one month to valentine’s day! whatever shall i do with all the flowers and chocolates i’ll receive? yeah, right. ok. back to reality.<\/p>\n
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\n sleeping through the night really sucks. have i mentioned that before?
\n at least i slept for three hours before waking up. can’t complain too
\n much though as it’s given me the chance to find more photographic evidence
\n that cooki is the devil. clearly this evidence is irrefutable. is it any
\n wonder i cannot sleep when i know this creature inhabits my mother’s house?<\/p>\n
i’m reading what seems like the lamest book ever written. well, not counting
\n those horrible, thick, late victorian novels by eliot and trollope. gad,
\n the very thought of it makes me carry on in long, stupid sentences that
\n really don’t have any true content, but oh, the truth of the indignities
\n of the horrors of the social uproar, of the trollopes traipsing through
\n the attics and cellars, oh for the way we were, for the pure who march
\n down the middle of the street knowing the true heart of kindness gains
\n the just reward of neverending sorrow and punishment in the upheavals
\n that humankind heaps upon the, oh dear, merciful Lord, dare i say it,
\n oh for it was the jest of times, and the wurst of times, for she saw sage
\n not and yet, heaving upon the ebbing tide of wastrels that lurked upon
\n the shore, tempests tossed forth by the gerry meandering that left the
\n country divided and yet singularly unified in the tampering mischief against
\n which they could hold no course in wide opposition and defense, for the
\n colours of the night they bleed into the streets, tearing at the hearts
\n and eyes and very fingers of those who…oh, good lord, how did that happen?<\/p>\n
um, i’m reading a friends of ed book. i thought all foe books had a reputation "Oh!" Zed almost leaped out of his chair. "See how smart you are without that scarf?" I asked. <\/p>\n (Goin 389)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n when i picked up the book, i thought that the paragraphs Wes retrieved a toy from his pocket. "Look what We all looked at the glass prism he held between his thumb and forefinger. "Wow!" Zed bent forward to get a better look. Steve ran "Hard to believe this little prism can capture so much energy," "Thanks for bringing in that prism, Wes, that’s the perfect intro Bonnie shivered. "If I”d known how much science and math played Steve put his arm around Bonnie, "Aw, don’t let it worry you—I’ll Zed arched his eyebrows. "Don’t let her play that game on you, Steve grinned, and Bonnie looked flustered. "Well, don’t we look "Let’s get in there then!" Lisa grinned. She unlocked the (Goin 322-23)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n dear lord, don’t we look silly indeed? who thought that it’s not just that i find the style annoying and the information one month to valentine’s day! whatever shall i do with all the flowers and chocolates i’ll receive? yeah, right. ok. back to reality. not sleeping through the night really sucks. have i mentioned that before? at least i slept for three hours before waking up. can’t complain too much though as it’s given me the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sqzI8-12","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2188,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/2188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n of being really good, but this one is trying my patience something fierce.
\n it’s Learn Design with Flash MX (for Absolute Design Beginners). <\/i> the
\n premise was to explain design concepts (e.g., how hue and saturuation
\n work, why shadows are darker where they are darker and lighter where they
\n are lighter, how the eye flows over a page of text) within the concept
\n of saying how you’d do these things in Flash MX. ok, sounded like a good
\n idea. i figured i could kill two birds at once, brushing up on my design
\n skills while figuring out some of the mysteries of Flash (which i’m to
\n use for a lot of the interactives i’m building). but…the book is set
\n up to follow the class sessions of a representative class who encounter
\n this information. and by that i mean the book is a supposed narrative
\n of the class sessions these people have: <\/p>\n\n
\n
\n "You’re drawing cartoon frames! That’s how some comics show action
\n without showing every single movement. It’s just like watching Lisa
\n under that strobe light at the theater, too. We knew she got from
\n one movement to the next, and we knew how she got there, even if we
\n couldn’t actually see it."<\/p>\n
\n looked short and choppy, but i trusted the publisher. now i realize that
\n those short, choppy paragraphs were paragraphs and paragraphs of inane
\n classroom chatter interspersed between actual content about design and
\n Flash. even the relevant content takes on this horrible interplay between
\n teacher and students: <\/p>\n\n
\n
\n I have," he announced. "The eye of light!"<\/p>\n
\n He moved it around until a rainbow of light shot from the side of
\n the prism onto the brick wall of the theater.<\/p>\n
\n his hand through the rainbow of light. [The reader vomited].<\/p>\n
\n Wes stated. "Waves of light are bombarding this glass at a speed
\n of 186,000 miles per second. The light waves are captured, bent as
\n they enter the prism, and then bent again as they leave the glass.
\n The energy is converted into visible color."<\/p>\n
\n for today’s lesson." I talked as the students passed the pyramid
\n of light around. [ok, i’m sure i’ve made my point, but this passage
\n is so absurd, i’m typing it to the end so that someone else has to
\n experience this schlock with me.] "The discoveries Isaac Newton
\n made with his studies of prisms and light in the late 1600s formed
\n the basis of modern physics," I added. "However, color theory
\n now has its own place within the arts, and that’s what we’ll focus
\n on today at this theater." <\/p>\n
\n a part in design. I’m not sure if I would have come to this class." <\/p>\n
\n bet you didn’t know that if you sent those beams of colored light
\n through another prism, the beams would turn into white light again." <\/p>\n
\n Steve. She’s mad about this kind of stuff. Every time we meet to work
\n on our design, she’s got some book or other about physics and art
\n with her."<\/p>\n
\n silly, out here on the street passing a prism around. When are we
\n going to see the theater lights?"<\/p>\n
\n front door, and we entered the lobby, ready for our adventure with
\n color.<\/p>\n
\n this was what a class sounded like? and who thought that this was a good
\n way to teach design and software? i’m all for getting at alternative learning
\n styles, and i’m sure that there are folks out there who find this sort
\n of narrative approach more, well, approachable than the traditional sorts
\n of pedagogical documentation. but i’m just left wondering how this representation
\n of classroom instruction, for all its efforts to provide a transcript
\n of class interaction, has really created a sort of PC classroom where
\n the students always seem miraculously to have prisms in their pocket at
\n just the right pedagogical moment and the banter of the classroom devolves
\n into a transcript where the real trials and errors of teaching are censored
\n from the picture. <\/p>\n
\n in the text hard to ferret out between the supposedly comical classroom
\n asides and narrative structures. it’s that i find this representation
\n of the classroom really violates what i know about how we teach, about
\n how a "real" classroom works, and about what being a student
\n and teacher in a classroom feels like. on second thought, maybe i would
\n rather read middlemarch<\/i>. i’m certainly bored enough by this text
\n to try sleeping again anyway. it does have that value.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"