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The new normal
I spent over a decade pouring my heart and soul in this site. I perfected the pages for my classes, constantly updated to new plugins, read up on WordPress changes, and generally spent lots and lots of time making the site as useable and pretty as poss…
back to the drawing board
I’ve now spent over a decade railing against the use of LMS. I’ve put my money where my mouth is, too, developing my materials on this site, keeping them available without a paywall, and making interfaces as easy as possible. My ethical objections to t…
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“FUN” STUFF FOR QUARANTIME
Planning/architecture/preservation related movies: Hello, everyone. If you’re reading this it’s because you’re desperately bored. Well, let me help to the best of my abilities. Here are ideas/links/arts/whatevers that I’ve colle…
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A few thoughts on a few museums
I used to be a museum professional. It’s funny, because I’m not the “museum person” in my department and since it’s not my field of research, most students have no idea I used to work in museums for a living. While I’m retired from being a museum profe…
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Final News in Hawkins, Indiana
For my final project I created a 3-fold news story in the town of Hawkins from Stranger Things. I designed a magazine cover: Made an image of the lab surrounded by news vans: And created a recording from a Hawkins public radio viewpoint: I chose to base the project off the next few days after …
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Final Project Progress
For my final project, I’m going to create a news story and campaign around Hawkins, Indiana from the show Stranger Things. I’m going to create a radio news show segment discussing some of the strange happenings going on in town and am also creating a fake newspaper front page for it, as well as writing …
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Weekly Summary #12
I actually enjoyed the assignments this week far more than I thought I would. Once I got an idea for the assignment it didn’t take me a very long time to put the concept into an actual project.
My assignments this week: Furby King, Holiday Mashup…
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Giraffe Brain Blast
For this remix, I created a hybrid cartoon animal creature and added bad graphic design elements to it. I used Pixlr again to easily create this monstrosity. I used Sheen from Jimmy Neutron with a giraffe because I think they look a little similar. For my bad graphic design element, I added in a phrase …
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Holiday Mashup
For this assignment, I created a holiday mashup picture. I used Pixlr to create, which was pretty easy to do. I chose Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas as my 3 favorite holidays to mix-up. For the background story of this picture, I imagine it being someone’s house who doesn’t remember to take down their holiday decorations …