Participation in Challenges

The #CLMOOC experience includes regular challenges as well as some spontaneous ones that come about from others going through the process.  It can be a little chaotic, but I can participate in as many or as few as I please.  Each one brings me thoughts, ideas, and reflections on my own students (more on that in a later post).

Some that I have participated in are:

#untro

The theme this week is Unmaking Introductions. Let’s consider the ways we name, present, and represent ourselves and the boundaries or memberships those introductions create.
How do we name ourselves in different contexts—personally? professionally? online? 
What happens when those contexts converge? 
How might we take apart our introductions to answer some of these questions? 
What will happen when we put them back together again to share them in CLMOOC?

I am going to admit that I wanted something easy right now.  For me, the description of Make #1 was complicated, so I wanted an easy interpretation (I'll try something else in a couple of days).

So here is my Unmake intro.  I used http://portwiture.com and entered in my Twitter handle.  It came up with this lovely visual.  It created an intro that I never would have thought of on my own.  I like the "unmade me" :)

"Portwiture grabs photography from Flickr that matches the content of your most recent Twitter updates. The result is a serendipitous visual representation of your Twitter profile."

Collective Spotify Playlist

From a participant:  "...playlist of music that defines us could be another way of connecting. Think about ONE SONG that defines you right now, in the past, in the future. Perhaps the lyrics speak to you. Perhaps it's a song that helped you through a tough time. The We Are #CLMOOCplaylist is collaborative."

My contribution, keeping in the Maker spirit of the project, is If I Had a Hammer by Peter, Paul, and Mary.

#F5F (Find Five Fridays)

Find five people you have connected with.

Comic from:  Mimi & Eunice

#DoNowObject

What object or material best represents you?

Interesting question... "Select an everyday object or material as your personal symbol. What object or material did you choose, and what might it signify about you? "
I chose STEEL. My father was a sheet metal worker and STEEL was the first material that came to mind when reading the initial question. So I looked up the properties of steel and found: Strength, Toughness, Ductility (how flexible you are before cracking under pressure), Weldability (combine & form harmonious, effective whole), and Durability. Yep, the material I identify with is steel!

#GrowthMindset Memes

C. Dweck Mindset based

#abundance

A weekly photography challenge, this week was abundance.

My contribution:  An abundance of squares over my head marking the delineation between life on the deck and the freedom of the skies.

Oblique Joys & Sorrows

Here is the game.  "The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is a compendium of invented words written by John Koenig. Each original definition aims to fill a hole in the language—to give a name to emotions we all might experience but don’t yet have a word for."  So sayeth Koenig on his site.  Maybe there is a hole in our own language and this is a place to talk about these feelings."