Narrating and Demonstrating the Work We Do
A friend of mine posted to Facebook today that he was having trouble with a WordPress install. WordPress refused to serve any post with a comment on it, preferring to issue an Error 500 instead. I’ve been mucking about with WordPress for, like, 7 whole months now, so of course I volunteered to take a … Continue reading You’ve got a friend in me →
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 […]
I do want to go through some of the actual assignments for Unit 2, but this writeup is just about noticing things and taking photos of them. It’s also about learning what the little buttons on the Flickr app do. It got real cold in Ohio again. That’s frost on the inside of the Olin Library … Continue reading I’ve been told I was born to endure this kind of weather →
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 →
There are three ewes ready to drop. Or so it would seem. I got up early this morning (2:30 am) to see if they were going to lamb. I don’t know who was more expectant, me or them. Me, I guess, because there were no lambs. The expectant leaving me expecting. I am glad, but … Continue reading A Shepherd’s Journal: February 22, 2015 | The Night Stage →
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 … →
Going on about the weather is trite when the weathermeisters natter on. But when I have to get up at 3 am to check on the lambs, it is not. Verily it is not trite. In fact the past week has been an exercise in the depressive grinding of its miserable self down onto me … Continue reading Hope Full in February, the Honest-to-God Cruelest Month →
Kevin had a bit of musical bio this morning on his website. It inspired me. Real self-insight into what makes this polymath tick. And I’ll give you one clue–it’s what comes out of the horn. Yes, music. Saxophone music to be specific. Kevin’s got a real gig with his band coming up so I am … Continue reading Sing it, Saxomophone Man! →
When it is -11 degrees Fahrenheit (-24 C), the snow doesn’t so much crunch as it …squeaks. I wait in the dark at the gate. Again. Yesterday was a meal best left behind for the post trauma to come. Today I voice a prayer for ‘no new mamas’. I listen deep inside like an equitorial tracking station pinging for … Continue reading February 19, 2015 | A Shepherd’s Journal: The Fragile Crack of Frozen Stars →
We started a writing group today on campus. There are four of us. Three of us are meeting today. We decided:
My writing process is so messy. I don’t know if I am built for a writing group. I am hoping the social presure will keep me writing every day.