KILKENNY -- Well aware of the global levels of competition faced by my current cohort of college students, I am trying to get more out of each level of assessment. Because I have to increase student productivity if I expect to enhance th...
ONE WEEK INTO an new academic semester at Tipperary Institute and I already have several work practises that I hope become topics of staff development conversations in LIT. The singlemost interesting item is my desire to reduce each majo...

I SPEND PART of many weekends rewinding social audio conversations and today I've made 20 "shout-outs" to regulars who stop by my watering hole at Anchor.fm/topgold (Click for RSS feed). I've also mentioned a dozen people who didn't get...
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Snap of @topgold's strap-on.
I'M STICKING TO MY fitness resolution because I often wear a heart rate monitor under my moobs to remind me what being fat feels like. And I'm also purging a lot of notifications from my life as part of ...
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UPDATED 7 FEBRUARY 2020: This is the first blog post I've made that integrates content from my Github Gists. If I continue this practice, I believe I will be able to reduce the number of dead links on my website. That would be a major ...
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I TEACH JOURNALING to Media Writing students and for the next three years I plan to enhance that creative process with a few specific tips. One is to require a double spread page of speech bubbles and another task is to show a page tha...
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I HAVE A LOT OF THOUGHTS about leadership bubbling up inside my second brain. Leadership is a prime topic following me from my days as an Air Force officer and it's the main feature during Congregation 2021.
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By Bernie Goldbach in Clonmel. Screenshot by @topgold.
I STARTED EXPERIMENING with Veed.io on my Samsung Note 9 handset. Here are a few impressions concerning mobile content production, project templates, and
workflow.
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By Bernie Goldbach in Clonmel
I’M TRYING TO reboot writing on my iPad Mini so I’m creating a short blog post by typing thoughts on a Brydge Mini keyboard. I plan to select all the words, paste them into a Typepad editing screen, a...
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