I’ve missed some really good shows lately, walked right past them in fact, simply because there’s so much going on in NYC. So I’ve starting to make an app that pulls in all the local venues from Songkick, plots them on a Google Map, and lists the upcoming events. Actually, I’ve decided to parse event […]
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Jayati, Jerllin, Tarana and I came up with some interesting ideas for our Hacking Higher Ed presentation. One key point is that education is social, and that’s an aspect that is missing—or at least very different—in online education. The combination of Clay Shirky, my fandom class with Zoe Fraade-Blanar, and my previous experience trying to facilitate conversational […]
Python helped me to find the poetry within Emily Post’s Etiquette. First, I ran a script that output a dictionary of words that appear more than 10 times, sorted by how often they appear. I scanned this dictionary and grouped my favorites into lists. I also created a list of lines leading up to ‘rests’ […]
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In Reading & Writing Electronic Text, we’ll be writing Python scripts that take text as input, and output poetry. I searched Project Gutenberg for ‘Manners’ which led me to two public domain books. First, I found Manners and Rules of Good Society (Or Solecisms To Be Avoided), by a Member of the Aristocracy, 1916. I also […]
This week’s assignment was to perform a fanlike activity for something that we are not a fan of. I chose Jazzercise. Jazzercise is group aerobic dance to popular music. I am not a fan of any of those things, but my girlfriend is a jazzercise instructor, and I am a fan of her, so this […]
The first assignment in Fandom: Pop Subculture in a Digital Age was to create and annotate an an autobiographical fandom timeline. I put my data in a csv file and used Processing to make an interactive timeline. Then I got inspired by P5.js and did it in JavaScript. (link)
Title Web Audio Editor: A simple audio editor that works in the browser, designed for kids age 7+ (URL // source code) Description I teach music workshops at an afterschool program where kids build their own sample libraries from scratch. They find the default audio editor (Audacity) really frustrating, and I’m with them! So I […]
Audio Transformer, the Web Audio Editor, is online in a functional demo mode. It’s not ready for public testing until I prepare my server, and there are many features (and bug fixes) yet to come. But if you’d like to check it out, here it is (source code here)… I had the chance to […]