🔖 Read Carbon monoxide emergency is Durham’s Katrina, McDougald Terrace residents tell city.
CW: Infant death
Many families have been displaced from public housing in my city due to this crisis. If you’re interested in helping, here are some options:
🔖 Read 100 things that made my year (2019)
Austin Kleon captures so many beautiful small moments here. I find myself inspired to keep a daily log like his to help me do likewise.🕸️
🔖 Gee, J. (2005). Semiotic social spaces and affinity spaces: From the age of mythology to today’s schools. In D. Barton & K. Tusting (Eds.), Beyond communities of practice: Language, power, and social context (pp. 214–232).
Much of what Gee has to say here is similar to what he said in his book in 2004. He adds here the designation “semiotic social space” to name the types of spaces he described in his book. He emphasizes that generators create signs that make up the content of the game. These signs can be viewed as internal, the original content itself and its design, or external, the individual and social practices surrounding the content and how people “organise their thoughts, beliefs, values, actions and social interactions in relation to the signs made available” in the content (p. 219).
🔖 Songs By Librarians For Librarians: NYPL Sings
I love this! I have long dreamed of being a children’s entertainer and I love the idea of librarians writing songs for other librarians and parents to listen to with kids. M. and I will be listening to this today!
🔖🎮 Read Hitting the Restart Button: Mass Effect Andromeda (The Learned Fangirl) by Kristin.
🔖🍿 Read From Princess to General: How Many Times Can Leia Save the Galaxy? (The New York Times).
🔖🎮 Read The Nintendo Switch Gave Me Back My Video Games by Mark Serrels (Kotaku AU)
Yes, this.
When my son was a tiny thing, I could strap him into his carrier and wear him to sleep as I sunk hours into Dragon Age Inquisition or Final Fantasy XV. But as he’s gotten more mobile, that’s stopped being an option. The Switch solves this problem beautifully. I can play as he naps and stay at his side. If I wake up early, I can play. I think it will take me forever to beat Breath of the Wild but that’s fine.
I love the Switch.
