Personal Records

Wednesday morning...continuing our Couch to 5K assault on the running world, we went for a great jog/run/walk and in the process...we reached a personal record in the 3 weeks we've participated...I know there will be days when we slip backwards but heck...doesn't that happen with everything...yoga, cycling, writing, teaching, friendships, marriage...life is full of slippage...there are days when we are better and days when we are not...the point is that we try!!! Post run yoga, a shower...and some breakfast...found myself spending some time reading on my ipad...the equivalent of reading the morning paper...only on my terms...the content I am interested in. In doing so, I came across a really interesting Digital Is...project on the NWP site about making...producing content...which is what I've been reading around relative to my research for the past few days...the impact of new (and old) media in classrooms...some really interesting linking and thinking happening in the video from David Gauntlett...led me to a book by Ivan Illich, Tools for Conviviality...if you're interested. I'd read Deschooling Society years ago while attempting to figure out what it was that I was passionate about relative to my research interests so it's interesting to me how he comes back into the fold...in this moment...through the very medium that I am interested in doing my research on...the circulation of ideas and knowledge via new media. His thinking about tools and their potential made me get the book and I'm sure I'll be able to use his thinking somewhere in my work. The whole concept of producing versus consuming is what motivated me to "get up" do a little freewriting then take a portion of my freewrite into this blogpost.

 

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