From the Island of Perfect Studios, Emeralda Region

Curious Sense

2010-02-09T06:33:00.001-08:00

Taking a look at an interesting game company - The author, ever on the lookout for a partner to develop a printmaking learning game, focuses on one of the companies that made the casual game for REO Speedwagon. Having completed the game after weeks of play/deconstruction, he discovers a nice surprise. 772 Words. ps100208. ©2010 Bill Ritchie.

Another Minigame

2010-01-29T06:59:00.000-08:00

Adapting a casual game to a serious game - His project stretches his creativity. Inventing a truly new game is like that. On the other hand, he knows there’s nothing new under the sun. Yet all around are ways to make a new way of learning printmaking easy and more entertaining—like computer games. 432 Words. ps100129. ©2010 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Coffeeshop Classroom

2010-01-09T07:35:00.000-08:00

Vision of a new school - The author is a long-retired art professor who still dreams of a perfect classroom for his far-flung ideas about his domain-of-expertise, which is fine art printmaking. He’s also father of a coffeeshop owner and he wonders if he can use her shop to teach. 755 Words. ps100909. ©2010 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Teaching Teachers

2009-10-26T07:36:00.000-07:00

A loose cannon’s goal revisited - A long time ago (it must have been around 1998) I had this notion about teaching teachers. I was at a conference, and when the announcer told everyone to choose a table that described what function they filled at their school, I was flummoxed. Until now. 1165 Words. ps091026. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Blog Upgrade

2009-10-16T06:40:00.000-07:00

Getting more out of virtual teaching - This artist’s vision of the printmaking world fits in with the rise of the virtual worlds people can experience online today—such as Second Life. Today he will connect in a virtual fashion with a new offering in virtual worlds. Here he reviews his reason. 1118 Words. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. ps091016. Full text available via email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Goal Review

2009-10-06T08:52:00.000-07:00

Perfect Studios - Within months of having left institutional teaching in fine art printmaking—having found it untenable—this professor began going to business power breakfasts. One featured a speaker on Management by Goals. It has made all the difference, and needs review. 1021 Words. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. ps091006. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Goal Terminology

2009-10-06T08:49:00.000-07:00

Origins of Perfect Studios - In goal-setting, the author reviews the origins of his goal to be an art teacher in a university. Looking in the Wikipedia turns up two new words that apply to his review. The words are etiological myth and eponymous; they clarify what Perfect Studios is. 593 Words. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. ps090926. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com.

My Bucket List

2009-05-19T07:36:00.000-07:00

The movie, “Bucket List,” made renown the common idea of goal-setting, albeit in a grim storyline. The point is not lost on the author in this essay. In a small spriral notebook he jotted down some things he wants to do, and then in his computer to share. 886 Words. Full text by email request.

Twelve Tasks

2008-05-08T08:42:00.001-07:00

A dozen things online printmaking education leaders must do
From a five-year old study on the subject of leadership in distance learning, the author (who would aspire to leadership in art in the age of digital reproduction) gleans twelve tasks that author described that needed doing. He reflects on a 1970s vision. 1452 Words. Full text by email request.

Press Kit

2008-04-28T07:38:00.000-07:00

Listing the contents
The designer of an online printmaking course plans to put everything an art student needs into a box that he or she can use to learn printmaking, calling it an appropriate technology for education in the age of digital reproduction. He lists the contents. 735 Words. Email request for full text.

Restoration Theater

2008-02-19T14:34:00.001-08:00

A “mid-artist’s” notion for an art sale
Stung by the suggestion that his own handiwork and collaborative role in the birth of an artwork by an artist more renown than himself, the artist—who enjoyed a generation as an art professor at the time of this art’s making—plans a dinner sale. 1330 Words. Copyright 2008 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request.

Emeralda Curricula

2008-02-08T14:34:00.001-08:00

How a card plays
This artist is looking for a special kind of collectible artist’s playing card, one that actually “plays” in the sense of a performance. Ideas like this appear in his imagination as he envisions a game which he can use to be a virtual, virtuous professor. 543 Words. Copyright 2008 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request.

Intangible Assets in the Age of Digital Communications

2008-01-29T14:28:00.000-08:00

Notes from a venturous group
Originally titled Valuation of Intangible Assets, these are the notes from a presentation by Steve Olson and Jim Elmer of Consilium, Inc., entered from the October 1988 issue of Northwest Venture Group Newsletter compiled by Doug Batey and Kevin Collette. 1679 Words. Copyright 1989 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request.

Card Ready

2008-01-19T13:02:00.001-08:00

Preparing for the Big One
Learning that one of his artworks will be offered in a commercial art auction, the author thinks about his own version of an auction—the Big One—the kind that happens when an artist dies. It’s part of his Artist’s Last Love Letter model he needs to write. 1057 Words. 4989 Characters. Copyright 2008 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request.

Beginning and Ending Books

2008-01-09T11:26:00.001-08:00

From Confucius to Stewart and many in between
The inventor of Emeralda: Games for the Gifts of Life recollects how his readings gave him the idea of a game for asset management and legacy transfer, starting with games and ending with games. Outside sources and his inside feelings created a huge lake. 903 Words. 4243 Characters. Copyright 2008 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request.