Welcome to Shelley's personal wiki.

(think "backstage")

 

still thinking about best practices in online instruction

 

checking out Scott White's parent listserv: http://groups.google.com/group/2011parents/about?hl=en

 

early June '08: Wanting to take one of Jane Hart's short courses in preparation for my own courses later this summer: http://c4lpt.co.uk/handbook/

Helping my friend with some of the details in his story (Non-Custodial Parent FinAid)

 

late May '08: 25 ways to help a fellow human being: http://zenhabits.net/2008/05/25-ways-to-help-a-fellow-human-being-today/

 

late May '08... thinking about developing two online Moodle summer courses (Finding Your Digital Tribe and Writing Haiku: Beyond 5-7-5), and revamping http://relaxnoreally.blogspot.com to help reduce concerns... looking into online courses and book clubs for my father

 

May '08... participating in the 08 Comment Challenge & finishing up notes for "seeding a conversation" on Digital Citizenship for Educators

Amusing myself by toggling the inverse screen option on my MacBook [ctrl+option+apple+8]

 

end of April '08... working on my Collective Intelligence Submission, and finally finding all the college counseling blogs and starting to collect College Counseling Linky Love

 

turn of the month into April '08... working on my list of Top 10 Tools for E-Learning, at the request of the lovely Jane Hart, she of Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day, claiming my various sites via Technorati (Technorati Profile)

 

late Mar. '08... working on a Twitter Newbies FAQ newbies... want to read "On Becoming an Alchemist" at Susan Piver's (fellow twit) recommendation

 

mid Mar. '08... Figuring out Twitter, created a page as a result of a LC CD request:  Visiting Princeton, Philly

 

mid Feb. '08... Robert Hass is reading at Princeton on the 21st... wonder if I can make it.  And I want to take this book out of Firestone:  The Face of Poetry, Hass ed., PS615 .F24 2005

 

early Feb. '08... re-aquainting myself with Bible stories so I can pick the ones that D might like to learn next... maybe Parable of the Sower (Matthew 13),  story of Moses (Exodus, 2-12), the widow's gift (Mark 12: 41-43), Jesus and the moneylenders (Matthew 21), Mary and Martha (Luke 10: 38-42)

 

A good resource is here:  http://gardenofpraise.com/bibleles.htm

 

Listening to Rick Ellis talk: "Developmentally Appropriate Practice and Application for the Young Child"

       In America, we're in a hurry... lack of foundation.  Lots of vertical learning, not much room for horizontal learning.  ("I did a collage last year.")

 

collecting info on Haiku Journals

 

end of January '08... getting ready for my trip to the Blackberry River Retreat

 

mid-Jan, '08:  LOVING the way my Blurb book turned out!

 

thinking about getting more systematic about food shopping and menu planning (inspired by Stacy, Oonie, my sister, and Peapod):

http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/001527dads_turkey_stew.php

 

early Jan: searching for images to complement my words via Flickr & creative commons licensing

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jacqueline-w/56107224/

(notebook page)  (after thinking about this for a second I realized, "Hey, I can take my own picture of a notebook page," which I then proceeded to do.)

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dawn3355/353827899/

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/vieuxbandit/276326107/

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/loneprimate/121274020/

(pine needles)  Yay, got explicit permission!

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/piper/115640646/

(redwing blackbird)

 

http://www.schmootography.com/gallery/3111385#213886904

(sunlit tree)  Yay, got explicit permission!

 

 

Putting together a compilation of my haiku: 

http://butwait.blogspot.com/2006/09/autumn-haiku.html  (green has gone...

 

http://butwait.blogspot.com/2006/09/window-haiku.html  (birds into windows...)  need a new photo

 

http://butwait.blogspot.com/2006/10/simple-pleasures-haiku.html (gardens at first light... snails

 

http://butwait.blogspot.com/2006/10/yugen-haiku.html (watch for the wind)  not my photo

 

http://butwait.blogspot.com/2006/11/senses-haiku.html (rehearsal dinner nap)

 

http://butwait.blogspot.com/2006/11/haiku-legacy.html (towel on shoulder)

 

http://butwait.blogspot.com/2006/12/haiku-close-up.html (biscotti alchemy)

 

http://butwait.blogspot.com/2006/12/haiku-container.html  (hills and drifts of snow)

 

http://butwait.blogspot.com/2006/12/storm-haiku.html (d climbing on downed tree)

 

http://butwait.blogspot.com/2006/12/aging-haiku.html (old tools)

 

http://butwait.blogspot.com/2007/01/subtle-change-haiku.html (lying on the earth)

 

http://butwait.blogspot.com/2007/01/rootsconnection-haiku.html  (boxwood bushes trying on their white coats)

 

http://butwait.blogspot.com/2007/02/haiku-courage.html (frozen pond)

 

http://butwait.blogspot.com/2007/02/haiku-dusk.html (graveyard wall at dusk)

 

http://butwait.blogspot.com/2007/02/snow-day-that-wasnt.html  (ice cartwheeling off the roof)

 

http://butwait.blogspot.com/2007/03/stillness-haiku.html (a stillness in each moment)

 

http://butwait.blogspot.com/2007/04/spring-haiku.html (spring peepers)

 

http://butwait.blogspot.com/2007/04/haiku-home.html (miles from home)

 

http://butwait.blogspot.com/2007/04/another-spring-haiku.html (bare feet and seeds)

 

http://butwait.blogspot.com/2007/04/haiku-bridge.html (bridge cannot say)

 

http://butwait.blogspot.com/2007/05/leaning-in.html (leaves leaning in for the kiss)

 

http://butwait.blogspot.com/2007/05/sleep-haiku.html (inexorable sleep, pretend sleep)

 

http://butwait.blogspot.com/2007/05/frog-haiku.html (I kneel on the path)

 

http://butwait.blogspot.com/2007/05/bloom.html  (what if every night you slept in the knowledge that the sun would come)

 

http://butwait.blogspot.com/2007/05/viewpoint-haiku.html  (boys by the water)

 

http://butwait.blogspot.com/2007/05/peonies.html (patient peonies)

 

http://butwait.blogspot.com/2007/05/common-ground-haiku.html  (heat lightning, boys fishing)

 

http://butwait.blogspot.com/2007/06/wildflower-haiku.html  (red-winged blackbird)  (no photo)

 

http://butwait.blogspot.com/2007/08/wisteria-haiku.html  (wisteria closing the garden gate)

 

http://butwait.blogspot.com/2007/10/web-haiku.html  (web across my face... getting the paper)  (need a new picture)

 

http://butwait.blogspot.com/2007/11/loneliness-haiku.html  (a blur of birds, flying away)

 

http://butwait.blogspot.com/2007/11/stone-haiku.html (stones on the beach)

 

http://butwait.blogspot.com/2007/07/comfort-haiku.html  (mourning doves)  need new image

 

12-23-07 Never was all that good at geography (despite my love of maps), but this is FUN:  http://www.zefrank.com/memory/travel_iq.html

 

12-21-07

Planning to check out some library books out on my partner's behalf: 

Dixon:  PS3537.T323 Z7137 2007  

In the regular Firestone stacks:  PS3622.I34 L48 2007

GV884.M3 K75 2007  (B floor, section B8)

 

 

12-16-07 Nursing my partner and son back to health.  (Nasty strep and a cold, respectively.)

 

12-14-07:  Watching more new Mac ads.  Also, FORGET "Build a Bear"... I think we're going to be building a robot in our near future:  http://www.robotgalaxy.com/

Notes for my Dec. 12 "Wonderful Wikis" tech talk are here.

 

Mid-December: thinking about my Japanese New Year's postcard.  Might use a snowflake generator for the snowflake.

 

Early December, 2007: helping niece Super T seek out a poem worth memorizing.  Also working on a Draft of new front page for CollegeLists for the CollegeLists wiki.  Plus my Wish List.

 

Late November, 2007:

 

I'm thinking about how I might be able to inject some wiki power into my junior seminar course next semester.

 

I'll need to talk with the students, too, but one thing I'm thinking about is gathering information to support students going out on college visits, since that seems to be one of the areas in which they need help.  Not reviews of individual schools, but maybe purely logistical information.

 

Starting with a link to this interesting new Campus Visit search engine.

 

And also including a link to this socially responsible vocabulary booster!

 

In the meantime, I've put out a call to department heads at my school to help me identify the in-house talent that I'll want to tap into before giving my Wiki Tech Talk on Dec. 12, 2007.

 

Finally got the CollegeLists wiki an upgrade, graphically speaking.

 

 

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