Five traits of a successful professor . . . the student’s perspective
Every semester, in my Public Speaking class, I ask my students to write down their favorite teacher/professor and what they did that made them a favorite. Originally I envisioned that the students would talk about elements of speaking that would feed later lessons on being a quality speakers. Instead I found a list of stories [...]
Education happens everywhere
It was a couple of months ago now that I was asked to be the keynote speaker at a graduation that would be taking place inside a correctional facility near here. I didn’t think much of it at the time. One of the programs my college runs is prison college courses. It makes sense. Educating [...]
Artists, you need artists: An Open Letter
Artists, When was the last time you made time to seek out other art and artists. See it with your own eyes? Art is popping up everywhere, every day. Blossoms of bacteria. Feeding on emotional vulnerability, hope, longing, humanity. The relationship is symbiotic. The more we need, the more there is. The richer the lives [...]
Assassins Podcast Project
I love integrating theatre and technology. It’s exciting and rewarding to see how these two different worlds can work together. It’s tricky though. There is a temptation to find a way to incorporate technology into everything. But like all of the other elements of design, it does not make the show. I had been thinking [...]
Creating Life-Long Learners
I’ve been reading a lot about teaching and learning lately. In-depth stuff and big picture stuff. It seems to me that education and how we think about education is beginning to shift in a big way across a lot of planes. A colleague and I were talking about our own teaching experiences earlier this week. [...]
The Daily Monster app: I has it.
Let me start off this whole things by stating that I cannot draw things. Yes I am an artist but I’m not that sort of artist. Believe me I have tried. I have a iPad full of drawing apps, the really good ones, hoping somehow that magically drawn art would happen. It didn’t. Also. I [...]
Why Art is Important.
Why is it that in the grand scheme of our immediate world, art is continually shoved to the back of the line? The back of the line for funding, for development, for space, for scheduling, for air time, for our personal attention? Recently I heard a talk radio host asserting that we needed to limit [...]
Assassins: Research and Development
Hi. My name is Michelle and I freaked myself out today. No really. I began building the research wall for Assassins this afternoon. Visual brainstorming has always been a really effective way for me to connect with shows. I use to love the production meetings where everyone brought research and sketches. It creates a common [...]
Inspiration Decoded
Tonight I overheard someone say “You’re so busying thinking outside the box, that you never stopped to look inside it.” I have no idea why that struck me in such a funny way because it doesn’t make a lot of sense. But I kept it, tucked it away in the back of my mind with [...]
Jim Henson: There and Deeper
As I kid, I was always drawn to puppet centered children’s television. Floppy was a local show that involved Duane and a dog that lived on his lap in a box. The highlight of the Floppy show was when kids got to tell Floppy jokes. The two most common jokes were “Why did the chicken [...]
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