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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 1d

We set up a shared pad where students can indicate if they want printouts. If they do, I’ll bring them to the next session. I know some students prefer working with analog copies but also live on a tight budget, so they often print 4 pages on 1. I wanted to remove this barrier in this seminar.

Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 1d

For the next session, they received a printout of the introductory texts and a task of focusing on the word level (Which words are unfamiliar to me? Which ones will I look up? Which ones not? Where do unknown words go?) + the general idea of the texts.

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 1d

First step: finding something seminar-related in current media
We read a lengthy feature from Zeit Magazin about a radical anti-sitting doctor. The students were encouraged to read it while not sitting. We discussed both their reading experience and the article's content
www.zeit.de/zeit-magazin...

Sitzen als Gesundheitsrisiko: Sitzen ist ungesund. Was passiert, wenn man damit aufhört?

Martin Oswald ist 73, drahtig, beweglich, agil – und versucht seit 25 Jahren, Sitzen aus seinem Leben zu verbannen. Dafür hat der Arzt sogar ein stuhlfreies Haus gebaut.

www.zeit.de

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 1d

We discussed current statistics on time spent online, based on the representative Postbank study: the age cohort that includes me and the students (18-39): 85 hours/week! I then presented my small goal of carving out just 2 of those hours for reading as part of this seminar.

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 1d

A thread on this experiment, connected to my seminar on sitting. I started with a brief introduction about why I believe reading is important and shared an example of the reading load I experienced as a student, esp in Belgrade, where it was common for entire books to be assigned for exams.

Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 7d

A bit anxious to start the semester next week! I'm trying something new - a heavy emphasis on reading and both my classes will conclude with a Klausur. There is more to read than usual + pockets of time for reading during class, along with several reading-centered assignments.

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Marko Zajc @markozajc.bsky.social · 7d

Behold! The new season of the History on the Edge lectures begins! 💪

Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino @inz-ljubljana.bsky.social · 7d

🎓 The new season of History on the Edge begins!

Lectures will be held at the Institute of Contemporary History (Privoz 11, Ljubljana) and via Zoom.

⏰ This season, sessions start at 3 p.m.

Join us for the first lecture on 15 October!

#INZ #HistoryOnTheEdge #history #lectures

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 7d

To be clear, I also need to return to reading with fewer interruptions; maybe this works better as a collective endeavor.

Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 7d

Will do!

Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 7d

The problem with a grading system that relies heavily on the Hausarbeit (the sole component of the final grade here!) is that it doesn’t encourage broader reading; most syllabus texts aren’t relevant to students’ projects. I see reading as analogous to listening, much needed now, I believe.

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 7d

Also planning to offer free printouts for anyone interested, to help move us away from screens.

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 7d

I was inspired by the techniques used in my kid's elementary school (reading alone, reading out loud, with a partner...) and by this thread: bsky.app/profile/akta...
Curious to see whether this will work out!

Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · Jul 15

Yes. 25 years on, I teach differently: I read to them, we read silently together, we have weekly experiments week of setting different situations to read (with/out food, company, music; in/outdoors; varying light; &c) & discuss them. It's made ALL the difference to foreground reading as a process.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Jul 15

I've been teaching at Princeton over the same period and the drop-off in reading stamina has been staggering.

I'm not sure of the cause -- some blame K-12 shifts to "chunk reading" while others pin it on COVID -- but it's undeniable.

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 7d

A bit anxious to start the semester next week! I'm trying something new - a heavy emphasis on reading and both my classes will conclude with a Klausur. There is more to read than usual + pockets of time for reading during class, along with several reading-centered assignments.

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Ena Selimović @enaselimo.bsky.social · 13d

I couldn't imagine a better home for what turned out to be by far one of the hardest pieces to write—read it over at @womenwritebalkans.bsky.social 💙

Women* Write the Balkans @womenwritebalkans.bsky.social · 13d

We're immensely proud to share with you "Airborne," a new story by @enaselimo.bsky.social:
www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/airbo...

"According to Bosnian documents, he is a traitor. According to Turkish documents, he is a spy. According to American documents, he is an alien. According to them all, he is to be put in no position to help others or himself."
Ena Selimović: Airborne
Illustration: gray and black embroidery of B-2 bomber patent drawings on a blue background

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Women* Write the Balkans @womenwritebalkans.bsky.social · 13d

We're immensely proud to share with you "Airborne," a new story by @enaselimo.bsky.social:
www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/airbo...

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 26d

Me too!

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 26d

No matter how many times I tell her she could just reuse a cardboard box, she insists on buying an official one at the post office, "to be on the safe side" 🥹

Colorful package with motif of brush strokes in yellow, blue, purple, and different glittery colors, with the text "posta.hr"

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 26d

my mom's package reaction when I told her there was no kviki gric at a small island store in Croatia

Photo of 11 packages of kviki gric in different sizes

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 26d

Another few WWII bombs found in Berlin. Once again heard some gleeful you-reap-what-you sow comments. Recently, a bomb was suspected in our communal courtyard, in an area where 60+% have Migrationshintergrund, children who play there almost exclusively with MH, including refugees. Who would reap?

Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · Sep 15

source: exhibition catalogue Bugholz, vielschichtig: Thonet und das moderne Möbeldesign by S. Hackenschmidt & W. Thillmann

Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · Sep 15

Preparing my seminar on chairs/sitting and craving ornament for my cheap furniture

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · Sep 12

Hate how omnipresent AI is (or in Croatian: iskače iz paštete/jumps out of a tin of paté). Grading Hausarbeiten and Adobe pops up with:
"Dieses Dokument scheint lang zu sein. Spare Zeit und lies eine Zusammenfassung."

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · Sep 8

Wow, ispod 40 minuta ❤️‍🔥

Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · Sep 8

Odlična ideja, ja bih totalno išla da sam u Zagrebu i slažem se s procjenom; moji su se vratili putovanju vlakom na relaciji Krapina-Zagreb (auto ostave kod kolodvora u Krapini) i dosta su zadovoljni.

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vlado @mmjs86.bsky.social · Sep 8

Potaknut ovim threadom - otvoren poziv blueskajašima koji žive u Zagrebu a nikad se ne voze vlakom da odemo na demonstracijski izlet - ovog ljeta sam prošao 75% željezničke mreže u HR i ozbiljno tvrdim da željeznica unatoč svemu u ovoj zemlji ima budućnost i moguće je voziti se vlakom brzo i sigurno

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · Aug 12

will do!

a group of anime girls are sitting around a table

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