Using Automatic Writing To Get Creative Ideas

Note: The following is a guest post from Doron Hefeitz. I’ve been a professional jeweler and a creative designer for many years. One of the things that are perhaps the most challenging about being a creative artist is having to constantly come up with new design ideas, sometimes on a daily basis. While there are [...]

A Teacher’s Experience with Emergent Task Planner

About 2-3 weeks ago, I stumbled across David Seah’s new post on ETP or Emergent Task Planner. I am currently using a planner that I ADORE but for a while, I started feeling that something was really lacking. I kept making lists after lists of things to do, invaded by sticky notes and marred by [...]

After radio silence

Thoughts on teaching This was the first day of school. 7 years ago, I was in their shoes. How quickly does time seem to race on by and how amazing that journey has been. Sometimes I wish I can tell my students that it will be all worth it, if they make it so. Make the best [...]

Short on time for professional dev? Filter through more tutorials efficiently

  I keep telling Jon, “every moment count, every moment brims with possibility and things I could accomplish.” If I don’t seize it, I see my schedule feeling the crunch and impending doom. I’m hoping this is temporary and soon my case of  limbo subsides. To relieve some of that accumulated stress, I decided to take on an Adobe Illustrator tutorial to help flex [...]

Classics #2: For the moonlighter

Though my routine has much or less changed, my other 8 hours is a crucial part of my day. Though this book had much left to be desired, it served as a starting point to what would become this post. Best take away from it though: maximize every hour that you have outside of work. [...]