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Sun
29
Mar '09

planning my summer

Lately I have begun working on my summer job. That entails working out the classes and locations for the curriculum of a summer theatre program. the students are broken down into groups and I rotate the groups thru the four different teachers, making sure that they get each group the same number of times and [...]

Sun
22
Mar '09

Academic desperation

I just spent the week in Cincinnati at the USITT conference. It covers design and technolgy for the theatre. The whole family came with which was great to see them. I would be able to have dinner with them and sometimes be able to do bedtime as well.
The conference on the whole was fruitful. [...]

Mon
2
Feb '09

Notes, posts and seats to be filled

I am up to my neck in a bunch of stuff. I never realized why the department chair spent much time in his office. Now I know why. I spend a lot of my day in my office in word processing and email programs. Working on things for the department. Things crop up all [...]

Sun
16
Nov '08

The balancing act

Well my show is open, with strike happening tonight. This weekend was pretty uneventful. The kids played with friends on Saturday, with today being a stay at home day. Although Arden was sick today so that threw some things for a loop. That seems to be one of the hardest times to be a parent. [...]

Sun
26
Oct '08

Big Apple trip

A couple of weekends ago I led a trip of students to New York City. Rob Mish and I were the chaperones, and we had 5 students with us. The students were exposed to a broad range of theatrical experiences. We arrived on Thursday, and went to ALvin Ailey’s Studios to see a [...]

Fri
24
Oct '08

Rocky mountain high Colorado

Currently I am on my way to a conference in Colorado City at Colorado College. Probably by the time can post this I will have arrived at my hotel. It is for department chairs of theater and dance. While I had to get up really early to drive down to the airport, the travel [...]

Mon
21
Apr '08

Great talk on creativity

I found this great talk how creativity is as essential as literacy.

Here is a linkto the original page.

Fri
7
Oct '05

Grading the Graders

My parents sent me an article about rating professors.If your interested I am Here . Only a couple people have rated me at this time. We’ll see how I last. What does this mean? You have to look at both the website rating system and the people rating the professors. According to [...]