GIFfing the Media Wall
I’m a fan of animated GIFs, and one of my favorite features of UMW’s Convergence Center is it’s “Media Wall,” a large, multi-screen display in the main area of the second floor. It’s a cool place for...
View ArticleAn Arthrogram, Part 1
I “wrote” and “published” a “graphic novel.” Like most people, I generally dislike scare quotes, but I want to underscore those in that declaration, because I want to be clear from the outset of this...
View ArticleNotes on Teaching with Slack
Slack is communication software popular for handling workplace information flow, project management, customer support, and all kinds of other things. It’s useful for professional teams, but it’s also...
View ArticleVisualizing Intertextuality with Kumu.io
Kumu (Kumu.io) is a web-based tool for exploring systems and relationships between actors in a network. It can be used to map related concepts, related people, or really anything that can be understood...
View ArticleImj: A web-based tool for visual culture macroanalytics
So-called “movie barcodes” are both elegant to look at and useful ways to explore how color schemes and designs shift throughout a film. Image montages can also demonstrate how a visual corpus changes...
View ArticleTeaching with Bots (A DPL Workshop)
I first came to bots for one of my classes back in 2013, and in that time since, I’ve developed a small stable of botspawn that I’m relatively proud of. I’ve also developed a tool that helps people...
View ArticleA Python Script that Writes 800-page Children’s Books
You may have heard of NaNoWriMo — National Novel Writing Mo — which is an even where aspiring authors attempt to start and finish a 50,000-word novel in the month of November. NaNoGenMo is a similar...
View ArticleThe Domestic Spaces of Digital Media
On May 27, 2018, I joined my colleagues Brenta Blevins and Lee Skallerup Bessette in a session at the 2018 Computers and Writing Conference, held this year at George Mason University. It was my first...
View ArticleHow I set up a frictionless writing workflow
Writing is hard, and the many, many different platforms for doing writing and sharing that writing are, more often than not, just adding steps to the process of getting started that just make things...
View ArticleA Reflection on the Classes I Taught in Fall 2018
Many faculty I know who maintain a public digital identity reflect frequently and thoughtfully on their teaching with regular blogging. I don’t tend to do that, unless there’s some specific technology...
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