m2h blogs by Marcia Hansen

You need a break, right? Why don’t you make your own head? If only, getting a brand new head was as easy. Ron and Joe also sell clip art, but I found the above under free stuff.

I think I mentioned that I was going to be taking a couple of Photoshop classes. Today was the first class. We started the class by drawing a simple picture of a house. He walked us through different tools on the tool pallet and showed how they worked. I was ok [...]

I happened to mention the word computer and music to someone else in English Studies and I witnessed their defenses go up, immediately. Umm, hors d’oeuvre anyone? As much as I’d like to continue the conversation, I know there are some situations when no matter what I say, the other person will [...]

Just so you know why blogging may come and go in spurts. However, I am trying some new things in my professional writing class that I want to blog about. Also, I am co-teaching a course, Introduction to Composing with Digital Media, that I really must blog about soon. I will do [...]

Oh, spare me. In my del.icio.us inbox, I received my first piece of Agloco spam from urlhunter who promotes Agloco, a company that promises to pay me to surf.
More on this company here: Web 1.0 Undead Rise: AGLOCO
Writing “Agloco spam” from urlhunter could be considered a digital literacy as it links the company and [...]

Mom asked for a Christmas list and someone else asked how to attach documents to a blog. So I thought I’d test out Google Docs & Spreadsheet’s publish function.
Marcia’s 2006 Christmas List

Note: it’s also possible to publish directly to your blog. You can choose a blog at a free blog site or [...]

I gave a talk to about 20 teachers in the Columbia area today. I always am so excited to do these sorts of things. I really like helping others get started blogging and it’s exciting to see their eyes light up when they start getting ideas of how they might use blogging with [...]

In “The Language of New Media,” Lev Manovich discusses “cinematic perception” and “unconventional points of view” possible because of the advent of movable film and cameras.
It occurs to my that this movement made possible by new media and tools also applies to the act of writing in new media.
Donna posted the other day that blogging [...]

My students are submitting their formal writing assignments as PDFs. I wanted them to have the experience of transfering a document in a form that is more stable (from a production standpoint) and think about the idea that not everyone has all of the same software, fonts, etc. on their computers. I need [...]

I am so excited. I just received an invitation from the Prairie Lands Writing Project here in Missouri to be their guest speaker at a Saturday workshop the end of September. I’ll put together a 4 hour workshop to help them kick off their digital media initiative this year. It pays a [...]