My job is often to help students understand things that they aren’t good at doing yet. If a student arrives in my classroom with a solid ability to construct clear sentences and summarize difficult readings, using an AI tool that helps them spot grammar mistakes with less effort and capture the gist of a reading…
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What is this? I do not like this change, @duolingo (For some reason I can’t practice to recover from an error.) Similar:Facebook brands and organic reach: Why no one likes your self-promoting posts anymore.The real concern here is that the little…BusinessWhat Makes Ohio State the Most Unequal Public University in America?So while university presidents are…
About 30 years after I first saw John Speed’s 1676 map of York, today I was working on a region labeled “Z.” Or is that a “2“? There’s both an X and a 3 nearby… confusing context! A glance at the legend shows how brilliantly Speed handled the ambiguity. #usability #ux #ui #design #medieval #cartography…
Added an overhead minimap to my #medievalyork #unity3d simulation. #mysteryplay Similar:Spot of sunlight seems to be sliding down an escalator. View t…AestheticsHalf of my students have never read Hamlet. (I told them not to get too attached to any of…We focused just on Act I today — the ope…PersonalGetting a little bit better with…
Talkback session after the matinee and my brother and faculty colleagues after the evening performance. Audiences were gasping, laughing nervously, exclaiming sotto voce about “fingerprints!” and “the key!“ and “Was that *supposed* to happen?” and “This is *good*!” @thepublicpgh #dialm #understudy (We knew well in advance Carolyn would be performing yesterday.) My daughter informed me…
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My simulated city has 1000 capsule inhabitants that are just smart enough to gather around markers and wait. In May, I had nothing. I‘m learning. #medievalyork #mysteryplay #unity3d Similar:Space Shuttle Challenger (Destroyed 28 Years Ago Today)I was in my final semester of high schoo…EducationLawyers who won Happy Birthday copyright case sue over “We Shall Overcome” “We…
I’ve had a lot of fun in this new ensemble audio storytelling series. Did I do a good job convincing my friends I really saw a time-traveling elephant? Similar:More household props for a #blender3d #steampunk project. I had made the spice rack and utensi…AestheticsThe Bremen Town Musicians (WAOB Audio Theatre) My daughter plays the narrator,…
That’s water under the bridge! Crowds of NPCs charge across, sweeping the player along. Gotta work on that! #unity3d #medievalyork #mysteryplay Similar:Another 10 sq cm of #steampunk control panel goodness. #blender3dart #blender3dAestheticsNASA has flown a drone on Mars. A tiny robot. A flying robot. On. Another. Planet. NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Succe…AwesomeThe girl's modern dance…
How exactly do bridges bridge? How do rivers rive? How much detail does my model of #medievalyork need? My first try will be my worst try. #mysteryplay #blender3d Similar:Picking up books for another termAcademiaI accidentally did too much DuoLingo. I don't want to advance to the harder league. Come o…EducationHow to lie with charts, by…
My project starts to get clunky while managing 1000 NPCs but I think if I split them up into groups of about 10, and only give instructions to the group leader, that will help. Not bad for my first weekend simulating crowds. #unity3d #medievalyork #mysteryplay Similar:n+1: The Stupidity of ComputersComputers are pretty dumb, but they’re…
My virtual army of grey capsules is just barely smart enough to follow my avatar around. #unity3d Similar:Practice, practice, practice. Making many things in #Blender3D. Arranging them to make a t… AestheticsI’m not making a serious attempt at recreating specific architecture, just trying to conve…I’m not making a serious attempt at recr…PersonalThe girl’s first…
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First steps towards reconstructing a 30-year-old simulation. Marking the locations of the traditional performance stations for the York Corpus Christi pageant. #medievalyork #mysteryplay #unity3d Similar:Today's 10 sq cm of a #steampunk control panel (background greebles for a personal project…AestheticsWe Tried to Do Vanlife Right. It Broke Us Down.Shortly before I got married, my sister …CultureInfinite…
Thank you, 1993 Dennis, for documenting this low-resolution (the background image was 640×480 pixels with 16 colors) simulation so thoroughly. I hope to bring it back to life and upgrade it to 3D soon. Similar:Do Black Holes Create New Universes? Physicist Lee Smolin InterviewCan’t wait until we get this end-of-year…CultureMy student journos are meming it…
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