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Family Pictures up on Flickr.com
Sustainable Business with the Irish American University, Dublin
DIT Photography: The Photobook
DIT: Design Practice, MA in Creative Digital Media
DIT Photography: Computer Literacy Skills
The Blog
Education and Design
DIT Photography: Year 3-Photography as a Career
ROIgamers.com- video games, Xbox 360, by my son and his friends
fiveminutefix - the gallery of work by the DIT Year 1 photography students
How about some art? I had a great time watching people shuffle around, looking at these amazing pictures. People respond to different things in art, but in a world famous museum they often think they are supposed to look at everything, withtheir little rented audio guides pointing the way. One thing people don't do enough in big museums is to just sit down.
Musee d'Orsay, October 09
all that is happening this month:
Tim has a bad back, Miriam has a bad neck (reverse whiplash, the doctor called it); family fun in Paris, Tim and Jay helping Granpa in North Carolina; Frazier, our 11 year old dog, has gone to doggy heaven; more back pain; and some work in there somewhere...w
You would think I'd know how to set the self-timer by now.
At least it wasn't raining for Cian and Granny Betty's birthdays.
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all that is happening this week:
summer is long since over, rain and wind, new term winding up, what passes for vacation...
last week and beyond:
sustainability, student cookbook, blogging, design, energy conservation, student projects, information architecture, photographic techniques, college lectures, Usability research...
More online education. I'm working with Victor Branagan to set up a blended learning environment for the course Sustainable Business in the American College Dublin. It takes a bit of work but I think our plan is a good one.
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I can't remember where I found this slide, but I remember the day in 1972 or 73 when my dad received this medal. I should ask him what it was for...
Blogging in action: I'm trying to set up a blog for my photography students, and it is working slowly. Some bits still clunky. Wait a week or two to have a look at http://www.nowwhichway.com/blog/index.php
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Big News This Week: Toilet paper is an evil greater than SUV's
Greenpeace doesn't like your double-quilted, virgin fibre softness, and I can't say I blame them.
Check out the Greenpeace story and the Guardian version.
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February 11, 2009: Week 1 of the module "Computer Literacy Skills" with the BA Photography first year students.
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MA-DMT is now called the MA-Creative Digital Technologies, with the next group of students starting September '09. My thanks to this year's students who engaged with a range of interesting topics and seemed to find the classes worthwhile.
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For my students in the MA-Digital Media Technologies, I give them a final project I call the 'Design a Brief-Brief'. They must propose a topic, a problem with a product or service that concerns them, and write a two-part response to that topic. Part 1 is a design analysis. They must analyse the problem and define the criteria as if they were calling for submissions. Part 2, of course, is their own proposed solution to the problem.
This year's students are submitting their projects on January 12th.