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 […]
Author Archives: alanna
Happy Birthday to Me
Drunk History: Maya Lin Vietname War Memorial
Live captioning through google slides
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.
Bob Vylan – song of the day
Video: Ibram X. Kendi on “How to Be an Antiracist”
Regarding Soft Talk — AKA Innocuous Language — In Art Critiques
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 […]
A Letter to my students
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 […]
More Good News
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 […]
A Note From Ten Years Ago and A Bit About Water
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 […]
Supporting Students During Covid-19
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 […]
Kate Tempest
virtual busking
https://www.stageit.com/ this is kinda cool. its like virtual busking for big musicians.
Take a virtual trip
I’m not a cake
What was the last lyric you had to look up online? from r/funny
JQuery’s John Regis on the history
This interview with John Resig outlines the history of JQuery, its humble beginnings, how it grew into JQuery, and how it became a successful open source project. https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-programming/html-js-jquery/jquery-dom-access/a/history-of-jquery
Portland Tree Idenitifier
This website tells you what kinds of trees are in our world! What’s growing on your block? https://pdx.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=763ccdb78fc04181b79a0bdee8834ed7
Covid-19 Grief, Stress, Anxiety Articles
I had a bad day yesterday. I cried until my face burned so bad I couldn’t stand it and then my eyes just kept watering from the pain. I read articles about how crying (in moderation) is good for you. It helped a bit. The despair came in waves, I tempered it with fiction reading […]
Portland Resources for Covid-19
The following is a random assortment of resources for people in Portland Struggling from various challenges posed by Covid-19 and it’s impact on life. Small Business and Non Profit Resources https://prosperportland.us/portfolio-items/portland-small-business-relief-fund/?fbclid=IwAR1y8I6ArKUqi9grmkBBzhV8BxScq2XmRn-uD7Qcj0zlLozBzrS8-a9ZJgYThis one is only open until April 1, and you get cash in hand by next Friday. Wowza. Our senator has a great list of resources […]
Canadian Indigenous Film Catalog
Looking to stock up on some new films to watch during your self quarantine? The NFB website has hundreds of films by Canadian Indigenous filmmakers available for free!