I love talking to people about the exciting work they’re doing. I love it more when their work resonates with something I’m doing. I love it the most when finding people whose exciting work resonates with my own is part of my professional responsibilities. While teaching, I realized that the willingness to ask people to… Read more »
Posts Categorized: media
“Do a lot of work. Do a huge volume of work.”
The work that folks did for #30daysofcreativity continues to astound, weeks after. This fine example of kinetic typography is just one of many, and fitting for the topic of how to get better at being creative. Ira Glass explains why you just have to keep going, even when your initial attempts, or years of attempts, fall… Read more »
Industrial Archeology, Hacker Tourism, and How Building the Internet Worked Circa 1996
Let’s say you’re reading this in Egypt, or Hong Kong, or London. How exactly do bits and bytes get from this web server (somewhere in California) to your far-flung screen? It’s not satellites or magic, but it is crazy. There’s a wire running along the bottom of the ocean with beams of light screaming through… Read more »
Euphemisms (30 Days of Creativity: Day 15)
Cinematic Appreciation Film Studies Celluloid Culture Motion Picture Explorations Cinematheque
Hi, I'm Andrew Plemmons Pratt. I am the Program Manager for New Classrooms in Washington, DC. (Though opinions expressed on this site are entirely my own.) I taught 7th-grade English in Prince George’s County, Maryland as a member of the 2010 Teach For America corps. I write about literacy & edtech here—along with stuff like industrial archeology and bread baking.