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Feedburning Learning

February 12, 2009

Feeds & email updates are all about drawing readers into a community from the margins–which is to say, they are all about learning.

Shelved with: Hearts & Minds
Tagged With: Australian Red Cross, Blogging, Christmas, Community of Practice, Dana Hanley, Darwin Day, Digital Literacy, Disaster Relief, Fire, Ian Stewart, Melbourne, Rob Glazebrook, Science, Shanta Rohse, Thematic Theme Framework, WordPress
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Letter to a Young Voter

November 2, 2008

It’s late in the election cycle, and I do not know if you have yet registered to vote, but I exhort you as my fellow citizen, my political friend, to go and vote. And after that, to participate in other ways, by reading, commenting, contributing, serving, listening, speaking, advocating. Politics grows from the practice of everyday life in the presence of strangers and friends. It doesn’t matter whether you have everything figured out yet — just participate. Be devoted — make a sacrifice of devotion — to the city and nation in which you have found yourself. They are your family, and they need you.

Shelved with: Civic Life|| Community & Time|| Hearts & Minds|| Mind & Society|| Parenting
Tagged With: Aristotle, Cities, Citizenship, Community of Practice, Danielle S. Allen, Devotion, Political Friendship, Politics, Richard C. Harwood, Vote
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Blog Day 2008–Reading, Learning, Hoping, Blogging, Being

August 31, 2008

Blog Day is a linkfest initiated by Nir Ofir in 2005, in the belief that bloggers should have one day which will be dedicated to discover new blogs and expose them to the world. We all have a small number of people and sources of information with which we interact of a regular basis, and that social and informational context is part of what shapes who we are in the world. Blog Day is a chance to expand those social and informational horizons by forging new links into new networks, bridging the divides between people and communities and enlarging our own experience.

The basic rules for Blog Day ask bloggers to post about five blogs that they would like to share with the world. I’ve decided to do a little more…

Shelved with: The Reading Life
Tagged With: 22q11 Deletion Syndrome, Barack Obama, Bible, Blogging, Bob Dylan, Bookstores, Byron Borger, Community of Practice, DiGeorge Syndrome, Digital Literacy, Ian Stewart, Jon Boyd, Justin Tadlock, Lifelong Learning, Literacy, media ethics, Memes, Milton Gaither, Open-Books, Richard Harwood, Rick Warren, Shanta Rohse, social media, WordPress
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Camp Is Where the Heart Is

August 7, 2008

Summer camp is not really about recreation, but about learning the practices of the group–not affluenza, but apprenticeship. For me, Covenant Point was where I learned to love creation and its Lord, and to see his character and presence in the counselors & campers there. So I asked our boys, “At each of these camps, what did you learn? What did you practice?”

Shelved with: Continuing Stories|| Local Life|| Mind & Society
Tagged With: Boy Scouts, Camp, Camp Fire, Community of Practice, Jules Shell, Mentors, Paradise Park, Religion, Roger Bennet
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Sacrifices and Community

February 24, 2008

This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood

Do we even know how much we’ve lost, how poisoned we are, how far away we’ve been driven from the land? By connecting the science of toxic materials with our human knowledge of childbirth in Having Faith, Steingraber gives us new knowledge; what would it mean for us to inhabit it?

Shelved with: Reading the Land|| Science & Technology
Tagged With: Coal, Community of Practice, Environment, Fish, Food, Having Faith, Health, Lead, Mercury, Polllution, Precautionary Principle, Pregnancy, Sacrifice, Sandra Steingraber, Traditional Knowledge, Wisconsin
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Of Lists and Learning

March 18, 2007

At their best, the lists are intended to be guiding abstractions of something deeper and much more complex than any list: the collected wisdom and practice of a whole community, whether of mathematicians, writers, historians, or scientists. That knowledge is fully present only in the community itself, and distilling it into a list is a deeply self-reflective exercise for practitioners in any field of human activity.

Shelved with: Education|| Hearts & Minds
Tagged With: Community of Practice, Education, Homeschool, Lists, Parenting, Standards
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