If I responded to your tweet about the frustrations of teaching students who don’t want to learn, I probably would have teased you and said something like: “my students just can’t get enough of my learnin’… must be you!” But then a couple months later, when I found myself at the end the my term, […]
Holy cow, have you checked out this app Co-Star? My new favorite thing. Here’s my chart!
It is vitally important to choose the right autumn day for planting. The best days are chilly and a little drizzly with occasional sun breaks. Don’t wear a rain jacket, but do wear a warm sweater and comfy garden gloves. Use a bulb planter, the kind that makes a perfect hole in the soil. Choose […]
Love this piece on Oakland dancer Antoine Hunter!
I’ve been coming up with design journal prompts for my interactive web design class. I sorta liked this one and wanted to share and document. When we design, we are telling a story. We tell it through visuals, through content, and through the paths we lead our viewers on. When we can imagine a viewer […]
A student from a part term at PSU asked me a few questions about web design vs web development. I thought I’d share!Here’s my response to their questions: Hi Alanna!I hope you are doing well during all of this craziness!I am trying to pursue web design a bit more, and there is so much to […]
Would you ever believe what. crazy world we live in now? It is truly a mad, mad, mad world. Having lived through the end of the depression and world war ii, the korean war, the civil rights movement, and so much more, you never told me how “normal” apocalyptic times would feel. They probably just […]
Briar Levinson at PSU shared this handy article by Matthew Guay about using Google Slides to do live captioning during online classes. Helpful for both hearing impaired and ESL students.
The chair of my grad program, Tracey Cockrell, was big on critique as democratic agreement. We spent a great deal of time through the course of my program defining what we wanted out of critique, a big one — no innocuous language. Meaning, no “that’s pretty,” “I like it” etc. Anytime we would make an […]
Hi Students, I have some important thoughts to share with all of you. So… I just turned in the final grades. You all pulled off what I didn’t think was possible under the circumstances. I’m completely blown away. A little bit nervous too, and really touched by all of the kind words that you’ve been sending […]
Dang it, life is so overwhelming. And I want to start writing in this thing every day. But I feel like I’m on a hamster wheel. I’m pretty sure the hamster wheel would allow me 5 minutes for a blog post. So yeah let’s do this thing. This morning, I looked at my email and […]
I just found this in an old blog post. I was about 25 weeks pregnant at the time: “I must do this for my daughter. I must show her that you can do what you love, that you don’t have to settle. That money isn’t as important as happiness. I want her to know hard […]
I posted this article on Medium. About a month ago I presented slides to educators at my code school about how to support students during the pandemic. I got a lot of good feedback so I wanted to share them further. Here’s the sideshow. Some key points from the article: Acknowledge that we aren’t just […]