I do love how connections among educators and creatives can snowball (in a good way) online. Two days ago I elbowed my way into a challenge from Darlene Kriesel (@darlenekriesel) to write at least 150 words every day for 30 days. It reminded me of the collaborative energy that was generated in #clmooc and I wrote a post to that effect.
Now, just a couple of days later several people have responded by sharing, expanding, and branching out on the idea. The energy is just bubbling over!
So, one of the branches came when Kevin (@dogtrax) reminded me of our first real online exchange as colleagues. We engaged in a conversation by sending each other multimedia posts we had created, and we also posted reflective process notes about how we had created our multimedia artifacts.
We used the hashtag #modigiwri to stand for “more digital writing.” (We had just finished the #digiwrimo [digital writing month] and didn’t want the conversations to end!) That was in 2012! Time flies. Well, yesterday Kevin went on a hunt for the conversation and posted what he found here: Searching for Curation: A Nearly-Lost Conversation about Digital Writing. In looking back, he realized the conversation was never rounded out…and it looks like it’s time!
So, we’re inviting you to engage in a combo of these two challenges, writing digitally every day to jump start your writing… and sharing and responding to others who are doing the same!
The writing can be about anything and come in any form. Use the hashtag #modigiwri if you want to help people find your posts!
For my first #modigiwri post, Kevin asked me to create a visual representation of my writing. See his tweet below…and my visual thereafter…
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Hi Anna! What a fun way to start a challenge with a little art and a history lesson on Digital Writing! Wow! What a journey! Thanks for getting us started– I’m in:
http://whatelse.edublogs.org/2018/12/22/modigiwri-jumpstart/
Awesome! I was going to respond to your other comment to point you here. I am glad you found it! Here’s to some #modigiwri for the holidays!
Yes, found it. Did you want to post this in our CLmooc G+ community [while we still have it]?
No, I haven’t. Good idea. When does that go away? I should probably post on FB too!