired genre, but i think that i did a good job of explaining it in an easy-to-approach way. please read and share!
https://blog.rowan.website/2018/01/08/yet-another-explanation-of-mastodon/
I just came across this today, by @noelle. It's comprehensively helpful: https://gist.github.com/joyeusenoelle/74f6e6c0f349651349a0df9ae4582969
I found that becoming comfortable here is a matter of time, and a crafted timeline. Once I was following about 100 people I stopped looking in the public timelines.
It's a playlist approach, I think.
“We compose stories knowing very well we are the last to arrive. And yet every time, it seems to us that we are returning to the moment when the first human being, with nothing but the truth of his experience and the urge to reinvent it at every step, began to tell a story.”
— Elena Ferrante, from A Correspondence with Elena Ferrante, by Sheila Heti, in Best American Non-Required Reading 2017, page 230
#smallquotes with #smallstories resonance
woke in the night and reached for my phone and paused
-thought of a time before mobiles When the (one) phone rang and someone asked permission to answer it
-when I knew what time the post would arrive
the anticipation (for days) of receiving a single, short, handwritten letter
and thought of all the bombardment of now,
and the connections we make, reaching through
(love the connection)
and wondered how, in a simpler time lives still managed to converge across the world.
It's worth noting that libraries are the last of the commons and public spaces not currently exploited by the corporations. How long it remains that way isn't certain
Consider:
Loitering is banned
Panhandlers are persecuted
Homeless are threatened
Without libraries, there aren't many spaces left for some people to merely *exist*
thoughts for the new year
based on remembering: Yes I can.
(yes, it's a very positive, short blogpost)
https://wp.me/p4Ng5z-107 https://mastodon.social/media/-NWqEaRLn0vDnL-srtU
This year's Downes Prize is awarded to: MOOCs and Open Educational Resources: A Handbook for Educators - Peter B. Kaufman, Intelligent Television. http://www.downes.ca/post/67613
