A weekend outside that is glorious, and I’m stuck into report writing and continuing the bash together a conference paper, due Wednesday. Not much of this so far. Nothing like a little bit of pressure to bring out the procrastinator in me. What I have done is to sort photographs into smart albums (in iPhoto)
Continue reading ...Finally got going this afternoon on prepping a couple of conference papers on my experiments in “podagogy” and digital doodling. It was all very exciting finding that I actually had written so much in my blog over the last nearly 6 months, that it was a simple matter to do a cut and paste job
Continue reading ...Every time it happens I’m reminded of that first axiom of good teaching: take nothing for granted. Again today, a couple of bright students indicated how nervous they were about tackling the whole online thing. I suggested using either Google Docs and Spreadsheets or the excellent Celtx open-source software so that they could publish their
Continue reading ...I’m entering into a new phase, or “workflow” of projects right now. Mad Forest is playing out its season this week, so I’m in the room assessing student progress and providing feedback via the group and individual blogs. They are going well. I’m getting some time at last to start writing again! This time, it’s
Continue reading ...Another intriguing, and free app which is creating some noise out there, is the Tumblog. You can read all about them at Tumblr’s own site. Some of the comment in the official Tumblr blog actually questions whether or not this is pandering to the verbally-deficient, but I rather think it is akin to dynamic scrapbooking,
Continue reading ...Cover of Mad Forest: A Play from Romania There have been very few posts to this blog for a couple of weeks, and for good reason. They have all been made to another (private group) blog of mine, which is currently charting the progress of work on a production with a group of acting majors
Continue reading ...Aha! A nifty new gizmo for embedding audio comment into a blog, or I guess, for simply creating an audio rather than a verboblog. It’s possible to publish on the main Gabcast site, or to have an episode uploaded automatically and a flash-player installed on Blogger and other blogsites. You can get a free version
Continue reading ...A busy month which has been very kind to me and my projects. The SiQP 2007 Festival has been a resounding success, so much so that the committee decided to put the 2008 Festival on sale immediately to build on the success of this one. Not sure that people will buy this far out; more
Continue reading ...This has been the first week back at work; the academic year has opened for business and I’m in the thick of it. As a teacher, so much of what one does, breathes, thinks about in business and the wee hours has to do with one’s students. What this year, can I bring to the
Continue reading ...I’ve been reading far too much recently about the creative possibilities of digital photography software. I’ve also been taking dozens (hundreds?) of photographs with the new Nikon D-40. I’m liking Derek Story’s style and substance on the podcast The Digital Story and the fun stuff they talk about in the Photojojo newsletter. My curiosity piqued,
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