Category: Lifelong Learning

  • Learning Creative Learning ( #LCL17 ) – Week 2 Reflections

    Week 2 is devoted to Projects, and we were asked to focus on learning through making, and to reflect on the creative process through the Creative Learning Spiral. Coding was introduced  as a new form of fluency and self-expression, and we were invited to start making projects by using #scratch to animate our name. I have…

  • Learning Creative Learning ( #LCL17 ) – Week 1 Reflections

    We are off to a great start with introductions from participants across the globe.  It is wonderful to meet so many people from so many countries who share the same interests and enthusiasms. The activity this week that interested me the most was “Childhood Objects.”  We were asked to describe something that affected the way…

  • Learning Creative Learning – MIT Media Lab #LCL17

    As a senior (of a certain age, as they used to say) and Scratch enthusiast, I am so excited to be enrolled in this community. I will be posting my experiences and thoughts here. Stay tuned! Join a community of educators, designers, and tinkerers exploring how to support creative learning through projects, passion, peers, and…

  • My New Makerspace

    Following a long-standing habit of remaking myself every few years, I have renamed my former “Teaching/Learning & Technology” blog “Ruthk’s Makerspace,” and started off in a new direction. For the past few years I have been devoting  time at the elementary school where I volunteer as a tutor/mentor to help teachers and school administrators make…

  • Why I Volunteer with FISH

    Why I Volunteer with FISH

    My favorite Volunteer AND Lifelong-Learning activity in Charlottesville is my work as a FISH Mentor/Tutor with ESL (English as a Second Language) students at a nearby elementary school. I am learning so much about other languages, countries, cultures, and customs.  Of course I am helping these students learn how to read, write, and converse in English,…

  • Exciting news about the Wayback Machine!

    If our early webpages for Judson College (home.judson.edu) in Marion, Alabama, look  “home-made,” it’s because they were!  We had such fun learning how to make them and such excitement every time we published a new page to the web. Thanks, Internet Archive, for saving these memories and adding the keyword search! For the last 15 years,…