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Fractured Realities Au (aka context lol)

The Void

A state of emptiness in between Au’s. Space bridges and entities capable of Teleportation may catch a glimpse of these locations, but nothing beyond that.

However, ever since the Starscream arrived in the void, fractures started to form, wild portals that allow objects to drop in, as well as other life forms. And not everyone is friendly.

Jasper was tinkering with a teleportation device on the day they found themselves in the void. It broke down and resulted in a divide appearing in all three universes. The machine violently fused with Jasper's spark upon his arrival, granting him abilities akin to those of Skywarp and TC.

Silver was inside a dark energon mine when Jaspers' machine malfunctioned, leading to an explosion and a tiny shard piercing his spark.

Maroon found himself in the void with the Allspark atop his head. It attempted to safeguard its host by creating a portal back, but it wasn't quick enough. They believe the All Spark on Maroon's head is crucial to the cracks between the universes.

The main reason these idiots aren’t trying to kill each other at the current timeline is that they can’t stand the thought of being alone and trapped. Additionally, they need one another to find an escape (do they even want to escape anymore?). And finally, they just decided that it was way too exhausting to be enemies and became friends/comrades (after being together for a thousand years, they're just exhausted).

(This AU is where all my hyperfixations interact :D)

the way tumblr tags trend is so funny, sometimes it seems like if ONE post gets popular the entire tag trends.

I’m gonna do an experiment. let’s use the tag

uhhhhhh

#mole interest

Warden/wither enemies to lovers

Roger Waters with Mikhail Gorbachev and Leonardo DiCaprio

making an ask game that's Not Like Other Ask Bait

Netflix party of 1

Decided to splurge and buy Galaxy Quest (Amazon) for $2- I had a $3 credit and the sale price was $5.  Good deal either way!  It’s a fun movie!  

Zoom Projects

I’m working on a couple of projects.  One of them is to organize some zoom lunches, dinners, netflixparties, art nights, and other fun social activities on zoom.  I need to fix the survey on the new page of my website, stay tuned.

Zoom Art Night:  4-5 people, 60 minutes, theme #1 Collage Night Collect papers you like, or magazines More directions to follow

Some thoughts

If you write it down you are more likely to do it

Community, Care, and Communication

New workshops coming in April

Working on an AI bot to support scalable, effective online learning

Teachers touch tomorrow today

Wikipedia updates soon

#WOL 

The night before, I reflect on what are my top three goals the next day, and before starting to work, take 10 minutes to reflect on what I need to do and when I need to do it by.  Work in order of priorities.  

Fake it until you make it

These are difficult times, but in time of crisis is also a time of great opportunity.  The field of education, and of education technology, has a lot of change in a short amount of time through the ages.  

link to full size map by Vicky Earl

link to full size image from tweet by @justintarte

And here is a timeline I created based off of an article on EDUCAUSE that highlights one new technology or trend.

link to full size image from Flickr 

I have a set of slides I use at the beginning of most of my presentations.  It starts with a timeline that gives an overview of the information ages, and puts into context, just how new the age of the Internet is.  This is the Wild, Wild West.  As an instructional technologist I help guide faculty through their own explorations of leveraging tech.  

link to larger image from Flickr

Note, I plan to use this and other updated graphics in the sequel to the Tech Trends talk (fordham.edu/techtrends) I gave last year.  Working title:  A New Information Age. 

I’ll also be talking about things like growing your PLN, using curation tools, the history of online learning at Fordham, effective pedagogy, hybrid/online learning, and more.

One more teaser....  YouTube channel launch coming soon...

Recent Recipe

I made during the last Zoom Dinner I had and it was delicious!  Can’t wait to make it again.

Fish, adobo light, cracked lemon pepper, garlic olive oil spray, garlic powder in the nuwave Toasted, with a little melted butter Light mayo/sour cream + lots of relish Lemon juice

Optional:  With a raw pepper in place of cheese

 I’ll leave you with a quote from Galaxy Quest 

Never give up. Never surrender.

be well, k

Bad knows what he’s doing