Idle wandering dead-end streets has lead to an evolution of a specific kind of story telling that has driven innovation in federated wiki.
I leave the house about once a week to bicycle around the neighborhoods. I look for little trails I might have missed when I had more important places to go.
We clone and refine our episodic explorations first developed in Portland wandering neighborhoods during the pandemic.
Thompson thinks that the energy I get from my trail photos will motivate 7th grade students to find and express meaning in their world. Now I want to make a sharable version of my photo stuff that is more fit for that purpose.
We aspire to see what we might have missed by telling of what we have seen. Here, for practice, we see homes by observing the doorways to houses.
Google's street-view has photographs of most houses on most streets. You can try your hand at Phototelling without a camera or leaving your own desk.
There is a danger that the inexperienced photographer looks through the viewfinder as if the camera were binoculars. Press the button to save the picture? No, No. Ten more seconds framing will make it a hundred times better. That and a year or two practicing the art of seeing.
We have concocted a Phototelling assignment that encourages the student to see their own neighborhood with new eyes and then to share that experience with their classmates. What will we ask of the creative and sharing student that can't see?
My daughter lives in Las Vegas, a world that feels very different from the one she grew up in. When we come to visit, we seek ways to escape the city and explore the land.
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