This is a favorite of mine from when the kids were little.
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Android Files
This morning my new Android phone filled up with media as I was shooting video of the ice & snow we got in Kansas this morning. So I looked up how to transfer files from the phone to my Mac. Easy, peasy with this Android File Transfer app. https://www.android.com/filetransfer/
Moved the files to the cloud, delete them from my phone, and I’m back in business!
Little Bit o’ Linux
Today I installed Zoom on an Ubuntu Linux box using this support article:
The funny thing about this particular Linux box is it is an old iMac running Ubuntu.
I’m putting Zoom on it to see if I can join in the Zoom chat I’m having with my students.
Next, I wanted to try to enable SSH on it and see if I can port forward to it through our router to allow students to connect.
This tutorial seems to answer that question.
https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-enable-ssh-on-ubuntu-18-04/
Gorilla Suit Anniversary
According to Facebook, today is the 10th anniversary of my wearing of the gorilla suit in Mike Wesch’s digital ethnography class. What a wonderful experience that class was. I am still using what I learned there today.
Liberty and Justice For All: An Evening With Dr. Onalee McGraw (part 2)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington: Liberty and Justice for All –
A Classic Film Series with Dr. Onalee McGraw
Come join us in a night of online learning with Dr. Onalee McGraw.
What: An interactive discussion with Dr. McGraw about the film Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (links to Amazon Rental for $1.99).
When: Monday, April 6, 2020 – 7 pm Eastern / 6 pm Central (for 1 hr)
Where: Via Zoom Meeting Room (Register below to receive instructions and access)
Why: “Whatever our political affiliations may be, civic friendship, solidarity, and the common good are cherished by Americans across the generations.” – Dr. Onalee McGraw
Dr. Onalee McGraw is Director of the Educational Guidance Institute, which helps instructors use classic films to present universal truths about Character, Virtue, Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. In the 1980s, Dr. McGraw was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the National Council on Educational Research. She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from Georgetown University.
Dr. McGraw appeared on Turner Classic Movies as a guest programmer for the film, 12 Angry Men. We are so very honored to have access to her wisdom in these uncertain times.
Join us on Monday, April 6, 2020 at 7pm Eastern / 6pm Central. To be sent details about accessing this unique opportunity for learning, please register below. Don’t delay, space is limited! For the best experience, be sure to view the film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington prior to attending.
I Am Comfortable Here
Please don’t take this wrongly. I know we are in awful times right now. People are getting sick left and right. People who are not sick are still losing their jobs and livelihoods. However, there is something about a situation like this that brings out the best in me.
The last time I remember feeling this same sense of dread and excitement was 29 years ago in the Persian Gulf. There was a war in the Persian Gulf in 1991, and I was there. It is a strange feeling to know that there is important work to be done and yet to know that something really awful could happen.
My way of coping, my way of dealing with the danger and the stress of it all has always been with humor. Here is a video I made of my friend Dave Bockorny waking up our exhausted shipmates. “Dude, that is so not funny,” they seem to say.
In many ways, I am kind of enjoying the change, but it is because the online world has been my thing for a very long time now. One of the most fun things I’ve been doing is recently my daughter & I have been singing together on YouTube for a live audience of a couple of dozen people.
Last night was one of my most favorite episodes so far.
It has also turned out that my most demanding course I’m teaching this semester is the one that I taught online for the first time during the first 8 weeks. I already had a lot of the content developed that I can use in the 16 week formerly F2F version of the class. I need to make some adjustments, but I’m in a good place for that particular course.
I have been experimenting with many new things. Zoom is something I have used to attend meetings and have one on one chats with students but I really haven’t used in an instructional way until this week. That has been an adjustment, but it seems to be going pretty well so far.
The online community -DS106- that I became involved with over a decade ago and I use for my digital literacy class has come alive in recent weeks. A lot of the time in recent years it has only been me and one other teacher from U of Mary Washington who have been using DS106, but a lot of old-timers who disappeared for a long time are back and joining in with various parts of DS106 doing live-streamed shows and things. By the way, one of the founders of DS106, Jim Groom, is living in Italy in the middle of everything, and he’s been getting online and doing live shows on the DS106 internet radio channel about the lockdown in that country
I have also been consulting with some folks about various ways they can continue doing their thing, whatever it might be, virtually. I’m not ready to make public any details on these yet, because they are in the planning stages, but I am currently planning to arrange a collaboration with Polytechnic students and university students located in China; I am working with a media expert in Virginia on hosting an open course on classic films and civic virtue; I am working with a K-State adjunct professor in Drama Therapy on using digital tools to help his improv actors continue to perform virtually.
In short, I view what is happening in the world as an opportunity to continue doing what I have always been doing with Internet technology and digital media, but now in some new and exciting ways.
Fun & Easy Art Lessons With Lynda Barry
These simple drawing lessons from Lynda Barry will be fun for the whole family!
Liberty and Justice For All: An Evening With Dr. Onalee McGraw
12 Angry Men: Liberty and Justice for All –
A Classic Film Series with Dr. Onalee McGraw
I am very excited to announce the first of what I hope will be many opportunities for online learning with Dr. Onalee McGraw.
What: An interactive discussion with Dr. McGraw about the film 12 Angry Men (links to Amazon Rental for $3.99).
When: Monday, March 30, 2020 – 7 pm Eastern / 6 pm Central (for 1 hr)
Where: Via Zoom Meeting Room (Register below to receive instructions and access)
Why: “Achieving true justice in the public square requires not only the practice of virtue on the part of most of its citizens, but also their willingness to engage each other in serious conversation and debate on the first principles of self-government.” – Dr. Onalee McGraw
Dr. Onalee McGraw is Director of the Educational Guidance Institute, which helps instructors use classic films to present universal truths about Character, Virtue, Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. In the 1980s, Dr. McGraw was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the National Council on Educational Research. She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from Georgetown University.
Dr. McGraw appeared on Turner Classic Movies as a guest programmer for this very film, 12 Angry Men. We are so very honored to have access to her wisdom in these uncertain times.
Join us on Monday, March 30, 2020 at 7pm Eastern / 6pm Central. To be sent details about accessing this unique opportunity for learning, please register below. For the best experience, be sure to view the film 12 Angry Men prior to attending.
Em & Bill: Songs From Under the ‘Stache
Tonight at 8 CST.
USS Wisconsin Unrep
A closeup view of the battleship USS Wisconsin in the days just prior to Operation Desert Storm. They are doing underway replenishment of fuel and ammunition.