Add Swartz tiny tribute; Add Riggs & Linder bookmark; fix home page typo

_bookmarks/actively-engaging-students-in-asynchronous-online-classes.md

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+---
+title: 'Actively Engaging Students in Asynchronous Online Classes '
+date-posted: 2024-01-11T19:56:37-6:00
+last_modified_at:
+excerpt: 'I come back to metaphors & insights from this paper constantly.'
+link: https://www.ideaedu.org/idea_papers/actively-engaging-students-in-asynchronous-online-classes/
+# source-name
+# source-link
+source-name-only: My coworkers.
+b-tags:
+   - instruction
+   - instructional design
+published: true 
+---
+
+Although I appreciate everything about this paper, I particularly return to Riggs & Linder's ideas of "an architecture of engagement in the online classroom" and "re-imagining discussion boards as interactive spaces."  
+
+If you do any sort of online instruction—and especially if you're skeptical about it—I highly recommend you reading this paper.  

_layouts/home.html

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ <h2>Featured Sections</h2>
 
 <div style="display: grid; grid-gap: 1em; grid-template-columns: repeat(2, 0.5fr);">
     <div><a class="btn btn--primary btn--large" href="{{ site.url }}/posts/">Blog</a><br>Somewhat regular posts.</div>
-    <div><a class="btn btn--primary btn--large" href="{{ site.url }}/bookmarks/">Booknarks</a><br>Annotated links.</div>
+    <div><a class="btn btn--primary btn--large" href="{{ site.url }}/bookmarks/">Bookmarks</a><br>Annotated links.</div>
     <div><a class="btn btn--primary btn--large" href="{{ site.url }}/notes/">Notes</a><br>My digital garden.</div>
     <div><a class="btn btn--primary btn--large" href="{{ site.url }}/Reading/">Reading</a><br>What I'm reading.</div>
     <div><a class="btn btn--primary btn--large" href="{{ site.url }}/colophon/">Colophon</a><br>How I make this site.</div>

_posts/2024-01-11-aaron-swartz-coincidences.md

@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+---
+title: "Coincidences on Aaron Swartz Day"
+modified:
+categories: # [weekly-assemblage]
+excerpt: 'A tiny tribute based on dots I just connected, as I was going about my business.'
+tags: []
+# header:
+#  image: /assets/images/weekly-assemblage.png
+#  caption: 'Photo credit: [**Unsplash**](https://unsplash.com)'
+published: true
+toc: true
+# comments:
+date: 2024-01-11T21:23:48-6:00
+---
+As I was just doing some small refinements on my website related to accessibility, consistency, and… well… **typos**, I happened to read this on Mastodon from Vic Kostrzewski:
+
+<iframe src="https://howcyborgs.chat/@vic/111738751820622723/embed" width="400" height="400" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-forms"></iframe>
+
+Indeed, today is the anniversary of [Aaron Swartz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz)'s death. It's remarkable how many of my activities today—even ones that I consider utterly mundane—relate to things Swartz championed or even helped create.  
+
+So, as a tiny tribute and way of saying "thank you" to someone who fought to make our world the better place we all deserve, here's a few of the things I've done today that directly benefit from Swartz's innovations or activism.  
+
+## RSS  
+
+At least three different times today, I checked [NetNewsWire](https://netnewswire.com/), my current [RSS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_feed) reader of choice for Mac and iOS. (I even added a couple of new subscriptions, from my phone, as I was standing in the kitchen making dinner!)  
+
+## Wikipedia  
+
+You'll notice that some of the links on this page go to Wikipedia, which Swartz [analyzed in depth](http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia). Although I don't remember consulting Wikipedia today (before starting to write this article), I do so most days.  
+
+## Markdown  
+
+Even more constantly, I use [Markdown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown) files. I use Obsidian throughout every single day as a combination commonplace book / bullet journal / task-and-attention manager. Before Obsidian, I used Dendron, VS Code, 1Writer, Editorial, nvAlt, and a host of other desktop and phone apps that share documents in this lightweight, open format.  
+
+Markdown has been my default way of writing for about 15 years at this point. It's spanned the whole range of writing notes in class to writing academic papers (sometimes in [combination with Pandoc](https://programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/sustainable-authorship-in-plain-text-using-pandoc-and-markdown) to writing the many other notes to myself that I want to keep handy on my phone and across devices).  
+
+## Personal Websites and the Open Web  
+
+Not only are posts on this site written in Markdown, but I also explicitly choose not to put them behind any kind of restrictive access.  
+
+Swartz was, of course, quite familiar with paywalls. Today "freewalls" are flourishing like kudzu. These restrict access, unless you create an account with the platform. These transactions don't require direct money, they just require that you hand over all the information about your reading habits and interests that the platform can hoover up.  
+
+As the wolf might have said to Little Red Riding Hood, the better to surveil you and your proclivities, my dear.  
+
+## Creative Commons  
+
+This website, as well as [In the Library with the Lead Pipe](https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/), an academic journal I help run, both use Creative Commons licenses to help make sure that the content is shared freely—with attribution.  
+
+## Open Access  
+
+The journal I help run is entirely open access, without any author or reader fees. Open access to knowledge of course was another of the causes Swartz championed fervently.  
+
+## Conclusions That Don't Conclude  
+
+There isn't a rousing conclusion for this post. After all, I started out just meaning to bear witness to some of the ways Swartz's work touches my daily life. But maybe this will be the year I finally watch [The Internet's Own Boy](https://archive.org/details/TheInternetsOwnBoyTheStoryOfAaronSwartz) or dig into the Internet Archive's [Aaron Swartz Collection](https://archive.org/details/aaronsw)?  
+
+I wonder how many other things in my day were touched by Swartz in ways I don't yet know. And how many things there were in yours.  
+
+Of course, perhaps the best tribute would be to remain convinced that we can work toward a better world—even if ushering this more just world might involve committing to some good trouble along the way.