We are using the theme of survival for our Digital Literacy online course this fall. It didn’t take too much searching around on YouTube to be reminded of the Survivorman series.

As contrasted with the Survivor series, which is more of a survival game show with contestants, the Survivorman show is more about the concept of man versus nature. Of course, all media are created and the same holds true of these two programs, even though one appears to be much more realistic with the scenarios than the other.

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University professors from institutions in the USA and Dubai hosted an online workshop in creativity and design thinking called “Sketchy People” for their students. We hoped to learn how to engage our students beyond their respective institutions and classrooms by connecting them with students from other institutions who have similar educational goals and interests.

Using the online collaboration website Miro.com these students from different geographic locations completed lessons in drawing, creative writing, and typography together in real time in a virtual design studio setting. Just as they would in a physical design studio, students were able to see how others responded to different writing and drawing prompts and provide each other support and feedback.

Breaking outside of institutional boundaries with online technology for this event resulted in an extraordinary outpouring of creativity and engagement. Drawing inspiration from artist and author Lynda Barry’s book “Syllabus,” these students wrote and read aloud original stories as well as made drawings based upon the stories that they heard each other tell. In under two hours each student participant produced numerous drawings along with several written pieces and typographic examples.

This “Sketchy People” online learning event permitted colleagues separated by distance to reconnect and work with each other’s students through an innovative team-teaching approach while enabling their students to meet new people and see new ideas in action. Because the methods and communication tools utilized in the workshop are freely available to educators, future virtual workshops are easily scalable and replicable

For years I’ve watched other artists post videos of themselves working, often in videos that have been sped up for the sake of time. I have never made such a video until today. Here’s a video of me using Adobe Illustrator to draw a vector image of Rodney Dangerfield.

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Everyone was complaining about the Internet not working today. First the IP based television, then other devices dropped off of the WiFi network and couldn’t log in.

I looked at the logs and indeed I found some suspicious activity.

Hmm, these lines don’t look right to me. They are all coming in on port 80 and I’m not running any webservers.

So the first thing I did was turn off the port-forwarding to port 80 that was still turned on in my router for some reason. I used it a couple of years ago for an experimental website I was running and didn’t turn the service back off when I was finished. That was dumb!

I searched online to see if there was anything else I should know. This article suggested disabling the UPnP service. Mine was on by default, so I turned that off too.

I’m hoping no real damage was done to the router or my network. I hate the fact that I don’t know precisely why our attempts to login to the router did not work with known-good passwords. But after I reset the password, everyone was able to get logged in again using the new one.

Hopefully my fix will work for a while and we won’t have any more unwelcome visitors.