Beep Boop Blog: learning to incorporate digital media in the classroom

  I feel very privileged to have been part of this team and this assignment. We all shared and were so blessed to receive some very real and raw stories. There was a lot of processing throughout this process; that is to say, at times it really did feel like a group therapy experience, so we decided to just lean into that with the ending of the piece being set up in a sharing circle-esque space. It became clear early on in the idea generation stage, that we needed to find a way to honor the limbo stages of our lives: to recognize that they happen and we can learn from them even though they are difficult.  Initially I was tempted to put a more carefree spin on my stories. I've lived a bit more life than my classmates, and I try to avoid stepping over, disillusioning, or not taking them seriously. Because we are all living a lot right now, and concerns that will seem small later, don't feel that way right now. So I don't want to dwell too much on my own experience or make it s...

 Here is the google doc we've started collecting images/media in, (there's not much there because we're going to cut some parts of the video interviews and put them in too) :  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wbBwSsYA8t5GO52oph8ImIYiwzMxQuD4/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=111922688484007188602&rtpof=true&sd=true And here is the google doc where we are collecting info on all of it.  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oazBDrUBxGxgDKRB1f0pP8xyOSrPOn_R3Htsj3g_t4E/edit?usp=sharing

Here is a link to the google doc we are creating our devising project in, the soundscape draft is in the table.  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oazBDrUBxGxgDKRB1f0pP8xyOSrPOn_R3Htsj3g_t4E/edit

Perhaps this is cheating, but I couldn't decide which Maggie Smith poem to share, so I shared a few and am counting that as one thing.   https://www.greenlindenpress.com/issue10-maggie-smith https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/152103/how-dark-the-beginning https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/152104/threshold-5e1260dcd0e82 https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/good-bones http://www.phys.unm.edu/~tw/fas/yits/archive/oliver_wildgeese.html - La Scapigliata (unfinished painting by da Vinci - "the woman with disheveled hair") "Art is never finished, only abandoned." Leonardo da Vinci "Carnival Town" by Norah Jones https://open.spotify.com/track/3T4pMhHBQiDZMb8G9BB9QJ?si=1ca6ddd7ea654d44

 In her interview Kim shared a lot of wonderful perspective about the process of limbo, she talked about how sometimes what we see as limbo as made up of a lot of small things that add up to culminating life bullet points/titles/acomplishments, but that doesn't mean all the little things weren't worth honoring or weren't actually big things. I think we could do some intersting things exploring the space of limbo. We could enact some little things that add up to a big things. Whether it's obtaining for a degree and we can show studying, stress, fun, etc.  Another moment I really loved that could make for a powerful visual is when she described going to watch the sunset at a difficult time. We talked about how the setting sun itself is a comforting and affirming type of limbo. It happens every day, it happens this way, things go on. She talked about how making a ritual of the earth's rituals was grounding.  One final image that I was struck with was when she described...

Description Kim is a friend of mine that is a few years older than me. She is a very intelligent, neurodivergent, hilarious, aware, and sensitive woman. Kim has 3 children, and her oldest daughter just got married. She is a certified master gardner, and will often have a beautiful amount of dirt under her nails. She's got that kind of wisdom and gentleness that comes from chronic illness, but the humor to deal with it and know she's not the only one. When they moved into the ward, we hit it off right away and after a few minutes Kim said, "Oh, you're that Rachel! The Relief Society President told me I'd get along with you because you swear." And thus our irreverent friendship was cemented. I wuv her. Audio Interview https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dSdrJOfUkYLXPvptuRTRtOdBSxbVer1J/view?usp=sharing Questions: Rachel: Okay, so can you tell me about a time that was a limbo experience or a Holy Saturday in your life?  is there a distinction between limbo and proc...