Comments on: December Arrives: A (Quasi) Hypertext Musing on Storytelling and Stories

By: Tacit and Tangible: Two Sides of the Creative Teacher « (the new) bgblogging

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:23:30 +0000

[...] written here before about struggling for balance between tangible creative output in the form of art: short stories and now photos and multimedia [...]

By: lilly

lilly — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:52:25 +0000

Hello! I am very, very happy that I found out about your blog. I loved the story. You have a true writing talent. The description of December does make me as peaceful as you write about it. I might even get to like the month
Anyway, I am a true novice in blogging community and i have plenty to learn. That’s why I am so happy to have discovered your blog. I will be coming back often for there is much I can learn from you.
Thank you.

By: bgblogging

bgblogging — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:22:23 +0000

Geoff, You are a champion of stories, I know, and an advocate for teen writers getting a chance to share their storytelling with one another and the world. Amazing stuff. I'd love to see any hypertext work your writers do--having them connect directly to one another and to what they read outside the Young Writers Project as well as to their own earlier posts might well have a powerful impact on their writing, on their ability to synthesize and weave a complex text. ~bg

By: ggevalt

ggevalt — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:46:25 +0000

A lovely post. I feel ashamed to admit this but your slow blogging was totally and completely shattered by my frenetic daily set of interruptions so now, finally, I have returned to it and reread it back to the point where I was last interrupted and finished to the end.

As an advocate of narrative writing, I look forward to your winter stories and will, perhaps, put the gentle nudge on the kids to follow some of your links and practice it themselves. I am finding that December in my neck of the woods, as it were, is fraught with teen angst ….

Hope all is well with you and the loved ones, as they say, and Finn.

By: bgblogging

bgblogging — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:43:58 +0000

Thanks, Bryan. Of course after I wrote this post, I saw all that I had not said, all that I had missed in my flurry to capture the shift to December, and the dismay I feel over educators and community activists missing the power of storytelllng and sharing as part of what they do, intentionally. One huge omission was the article you and Alan wrote for Educause about Web 2.0 storytelling. Doh. My next blog post! Shannon, Yay! Yay yay YAY.. I hope you will blog about your experience, help get the word out about how such a seemingly simple act--telling stories around a common theme--can do much to set the learning in play while gathering the group together in a space of mutual interest and trust. Yay!

By: Shannon

Shannon — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:17:59 +0000

I was planning a lesson for a small group of high schoolers that I lead and this blog post came to mind.
Me and the other leaders have been trying to figure out how to build community within our group, so this morning I had them all share stories about a broad topic related to what we have been talking about. I could feel the group dynamics shifting as we talked about sharing and understanding we are not alone in a lot of the struggles we face.
Lots of ideas stirring in my brain because of this post, thanks for that.

By: Bryan Alexander

Bryan Alexander — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:11:50 +0000

Thank you for the reminder to slow down and spiel. Now to find time for that…

Sweet post, Barbara.

By: bgblogging

bgblogging — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:00:19 +0000

Thank you, Beth, for the feedback and for the nod on your blog. I’m all for story sharing!

I am enjoying following your stories, too.

By: beth kephart

beth kephart — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:41:00 +0000

a note of thanks to you today on my blog…..

By: beth kephart

beth kephart — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:23:52 +0000

I was reading this and a peace descended. I was acknowledging my shared response to November, and thinking of today—so quiet here, so still; I was hearing my own heartbeat while I read Brideshead Revisited; I was watching the skies go dark. I was reading your blog and then suddenly found my name within your blog, and I stopped, and I re-read, and I squinted and re-read.

And now I thank you. For the words, the images, the connection.

Here’s to story sharing.