Posted on March 30, 2008 by bgblogging
“Imagination, more than any other capacity, breaks through ‘the inertia of habit.’” (Maxine Greene, Releasing the Imagination, p.2 quoting John Dewey)
“The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense.” Pablo Picasso
“I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.” Flannery O’Connor
A few years after college–after following the temple [...]
Filed under: Emergence, Questioning, Teaching and Learning, visual art | Tagged: art, creativity, imagination, Jenny Holzer, learning, MASS MoCA, museums | 4 Comments »
Posted on March 27, 2008 by bgblogging
While I’m sorting out my problems with archived posts’ broken links (argh), wrestling with upcoming talks, and complaining about Vermont’s never-ending winter, I thought it would do me and you good to move to a more positive outlook and point to some extraordinary work my students are doing with Web-based practices. (This is [...]
Filed under: Creative Writing Blog, Digital Storytelling, Discoveries in the Blogging World, Insights into New Media in the Classroom, Students online, Teaching and Learning, creativity | Tagged: learning, students, teaching, writing | 2 Comments »
Posted on March 25, 2008 by bgblogging
Although I’ve been blogging with my students on WP for a couple of courses and have bgexperiments for my creative-writing exercises, bgblogging has heretofore lived, and quite happily so, on Movable Type. But in six weeks’ time I will be leaving the faculty of Middlebury College and thus must start now to pack my [...]
Filed under: About, Emergence, community, transitions | Tagged: change, new bgblogging, transitions | 6 Comments »
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