October | 2009 | voxygen.net

From the monthly archives: October 2009

Randomly Musing – Madonna and Keith Richards

By ~LS~ On October 27, 2009 · Add Comment · In Feminism, Pop Culture, Random Musings and tagged Tagged With: Age, Consumption, Fashion/beauty, Feminism, Music, Pop Culture, Queer, Sexism

Read Full Article →

Fonts and Fontburner for WordPress

By ~LS~ On October 23, 2009 · Add Comment · In The Web and tagged Tagged With: Apps, Blogging, Voxygen

October 7, 2009 update: I returned to FLIR. I didn’t notice much of a different in pageload time and I there’s only one or two fonts available from Fontburner that I actually like. So, yay, it’s back to Freehand 471 for me!

Today I changed fonts. I went from Freehand 471, which I really like, to a font called Inkydinky. Silly name, but then most fonts have silly names. I changed because I was playing around with Fontburner and it seemed quicker and less taxing than FLIR, which is what I was previously using. I didn’t like the way that FLIR loaded up the headings’ default font and then switched over to the fancy font. I thought the pages looked sort of blinky. Fontburner stores the fonts for your WordPress site on their server. Unfortunately, Fontburner’s server appears to be slow and their font choices [...]

Read Full Article →

Public Speaking

By ~LS~ On October 13, 2009 · Add Comment · In Pedagogy and tagged Tagged With: Public Speaking, Teaching Speech, Technoculture

I’ve been surfing youtube in hope of finding some sample public speeches delivered by students that I can show to my public speaking class. I’m looking for examples that don’t have that polished, produced look common to publishers’ supplementary materials. There are an amazing amount of student speeches on youtube. Unfortunately, most of them seem to be videos of students delivering their speeches to their sofas. This depresses me. Clearly this is the product of online public speaking classes, something I have very mixed feelings about. Ever since I taught an Intro to Women’s Studies class through distance learning about fifteen years ago, I’ve been wary of online teaching.

There’s an MSN Money article going around about whether or not the web will kill colleges. There’s also dispute about what and how students learn in online learning environments. The article makes some interesting points [...]

Read Full Article →

Public Speaking Epic Fail

By ~LS~ On October 8, 2009 · Add Comment · In I have to work?, Pedagogy and tagged Tagged With: BRCC, Speech, Teaching, Teaching Speech

It is that time of the semester when I complain about BRCC students. I -love- my classes this semester. My students are a complete blast. I haven’t had this much fun teaching since I taught Women’s Studies at USF. I’m not sure what’s happening or why the chemistry is there. Maybe I’ve just finally hit my stride. So, yay me!

Ok, why am I bitching then?

I have one class that I just don’t understand. I mean, there are some curious dynamics in that class and I’ve discussed those dynamics openly with the students. I’m trying to regroup and change the class culture so that it is more positive. The class is quite chaotic; consequently, students are not -hearing- what they need to in order to master the material.

I’ve just posted midterm grades and out of 24 students, I posted NINE F’s. Yes, 9. Many of these F’s are [...]

Read Full Article →

The Hole Poem

By ~LS~ On October 8, 2009 · Add Comment · In This is my life? and tagged

In my first days of recovery, I found the hole poem incredibly helpful and meaningful as a metaphor for rearranging how I wanted to move through the world. I had a conversation with Willow last night about the difference between being a victim and a survivor. I hadn’t had that conversation in a long time. It provided a nice opportunity to take stock of the changes I’ve made. I would say that at this point in my life I drift between chapters three, four, and five. There are some holes that I fall into out of habits that are very hard to change, negotiating the holes on the street has become easier, and for the most part I do take a different street. Still, there are those difficult “what the fuck?” times that I fall into a hole. Moreover, sometimes I wonder if avoiding certain streets is a good thing, [...]

Read Full Article →

Widgets, apps, plugins, and other lovely things

By ~LS~ On October 8, 2009 · 1 Comment · In The Web and tagged Tagged With: Apps, Blogging, Voxygen

I love widgets, apps, plugins, and add-ons. I don’t know why I get such a kick out of these little programs, but I do. On facebook? Not so much. But on other things, yes. I am seriously considering getting a Blackberry or iPhone or some such device just so I can get more apps. So here’s a list of my apps and things:

WordPress:

Add This Social Bookmarking Widget
Akismet (of course)
Breadcrumb NavXT (neat little breadcrumb at the bottom of the page)
Clean Options (cleans up code from deleted plugins)
Collapsible Archive Widget (accordians the month/year archive in the sidebar; this one is code-heavy and increases page-load time)
Dagon Design Sitemap Generator (I love this one; it generates the sitemap page)
Exclude Pages From Navigation (standard)
Feedburner Feedsmith (standard)
FLIR for WordPress (the thing that changes my font; also increases page-load [...]

Read Full Article →

Page 1 of 212 »

Randomly Musing – Madonna and Keith Richards

Fonts and Fontburner for WordPress

Public Speaking

Public Speaking Epic Fail

The Hole Poem

Widgets, apps, plugins, and other lovely things

Categories

Archives

Blogroll

Recent Posts

Recent Comments

Meta

Catch me if you can!

Randomly Musing – Madonna and Keith Richards

Fonts and Fontburner for WordPress

Public Speaking

Public Speaking Epic Fail

The Hole Poem

Widgets, apps, plugins, and other lovely things

Categories

Archives

Tags

Blogroll

Recent Posts

Recent Comments

Meta

Catch me if you can!