Curious Sense

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.