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…
Did you see that guy’s license plate? Similar:If I don't design the control panels for my fantasy #steampunk project, who will? #blender…AestheticsIn April, 2001 I was blogging about interactive fiction, Roget's Thesaurus, John Lennon, H… A student newspaper article about in…BooksAnother 10sq cm section of a #neovictorian control panel for a personal #blender3D #steamp…AestheticsCharlie Brown…
Touched up and created an infographic for a web page that I first posted in Nov 2000. Similar:Bias is a noun. CultureThe belief that if people only were better educated, they'd engage A few hours after the horrifyi…AcademiaMasks (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 7, Episode 17) Ritual symbols start appearing on the… Rewatching ST:TNG Masks (#StarTre…AestheticsAdvice…
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:The Liminal Classroom”What,” I asked, “are we to make of Plat…AcademiaMemorizer (Memorization Tool)A Midsummer castmate shared a link to th…CybercultureEco-critical Code Studies: Reconfigurations of nature in the born-digital artifact “Coloss… Video game history is colliding:…AcademiaStandardized-test robo-graders…
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:A Word About Group ProjectsOkay, students… who loves group projec…AcademiaFirst-Gen Social Media Users Have Nowhere to GoI check into Musk’s X every few days, bu…BusinessI'm nerdy enough to give my 15yo a used copy of "The Hero with a Thousand Faces." I’m nerdy enough to give…
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…
Looking forward to this! @thepublicpgh Similar:The "Monsters, Inc" company play helped me teach ShakespeareToday the awkward but delightful “Monste…AcademiaOne deck below the bridge, the chief engineer coordinates with his technical heads here at…AestheticsProgress over 11 years of Blender3D practiceOver the past few years I have created l…AestheticsRecent SHU journo grad, upon the hiring of an…
She’s on her way to the @thepublicpgh for two shows today as Margot in Dial M for Murder. Similar:A surprising detail in bank records helped a historian bust a longstanding myth about Iris…A scholar uses bank records to track the…BusinessI think they mean typeface conference, but "Font Conference" is still amusing.I think they mean typeface…
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:A support sloop on deck and in the landing bay. #steampunk #neovictorian #aesthetics #desi…AestheticsBoth Sides in JournalismCultureTevye from Fiddler on the Roof, Now a Rich Man, Receives…
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:"Do Date" vs "Due Date": Do Profs Really Have to Explain the Difference? If there really are teachers who lis…AcademiaHow My Mom Killed Facebook Lest you think…
That’s water under the bridge! Crowds of NPCs charge across, sweeping the player along. Gotta work on that! #unity3d #medievalyork #mysteryplay Similar:I may have mentioned that I have a daughter who does things. Her next is "To Battle: A Fig…Tickets for To Battle: A Fight Play AmusingApparently, I needed to watch a supercut of doors…
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:ThinkGeek :: Star Trek Enterprise PlushSet phasers to “Squeee!” ThinkGee…AestheticsWall display by the talented Jess Lohr, interpreting an infographic by Norton (textbook pu…PersonalThirty Years Ago, the Challenger…
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:My brother is visiting to play a game of chess…
My virtual army of grey capsules is just barely smart enough to follow my avatar around. #unity3d Similar:Steampunk officer uniforms — test #Blender3D #Unity3Dhttps://youtu.be/SDh4TW8ujNg The vide…AestheticsNon-Euclidean Doom, where the value of pi is not 3.14159Weirdly beautiful. Wonderful bit of game…CybercultureProper commenting is an important part of coding any project, especially in an educational…Proper commenting is…
Oops. I’m going to bed now. I’ll fix it tomorrow. Similar:Inequity and BYODIf we are really wanting to help these k…CultureRichard Scarry unfinished manuscript to be publishedSome of my happiest memories of fatherho…AestheticsRehearsing for Little Women Tuesday (Carolyn plays Amy)PersonalMisaligned interior and exterior portholes. Bulkheads from the deck below visible above th… AestheticsHere's a close…
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:Reliving memories and saying goodbye to my late colleague Sr. Ann Infanger.Reliving memories and saying goodbye to …PersonalThis actually happened the other day when I was offline.This actually happened the other…
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:F-16 pilot was ready to give her life on Sept. 11She was a rookie in the autumn of 2001, …CultureThis is…
Support the arts in your community! #augustwilson #radiogolf Similar:Seeing A Wrinkle in Time. @prime_stagePersonalFather-daughter bonding between takes.That’s a prop knife in my right hand. AestheticsRingling Bros. circus to close after 146 yearsThe more I learned about elephants, the …BusinessMaking a journalism game to teach myself ChoiceScriptMe: (Making a journalism game to teach m…AcademiaMe: Carolyn, are…