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Trying to Enjoy the Victories, NBA Playoffs, and Ted Lasso Season 3, Episode 8

Thanks to the listeners who have recently read my novel Love on the Big Screen and took the time to write me about it. I appreciate you! Anne, the Kindle version is only $2.99!

News from my house:

-I did an enormous amount of weeding. Found and cooked some morel mushrooms. Classes are over at App State, and I’m collecting late work and final assignments. Mom has been going on a daily walk. She’s got a memoir book to fill out and Charlotte is coming home from college this week.

There has been some good feedback on people enjoying hearing about what we read and watch. Here’s what I read and watched last week:

  • read Kindle sample of Lorne (as in SNL Michaels) by Susan Morrison. Still might buy it. I did buy David Sedaris’s collection of essays titled Calypso. There are stories about Sea-Section NC beach house, Fit Bit walking, and his sister’s suicide.
  • watched the movie the Gray Man with Ryan Gosling. Made it to the end. Could use a cut of 15% of the fight and chase scenes. Really good little girl character. Billy Bob Thorton is in it too.
  • Started first episode of The Last of Us. Might stay with it a little longer on the treadmill and see how it goes.

The Big News of this Ted Lasso episode:

  1. There’s a massive internet hack of celebrities and an explicit video video that Keeley sent becomes public.
  2. Ted fears Michelle and Dr. Jake are going to get married.
  3. We get a lot of couples to start: Jack and Keeley, Michelle and Dr. Jake, Nate and Jade

Golden Lines from the Episode:

  1. You can’t worry about something that hasn’t happened yet. -Crimm to Ted (added: Find out before you flip out). This is during a Diamond Dogs meeting about Michelle and Jake. The Diamond Dogs are very much in the spirit of my Brothers in Pursuit college group.
  2. You should enjoy your victories. -Jade to Nate

5 Observations or Questions Related to NBA Playoffs

  1. I’ll name the NBA team and you say the first thing that comes to mind: Thunder, Nuggets, Clippers, Timberwolves, Cavaliers, Pacers, Knicks, Celtics, Warriors, Rockets
  2. Anne, you said the Clippers are your new team. Why them over Pacers?
  3. In each series, do you feel yourself rooting?

Let’s give Anne a chance to see if she can guess any of these NBA Playoff Stat Leaders:

  1. Points per game: Giannis 33, Brunson 31.5, Tatum 31.3
  2. Rebounds per game: Giannis 15.4, Jokic 11.6, Sengun 11.5
  3. Assists: Haliburton 11.6, Jokic 10.1, Harden 9.1
  4. Blocks per game: Holmgren 2.8, Edey 2.5, Turner (IND) 2.2
  5. Three point field goals per game: Gary Trent 4.4, Steph Curry 4.2, Fred VanVleet 4.0
  6. Free throws per game: Tatum 9.2, Giannis 8.8, Luka 8.2
  7. Minutes played per game: Murray 42.1, Anunoby 42.0, Luka 41.6.

Ted Lasso Season 3, Episode 8 titled “We’ll Never Have Paris”(a few more items to potentially discuss)

  • Nate has a meeting. Calls it the Love Hounds to talk. Disco has been divorced 3x. Other guy says to insult her. An Oscar Wilde quote:
  • Roy says he’s sorry and then ruins it.
  • Ted, Beard, and Henry go to West Hamm.
  • Jack says Keeley is her friend.
  • The story behind “Hey Jude.”

In 1968 the longest song to ever reach number one on the Billboard charts was Paul McCartney’s epic “Hey Jude”—clocking in at seven minutes and twelve seconds. The song was written to soothe John Lennon’s son Julian amid his parent’s divorce. Click here for Wikipedia entry.

  • Michelle tells Ted Dave Grohl learned to play drums on pillows.
  • Henry no dap for Dr. Jacob. Michell no kiss. She looks up to see if Ted is watching her go.
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Using Twitter in the Classroom to Facilitate Discussion

Using Twitter to Enhance Discussion in the Composition Classroom

I started with Twitter in the spring semester of 2012. I invited students to create accounts so that we could use them along with classroom discussion. We talked about privacy and potential problems with going public with writing, and I told the students that they might have a good reason for not wanting to use social media. One student shared a horrific story of Facebook identity theft and harassment. I also noted that I sometimes consider abandoning my online life, and that I’d enthusiastically support any student who wanted to skip the social media component of the class. We all, I thought, would benefit from some powerful voices warning about the dangers of being too digitally connected.

Twitter, NCTE, discussion, social media, pedagogy

Even though I was worried that there would be students who would see my offer as a way to get out of some of the classwork, all of my students signed up for Twitter.  I think there were less than five who already had an account.  One or two of the students had internships during which it was their primary job to Tweet and write Facebook posts.

Here was my starting place: in addition to doing our regular, go around the room, sharing to begin each class session, the students would also Tweet a highlight of what they planned to say.  So the idea was that students would listen to the one or two students who talked AND at the same time, Tweet comments to the class or as a “reply” to one particular student.  I thought of this as a kind of transparent note-taking process.  It used to be I’d write down golden lines of something someone said or jot down a question I had for later, but with Twitter, these notes could instantly be put up on the screen for everyone to see.  Maybe we’d see from the Tweets that many writers were gravitating toward the same lines from our reading, or that the writers in the class had some of the same sorts of questions. For example, if more than one student didn’t understand what I meant when I said student work should strive for “intellectual ambition,” perhaps our discussion could dig in on that feature of my expectations for their work.

In the coming blog posts, I’ll share how my idea worked, what I learned, and what I plan to do differently in the Fall of 2012. If you’ve used digital texts in the classroom, I hope you’ll join in the conversation.  Have you thought about how social media might impact classroom communities? Have you used Twitter in your classroom? If this article interested you, I hope you’ll consider signing up for periodic updates by typing your email in the upper left hand corner of this page.  Thanks!