Similar:Why I disagreed with my students who said, "That was easy!" “That was easy!” Today th…AcademiaFamily, I Hear You. I Love You. Go Away. This Weekend, I'm Marking Papers.No, I don’t want to see the new jacket y…AcademiaIf You’re An English Major You Should Take a Journalism Class–Even If You Think You Hate J…Journalism…
Day 1 Today was my first full shipwrecked day after our ship hit some sharp rocks a half mile offshore. What started out as a team-building trip to the Cook Islands has turned into a true nightmare. #OnlySurvivor #PleaseSendHelp #SurvivalSundays #HolisticRescueMarketing —McSweeney’s Internet Tendency Similar:UChicago College Admissions, Indiana Jones Mystery PackageWhat we know: The package…
Hum de dum. Not paying any attention to current events at all, just thinking about possibly teaching Richard III in my Shakespeare class this fall. Oh, look, Dwight Goodyear posted commentary on Agnes Heller’s book The Time is Out of Joint: Shakespeare as Philosopher of History. How interesting. You know, to those of us who care about…
My “Media Aesthetics” students worked with students from Elizabeth Jacobs’s “Social Psychology” class, where students wrote editorials and designed infographics about cognitive dissonance. My students helped the psychology students with their drafts, then chose essays they thought had a good chance of going viral, and used WordPress, Facebook, Twitter and Hootsuite to publicize those selections. Similar:Unification, Part…
Similar:Recording Christmas Stories for WAOB Audio TheatreFor WAOB Audio Theater, my family spent …PersonalThe Incredible Shrinking Ad [The Future Web Is Mobile]Is higher education ready for the switch…AcademiaI really enjoyed powering through Wilson’s Century Cycle during winter term.AwesomeWhen your January term starts Dec 18. #partylikeaprofAcademiaI accidentally did too much DuoLingo. I don't want to advance…
I loved listening to her practice the “Money, money, money, money, money” monologue in her mirror. Similar:The Piano Lesson ( #AugustWilson #CenturyCycle, 4 of 10)August Wilson’s Century Cycle > Spoi…BooksMailbag: breaking in again » Raph's WebsiteGood advice from Raph Koster to someone …BusinessI filed my grades early. I shall now, briefly, do something irresponsible.Grades submitted.…
A Republican Facebook friend posted a link to this article, which acknowledges that there’s plenty to dislike about Trumpcare, but challenges the truth behind some of the statements that are driving online outrage. Remember the Trump administration’s strategy — do something that invokes outrage, pounce and call it “fake news” as soon as someone exaggerates…
Similar:The third Google hit for " #steampunk control panel" is a #blender3d image I cre…PersonalThe Tribune-Review published a nice preview of Dani Girl.My daughter Carolyn, Matthew Hommel, Vin…DramaSee The Nutcracker!@laurelballetperformingco dancers and full @westmorelandsymphony orches…DanceAnother delightful section of a #steampunk control panel. #blender3d #design #aesthetics #…AestheticsGreat energy at our Comp & Culture poster paper session. So…
An interesting piece. Easy-to-learn hypertext authoring tools like Twine and TextureWriter have encouraged many of my students to give this kind of storytelling a try. As longtime experimenters and scholars in interactive narrative who are now building a new academic discipline we call “computational media,” we are working to create new forms of interactive storytelling,…
In the early 20th century, print journalists often identified with the working class. Small newspapers were created by and read by people who live and often grew up in the same area. Online jobs tend to clump around big cities, meaning that reporters increasingly live in a media bubble that isolates them from the life…
Similar:Me (glares in iambic pentameter)Me: I need to post the opening lecture f…AcademiaGirlhood 2014They don’t even seem to want to watch Fr…CultureNational Dance DayIn the restaurant parking lot after dinn…CultureReally enjoyed Prime Stage Theater’s video presentation of Mockingbird.Obviously I would have preferred to see …AestheticsDaughter made a Rainbow Loom Marty McFly. Note vest jacket and…
Members of the Herald’s editorial guild are boycotting Twitter this week after reporter Chris Villani was suspended without pay for three days for violating the company’s social media policy. Villani’s misstep? An April 20 tweet stating, “The notes found in #AaronHernandez cell were letters to his daughter & fiancee, saying he loved them & would see…
Similar:Beam me up, Chewie!AwesomeA 20 sq cm section of #steampunk #blender3d goodness. #blender3dartAestheticsHere for the daughter.AcademiaSlow flyby of a scout shop. Starfield backdrop; particle-based engine exhaust; hull uses a…More progress as I continue to level up …AestheticsAnother sold-out Midsummer Thursday night. PersonalOut for a walk during some downtime. Paused to appreciate this beautiful city of #Pittsbur…Aesthetics
Adolescence took a long time to be invented at all, and it took an even longer time to become a somewhat stable archetype. It’s only in recent human history that people a) live long enough for adolescence to be a different physical experience than adulthood; and b) live in a society that indulges an extended…
I’m not saying that the Upward Bound kids deserved to be punished because application writers didn’t follow formatting instructions. I am saying that formatting matters. When your professors put “formatting” on the rubric, they aren’t simply trying to make your life difficult. For the want of double spacing in a small section of a 65-page…
My daughter will be playing Dolly Levi Friday night. Similar:The Speech Eisenhower Never Gave On The Normandy InvasionA fascinating text from an alternate his…CultureEverybody Dies (Shakespearean Tragedy Infographic) The image (by Magee and Griffin) is an…AestheticsCinderella Deadlines: Reconsidering Timelines for Student WorkI have been experimenting with midnight …AcademiaContext for Hayles, My Mother was a Computer…
Mix the paranoia of 1984, the absurdity of Brazil, the pathos of Chekhov, the social commentary of Moliere, and a healthy dose of “When Mike and Carol swap jobs, the Bradys are on a collision course for wackiness.” Quantum Theatre’s “Collaborators” is a fascinating study of power, integrity, and compromise. (Sound designer Joe Pino directed…
Similar:From this station on the bridge, the exposition officer can relay whatever random bit of i…https://youtu.be/_E-3E7Q3LSs Get a lo…AestheticsSherlock Holmes and The Woman (daughter and I rehearsing for a live recording Friday after…CultureFinished the female officers for my neovictorian steampunk personal project. #blender3d, #… Female officers, from the le…AestheticsVery interesting adaptation of Shakespeare’s Merchant…
A good exploration, in the light of current interest in “fake news,” of the troubled relationship between conservative Christianity’s understanding of truth and secular experts’ understanding of facts. (Mainstream Protestantism and Catholicism have negotiated this difference much more smoothly.) But it wasn’t Christianity, or religious faith itself in general, that helped make Republican voters more likely…
Analyzing humor, as E.B. White famously said, is like dissecting a frog; few people are interested and the frog dies of it. Nonetheless, writing humor is a highly logical exercise — fit idea X into form Y for humorous result Z — and can therefore be broken down in ways that more slippery kinds of…