Am I blogging? (plus the BLOOM video)

Connective Thinking
The blogging recipe requires reading first, then thinking, then writing and linking, then publishing, and then reading some more.
- Will Richardson
Where posting ends and blogging begins...
Richardson's eight ways to think about connective thinking:

1. Posting assignments. (Not blogging)
   
2. Journaling, i.e. "This is what I did today." (Not blogging)
   
3. Posting links. (Not blogging)
   
4. Links with descriptive annotation, i.e., "This site is about..." (Not really blogging either,
   but getting close depending on the depth of the description)
   
5. Links with analysis that gets into the meaning of the content being linked. (A simple form
   of blogging)
   
6. Reflective, metacognitive writing on practice without links. (Complex writing, but simple
   blogging, I think. Commenting would probably fall in here somewhere.)
   
7. Links with analysis and synthesis that articulate a deeper understanding or relationship to
   the content being linked and written with potential audience response in mind. (Real
   blogging)
   
8. Extended analysis and synthesis over a longer period of time that builds on previous
   posts, links, and comments. (Complex blogging).
   

Richardson, W. (2006). Blogs, wikis, podcasts, and other powerful Web tools for classrooms (p. 32) Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press. 


Here is what I think about after reading stuff like what you find above:

1. I want to make my own maps.
2. I want to have readers but not anyone I know in real life; it would be great if everyone in the whole country of Serbia, for instance, would read this blog.  I'd like to know about how things are going in Serbia.
3.  After I get worn out from making the maps  (I'll draw and label my own plus I'll search for other interesting maps, kooky maps, maps like the ones immigrants with dementia draw for their artist daughters)  I'd like to start a series of stories, with illustrations.  If only someone would comment, she (or he) could suggest a topic, a character, a theme.  I used to sit with my friend,  Matt Levine, in the back of a warehouse in San Francisco and write "speed stories."  We were supposed to be working on a terrible film but we spent a good chunk of time huddled on the floor writing and competing for the sake of our own entertainment.  The work was not entertaining.  He finally left and went to law school.
4. I don't know if I'm blogging according to Will Richardson.

And here is a video from Cape Cod, just because a post without some kind of image is oppressive.