These buildings are so much better than my first try about a month ago, and good enough for me to move on to the next step. #blender3d #blender3dart #medievalyork #mysteryplay Similar:I was briefly excited that Turnitin.com's new app works in a park with no WiFiThen I realized… I’m a guy who gets ex…AcademiaScrooge Is My…
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#blender3d is teaching me more than I ever thought I’d need to know about roof geometry. Enjoying free WiFi in a shady courtyard downtown. Similar:Students present their research for the Celebration of Writing @setonhilluniversityPersonalI didn't mark a single paper or set foot in a classroom. Here's why this prof is tired fro…I submitted my final…
The daughter is in “Very Berry Dead,” a new play which opens this Friday and runs for two weekends in Pittsburgh. Similar:Attribution, Editorializing and DefamationIn the Nightly Noodle Monthly, former No…Current_EventsDonald Trump tests positive for Covid-19. CNN: "A nightmare scenario for the White House." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdXL…Current_EventsThe Scapegoat by Richard Maples (1957 Sci-Fi Short Story)I had a great time…
The writer, director, and one of the cast members talk about the play that my daughter Carolyn is getting ready to open Friday. Tickets: https://veryberrydead.bpt.me/ Similar:Rereading “Writing to Learn”Rereading “Writing to Learn,” William Zi…AcademiaHarper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird, dies aged 89Harper Lee, whose 1961 novel To Kill a M…BooksGo Ask AliceFrom the…
So important to be teaching research skills and critical thinking at a time when powerful people manipulate the public with their lies. Similar:As Trump ranted and rambled in Phoenix, his crowd slowly thinned The journalist chose to spotlight a litt…CulturePR Pop Quiz: Intro to Crisis ManagementPop quiz for public relations 101. Sc…BusinessAmerica's ShakespeareShakespeare continues to be the…
I used to spend time in class teaching students about how your act of choosing to link from your blog to someone else’s blog was part of the formula Google used to rank its search results. The words you picked when you crafted your hyperlink was a way of conveying or withholding value. Tagging is…
Replica of George Washington’s field camp. @fortligonier Similar:Date a girl who reads.I earned a +8 or +9 spousal bonus when I…AmusingDragging Myself to a New Skill Level with Blender 3DWorking on some very complex stuff in Bl…AestheticsLeftovers from the food my colleagues brought in to bribe/reward those few students who sh… Leftovers from the food…
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I’m not making a serious attempt at recreating specific architecture, just trying to convey a sense of what the streets might have looked like. #blender3d #medievalyork #mysteryplay #simulation Similar:Many things in the world are awful right now but my latest section of a #neovictorian them…AestheticsDragging Myself to a New Skill Level with Blender 3DWorking on…
Lintels and chimneys for low-poly buildings in a #medievaltheater simulation project. #mysteryplay #blender3d #unity3d Similar:She doesn't have keys or a phone or an ID. Why does my tween need a purse?To stash her Lemonheads and Smarties. ht…AmusingOn Her One Free Day Between Two Shows…[View the story “On Her One Free Day Bet…DesignRecent SHU journo grad,…
Glenda Morgan does not sound that impressed with Google’s latest promises about AI and education. [T]hus far I am unconvinced that the kinds of tutoring currently offered via AI matches the concept of watching a student’s thought processes and identifying the core issues they aren’t understanding. Instead, AI tutoring today seems to consist of breaking…
When scholars of journalism study the effects of the shrinking press corps, they usually focus on how it hurts civil society. Vast swaths of the country are at risk of becoming “news deserts,” with limited access to reliable local journalism. This state of affairs makes it harder for people to make educated decisions and is…
Not bad for a couple hours of work. #blender3d #blender3dart #steampunk #neovictorian I painstakingly created every knob and switch as a 3D object two summers ago. Now I can slap these textures anywhere. Similar:There is no cloud. It's just someone else's computer.I have so far resisted the jump to strea…BusinessAnother sold-out Midsummer Thursday night. PersonalWho choked…
Over the past couple of years, researchers at Jigsaw, a Google subsidiary that focuses on online politics and polarization, have been studying how Gen Zers digest and metabolize what they see online. The researchers were hoping that their work would provide one of the first in-depth, ethnographic studies of Gen Z’s “information literacy.” But the…
I was never really a fan of MTV, I assume because I grew up without cable TV as a teenager in the 80s, and because I was very busy with grad school and starting a family in the 90s. I didn’t really feel like I had much in common with my “Gen X” cohort (most…
Cops gotta cop, and that means keeping pesky journalists under control. Tirado was 38 in May 2020 when she drove from Nashville, Tenn., to Minneapolis to cover the unrest unfolding after the murder of George Floyd. He died when a white Minneapolis police officer kneeled on his neck for more than nine minutes. The city became an epicenter…
Modular support craft from the #neovictorian #steampunk bedtime stories I used to tell my now adult children. #blender3d #blender3dart #design #aesthetics Similar:Thank you, frog and friends, for reminding us all what the Internet is supposed to be for. https://twitter.com/PicturesFo…Aesthetics#SHUConvocation is about to begin @setonhilluniversityPersonalA dinosaur and an octopus are among those doing a speed-writing workshop…
How can a nostalgic, branching-path story-game encourage my 100-level journalism students take risks and learn from their mistakes? Using the ChoiceScript programming language, which features a robust stats system that can remember and respond to player choices, I coded up a “writing your first news story for the student paper” scenario, which unfolds as a…