The girl enjoyed seeing Alex Noble and the rest of the cast of Sive. (Last shows, 2 & 8 today.)

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Salesman at Pittsburgh Public Theatre.

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Old English Has a Serious Image Problem

This fall I will be teaching Shakespeare again; but thereafter, as part of a curriculum redesign, Shakespeare will be rolled into a “Shakespeare in Context” course that will also need to address Beowulf, medieval drama, Arthurian legend, Chaucer, Marlowe, etc. I intend to do this by teaching five different Shakespeare plays, focusing on one play…

In Defense of Liking Things

It used to bother me that people got all excited about the color shirt that was being worn by a particular person holding (or throwing, or tossing, or avoiding) a small round object. Then I read the Onion article “Walking Sports Database Scorns Walking Sci-Fi Database:” A self-described “sports fanatic” who experiences vicarious thrills through…

Procession #classof2017

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You may move your tassels from right to left. #classof2017

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Graduation procession #classof2017

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About to launch.

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Faculty assembling in launch tube beneath Salvitti Gym. #classof2017 @setonhilluniversity

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Term grades submitted. Homeschool son graduated. Time to breathe.

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Shipwreck Diary of a Content Marketer

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:Morgan 'Super Size Me' Spurlock at Seton Hill Morgan Spurlock, w…BusinessAnyone…

Whoops, I Accidentally Used a Photo of Donald Trump in this Blog Post on Richard III

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My hard-working media students curated a collection of psychology student editorials & infographics at blogs.setonhill.edu/DissingDissonance

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:How 'A…

Opening night of Sive.

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Carolyn as Dolly Levi (Arts4Homeschoolers / Stage Right)

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Homeschool prom 2017

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The future is in interactive storytelling

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,…