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Edumonk

June 2nd, 2008 by Dan Meyer

Just in case y'all need another self-styling self-aggrandizing meme to occupy your internets.

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32 Responses to “Edumonk”

on 02 Jun 2008 at 3:24 am1 Peter

No pencil or paper. That’s so hardcore. I love it.
on 02 Jun 2008 at 3:27 am2 Chris Lehmann

This, I’m on-board with.
on 02 Jun 2008 at 3:41 am3 an inquiry

What would an edumonk do with Moodle?
on 02 Jun 2008 at 4:26 am4 Jeff Wasserman

I like this idea–though without pencil or paper, it’s going to be awfully hard for my students to illuminate their Odyssey essays.
on 02 Jun 2008 at 4:34 am5 Eric

OK, but if we have to chant, I’m out. I hate chanting!
on 02 Jun 2008 at 5:50 am6 Ben Chun

What’s next? Edu-hunk with Hasselhoff? Edu-funk with George Clinton? Edu-crunk with Lil Jon? Someone stop me!
on 02 Jun 2008 at 6:16 am7 Tom Hoffman

Nicely done. Also, +1 for edu-crunk.
on 02 Jun 2008 at 7:54 am8 Jeremy

HA haha…love this. Thanks for the Monday morning chuckle.
on 02 Jun 2008 at 10:13 am9 Chris Lehmann

Dodge-ball leads to edu-plunk.
Teacher with a donut and a cup of coffee = edu-dunk.
Teaching in a cave = edu-spelunk
Teacher got back = edu-badunk-a-dunk. (ba-donk?)
Not so bright teacher = edu-lunk
Teaching with a grease stain on your shirt = edu-gunk
Teaching underwater = edu-sunk

O.k. — I need to stop.
on 02 Jun 2008 at 11:37 am10 dan

Some of the commenters are going to a very dark place right now.
on 02 Jun 2008 at 1:49 pm11 Vincent Baxter

What a catch-22: edumonk is so clever…that it’s actually the ultimate self-aware poster FOR edupunk.
on 02 Jun 2008 at 2:18 pm12 edupunk? | When the hurly-burly's done

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on 02 Jun 2008 at 3:34 pm13 Peter

~~follow others on Twitter~~
on 02 Jun 2008 at 3:46 pm14 Ben

Teacher forgets deodorant: edu-skunk

OK…my bad. Thanks for providing the nice satire of the overuse of the edu- prefix. Next thing you know they’ll be selling edu-water at edu-stands while you edu-blog from your edu-phone.

Edu! (Adieu!)
on 02 Jun 2008 at 3:50 pm15 Ben

When are you creating the Wikipedia article for edumonk?
on 02 Jun 2008 at 3:59 pm16 Cheryl

Socrates was the original Edumonk.
on 03 Jun 2008 at 2:59 am17 John Larkin

Teacher nodding off to sleep in class… edubunk.

Cheers,

John
on 03 Jun 2008 at 5:44 am18 eduflunk

Teacher doesn’t get it. Clueless.

The teacher’s understanding is absent and attempt to convey is so inaccurate as to be clown-like. Students are provided with an inadequate education by their “professor“.

That’s so eduflunk.

“Hardcore” if it occurs under high-stakes testing situations.
on 03 Jun 2008 at 6:47 am19 Jim

Glad to see you can self-style and self-aggrandize with the best of them, good for you!
on 03 Jun 2008 at 4:59 pm20 Dina

Ok, no blackboards, whiteboards, writing utensils…I get the progressively ascetic mystique… but where are your *arms* in this picture? No arms??! I don’t know if I can get on board with that one, frankly.
on 04 Jun 2008 at 6:26 pm21 Andrew

When a teacher can integrate George Clinton into a lesson: Edu-Funk!
on 11 Jun 2008 at 11:49 am22 Darren Draper

Strange, I know, but I’ve thought about Peter’s comment here for several days. The good news is that I have a solution for you, Dan, unless the bad news is actually true.

The solution: Install Scoble’s auto Twitter follow script somewhere, follow everybody that follows you. You look like a nice guy and don’t have to pay attention to anybody’s tweets. You’re a smart coder, you can do it.

The bad news which may or may not be true: Your inability to follow others on Twitter is probably some strange experiment in egocentricity.
on 11 Jun 2008 at 1:38 pm23 dan

Twitter is my microblogging platform of choice. Do you subscribe to everyone who subscribes to your blog? I mean, would you if you could?
on 11 Jun 2008 at 2:16 pm24 Arthus Erea

@dan: Fair point, but I imagine that you *do* subscribe to some of the people who read your blog. Or you at least subscribe to a few other blogs. (Unless your sidebar is a lie) you could think about doing something similar with Twitter, subscribing to a *few* of the quality tweeters.
on 11 Jun 2008 at 3:12 pm25 dan

I subscribe but I don’t follow. I’d rather read them in my reader than feel obliged to monitor incoming tweets second-by-second. Again: it’s just microblogging to me.
on 11 Jun 2008 at 3:15 pm26 Arthus Erea

@dan: If it’s just microblogging to you wouldn’t the same rules of blogging apply, only in miniature.
on 11 Jun 2008 at 4:50 pm27 dan

Right, this is why I subscribe to Twits using RSS.
on 12 Jun 2008 at 5:54 am28 Darren Draper

Arthus,

Those that actually read others’ work have learned that Twitter is far more than “What are you doing now?”, not just another form of microblogging, and more of social network utilized for interaction than some online form for spewing occasional thoughts.

Don’t let anybody tell you differently.

As a side-note, I’m beginning to believe that the bad news I offered before actually is true.
on 12 Jun 2008 at 8:17 am29 dan

Arthus,

Don’t let anyone tell you that you must enjoy the Internet exactly as they do.

Darren, for whatever it’s worth, I realize the average Twit gets a lot more fun out of Twitter than I do, that I’m not taking part in all the social interaction. But I don’t want it. As a level-ten introvert, my social needs are filled and then some by my small crowd of flesh-and-blood friends.

So egotism? Your call. At a certain point in all this Twitter nonsense I had to shrug and just let the haters hate.
on 12 Jun 2008 at 9:39 am30 Darren Draper

Dan,

Fair enough.

P.S. Have a nice day.
on 12 Jun 2008 at 10:03 am31 Arthus Erea

Darren: I know. That’s why I participate pretty actively in Twitter with a decent number of followers/people I follow.

dan: Isn’t that the beauty of the Internet? You can find what *you* want to do with it, and I can do my own thing.
on 24 Oct 2008 at 7:24 am32 edupunk? « rhinosplode

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