Today's Daily Create:
#tdc4973 #ds106 Make A Smile Path
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🙂 flickr photo by mikecogh shared under a Creative Commons (BY-SA) license

On a hiking trail, when you either meet a gated barrier or perhaps a section of path that has gone muddy or is no longer navigable due to weather issues, there is often a temporary footpath alternative that curves out from the main trail and then back again – either to give you access to what has been closed off or […]

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Imagine you could fly like a bird and soar above your home, or place of work. What would you notice from this perspective? Write a haiku to describe the view.

“Flying” flickr photo by Infomastern shared under a Creative Commons (BY-SA) license

This October (13-27), join the National Writing Project for Write Out 2024. Organized as a public invitation to get out and create, supported by a series of free online activities, Write Out invites educators, students, and families to explore national parks and other public spaces. The goal is to connect and learn through place-based writing and sharing. This year’s theme is Poetry For The Planet! Learn more and sign up: https://writeout.nwp.org

Post your response to @[email protected] and be sure to include the hashtag #tdc4671

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The Peace of Wild Things flickr photo by Dogtrax shared under a Creative Commons (BY-SA) license

This poem by Wendell Berry is posted alongside a trail in Western Massachusetts, USA. Let’s use this for inspiration for a Blackout Poem or Found Poem. Take the poem and remix it. (Here is a link to one tool for making Blackout Poems via Glitch)

The Peace of Wild Things

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free

This October (13-27), join the National Writing Project for Write Out 2024. Organized as a public invitation to get out and create, supported by a series of free online activities, Write Out invites educators, students, and families to explore national parks and other public spaces. The goal is to connect and learn through place-based writing and sharing. This year’s theme is Poetry For The Planet! Learn more and sign up: https://writeout.nwp.org

Post your response to @[email protected] and be sure to include the hashtag #tdc4670

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Gold filtered bug flickr photo by Dogtrax shared under a Creative Commons (BY-SA) license

Take a moment to notice the smaller living things around you. Like, bugs. Then write a poem or prose piece about a bug.

This October (13-27), join the National Writing Project for Write Out 2024. Organized as a public invitation to get out and create, supported by a series of free online activities, Write Out invites educators, students, and families to explore national parks and other public spaces. The goal is to connect and learn through place-based writing and sharing. This year’s theme is Poetry For The Planet! Learn more and sign up: https://writeout.nwp.org

Post your response to @[email protected] and be sure to include the hashtag #tdc4669

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flowers flickr photo by Dogtrax shared under a Creative Commons (BY-SA) license

You may be noticing the change of the season. Perhaps flowers are blooming where you are. Write a small poem or prose about a flower.

This October (13-27), join the National Writing Project for Write Out 2024. Organized as a public invitation to get out and create, supported by a series of free online activities, Write Out invites educators, students, and families to explore national parks and other public spaces. The goal is to connect and learn through place-based writing and sharing. This year’s theme is Poetry For The Planet! Learn more and sign up: https://writeout.nwp.org

Post your response to @[email protected] and be sure to include the hashtag #tdc4668

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Today's Daily Create:
#tdc4667 #ds106 Tree Fractals #writeout
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“Night Tree Fractal” flickr photo by Dogtrax shared under a Creative Commons (BY-SA) license

There is a mathematical quality to the growth of trees. But there is also the field of math called Tree Fractals. Use the following site to create your own Tree Fractal, and then share out your creation (you may need to screenshot the tree in order to share). Play around with […]

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“Cranes migration” flickr photo by Artur Rydzewski shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license

The newly-launched Bird Migration Explorer site hosted by The Audubon Society and its partners does what it says (for North America and some parts of Latin America,, anyway – sorry, other Global friends). Using mapping and tracking techniques, the Explorer allows you to follow the migratory patterns of many birds (with more to come, apparently). The maps are like works of art, unfolding in time-lapse. 

For today’s prompt, use the site (or some other)  to either track a species of birds, or explore one of the maps, and then use an image of migratory patterns (perhaps through a screenshot) and make it into a work of art (perhaps through a site like LunaPic).

The Bird Migration Explorer: https://explorer.audubon.org/ (and learn more about the project: https://explorer.audubon.org/about )

This October (13-27), join the National Writing Project for Write Out 2024. Organized as a public invitation to get out and create, supported by a series of free online activities, Write Out invites educators, students, and families to explore national parks and other public spaces. The goal is to connect and learn through place-based writing and sharing. This year’s theme is Poetry For The Planet! Learn more and sign up: https://writeout.nwp.org

Post your response to @[email protected] and be sure to include the hashtag #tdc4666

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P4241213 flickr photo by Flasher T shared under a Creative Commons (BY-SA) license

Let’s create a collaborative poem with each  line added, about a tree. Each participant adds a line, growing the poem like a forest. We will then shape the contributions into a larger piece about interconnections. Use this Etherpad site to add your lines to the collaborative poem.

This October (13-27), join the National Writing Project for Write Out 2024. Organized as a public invitation to get out and create, supported by a series of free online activities, Write Out invites educators, students, and families to explore national parks and other public spaces. The goal is to connect and learn through place-based writing and sharing. This year’s theme is Poetry For The Planet! Learn more and sign up: https://writeout.nwp.org

Post your response to @[email protected] and be sure to include the hashtag #tdc4665

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Photosynthesis flickr photo by Jacko 999 shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

Plants communicate with each other through complicated codes of interconnectedness. Write a poem formatted like computer code about natural networks. If your understanding of code is limited, we suggest you use an AI site like Claude.AI as a thinking partner to generate the code for you, based on your own nature-themed prompt.

Example format:

“`

if (sunlight > 50%) {

unfurl leaves;

photosynthesize();

}

“`

This October (13-27), join the National Writing Project for Write Out 2024. Organized as a public invitation to get out and create, supported by a series of free online activities, Write Out invites educators, students, and families to explore national parks and other public spaces. The goal is to connect and learn through place-based writing and sharing. This year’s theme is Poetry For The Planet! Learn more and sign up: https://writeout.nwp.org

Post your response to @[email protected] and be sure to include the hashtag #tdc4664

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social media flickr photo by clasesdeperiodismo shared under a Creative Commons (BY-SA) license

How do we experience nature through the social nature of our screens? Scroll through your social media feed and note any connections to nature. Write a poem using the language and format of social media to explore our relationship with the environment. Maybe it is a found poem, created from social media posts.

This October (13-27), join the National Writing Project for Write Out 2024. Organized as a public invitation to get out and create, supported by a series of free online activities, Write Out invites educators, students, and families to explore national parks and other public spaces. The goal is to connect and learn through place-based writing and sharing. This year’s theme is Poetry For The Planet! Learn more and sign up: https://writeout.nwp.org

Post your response to @[email protected] and be sure to include the hashtag #tdc4663

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