Welcome to the Second Make with Me ... chat away
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Join in the chat!
Karon
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Hello everyone. I am cleaning and found postcard booklets!
kfasimpaur
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Greetings, folks.
klbz
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Hi Karon!
Hi Karen!
Karon
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hi Karen's!
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I got three postcards in the mail today. (2/3 were #clmooc)
All the Kare/on's are here!
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Karon
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and Kevin!
An hour ago
Karon
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Should we introduce ourselves? I'm Karon and teaching 9, 10 and 12 in HS in upstate NY.
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Where upstate?
Karon
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Near Binghamton.
kfasimpaur
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I'm karen on the AZ/NM border. (I don't teach in a formal setting.)
klbz
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Yep-- upstate!
Karon
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Yeah Karen!
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What is connected learning? https://clalliance.org/why-...
MCorbettWilson
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Greetings from Oakland California!
kfasimpaur
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Hi, there. Welcome.
Karon
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Sorry, I was writing a postcard  In some ways connected learning is more "stick with ya" than memorization. I think it can break when the student does not find how to get connected.
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True, Karon.
Even for me, it's not always easy to find ways to get connected around certain projects.
Karon
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I like to bring a ton of stuff to the classroom and sometimes the magic happens when a kid likes to do oral reading or paint a book cover to interpret a text.
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Hello everyone, I'm Brent from Bowie, Maryland. Excited about connected learning. Thanks for the opportunity
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Hi, Brent. Nice to see you here.
Karon
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Hi Brent!
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I'm not sure handwriting is important to me, but somehow getting something that is just purely nice via snail mail is special.
And even when I get a very nice email, it doesn't bring the same joy.
Karon
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Is it the idea that you are sharing the piece of paper that your friend touched.
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Shout out to Karon! My musical companion (along with Ron, Wendy, etc)
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Partly that. And partly it's the power of the unexpected and the fact that we go to some extra effort to send real mail. (It's so easy to post online that it dilutes the meaning somehow.) Does that make sense.
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I think too about the different kinds of time that are involved in writing, reading, sending postcards-- online & offline time move so differently....
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One of the things we've done w/CLMOOC is to avoid LMSs for ourselves and to explore tools that can be used in lieu.
And yes, that means we sometimes drive folks crazy with all our platform experiments! 
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Here's Sheri's postcard collaboration: https://docs.google.com/pre...
Karon
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I agree Karen F. My first summer in CLMOOC I kept a notebook of all the programs and places people suggested. It was pretty large.
What about sending postcards to parents?
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I like it. Another nice thing about postcards is how friendly and concise they are. less is more.
Karon
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a prezi?
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...collaborative postcard quilt... I like it.
My postcards are covering a giant cabinet.
I feel connected to people I don't know otherwise because of postcards.
We've talked before about the idea of "slow learning" (ala slow food, etc.).
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I agree Karen. I wrote to those who I saw on line. The ones who are on the list are on the list because they want to be connected (right?) so I'm trying to connect to them.
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yes, exactly
(and they're not all in CLMOOC otherwise)
Karon
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Did you all notice that those antique cards say very brief messages-like 'having a great time'.
I think Susan has a historical fiction novel coming out soon!
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"Interest driven" isn't always authentic. Also not always as easy for students to determine their interests as you'd think. There's been some good work around that at YouthVoices.
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Yes, Karen! So important!
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Are those of you in the chat room working on any postcards this week? (or somethign else?)
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Inspired by a reduced-price bin and DIY, I am doing a set of duct tape postcards!
Karon
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I've been working on making dot mandala cards and now I'm writing cards using postcards collections that I found cleaning.
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I'm working on the July #food theme. Have gathered a week's worth of data. Now I'm working on visualizing it.
Nice, Karon!
I think that remixing postcards from the past should be a future theme.
Karon
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What is August theme?
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connected learning (Make Cycle 2)
...which could be lots of diff things
Karon
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Nice chatting with everyone. I'll watch for you all on line.
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Thanks, all!