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Cup a thought,

Iced venti unsweetened iced coffee. 

This is the story of a writer,

And a barista

Watching you

With one American Spirit per ten.

Watching me

Growing,

As for flowers and horses, writers

Must be watered. 

First coffee with

Cream and the barista man. 

Having followed these instructions for exploring Bryn Mawr...introduce yourself here and and answer the survey questions: where are you happiest, and why? Where do you think plants are happiest, and why? What similarities and differences are there between what plants and humans find most comfortable? (While you are here, might you want to speculate also about the happiness of non-human animals?)

Welcome into the "silence" portion of this 360! By Wednesday evening, please follow the instructions @ "how to add an image to your post," and put up here your current "visualization" of silence....along w/ any explanation you'd like to offer.... and don't forget to tag your posting as "silence" (you'll see the options below the "body" portion of the post).

This is the discussion forum for Education, Technology, and Society: Altering Environments.  Please use it to continue and start conversations, raise questions, and share resources. 

Hello beautiful Serendip world! 

My name is Briana Bellamy, I'm a BMC alum '11.  Recently, I returned from an incredible year of living in Nepal, working on a project funded by the Davis Projects for Peace grant. The project was called Sharing Knowledge for Peace, and its basic structure and philosophy grew from something that may be very familiar to some of you: the Teaching and Learning Initiative (TLI). As a sophomore at Bryn Mawr, I became involved with the staff-student branch of the TLI as a student mentor with a wonderful man from transportation services. It completely transformed my experience at Bryn Mawr, and became a huge part of both my sense of community and personal development. The relationships I built through the reciprocal model of the TLI and the deep learning I experienced both in these relationships and in the reflection meeting had a deep impact on me. I went on to become a coordinator for the program, and even wrote my thesis about it, exploring the inner workings of friendship, community, and shared spaces. I knew there was something powerful about the dynamics at play, and I was curious as to how the model of intentional reciprocal teaching and learning relationships could be valuable in other settings.