Category Archives: Digital society

My first DALL•E art project

Posted on October 28, 2022 by Katherine Wikoff

Because I teach courses on digital society and digital storytelling at Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE), I have been reading and learning a lot about DALL•E, the new AI-based art generator, this fall. I had seen references to DALL•E all … Continue reading →

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500 tabs and counting down

Posted on October 23, 2022 by Katherine Wikoff

Does anyone else have a tab hoarding problem? I have a habit of opening tabs on both my computer and my phone and then just leaving them open for easy reference instead of bookmarking them, which requires extra work on … Continue reading →

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Two lists

Posted on June 12, 2022 by Katherine Wikoff

Or in plainer text: Diversity = Variety, Biodiversity (including gut/diet), Social diversity, Cultural diversity And is associated with: Resilience, … Two lists I really like this! So many things to think about related to creativity, the environment, social/political contexts, etc. … Continue reading →

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Remembering the “typewriter era”

Posted on December 2, 2021 by Katherine Wikoff

Students in my freshman-level technical communication course were intrigued by our discussion today of document design during the “typewriter era.” We were examining some memos from the early Microsoft Windows period, right about the time that people were beginning to … Continue reading →

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The toilets under Milwaukee’s boulevards

Posted on November 12, 2021 by Katherine Wikoff

Well, I can’t resist sharing this ARTICLE about the discovery of secret underground bathrooms beneath the flowery landscaping of Milwaukee’s boulevards. The median strips are pretty ho-hum today, but when I first moved to Milwaukee in the early 1980s, our … Continue reading →

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How good design helped me NOT 4-get 😀

Posted on August 26, 2021 by Katherine Wikoff

I had to drive someone to St. Luke’s Hospital yesterday for an MRI. (Driving people to medical appointments seems to be the story of my life lately! 🙂 ) After dropping them off at the front door, I entered the … Continue reading →

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Collision Course

Posted on August 25, 2021 by Katherine Wikoff

Just a day-in-the-life post here. I drove my husband to the eye doctor yesterday and had to wait for him in my car because the office’s COVID policy didn’t allow anyone but patients in the waiting room. So there I … Continue reading →

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