Shawn Decker - Composer, artist, and teacher at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Will Luers - The profile pic of his choice.
Will Luers is a media artist, teacher, and writer. He has taught writing, film studies and media arts at Parson’s School of Design, Hunter College, Portland State University, and Pacific University. He now teaches at Washington State University Vancouver. He has won award and recognition for his work, including awards in best screen play, and been acknowledged by Forbes.com. Currently, he resides in Portland, Oregon.
Charles Edward Fambro “is a Sound Composer, free turntablist, and visual artist.” – Rhizome.com
A stop motion video for the 50 Mistakes Assignment
Create rich portfolios for your site using the NextGen Gallery plug-in. Open the Gallery Manager in your Dashboard (the back end, where you do all your writing and customizing) to create gallery names and upload images (it likes zip files, if you have a lot). Then, link the galleries to your pages and posts.
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You can also choose Upload/Insert and upload and attach images right into your posts.
Prepare batches of Web-ready images for your online work. I export directly from iPhoto in batches sized apx 1000 pixels wide and 72dpi. That way they are always large enough but I don’t waste time and server space uploading high-rez images.
~admin – write over these notes with your own copy, or delete them. The NextGen Gallery is already installed. There are other media plug-ins you can activate in the Dashboard to further customize your site.
Massartonline.org/people runs on the blogging platform WordPress, powerful website and blog software that makes it easy to create a rich media interactive website. Use this for your graduate work here at MassArt. Add your coursework, writing, e-Portfolios presentations and collaborative projects here, at your site, and in the private Art Education Graduate group.
There are two kinds of content that can be added to the site
Categories help your content organized.
Comments encourage feedback and discussion. There are spam-catching features in place, however, read about the various options for comments, especially if you are planning on opening your comments up to the public.
Privacy. Your blogs are currently set so that search engines do not crawl them, making them less likely to attract spam. They can be private, so that only logged-in members can see them. Individual posts can be password protected, also, when necessary. There are other levels of privacy available under the “privacy” menu.
You can export the content of this blog and import it into another WordPress site (or some of the other blogging platforms). You can import content, also. You may also create other blogs here, for other projects.
Happy Blogging!
~admin.
Write over or delete this page, or set it to draft to keep as a reference.
