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The Valdosta School
To: My Dear Students
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Seemingly mechanical and relatively unintimidating, can the practice of assembling collections of concepts and terms related to content areas of interest— of building taxonomies— be harnessed to render accessible, navigable the intellectual spaces we wish to explore?
Time to (re)design and glean those punked out immersive best practices.
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Evil involves forethought.
It’s all in the planning.
The ultimate futility of bureaucracy
(when it distracts from and derides collaboration and community)...
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The Valdosta School
To: recipient
Re: subject
@TM
#threadofcontinuity
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What are the various flavors of continuity? And how best to represent them in graphic form? Below are icons created for the Dig! deck to represent the various continuity relationships players are challenged with creating when playing a card.
Friday, July 29 2019
The Valdosta School
To: recipient
Re: Driving wow
@tmulligan
#hashtag
who?
what?
where?
when?
how?
Aha! moments are fewer and rather between, but there are numerous clever techniques that can foster epiphany. Momentary insight is better than its alternative.
As Jim Jarmusch acknowledged about his black and white film Dead Man, stripping away a layer of familiarity (removing an expected aspect of reality) can expose otherwise overlooked relationships— even reveal an underlying truth.
Perhaps predictably, there are contrived and artificial as well as more graceful, organic means of accomplishing this effect in the classroom.
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https://hyperallergic.com/376807/louise-lawler-screens-a-movie-with-no-images/
Friday, July 29 2019
The Valdosta School
To: recipient
Re: subject
@tmulligan
#tattooing
#ethnography
Inkling: A coded communication project based on embedding messages within tattoos.
inkling
noun
I had no inkling of their intentions: idea, notion, sense, impression, conception, suggestion, indication, whisper, glimmer; (sneaking) suspicion, fancy, hunch, feeling; hint, clue, intimation, sign; informal the foggiest (idea), the faintest (idea).
Friday, July 29 2019
The Valdosta School
To: recipient
Re: subject
author
@handle_if_appropriate
#hashtag
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Passion Projects in the Classroom
Student voice vs. student responsibility
Sunday, April 14 2019
Valdosta, GA
To: Thinking peoples everywhere
Re: Making literacy accessible
Talley Mulligan
@tmulligan
#dig_literacy
Literacy in 280 character bites…
Twitter’s decision to double its character count from 140 to 280 characters last year hasn’t dramatically changed the length of Twitter posts. According to new data released by the company this morning, Twitter is still a place for briefer thoughts, with only 1% of tweets hitting the 280-character limit, and only 12% of tweets longer than 140 characters.
Brevity, it seems, is baked into Twitter – even when given expanded space, people aren’t using it.
Only 5% of tweets are longer than 190 characters, indicating that Twitter users have been for so long trained to keep their tweets short, they haven’t adapted to take advantage of the extra room to write.
Friday, April 12 2019
The Valdosta School
To: me, myself and I
Re: Evidence if not insight
@TM
#agency
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I am always intrigued when visuals render challenging concepts more approachable, if not understandable. To my mind, the drawings below speak to the communicative power of lines. Minimal marks placed thoughtfully are capable of creating an entire world—or scene at least— in the viewer’s mind.
In the context of Di6!, this has lead to the addition of a new card entitled “Make your Mark” that will challenge players to trace their paths through the events and obstacles they encounter as they build their narrative totems. Vision, direction, and trajectory: find your north star place it on the map.
Thursday April 4, 2019
The Valdosta School
To: Information archeologists (scholars interested in digging deeper)
Re: Di6!t.org
@tmulligan
#Di6!
So what’s this then? An outgrowth of Dig!, a card game concept aimed at integrating research with meaningful play (free play > structured play > serious play), di6it.org is the repository of marginalia, errata, secrets, inscriptions, and ephemera (all the good stuff found in libraries) related to the ongoing exploration of this expansive topic.
* Generally speaking, the objective is to discover the deeper meaning and implications— the symbolic facets— of the banal things of everyday life (or, perhaps, to imbibe them with symbolism) to inspire students to look and listen more intently to what the world around them is trying to reveal.