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

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...

 

  As we told our stories, we felt like a lot of them tied back to the idea of being stuck in-between–being in “limbo.” We also addressed a lot of big transitions, locations, or relationships in which we find ourselves in limbo: war, moving, growing up, feeling helpless, seeking balance. In exploring this idea of “limbo,” we want to focus on the concept of ‘Holy Saturdays” in our lives. The crucifixion happened on Good Friday, the Resurrection came on Easter Sunday. No one knows what’s going to happen on Saturday. The worst has happened and the best is yet to come--true despair/impossible hope. So how can we honor the holy Saturdays in our lives? What tethers us in limbo, and how can we make the most of the liminal space that is this life?

 Lesson Plan Draft: (originally posted Feb 27th on the wrong blog!!) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1I_lpmBB73WeGCh6IGJwcTe_Mnxgw0gMASH3dzOea8T4/edit?usp=sharing

  Rachel's Lesson Plan: Enter if you dare!   And for visual appeal: Check out the adorable newborn lamb my Dad is raising! My kids are in love, and I just can't wait to watch this lamb who thinks he's a dog grow up! Lambert: the dogish sheepy.