You Are Not A Visual Learner
You are far more intelligent than that. I wrote about how scientists disproved the hypothesis that right-brained people are creative and left-brained people are analytical.…
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Voice is the Tech You Want
I loved teaching in front of live classes again this winter. It didn’t change my mind about teaching online. On the contrary, it reinforced my…
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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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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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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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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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The Long Game of Seriously Part 2
I have an artist in my class this semester. He has a great story. When he was young, after he graduated college and discovered his…
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Everyone Wants Recognition and No One Wants To Be Recognized
Through the power of the Web, and because of the power of the Web, I force anonymity on my communications students. We use pseudonyms and…
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