Notes for myself mostly, as I try to articulate the thing: 1. The SLF’s Portolan Project was born out of two things: • frustration with the ballooning and often outrageous cost of creative writing education • admiration of Khan Academy, and how much they’ve done to provide free math education, globally — easy to use, […]
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It’s become clear to me that I’ve still not done a good job of articulating what the Portolan Project actually is meant to be, and I think I need to sit down this afternoon and map it out more concretely, unpacking all the complicated ideas in my head and putting them on the page. Eep.
Eep, people, I am supposed to be posting about the SLF’s Portolan Project Kickstarter every day, to hopefully avoid the dreaded Kickstarter mid-project slump, but I am not sure that 11:30 p.m. is really the best time to be posting — I have got to get to this earlier. Today was sort of a ridiculously
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Greater love hath no mother than to RE-LEARN quadratic functions, factoring, and completing the effin’ square, all because her daughter is panicking about a giant math test (that is actually not that giant), especially since everything we reviewed tonight, Kavi seemed to actually know already, and I was actually the only one being bewildered and
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I assigned my creative writing students this week to view some of the Portolan Project modules and try doing a discussion question and a writing exercise from each. I think it went pretty well — I asked them just now whether they found them interesting, helpful, etc., and they did! Huzzah — proof of concept.
– for one piece, he’s working on time travel, looking at mechanical TT versus embodied time travel, with the focus much more on the latter (such as what you see in Butler’s Kindred, or Andrea Hairston‘s Redwood and Wildfire). He’d love more recommendations of the latter — and actually, I’m going to encourage him to
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Jeez, I need to FINISH some things. I was supposed to send something to my local writing workshop last week, and we’re critiquing tonight, and Julie just reminded me, and so I sent them the chaos below. As you can see, there are actually quite a few kids’ books in here, that I probably should
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Okay, it’s sort of funny — we launched our Kickstarter, which is trying to raise $13,500. And when I looked before teaching, we had $35 in pledges. And I looked again just now, and we have $135 in pledges. I just want to say, I am okay with other numbers. Pledge here: https://www.kickstarter.com/…/the-slfs-portolan…/
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It’s launch day!!! Huzzah!!! I have some questions for you! ***** Have you ever wished there was ‘someone like you’ in a book, or on the screen? Do you want the work of marginalized creators to be uplifted and supported? Do you think creative writing programs are often wildly expensive? Do you believe that publishing
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I wouldn’t say the grading all got DONE this morning, but I got enough of it done that I could go in and teach in good conscience. I should be able to finish it tonight, if I don’t fall asleep — I promised the students I would, so I may have to have Jed and
