So after a few days of lurking Kbin and trying to understand the marvelous world of the Fediverse, I've tried keep some mental notes of the struggles I've had and some spontaneous areas of improvement that I personally would like to see....
Okay, so once my devices are updated, I’m thinking about starting a thread with feedback reports, including feedback numbers so that others can reference in their own feedback.
Second, this is an old one that I’d love to see squished this year. While reading an email message with the Voiceover cursor, you’ll hear stuff like “insertion point at beginning of text,” after each paragraph or element.
One of the lesser known but hugely effective packages from #PsyTeachR is markr. Developed by @debruine and @HelenaPaterson, and a little bit by me, its function is to create individual feedback documents, for students, from spreadsheets and other types of input. Check it out below and please ask questions if interested.
I do reading groups with my 2nd grader's class & they talk about sensory images that come to them. (The ones they name are amazing!)
What about that as a way to give feedback in a workshop? To just name the sensory images that pop into your head as you read a story? So useful know how my words mingle with a reader's experiences to evoke something else!
What other useful forms of non-prescriptive, non-judgmental feedback have you discovered?
I know people use things like neutral questions (from Critical Response Theory).
And I love to do pops when we have like ten minutes to spare--it's just repeating back (on zooms we use the chat) any words or phrasings that particularly resonate.
Those tend to evoke analysis that is useful without being judgmental.
And I also like that they focus on what a story does right now instead of pushing readers to imagine what it could do in the future. It's the writer's job to imagine the next draft--not the reader's.
It's not that I don't think a writer should ever have to hear anything negative about their work--that would be absurd. But I think that when we send readers looking for faults, it often ends up with them saying "I want, I want, I want"--and taking over the story. I look for methods of feedback that center the writer's intentions and help make it more the writer's idea of the story--not this one random reader's.
I'd love to hear any thoughts or feedback you have on this track. Anything from composition and conception, to the mixing and mastering, it's all fair game. Be as honest as you'd like, tell me what works and what doesn't. I'd love to get five or six people to offer feedback on this.
You'll need a reddit account if you don't have one (super easy sign up) and it's a participation required thread--if you want feedback on your track, you have to leave feedback for at least one other track-- but it's a friendly group and a great place to get some feedback.
I moderate it, so no reddit horror stories, I promise.
I'm working on a follow up to this album (Psychedelic Ghost Stories) and I'd love to know your opinions on what worked, what didn't, etc. From conception/composition to mix and master, it's all fair game. Be as honest as possible, but don't be mean unless you have to 😅
I have been hard at work updating the logo for #AllThingsTech and I am happy to share it with y’all.
Many of our users, and others on #Mastodon, let us know that it was hard to differentiate the wording in our naming since there is no spacing. I also wanted to give the text a more “tech” feel to it.
Here are the new and improved logos for AllThingsTech.social!
They are turning 20 and still act like 10-year-olds, from a country deeply rooted in hierarchy, respect, education, training.
It had a strong start. I gave it a good score. The last four episodes were delayed. Unfortunately, it went downhill by episode 8, and totally bottomed by the finale episode.
However, I think they painted their late teens in a very bad light, and that is so unfair.
Consider this, in my country (at least back in the 90s, my school years), by Grade 10 (16 years old), we underwent ‘Citizen Army Trainig’ (it still is a military training). We are not at war, but we have to go through that or we won't graduate high school. We didn't complain. And we perfectly understood the importance of hierarchy.
Yet, in this K-drama, kids turning 20 were complaining every episode. They were invaded by aliens, and all they cared about are their vanities and CSAT. They have to be lured with earning bonus points for their CSAT just so they'll go through it!
I am deeply sorry. Even though it is fiction, depicting high school students like that was far too unrealistic. AOUAD did not do that at all, and yet created a very good story!
Oh. I remembered another thing. I seriously can not believe their Commander, having seen how bratty the students are, did not teach and train them about the importance of hierarchy and following orders. He did not even assign hierarchial ranks, all he did was assign a ‘class president’ or an ‘assistant’ who doesn't have much authority.
It was actually a miracle that they survived for weeks after their Commander sacrificed himself.
Wait, was this show supposd to be a comedy?
Just watch AOUAD, or something else. Skip ‘Duty After School’.
My session proposal for the European Conference on Ecological Modelling (#ECEM23) has been accepted! Please get in touch in case you would like to participate!
The ECEM will take place in Leipzig (Germany) on September 4-8. The title of my session is: "Like a boomerang: How #feedback loops affect #ecosystem#stability and species #coexistence". More infos can be found on the conference website:
Update: The abstract submission for the European Conference on Ecological Modelling (#ECEM23) is open until 1st of April. We hope to see you there so we can discuss about #feedback, #stability, #coexistence, #networks, #ecoevo, etc.!!
The ECEM will take place in Leipzig (Germany) on September 4-8. More info can be found on the conference website:
OC Some thoughts, ideas and honest criticism from a new user
So after a few days of lurking Kbin and trying to understand the marvelous world of the Fediverse, I've tried keep some mental notes of the struggles I've had and some spontaneous areas of improvement that I personally would like to see....