Narrating and Demonstrating the Work We Do
Disclaimer #1: to get some context for this post, you must first watch this Louis C.K. video. Disclaimer #2: I’m going to go ahead and give this video an “R” rating. While hilarious and accurate opinionated, these words are not for gentle ears. Now that I’m 31 I feel like I’ve earned some of the … Continue reading Older People are Smarter →
Heading into a latter (not last, not ending, not over) phase of the You Show, in unit 5 we offer/ask participants to consider how they move a site that looks pretty bloggy into something that might be outwardly facing more […]
I spent an hour with Alan today configuring a new theme. There are so many different options and hidden tips and tricks. I think it is coming together visually, now I just need to decide what I want to put on it…and then I may […]
Add to that sign… “NO STEALING OF ONLINE IMAGES.” In my hobbled opinion the problem about reuse of media is copyright. Duh. No not what you think; our framing of what one should use openly licensed content is nearly always […]
My Bully Story Wherein the Author, in Tender Youth, Learns a Rather Painful Lesson and Reflects on the Delicate Balance Between Being Bullied and Being a Bully Oneself Once upon a time, in a junior high school situated in a sleepy little community on an enchanted island, there was a nice young man […]
Cross-posted from my Storytelling blog, because I thought this was about making art and it turns out to be also about instructional technology. Kind of. Man, I’ve got to figure out “write once, publish everywhere”. I bought myself an Intuos tablet some time ago at work, on the grounds that I would use it … Continue reading Hamster Dance →
On my 2013 visit to Hong Kong, my friend Nick and his wife Kelly took me on a trip to this place called Stanley. When we were going through the market, Kelly picked out a shirt for me; she said […]
I‘ve always preferred using a pencil to a pen simply because they are far superior in every way, and always have been. For instance, pencils were so revered in olden times that Shakespeare has his Hamlet soliloquize, “2B or not 2B…” in one of the most famous poems ever written. It’s about hardness. Plus […]
Almost a year ago I started a project that has no real purpose beyond my own curiosity and interest in web history (if I were to invent a new dream job it would be something like Web Archeologist). During a […]
This post started off as a very short comment on the chart below. It has become the monster below. Please, dear reader, forgive me, but please read me. I need all the help I can get. Audrey Watters has a salutary chart in her most recent blog post at HackEducation. The chart below is a summing … Continue reading False Horizons or Failure of the Imagination or … →