Been years since I've been really engaged in Twitter, but with today's EM news it's time to move. This place I've sometimes loved is about to get gross. @joinmastodon is relatively easy to use. I'm on the instance called scholar dot social: scholar.social/@allistelling
Taking a page from @ArionneNettles's book, here's another thing you might enjoy at #pcaaca2024 tomorrow, 1.15pm: "“Curating Digital Stakeholders: Social Media, Georgia Politics, & the Classroom” A discussion about my class on civic engagement, social media, and state politics.
Getting ready to take a 15 min walk down to Giordano's (giordanos.com/locations/prud…) in hopes that it can satisfy my Chicago pizza curiosity. Happy to have anyone join if you're up for a walk across the river. #pcaaca2024
Also a repost from earlier: Is anyone at #pcaaca2024 also a Mastodon user? I like connecting with folks a lot, but haven't been on Twitter since the Great Pollution and would prefer connecting on the fediverse of anyone's there (me over there: scholar.social/@allistelling)
Reposting from earlier b/c I've had public tweeting turned off since Elon took . . .Repping my union (@UCWGA3265) at #pcaaca2024 today. No presentation today, just meeting folks and taking notes. There's a dance party here tonight?!?
Is anyone at #pcaaca2024 also a Mastodon user? I like connecting with folks a lot, but haven't been on Twitter since the Great Pollution and would prefer connecting on the fediverse of anyone's there (me over there: scholar.social/@allistelling)
Repping my union (@UCWGA3265) at #pcaaca2024 today. No presentation today, just meeting folks, listening, and counting how many times I hear "I have a comment and a question" :) There's a dance party here tonight?!?
Happy to finish my first of 2 #pcaaca2024 presentations just moments ago (on why we should be resisting #genAI, at least in the classroom). Happy to connect w new friends and colleagues here in #Chicago.
Just had an #earlyvote at Selena S. Butler park in #FultonCounty, #Atlanta. No line. walked right in. #ATLiens, get out there and use your voice. Not a fan of parties, but the choice for equity, accountability, prison reform, and voting & reproductive rights are pretty clear.
Damn it. For years my teaching, scholarly, & artistic tastes have orbited meta topics. I teach a class on metanarrative techniques. Now FB, whom I think is evil, changes its name to Meta? Srsly? Thx Mark, for making ev'thing I like worse after you touch it. #DeleteFacebook
Ok, let’s not call it Critical Race Theory. We won’t even call it “Black History.” Instead, let’s accept the premise they propose.
So, how does American history look if K-12 social studies & history teachers don’t teach kids about racism white supremacy.
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Rhetoric and Composition folks. If you have friends, colleagues, or graduate students on the market, let them know we are hiring for a new Associate Director of FYC. It's a tenure track line with a 2/1 (my old job). Distribute widely, and apply here: apply.interfolio.com/93820
Active chapter meeting today with over two dozen members. We covered upcoming USG/BOR tenure challenges, Faculty Senate updates, COVID-19 narratives, and new comms strategies for the chapter. It was great to see everyone. Stay energized and join us to stay informed (link in bio).
More than two dozen Georgia teachers and staff members have died of COVID-19 since the start of the school year. Their stories, compiled by @wsbtv, show the tragic toll the delta variant of COVID-19 has taken on educators across the state. #gapolwsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta…
Haven't tweeted for months, but I wanted to narrate a reflection about #September11th as many people are. On that day, I was a public high school English teacher in my 3rd year of teaching, and my dad was a commercial airline pilot away on a trip. [thread]
For my generation, 9/11 was our most defining cultural/political moment, sadly. For my kids & my current students, that'll be the pandemic & George Floyd. It's all trauma we eventually have to process by talking or writing or creating or organizing our way through it. But: sad.
I didn't think that 9/11 was going to hang over me today. I assumed I was "through" it. Years ago, really. But I'm not. But I'm going to a baby shower today, and that feels like a good way to celebrate a way out of being stuck in our mistakes. [end thread]