Endless Hybrids: work as a journey of creativity
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Reconciling doubt
Despite the bravado displayed by many high-achieving undergraduates, educators recognize the uncertainty that exists in those young minds when faced with subjects outside the students’ realm of comfort. Students unintentionally project a frightful degree of complexity onto any topic. Most people, not just students, throw up these mental roadblocks throughout their lives. We preach the […]
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Brain Pickings
Surely, if you’re reading this, you’re already familiar with the wonderful website that is Brain Pickings. I’m simply astonished with the wisdom reflected in the writings of Maria Popova. A good place to start: 10 Learnings from 10 Years of Brain Pickings.
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Reminders on how to live
The first-half of 2019 has been a most difficult year as my personal life transitioned through many changes. I won’t go into all that. On top of that has been my work with a heavy teaching load at the university: co-teaching a journalism course on multimedia storytelling design, co-teaching a neuroscience workshop, and teaching a […]
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Teaching with GitHub
Several of my courses could benefit from a unit on GitHub. I want to devise a series of lessons that could be plugged into any of these courses with only a slight amount of modification specific to the actual course. It’s easy to identify the aspects of GitHub that I want to cover: version control […]
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The Purpose of Doing
Late afternoon, I sit at my desk, just after class. I glance up at the prints from Buenos Aires that hang on the wall in front of me. More than a decade ago I blogged so regularly. More free time in those days as I explored a premature semi-retirement in my early 40s. Yesterday, on […]
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A short bibliography on interactive documentaries
A colleague in film studies asked for my assistance in pulling together a short bibliography on i-docs (interactive documentaries). This topic and the broader issue of interactive non-fiction narratives as web-based digital storytelling is a long-term interest of mine. Scholarship on i-docs: Aston, Judith, et al. i-Docsโฏ: the Evolving Practices of Interactive Documentary . Wallflower […]
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Interlitq: from custom PHP to WordPress
Earlier in the year I described the essential elements in redesigning a literary magazine with Interlitq as our case study. The Interlitq redesign continues. The current timeframe is a June completion date, which is delayed from my original intention of April. The delay is largely due to my teaching schedule. I completed the multimedia storytelling […]
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Interlitq: identifying essential elements in redesigning a literary magazine
The redesign of Interlitq is going extremely well. We’re on a timeline to have the redesign completed this spring, and aiming for an early April release if at all possible. A literary magazine is one of the more complex types of sites to redesign. On the surface it looks quite simple: modify the header, adjust […]
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Student questions about Undercurrent
Continuing the series on student questions about multimedia storytelling. For this class the students viewed Undercurrent, which won the Online Journalism Award in 2016 for excellence and innovation in visual digital storytelling (small newsroom category). Questions and comments by the students: It seems like the designers of the “Undercurrents” used a template when creating the […]
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Student questions about NSA Files Decoded
Continuing the series on student questions about multimedia storytelling. For this class the students viewed NSA Files Decoded by The Guardian. Questions and comments by the students: This one is a well-made piece. Only one question on the design: instead of putting all of the contents in one very long page, is that a better […]