Papers – Resigning LBUSD
I got my papers a few weeks back & finally turned them in. sad [Sound of a door closing behind me]
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Circles Within Circles – Running into FS Ads
Went looking for information about local Macintosh user groups and thought to begin by visiting the website of one of my favorite mac-macs, Lesa Snyder King. She had several user groups listed but none within striking distance from my domicile. Damn. So while I cruising about the website looking for info I stumble upon the […]
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Zander Reflections Part 3
Sometimes the reflections on the Zander book, The Art of Possibility, are much more… “ground level.” One student commented: I loved Benjamin Zander’s analogy of the conductor and orchestra. Too often educators forget that we are not there to fill there little brains with information all day long. This is where the NCLB act has […]
MoreZander Reflections Part 2
My students continue their reflections on the Zander book, The Art of Possibility. This time the musing is about the possible ramifications of the realization that “Reality” is not what we thought it was: I try not to allow Zander’s conceptualism bother me–it goads me like a poker when he says “language is replete with […]
MoreZander Reflections Part 1
Students in my course are assigned to read Ben & Roz Zander’s The Art of Possibility and over this past week I’ve been reading and grading their reflections on the book in their blogs. The book, which espouses the notion that we will find more success in life if we recognize that we live in […]
MoreApple’s RDF Hits Me at Full Sail Promo
I’m beginning to think that the famed “Reality Distortion Field” isn’t limited to Steve Jobs or Macworld Expo keynotes. One of the benefits of being at Full Sail is having access to almost monthly tech events and this morning the good folks from Apple, Inc. sent over Steven Hayman to show an auditorium full of […]
MoreBusy – My life as I knew it is over… and I feel fine
So, what the hell have I been doing for the past four weeks? `Yeah, there was this little thing called Macworld and believe it or not I’ve been editing photos since then and playing catch up with my FS courses. Now I’m in LA to restart my Pepperdine EdD. My life as I knew it […]
MoreEMDT Xmas Photo Session, Part1
Should have known when they asked us to line up outside that things would go downhill from there. Some folks didn’t find the background particularly artistic or representative of our work-life here at Full Sail U. Of course this background was my choice. Ha! Ain’t life grand. Merry Xmas, y’all. jbb
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