I have been a graphic designer and photographer for 15 years. In that time I have also taught photography at Herkimer County Communality College and Design and Flash at The School of Communication Arts in Raleigh, North Carolina. I am also a comic book colorist who has done work for DC and Marvel comics as well as many independent publishers. For fun I run a web comic site that I created 3 years ago called Pixelstrips.com. On Pixelstrips.com I offer free web comics, tutorials and artist blog space in the upcoming version.
My main objectives are to learn how to better use new technologies to further my online and teaching knowledge. Also, I currently do many different things to “get the word out” on Pixelstrips.com, and am looking forward to gaining new insights on how I can use mediums like Twitter and newer social networking sites to get more visitors.
Teaching is also another love. I hope to secure a teaching position when I finish my degree at either the high school or college level. Tying technology and learning is something that I want to be the keystone of all my lessons.
I have a few ideas for my seminar paper; one is on how schools and teachers can better communicate with parents. I am a parent of a 5 year old and divorced, so when I do not have my son I do not get messages from school. With the many different digital mediums available there must be a better way then a hand written note on a note card.
My second idea for a paper would have to do with how blogs and online communities can drive traffic to sites, what makes a community thrive and support a site, and how do you then branch out and convert more people.
My main objectives are to better understand some of the new technologies and how they can be incorporated in teaching and marketing. Sometimes I think that the two are the same. In both you are trying to get an idea across to a group of people that may or not be very interested at first but that’s our jobs, to make it interesting for them to want to learn.
The paradox of insular language
2 years ago
Kevin,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that in teaching you often have to interest those who are uninterested. That is one of my objectives for this program. That in the end I will have more "tools" available to open up avenues to entice the unwilling students to become more involved and interested.