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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Touched up and created an infographic for a web page that I first posted in Nov 2000. Similar:How To Talk To Babies About Semiotics (and Marxist Theory)BABY: read dog book again ME: okay fine…AcademiaIn Changing News Landscape, Even Television is VulnerableThe transformation of the nation’s news …CultureOpen Source College Math BookOne day last year, David…
A healthy respect for the free press and the institution of journalism is absolutely crucial for a healthy democracy. Media literacy matters, while a jaded “I don’t trust journalists, I do my own research” DIY attitude is easily co-opted. A false claim that Vice President Kamala Harris was involved in a June 2011 hit-and-run incident…
What is this? I do not like this change, @duolingo (For some reason I can’t practice to recover from an error.) Similar:Schiller schools internet on correct Apple device plurals, but Cook says "iPad Pros"”Siri, is the world ready for Apple pod …CybercultureThe Period, Our Simplest Punctuation Mark, Has Become a Sign of AngerYou text your…
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:The Dish (2000 Australian comedy)I try to watch this every July to commem…CultureI absolutely adored Spock. Loving Dad was much more complicated.A great father-son story, written by Ada…AwesomeFrozen (Greensburg Civic Theatre, Greasepaint Players)DramaPortraits of my 11yo: Pretty, Goofy, and Pretty GoofyAmusingThe barbican at Mickelgate was…
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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She’s on her way to the @thepublicpgh for two shows today as Margot in Dial M for Murder. Similar:Slash: Not Just a Punctuation Mark AnymoreI will have to watch for these uses of “…AcademiaDress rehearsal of The NutcrackerPersonalBlender 3D UpdateHoly ray-tracing, Batman, it’s a Blender…AestheticsInsipidest. Play. Ever. –Pepys, on "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Sort of.After…
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:When you hear your daughter the understudy is going on for a sold-out show. Live theater i… CultureMy second greenscreen test.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d-LPwKQ…CybercultureGoogle SGE Recommends You Drink Urine To…
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:Weekly and seasonal patterns in visits to an MLA Style tips pageThe WordPress extension Jetpack provided…AcademiaTruth Trumps BiasTrump offers plenty of opportunities for…Current_EventsThe lesson of Rolling Stone…
That’s water under the bridge! Crowds of NPCs charge across, sweeping the player along. Gotta work on that! #unity3d #medievalyork #mysteryplay Similar:In July 1999, I was blogging about Dante's ashes, Apollo 11, gender-neutral language, and …In July, 1999, I was blogging about: …CultureA professor examines why her students seem to act so helpless (essay)This essay…
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:How to fix the internet: If we want online discourse to improve, we need to move beyond th… A teenager in Indonesia may not see …CybercultureGoodbye, Google Search.…
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:The Best Way to Start an Academic PaperBoth of the…
My virtual army of grey capsules is just barely smart enough to follow my avatar around. #unity3d Similar:Sherlock Holmes and The Woman (daughter and I rehearsing for a live recording Friday after…CultureHow are you holding up? What difficult choices have you made? How can we all help each oth…Carolyn and were recently cast in a…
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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:Smac McCreanor – HydraulicPress Series compilationhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWqB6UxE…AestheticsSorry, not sorry. I don't want such friends. Back in 2003, shortly after I moved …CultureSpring 2022 Midterm Grades: SubmittedPersonalStar Trek The Original SeriesAmazing mural. Amazing.…
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:Keyboard Shortcuts for Novelists Use the command-alt functions to add s…AestheticsBetween static hand-coded HTML pages and modern content-management systems, there used…
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