Daily Create #5162 asks where we sit while we do our Open Education work. So here’s a picture of the new office.
In part, I’m just glad that I got those pictures on the wall reasonably straight and spaced without actually measuring. (My home walls have not fared quite so well.) And they tell a little story – the panorama is Cal Ripken’s last at bat, a nod to growing up an O’s fan and paying more attention to baseball in the 1990s than I do now. I picked up “Artist vs Star” at a campus art sale at Kenyon because I liked it and it struck me as edupunky/DS106-y. The Hot Licks Blues Fest poster of Taj Mahal is for my musical side. And the framed poem was a going-away gift from my friend and colleague Chris Gillen, biology professor and poet. It’s titled “How we got through Covid-19 and the times before and after” and it is up there to remind me that I’m actually pretty good at this pedagogy support thing.
Which is nice, because it turns out this is also bell hooks’ first office at Berea. And that reset my impostor syndrome real good. I mean I’m not filling her chair in any literal or metaphorical sense but… see earlier comment, I don’t not-believe in signs.
Anyway it’s neat to imagine Dr. hooks also enjoying this exact view. (Photo taken in December).
Ripkin’s last bat! Have we never talked baseball (born in Baltimore). Where you there in the 1990s? I had left in early 1980s, but can say I was in the stands for a game in the 1979 series (boo Pirates).
How wild to work where bell hooks did! Intimidating? Thanks for sharing your view.
I grew up in Rockville, over in the DC burbs! So yeah, I have some fond memories of both Memorial Stadium and Camden Yards. And of really getting into it with my philosophy professor, a Toronto native, in 1989.
(Technically I watched Ripken’s last game on TV from Ohio, but the picture was an awfully sweet gift from my sister-in-law.)