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Category Archives: Learning
A video to prompt playtime memories
WIRED (which styles itself with all capital letters) just posted this 40-minute video on its YouTube channel, featuring commentary from the chief curator at the Strong Museum of Play in Rochester, New York, about the most popular toys each year … Continue reading
Better research using Google’s lesser-known search tools
Research is so boring. Except when you find amazing stuff that totally elevates your work. Then it’s actually cool. People like learning new things, gaining new insights, pulling back the curtain to see who’s really pulling the levers behind the … Continue reading
The individual vs. society – Joseph Campbell, Gandhi, and JFK weigh in
I’m cleaning out my office today, throwing out old student papers and old lecture notes from courses I no longer teach. One of the files I came across was from a one-off class on mythology that I taught in the … Continue reading
What’s in a tagline? My blog’s identity: Version 4.0
I’m developing a new course at MSOE called “SS 3700 Digital Society.” To say I’m excited is to understate my enthusiasm for this topic. As a political science major who took computer programming classes in the late 1970s using a … Continue reading
Posted in Higher education, Learning, Life, Popular culture, Science, Teaching, Technology, Writing, blogging
Tagged blogging, curiosity, digital society, lifelong learning
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Gaining clarity from a second look around
So about three weeks ago I posted this photo: One of the things I liked about it was the crisscrossed bands of shadows across the lawn. I assumed it came from the sun shining through the mall of trees on … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, Life, Milwaukee, Photography
Tagged Light reflections, Light Shadows, office building, office building reflections
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YouTube: In the Beginning
I’m teaching a mass media course this quarter, and while doing class prep recently, I needed to look at something in the internet archive, aka the “Wayback Machine.” (Wikipedia article here) Have you used this super cool site before? You … Continue reading
Won’t you be my neighbor?
Fifty years ago today “Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood,” the most caring children’s television show ever, made its debut. You’ve probably seen this before, but it’s worth watching again: Fred Rogers testifying before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications in 1969 in support … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, Life, Popular culture, Teaching, Television
Tagged childhood, children's television, Fred Rogers, love
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Unleashing the potential of VR (virtual reality)
Virtual reality (VR) is going to shape itself into an art form that is quite different from contemporary cinema. We can’t really predict yet how things will turn out, although my bet is that movies as we know them are here … Continue reading
Posted in History, Learning, Life, Movies and film, News, Popular culture, Teaching, Technology
Tagged Auschwitz, Germany, history, museum exhbits, Nazi prison guards, virtual reality, VR, war criminals, World War II
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Cool Google Docs “Insert Symbol” Feature
I was just working on something in Google Docs and needed to insert a letter “a” with a circumflex. I clicked on “insert symbol” and searched for “a,” but none of the options were what I needed. Then I noticed … Continue reading