Similar:The Case for Breaking Up With Your ParentsI already felt fairly independent from m…AcademiaPict Classic Theatre Romeo and Juliet. Personal"Only You" — 11yo Carolyn Sings a Power Ballad from "Starlight Express"The observation car Pearl sings of her l…AestheticsAbove the ready-room desk is the captain's power-napping loft, because self-care is i…AestheticsI'm not tired of @shu.pippin yet! Final…
Similar:No interior yet. Getting there. Gotta start somewhere. Low-poly background detail for a me…No interior yet. Getting there. Gotta st…AestheticsWide-angle view of a villain’s secret lair. #blender3dAestheticsThank you, anonymous donor of Mardi Gras candy.Okay, on closer inspection I see the red…AestheticsMy college writing students are out making short videos responding to a prompt.While my students…
Already met a lot of good people and found opportunities for following up. I’m here through Saturday morning. For now, though, I’m eating a sandwich. Similar:Addis, LA: Little Orphan Annie stopped for speeding Addis, LA: Little Orphan Annie…AmusingDo Cultural Critics Have Any Value Left?[T]he Internet has dramatically changed …AestheticsOne Author Breaks Down the Reality of…
Putting speaker notes on an iPad is always more fun when using a typeface that invokes TNG Okudagrams. Similar:xkcd: Headlines It: nailed. xkcd: Headlines.AmusingThis is manageable. Far better than some semesters.This is manageable. Far better than some…PersonalApple Watch is ugly and boring (and Steve Jobs would have agreed)I am not feeling the love for Apple’s…
My wife says she bought the pies intending to use them for a math lesson, but she just ended up letting the kids start eating them. Similar:Though I have marking and prep and committee work and paperwork to do, I took an hour befo…PersonalThe daughter is working hard as a dancer and Flaemchen understudy. @frontporchtheatricalsCultureScreening…
Similar:Long Live The English Major—If It’s Paired With An Industry-Recognized CredentialWhat does this simple question and its r…AcademiaOut for a walk and saw this. I hope you are having a nice day.Out for a walk and saw this. I hope you …AestheticsUpdating a handout I originally wrote in 1998. #tech #writingA mechanism description analyzes (that i…AcademiaAfter a…
Using the mixed media of sketch notes, animation, and voiceover, this video explores the field of composition’s relationship between multimodality and composing. The piece illustrates how multimodal strategies such as sketchnotes can enhance idea generation and learning and provide classroom strategies for multimodal composition. […] We must remember that, yes, digital composition is multimodal but…
The way we teach it at Seton Hill, as a process that leads to a researched term paper, I think it’s safe to add freshman comp to the good list. We continue to operate on the basis that knowledge is stored in repositories, usually a book or an teacher. This dependence on textbooks has distorted…
The rise of fake news highlights the erosion of long-standing institutional bulwarks against misinformation in the internet age. Concern over the problem is global. […] Our call is to promote interdisciplinary research to reduce the spread of fake news and to address the underlying pathologies it has revealed. Failures of the U.S. news media in…
Hat tip to my former student Kiley Fischer, who brought this story to my attention saying “Good example of ‘do NOT remove things from photos.’” Longtime City Paper reader Edward King-Smith, 37, of Pittsburgh’s Stanton Heights neighborhood was among those who alerted Deitch that his publication included a photo of a woman tattoo artist wearing…
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Farhad Manjoo says he’s a better, more-informed person thanks to his decision to try getting his news only from print sources. Turning off the buzzing breaking-news machine I carry in my pocket was like unshackling myself from a monster who had me on speed dial, always ready to break into my day with half-baked bulletins.…
I try to go to Planet Fitness or chess with my son each day. Did not get to either yesterday. Similar:After you finish your brass-polishing shift, join me at the Gear and Heart to swap stories…AestheticsLooking forward to this! @thepublicpghLooking forward to this! @thepublicpghDramaMy 11yo, of the opening chapters of a YA novel with an…
I’ve chauffeured the girl into Pittsburgh for the first rehearsal for PICT’s Jane Eyre. She’ll be playing Leah (Mr. Rochester’s servant at Thornfield Hall), Barbara (a different servant at Lowood school), Georgiana (one of Jane’s girlhood tormentors in the Reed household), and “Girl 1″ (maybe one of the adult Jane’s pupils, or perhaps a classmate…
I enjoyed watching this chess-themed coming-of-age, based-on-a-true-story movie with my son today. Good storytelling and cinematography. I liked the bit during the closing credits when we saw the real people alongside the actors who portrayed them. Similar:What Critics of Student Writing Get Wrong [T]o improve as writers, student…AcademiaFacebook paid Teen Vogue to run a fake…
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Forty-seven minutes after news broke of a high school shooting in Parkland, Fla., the posters on the anonymous chat board 8chan had devised a plan to bend the public narrative to their own designs: “Start looking for [Jewish] numerology and crisis actors.” The voices from this dark corner of the Internet quickly coalesced around a plan…
A few weeks ago, I had students in my upper-level media class collaborate on a Google Docs study guide for The Name of the Rose. In my freshman writing class yesterday, I did something else with Google Docs… I created a page with three columns, and asked students to type their preliminary thesis statements on…
Today was the last day of the manuscript unit in my “History and Future of the Book” course. I wish I had come across this article a little sooner! “As calligraphers, we feel like we’re playing an integral role. The invitation sets the stage for the whole event. Calligraphers are helping, simply, to set the…
I ran into this problem several times in the last set of student papers, so it’s time for another illustration. When you’re talking about making a change, you mean the verb “affect,” and when you’re talking about something that results from a cause, you mean the noun “effect.” It’s rare to encounter “effect” as a…