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Tim Lindgren

I'm just a simple guy from Fargo, North Dakota, trying to make my way throught the world. I've lived in Chicago and now Boston, where I currently reside in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood.

For my day job, I work as an instructional designer at Boston College where I assist faculty in using technology in their teaching. Much of my current instructional design work focuses on the use of social software such as blogs and wikis in education.

I work as an and in my spare time I'm also a doctoral candidate in the English Department where I am specializing in Composition and Rhetoric. My dissertation research focuses on the genre of place blogging and examines how people use new media to foster a deeper sense of place.

Contact me | www.timlindgren.com | www.placelogging.com

Purposes of this Blog:

To deepen my sense of place.
To experiment with place blogging and other new place-oriented technologies.
To make the dissertation process a bit more collaborative and a bit less isolated.

Feel free to leave a comment on any post in this site. Due to huge amounts of comment spam clogging up my filter (and warnings from my hosting service), I've turned off anonymous commenting for now. Should you feel moved to leave a comment, I hope you'll take a few minutes to register.

Sorry about the inconvenience.

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Place-based education; Love of Place

On July 27th, 2008 Lindy commented:

Hi Tim, I found your site via Susan Wittig Albert's "Lifescapes" blog. I am extremely interested in what you are doing. I have an M.Ed. in Educational Technology - the integration of technology with curriculum. My major interest is in sustainability and love of place, place-based education, connection with one's soul-place. People will love, care for, sustain, learn about, protect and defend a place that they truly love and care about. People, particularly those of us in the USA, move so much that it becomes difficult for us to attach ourselves with any permanence to "place". Many of us feel no sense of belonging to a place or of that place belonging to us. Thus we are destroying our places, destroying our earth. We are no longer sustainable, and in fact have not been sustainable for a couple of centuries or more -possibly since the dawn of personkind. BTW - "I work as an ???????? and in my spare time I'm . . . " Your post above leaves out a word. :-D Lindy currently in AZ but I don't belong here.

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