Inside View

Recapping a Twitter Campaign

I am working with 30 talented first year creatives as they wind down a six week Twitter Campaign. I recapped current progress as a short audio blog item and hope there's more to come.

 

Listen to "Twitter Campaign Results E97 #filmschool2022" on Spreaker.

I've discovered the best recording equipment is often what's connected directly to a phone because I haven't been able to find the audio levels for Spreaker Studio on the Microsoft Surface Book. I think I'm going to revert to using XLR lapel mics and a shortgun mic with my Zoom H6 field recorder because the audio quality is much easier to control that way.

[Bernie Goldbach teaches creative media for business with the Technological University of the Shannon.]

ictedu unconference returns 14 May

THE 2022 ICT IN EDUCATION CONFERENCE returns to Thurles on Saturday, May 14, 2022. I'm posting the idea here only as a diary reference since several people have asked about the 2022 plans.

Why Friends Enjoy Reading

SOMETIMES I ANSWER questions about the 300 hard cover books we have in our home. I draw my answers from friends who have read more than 10 books during the previous 12 months. Friends who read help me understand why I enjoy reading.

Trying to share with local media @TippFM

IF YOU READ my personal blog, you know I've visited TippFM, our regional radio station. I would like to find a way to add to the TippFM studios some of the creative broadcasting skills we teach in our Technological University classrooms. I think there might be a way to do this with the help of Science Foundation Ireland (SFI).

The Industry RD&I Fellowship Programme at SFI supports academia-industry interactions. At TUS, we have a workflow that might address some industry‐informed challenges related to audiences that have moved away from listening on traditional radios at home to listening to presenters in apps. I think several of our TUS faculty members, informed by the practice of our students, can address this issue. SFI has a mechanism whereby faculty and postdoctoral staff can spend time in industry "through the temporary placement of academic researchers with an industry partner".

Dateline Ireland

THE 32 DAYS between the 10th of January and the 13th of February represent a period of death in my family that I observe every year. I feel the effects of aging more vividly when these memories sweep over me and in 2022 it's even stronger because I remember my father when he was as old as I am now and I know how quickly he passed away a few years later.

Including Creatives with their IOTs in Web3 h/t @marccanter4real

I'M LEADING a group of creatives into the Land of Web3 and believe Marc Canter (snapped above on a Dublin street in 2006) reads the landscape correctly when he says Web3 cannot be about one technology or one way to do things or one tech stack. Web3 becomes mainstream when it is open, flexible, and inclusive.

Hey, @gregbd, I'm trying to catch up but

ON ANOTHER NETWORK, four days past, long time friend Greg Dickson asked what I was doing. He noticed I was quiet on Twitter and hadn't uttered a word on several of the social audio apps I use. So here's a quick public update.

I'm feverishly trying to get ahead of 80 students who are taking four different academic modules I teach at the Technological University of the Shannon. I know that the next three months will challenge me with pop-up events connected to (1) major programmatic reviews and (2) COVID scares. So I'm trying a few structural interventions that should help me circumvent the potholes that will crater my calendar.

Riding with a Balaclava #fitness

OCCASIONAL VIEWERS may have noticed I now carry a three inch scar on my right cheek. I've discovered it changes to a tender blue line when I cycle during winter mornings in Ireland so I'm going to be the guy with a balaclava who occasionally stops for takeaway coffees in Clonmel on weekdays.

There's a back story worth reading if you've ever thought about skin cancer.

Some of my fav life hacks

I WROTE DOWN some of the wisest words heard during the past week. You could consider many of them as life hacks.

Floating into 2022

IT FEELS LIKE WE just floated into 2022. And you?