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Writing about literacy & identity, learning in times of disruption, climate change & sustainability education. Latest book: Literacies in Times of Disruption. Otherwise my heart is in playing music, hiking, movies, travel, and cooking.

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Teachers from the Manitoba Writing Project connected Ripple Effects projects with ideas for teaching including science, conservation, social justice, and issues of water as culture. Follow the link in the comments to see their ideas. #water #rippleeffectsinternational #photography #writing

03.03.2026 19:50 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

There is a great new project on Ripple Effects International from teachers from the Manitoba Writing Project Summer Institute where they are using Ripple Effects projects as springboard for a wide range of innovative teaching ideas. #rippleeffctsinternational #photography #writing #water

25.02.2026 15:09 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Introducing Yale Climate Connections’ new Spanish-language page Β» Yale Climate Connections We’re putting climate coverage in Spanish at your fingertips.

Help us spread the word: We're making climate information more accessible than ever to Spanish-speaking audiences around the world!

yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/02/intr...

24.02.2026 16:02 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ripple Effects – Stories Across the Globe – Fiji, Norway, Pakistan, United Kingdom, 2025 Stories Across the Globe is a collaborative project led from the UK, which links up children in schools in different countries. Primary and secondary school children in two areas of England, UK mad…

The Stories Across the Globe project is now posted on Ripple Effects International! It's a collaborative project using photos, art, and stories to link primary and secondary school children in the UK Pakistan, Fijian Islands, and Norway. #water #sustainability tinyurl.com/2hvp8646

01.02.2026 20:59 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Friends! I wanted to make sure you saw that the @writinglit.bsky.social is having a #Literacies Chat Homecoming on 10/28 at 7PM ET! I hope you can come! *Black tie optional
@ebonyteach.blacksky.app @nsousanis.bsky.social @readingspark.bsky.social @mahabali.bsky.social @wargojon.bsky.social

16.10.2025 16:09 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Another photo and reflection from Ripple Effects International projects.

29.09.2025 02:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Featured photo - 2024 Ripple Effects project in Morecambe Bay, United Kingdom.
"Taken in the early hours of the morning along the mist shrouded canal, the photo in my eyes gives off a very moody feeling, staying true to the hauntingly beautiful atmosphere I felt at the time." - Harlem,

29.09.2025 01:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Ripple Effects International Visit the post for more.

Ripple Effects International is an arts, education, and sustainability project involving schools, libraries, universities, and community organizations to promote climate change awareness and community literacy through photo essays from people around the globe.
rippleeffectsinternational.org

13.09.2025 04:23 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The Louisville Free Public Library is celebrating five years of Ripple Effects "Ripple Effects: Five Years of Exploring Water in Kentuckiana" is on from Sept 6 – Oct 26. This is where it all started, come see the imaginative photos and writing of young people about water in their world.

16.09.2025 20:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Ripple Effects project in Kinnaur, India, title "Colours of Water" offers vivid and thoughtful contrasts between the stunning natural landscape and ongoing construction projects. See more of the photos from Kinnaur on our website! #rippleeffectsinternational

21.09.2025 19:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We have a new Bluesky account for Ripple Effects International - our global climate change education projects where people share photos, reflections, and stories about water, nature and climate change. Follow us!
bsky.app/profile/ripp...

18.09.2025 21:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ripple Effects International Visit the post for more.

We've launched a revised website for Ripple Effects International - our global climate change photography, writing, and education project. It's a collaborative, cross-cultural site for people to share photos, reflections, and stories about water and nature.Take a look! rippleeffectsinternational.org

18.09.2025 18:35 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning.

a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning.

my statement on Ai from the mini-comic I'm making as syllabus for a new class I'm teaching this fall. It's simple, but I pretty much said all I have to say on it - it robs you of decisions and struggle - and the joy of being surprised. It robs you of learning...

12.08.2025 19:37 πŸ‘ 749 πŸ” 307 πŸ’¬ 29 πŸ“Œ 29

Upcoming episodes ⬇️

Episode 172: Sherri Craig
Episode 173: Travis Margoni
Episode 174: Gesa E. Kirsch
Episode 175: Michael Neal
Episode 176: Carolyn R. Miller
Episode 177: Sheila Carter-Tod
Episode 178: Christopher Carter
Episode 179: Bernice Olivas
Episode 180: Bronwyn T. Williams

16.04.2025 00:58 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Talking Thursday at #4C25 about how the psychology of time offers insights into students' affective, temporal experiences of writing and learning, with implications about writing processes, writer's block, institutional systems, and writing identities (BA.7 - Thurs. 12:15, Room 330).

09.04.2025 17:55 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Interview bibliography.docx Abell, J., Locke, A., Condor, S., Gibson, S., & Stevenson, C. (2006). Trying similarity, doing difference: The role of interviewer self-disclosure in interview talk with young people. Qualitative Rese...

I made this bibliography for qualitative interviewing. Hope this helps someone. It's about 170 sources. If you have suggestions, please let me know.

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

24.03.2025 22:43 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 1

During times of disruption, like now, students don't need teachers to be therapists - just to know we are human. When I interviewed students during the pandemic, a consistent theme was how meaningful it was just to have their instructors acknowledge that the times were a struggle for everyone.

17.03.2025 14:59 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Reflections on My First Journal Article β€œI asked this professor what I needed to do to give myself the best chance of securing a job once my Ph.D. was over. Their response: publish a journal article.”

Some reflections on writing my first (soon to be published) journal article.

mariepruittportfolio.wordpress.com/2025/03/10/r...

10.03.2025 17:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The 5-year retrospective articles about the pandemic have talked about things that have changed as a result of that experience. What students told me interviews then about how their perceptions of school, technology, and place were changing I continue to see ripples of today.

10.03.2025 17:49 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Faith groups mobilize to keep fighting climate change as Trump pulls U.S. out of Paris accord Β» Yale Climate Connections Hundreds of religious communities have joined with businesses, universities and colleges, major investors, local governments, states, and tribal nations in declaring they will continue the work of ful...

In response to the federal pullback from the Paris Climate Agreement, over 800 faith communities are doubling down on their efforts to combat climate change. yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/02/fait...

14.02.2025 15:15 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A Sense of Direction: Rhetoric, Energy, and Infrastructure This article argues for a sense of proprioception as a conceptual frame for how energy materializations tangle with digital infrastructure, suggesting terms through which rhetoricians might advance...

My first solo-authored article is up now in RSQ! This piece was a dream to work on. I'm so humbled by the generosity of the RSQ reviewers and editors, and even more sure that my crackerjack home team of friends + colleagues is the best in the game. Check it out! bit.ly/hhopkinsrsq

11.02.2025 18:33 πŸ‘ 40 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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10 tips for bringing climate change solutions into the classroom I joined Teach For America right out of undergraduate and taught 8th-12th grade science at North Central High School in South Louisiana.

A lot of educators ask us how they can incorporate ideas about climate change in the classroom.

Here are some great ideas from Dr. Elizabeth Bagley, our Managing Director at Project Drawdown @projectdrawdown.bsky.social

drawdown.org/insights/10-...

12.02.2025 15:31 πŸ‘ 64 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 4

One of the things the current attacks on education may be affecting is students' perceptions of / relationships with the university as an institution. It was something students talked to me about during the pandemic that wasn't always obvious, but could be happening now too.

12.02.2025 21:28 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The thing about comics - it’s not simply about how words & pictures hang out(which is not how I define comics) - but how reading itself is changed - when the eye moves in all kinds of directions beyond LR, LR… I (clearly) really like to play with reading flow & what I can say differently as a result

03.02.2025 02:27 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
a slide with two thumbnail pages for a comic on the left side and the finished pages on the left, dated April 2024 and January 2025 respectively. Hard to explain - but it's a conversation about how Unflattening went out into the world, and what I learned from it, and what I hope people take from this book on teaching with it. There are call backs to the book, the marching sleepwalking figures, question marks that become footprints, a falling copy of Unflattening makes the Unflattening "eye" symbol. Lots of teaser images of what is sort of in this book about it. A self-portrait of me drawing opens the piece - in the same pose as my self portrait that I use on social media (which itself comes from my 2008 political comic seeing red/feeling blue). When I post the finished pages properly (when I'm given permission to do so) - I'll post proper alt-text for everything on the pages. It's a lot for two tiny pages!!

a slide with two thumbnail pages for a comic on the left side and the finished pages on the left, dated April 2024 and January 2025 respectively. Hard to explain - but it's a conversation about how Unflattening went out into the world, and what I learned from it, and what I hope people take from this book on teaching with it. There are call backs to the book, the marching sleepwalking figures, question marks that become footprints, a falling copy of Unflattening makes the Unflattening "eye" symbol. Lots of teaser images of what is sort of in this book about it. A self-portrait of me drawing opens the piece - in the same pose as my self portrait that I use on social media (which itself comes from my 2008 political comic seeing red/feeling blue). When I post the finished pages properly (when I'm given permission to do so) - I'll post proper alt-text for everything on the pages. It's a lot for two tiny pages!!

Started...Going: finished intro to the book on teaching w/Unflattening! My thumbnails from last April & when I went to make the actual pages in Nov/Dec & realized usable page dimensions were 4x7"! An additional challenge, but geeked at how it came together! I think the book comes out in spring...

02.02.2025 19:09 πŸ‘ 51 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1
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As articles for our special issue, 'Getting Critical About Critique', are being published (keep an eye out for them in the journal 'Teaching in Higher Education'), colleagues may be interested in the article that inspired this special issue.

www.academia.edu/117697069/Ge...

doi.org/10.1080/1356...

09.01.2025 20:38 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Our bilingual (Welsh, English) Climate Comic, co-created with older and younger people in Wales, can be downloaded for free here: www.climatecomic.co.uk Watch this space for the intergenerational activity pack, coming soon... #CADR #climate #ageing @charliemuss.bsky.social

29.11.2024 18:14 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3

Not the typical start to a Thanksgiving day, but it was great to get up this morning to join the Finland/Estonia Communication Skills Workshop to give an online keynote talk about learning in times of disruption and join the conversations about language learning and teaching. Thanks for opportunity!

28.11.2024 15:22 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Using 360Β° immersive storytelling to engage communities with flood risk Communities worldwide face escalating flood risks due to climate change, a fact that emphasises the critical role of flood preparedness in community flood resilience. Globally, flood risk is expected...

Thrilled to be able to share our new paper wrote with Alison Lloyd Williams @floodskinner.games
On using 360 immersive storytelling to engage communities with flood risk
Our project worked with youth, teachers & the Environment Agency
#FloodEducation

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

22.11.2024 11:59 πŸ‘ 48 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 6
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Get ready for our next #literacies chat, featuring @nicole-mirra.bsky.social! We hope you all join us as we navigate this new platform and discuss an incredibly important topic. See you there!

20.11.2024 22:46 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3