Portolio Skeleton
What is the framework for the portfolio site I hope to build here? That is one of the prompts we have (actually I wrote) for the activities in Unit 1. I always ue images in my posts, so my thinking […]
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A Portfolio Elevator Tweet
In lieu of an elevator pitch, and upcoming You Show Daily challenge is to generate a description of your portfolio or communication site in the number of characters you can fit into a tweet. That is 140 characters (or less […]
Storymaking: What Works
This was an introductory presentation for The You Show (originally posted as a You Show event) “Storytelling” is a long time resident of the charts of educational ideas. As a topic of workshops and presentations (I’ve done plenty), books (none […]
Magnetic Places
What is the free form association do you make with the word portfolio? Do not over think it, what is the first visual you see? What connections can you make with the idea of how you might represent yourself in […]
Do Electric Portfolios Dream of Analog Sheep?
This if course is completely rhetorical but something needs to be said on the first post. Especially if I’m trying to get something set up as a demo. It should be more than just silly filler text. Alas no. But […]
Strap on Your Doggles. The YouShow Engine is Revving Up.
Google Glass is so 2014. Get with the program. Next week begins the second half of my TRU Open Scholar Fellowship with much of the next two months devoted to an eight week open seminar I am doing with Brian […]
363 out of 365 for 2014
I’m planning on skipping the philosophical life’s been good to me so far year end posts, but cannot pass up on my most regular activity since 2008- my daily photo (almost every day) post to flickr. You can get the […]
Tweaking TRU Writer / Coding By No Textbook
In some reference of software design, there’s a process where you figure out all the features you might need, plant it all out neatly, build it, and then go into some cycle of testing and debugging. Then you roll it […]
Skittering Along The Great Curiosity Engine — to Baker Bill
File this one as another Alan Falls Down A Slender Thread of Web Connections and Wants To Scream “ISNT’T THIS AMAZING?” In all the ways the web has become, for those under 25, something that has always been there, and […]
Randomly() Yours
Do you really know where your next blog post will come from? Mine kind of pop up like… driving down the road with a destination in mind, and an curious road sign appears. How can you not take that turn? […]
A Visit to The “X”
One of the first buildings I noticed upon arrival at Thompson Rivers University was seeing right across the street from where I am housed is the home of campus radio station CFBX (note the synchrnocity of their cable frequency). I […]
I’m Making Crappy Quality Videos on Purpose
Only put your best work out on the public web. You do not want potential employers to find your inferior, embarrassing work. You will look bad. Because, they will judge you solely on THAT and not where it sits in […]