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Getting There

OK, I’ve been working pretty hard to import all of my Drupal blog into Blogger. For some reason, Drupal never worked very well for a blog. I’m keeping Drupal on Earthshine for my professional site and my portfolio, but I thought Blogger would work better for my blog. Part of my descision stems from my [...]

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Google Groups

Google Groups

I discovered Google Groups today. Well, actually I’ve known about them for some time, but I think I’m going to begin using them this fall, especially in my online course. Rock on, Google. BTW, if you’re not using Gmail and want a kicking address (ANYTHING@earthshine.org), talk to me. This means you, Bilderback. Science Fiction – [...]

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A Place to be Silly

I probably shouldn’t have given this blog the name I did. Crap. I have other sites, but nowhere that seems I can be me and personal. I can be a husband and an English Professor, but I don’t really have anywhere just to experiment with personal stuff, like video blogging, or podcasting, or whatever. So, [...]

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Read It!

I already mentioned my infatuation with Google Calendar, but now I’ve discovered Google Reader. The link above is to the items that I’ve starred. Google is so cool.

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Humanities 2.0

I’m very proud of my recent work on the Humanities web site. I designed it a couple of years ago, and since the college just updated their site, I figured ours needed to be better. I updated the software to Drupal, ditching the difficult-to-use GeekLog. The new 4.7.2 version of Drupal adds some excellent features, [...]

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Narrativism (Or, Technology and the Creative Artist Wrap Up, Part 3)

Narrativism (Or, Technology and the Creative Artist Wrap Up, Part 3)

Taking their cue from Murray’s work, the narrativists see developing video games aligned with peotic and narrative, combining elements of existing artistic expressions in a way that has never been possible previously. Theirs is a hybrid approach that seeks to define a poetics of interactive cyberdrama that centers around a cultural expression of narrative, rather [...]

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Student Digital Stories (F05)

I’m proud to feature the digital stories from my Technology and the Creative Artist class. These stories represent the completion of their second exercise, building off of course materials that have been discussing the influence of new media on narrative. You will need Apple’s Quicktime in order to view the stories. Enjoy, and let us [...]

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