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.

My Bucket List

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

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.