There are more women than men in Philly according to Richard Florida’s awesome infographic:
I reckon my students and I will work out a similar bubble plot on a campus map tomorrow, but with which demographics? Race? Age?
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My classes and I have pushed through a lot of exceptional media over the last two weeks but, in the midst of a longer summary, I realized that only two matter.
Lines
The first is Maria Moore’s photoset, “Lines,” (click through “Portfolio” to “Lines”) one of the most impressive collections I have ever seen. Though I find the reasons difficult to articulate, I can say that if you’re the sort who prefers the forest to the trees (that is, if you’re unafflicted by any detail-oriented obsession) this may not grab you like it did me.
If, however, you’re the sort who can’t help noticing the perfect angles on a stop sign even as a parade tromps past, meet your muse.
Food Fight
A history of US military operations โ from WWII through Enduring Freedom โ re-enacted by each country’s national fast food. On technical merit, it’s flawless, from the sound design, which carries a huge burden, to its seamless blend of stop-motion and motion graphics.
Its content is equally powerful and almost impossibly objective. The Cold War standoff is just a beautiful, succinct piece and I found myself even a little choked up when a tiny falafel ball sends a tall hamburger collapsing to the ground.
Please forward it along to a history teacher or a loved one or a loved history teacher. One of my students called it the best video he’d seen all year.
Update:
This thing just gets better. The filmmaker has a rundown of the conflicts depicted as well as a food-to-country cheat sheet. I had no idea beef stroganoff was a Russian thing. Awesome.
This whole Diigo thing cracked me up, everyone claiming they’d been pushing it for years, like me and my friends claim lifelong allegiance to bands the second they get signed. It seemed funny enough for remark but, wow, did I ever miss the mark with that one.
It’s tough to tell if Clay is genuinely wounded or, rather, really really really happy for the opportunity to thwack me with his 9-iron but, regardless, my editorials aren’t worth anything to me if they bother hard-working bloggers that much and blotch up the edublogosphere.
My fault, Clay.
Updated:
I have no idea how seriously to take Clay Burell’s umbrage now that he’s deleted his poison pen letter [cached]. Apparently, with his full-bodied rant, he was just trying to teach us all that bullying is bad. Astonishing.
Oh man, I’m flying outta class today, strapping in for a ride to Oakland where I’m delivering a presentation affected by everything I’ve learned from y’all Conference 2.0-ists!
I mean, obviously I’m UStreaming the whole thing but I’m also Skyping in Prensky, Shareski, John Gatto, and John Dewey.
Wait. What?
Yeah. I know he’s dead but if you think that’s gonna stop us you’ve obviously never heard of a little thing I call “Web 2.0.” It’s Resurrectr and I signed on during the private beta, like two years ago. (Four invites left. DM me on Twitter.)
I even improvised a backchannel:
Whenever anyone has a comment, observation, or acronym on her mind, she’s just gonna write it on a piece of binder paper, crumple it up, and huck it into a pile in the middle of the room. People can just root through the pile, find comments they like, and talk ’em out while I natter away at the front about some failures and successes I’ve seen over my last two years integrating digital media into my classrooms. No big deal.
To come to work here in Clayton County, a failing school district in Georgia, former Pittsburgh superintendent John Thompson wants $275,000 in salary, a $2 million consulting budget, a Lincoln Town Car with a driver, and money to pay a personal bodyguard.
โPatrik Jonsonn, citing many good reasons for me to take up the district admin track. [Christian Science Monitor]
I’ve been a Diigo user for two years come July. Seems like everybody and their grannies have adopted it in a Twitter-induced stampede over the last two days…. Iโve been evangelizing Diigo on these pages since day one.
โClay Burell, who would like you to know that, between the two of you, he found Diigo first. By two years come July. [Beyond School; OLDaily]
I used to think that blogging had the potential to have a huge influence on how education could unfold in this country, and by extension in other systems around the world.
โGraham Wegner, experiencing either a crisis of faith or a moment of clarity. [Teaching Generation Z]
Forget the stuff about belonging, generational inertia, cultural identity, fitting in, and living in no-choice neighborhoods, E. is drawing a clear connection between his increased gang-affiliation and resulting beating with an inability to construct and conceive of fun.
โTMAO, recoding generations of gang affiliation in one powerful anecdote. [RoomD2]
First, there are far too many sessions. The conference program they give you is the size of a phonebook. Seriously, itโs huge. Maybe not a big phonebook, but itโs bigger than the books you buy at ed tech conferences by popular speakers. Itโs big and heavy.
โChris Craft, defining “session glut.” [Crucial Thought]
So in looking at session selection policy, is it any wonder that this method leads to homogenous, cookie cutter selections that represent the acceptable norm? Shouldnโt we be concerned that in times that call for radical change, the standard method for conference session selection is biased against radical proposals?
โSylvia Martinez, explaining why K12 Online Conference repeatedly rejects my keynote proposals. [Generation Yes Blog]