HT @OnlineCrsLady for #MLK Day 2015 edition #EdBlogNet

…media, 2014 review, 2015 intentions, community colleges, CFHE Gathering, #NAWD, COCAL Updates and other posts can wait. Today we honor a human rights and social justice activism icon and model. Laura Gibbs writes in Online Course Announcements: Martin Luther King Day edition: 

I've created some posters with AutoMotivator in honor of Martin Luther King Day! You can see a random poster here each time the page reloads, and below is a Flickr album [slide show]. Then there is a list of all the quotations, with a link to the poster for each quotation along with image information.

...from the WikiMedia Commons File: Mural of Malcolm X, Ella Baker. Martin Luther King, Frederick Douglass. Source: "We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest," photo by Tony Fisher. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License:

Mural on the wall of row houses in Philadelphia. The artist is Parris Stancell, sponsored by the Freedom School Mural Arts Program. Left to right; Malcolm Shabazz (Malcolm X), Ella Baker, Martin Luther King, Frederick Douglass. 

The quote above the pictures,"We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest", is from Ella Baker, a founder of SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee), a civil rights group. which amongst other contributions, helped to coordinate "Freedom Rides"in the early 1960's.

Take a course prep break: tour the #bestHEbuildings w/@michaelcollins

 

…a unplanned change of pace. Another post, short but informative, was in the works when I stumbled, over this, enchanted by the images. Serendipity struck. It will still be there tomorrow or whenever. Annotated link collections, back to class posts about syllabi, talking to students, etc, and other reflections on issues current and impending can wait too. These are the settings we once fantasized for our higher ed live. Take an escapist break before getting back to reality...best not to dwell on how much the new buildings cost.

Let the storifying begin!