Interactivity According to Star Wars
At the end of last year, I wrote about how the Star Wars films explain the complications of the Internet. Just a few decades ago,…
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You Write Your Voice
The Interactive Voice is the name of my first course and book. Choosing a title is always tough, but I’m confident now; I chose the…
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Words Teach Us How to Interact
My boss and some of Quinnipiac’s interactive students did an analysis of the words in our course titles since the start of the program. I…
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Every Family Needs a Historian
At first glance, a family tree looks like an exercise in narcissism. It turns whole centuries, histories, and diaries into little more than sands in…
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The Most Precise Word in the Dictionary
One of the ideas behind my writing course is that for every classic writing form—the sentence, the citation, the argument, the resume—there is a counterpart…
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Troll Thyself
In the fourth week of The Interactive Voice—or in the fourth chapter, if you’re following along at home—the main assignment is to identify an argument…
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Online, No One Knows Your Age
My grandmother used to say she never felt any older than eighteen. I’ve heard many variations on this sentiment, but only decades after I connected…
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Three Languages Separate Good Ideas
When I finished explaining the syllabus and the progression of the assignments in the writing course, a student raised his hand and asked, “So basically,…
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Smartphone Cameras Improve How We See
(This is not an April Fool’s joke.) In the summer of 2014, when I started teaching The Interactive Vision, my social media photography course, as…
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You Are Not Right-Brained
You are not left-brained either. A creative right half of the brain and an analytical left half don’t exist. The education system didn’t weaken your…
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