I always felt you can’t make that many good pictures a year. A friend of mine went to Europe for about six months; he came back and he said, “Let’s see what you’ve been doing.” I said, “I’ve only got one picture that’s any good.” And he looked at it and said, “Well, it’s worth a year’s work.” […]
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Herewith a shout-out to photographer Lynn Goldsmith, who won an extremely important battle over copyright issues and “fair use” that will serve as a precedent in many ongoing and future cases. […] We can’t know how Socrates would respond to our current situation, of course. But as someone who tries to teach in an approximation of what I understand as the Socratic style, I find synchronous online/distance learning anything but impersonal. To the contrary, it’s extremely personal, interactive, and involving. […] In short, if you work on a computer and use the internet you already have and use some applications that will serve to generate the content you need to augment your F2F teaching and begin to teach online. Your first task, then, is to take inventory of the applications with which you already work and the skillsets you already have: your present toolkit for online and distance learning. […] This 1978 lecture, taken in combination with my Y2K prognostications regarding press photography and photojournalism, recently posted here, you have some means of gauging my capacity for futurecasting. […] |
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