Love Is A Verb (Attitude) : Ode To Marraige

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Something I'm reflecting on at the moment...

Here's something I created in my head whilst driving to the chicken factory this morning.

I left home this morning a little dismayed.

I'm sure that " I'm a fool for marrying you " was just a joke.

I took it as a joke, however.......

I look for things to complement people on, likewise, if I dont have anything constructive to say  I try my best to cease saying anything at all.........and yes I'm also known to be a little sharp at times and thats my failing.

The statement that love is an attitude is entirely correct.

It goes both ways and it's also a verb.

My threshold of tolerance for cold, dis-passionate pragmatism is tempered by the joy of receivership.

I dont want it to be removed from my love and friendships.

I wish to  build a garden that I  can sit and grow old within.

The investment ensures that the questions  to answers are done so together.

I only wish to build a sturdy garden wall upon a sturdy foundation.

That much I've learned so far in this life.

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ps. I'm the puppy....mostly.

Open Everything

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I'm watching the winter Olympics with one eye, rocking the baby gently with one foot, tapping this in with one hand.

One finger actually.

Which brings me to Leigh Blackall's crys for help amidst his own baby carnage....and assertions that the institution is stronger than the revolutionaires. I'd imagine that it would be hard to accept that being one actually meant that you have to adapt to cage fighting when boxing and it's routines had humdrummed the sport of brutality into something less cogent and strangely now socially acceptable.

I've heard it said( and learnt the hard way ) that criticism is cheap and that shitting in your own nest is cheaper.

Likewise teaching...and learning or both or in opposite orderas the instituition might have it. Stack the chairs, file the students through the door, pat the backs of funny guys wearing feathers and gowns, pay homage to the seemingly unending array of compliance measures, benchmarks, deadlines, slapdowns and any number of ways to describe what to others see as their main opportunity to moved on, ahead.....

"......Oh,but the rhetoric of openness, access, equity and networked futures."

Rubbish....or at least now you've experienced what open everything might mean to those trapped in the pickled concoids of an institution, get on with better describing it rather than lamenting in a historical quagmire.

Go find some local neckbeards who connect cool things together.

Build something big.

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"....Submitted on 2010/02/23 at 7:47am
Good point back to the networked learning page. That is still the goal I guess, and I have some things to add from the otago polytechnic experience."

Leigh Blackall

Thinking Out Aloud

Blogging.

It's beginning and I'm not feeling at all reserved about how much hair I'm going to have to pull out to get to that beautiful, cogent and streamlined question that defines a Phd trajectory.

Things on the boiler.

[12:46:17 AM] Katina Michael: The big thing that you need to do apart from prove your current qualifications is to put a solid 5 page proposal forward with the application.

A five page proposal .....ok.

Best I begin laying out the keypoints, ascertaining a framework and engaging in some solid networking to rule things out rather than rule them in which of course will be the trickiest exercise.

Aggregate...rule number one.

Must press publish at this point as this Wordpress architecture might take over what I'm thinking.


[12:47:22 AM] Katina Michael: Sort of scoping it out with : 1) title 2) background statement 3) basic literature 4) method-- what do we think we will do etc

The thing that strikes me most is the 'we'.

That makes most sense. I've finally identified a Supervisor who considers this as a partnership.

What a blessing.

Found a nice example of what's possible to accomplish the above......perhaps a page in this crossroads will suffice.

Need to pursue contact with many others who are actively taking a praxis approach to:

• creatively engaging in learning architectures that support body-worn learning experiences [ across education and related industry sectors ]
• augmented remote presence learning solutions [ that permiss uberveillant socio-politic as a disruptive identity definer ]
• geolocation "as the new"  learning experience validation [ was_here_ is_me mobile  learning ....ok....somethings flowing here.]

[12:50:48 AM] Katina Michael: Don't feel pressure though at this early stage-- it will take us a good 6 months after the proposal and paperwork submission to formulate the REAL question...

5 quick thoughts...before bed.

1. Where will body-worn or point-of-view first person perspective technologies fit in the broader futures context of educational organisations worldwide ?....bland....I'd like to know where though globally speaking.
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2. To what extent will [ point-of-view inc. ] uberveillance inform educative arrangements of the future ? - heutagogy ....hmmm...mix of tech / human spirit and embodiment...nice.
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3. In which ways are point-of-view technologies being employed to inform a self determined anthology of life long accreditation ? - the v-portfolio ( I_did therefore I am...)....again nice....the which ways exploration is appealing.
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4. Where do point-of-view technologies breach the civil rights of others in an educational context ? ....the "threat" question....could be a subset co-joiner or thinking point
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5. How do rich-media, lo-fi, user oriented, point-of-view mediated learning objects better inform the open aggregation model for organised  learning ?......ok....so I'm thinking of Leigh here....bear with me.

Best I get some sleep.

It's 2.49AM and I have a billion things to do with Geoff at the office tommorow.

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