#community

A reflection on Vincent Harding's idea of the live human signpost and the quiet people who help others keep moving.

A meditation on the everyday people who steady communities by helping others see clearly when things get hard.

How to build digital communities that support people, not just platforms.

What it means to design online communities around trust, safety, and shared responsibility instead of just technical features.

A reflection on holding onto hope when things feel hard.

Why we should reclaim our tools instead of letting them control us.

Why I’m turning newsletters and notes into a digital garden.

Why civic progress depends on coordinated work, not lone heroes.

How empathy helps shift conflict toward connection.

How atomic notes can make a knowledge system more useful.

How minimal computing can support equitable, sustainable scholarship.

How AI can help people brainstorm and make decisions together.

How teaching can blend practices, skills, and content across disciplines.

How to talk about mental health with care and clarity.

Lessons learned from a conversation about race and community.

A look at home automation goals after moving into a new house.

How digital residue changes the way we remember people after they die.

How poetry can mark a turning point in a collaborative project.

How poetry and performance shape a community storytelling project.

How close reading and detail work shape a poetry-making practice.

How poetry can help people tell where they come from.

How a poetry project uses voice, performance, and shared making.

How poetry can be used to ask and answer identity questions.

How a slam poetry course helps students respond to the moment.

How lyrics, performance, and poetry can build student power.

A look at BadgeChain's organizational structure and evolution.

A review of BadgeChain's work over the past year and what's next.

How blogs and platforms like Medium can support a more open, participatory fishbowl discussion for project planning and collaborative thinking.

Why working with cool people matters more than status or hierarchy.

How the ORMS class embeds new literacies into the CCSS.

Marc J. Dunkelman

Jenny Anderson, Rebecca Winthrop

Balaji Srinivasan

Questlove

Patrisse Khan-Cullors, asha bandele

Thomas L. Friedman

Sebastian Junger]]

Hugh Howey

Srdja Popovic, Matthew Miller

Neil Gaiman

Journal article · Crandall, Bryan Ripley; Dail, Jennifer; Goering, Christian Z; Mora, Raúl Alberto; O’Byrne, W Ian; Price-Dennis, Detra; Witte, Shelbie. (2024). Finding Exponential Hope in Courageous Communities. Voices from the Middle.

Journal article · Jocius, Robin; O'Byrne, W Ian; Albert, Jennifer; Joshi, Deepti; Blanton, Melanie; Robinson, Richard; Andrews, Ashley; Barnes, Tiffany; Catete, Veronica. (2022). Building a virtual community of practice: Teacher learning for computational thinking infusion. TechTrends.

Journal article · Wise, Julie B; O’Byrne, W Ian. (2015). Social scholars: Educators’ digital identity construction in open, online learning environments. Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice.