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Hello, World!

Folks who know me from podcasting might not know that I’m a teacher. Listeners who know me from the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper might not know about Tales from the Lammas Wood. Some of you may know me as a teacher or as an expert in web accessibility or … well, you get [...]

September 4, 2011 | 4 Comments »

Fantasy

In 2009, my friend Mur Lafferty challenged me to complete NaNoWriMo in half a month. For the un-initiated, NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month and it falls in November each year. To win, write at least 50,000 words of a new extended work of fiction starting at midnight on the morning of November 1 and [...]

September 3, 2011 | 5 Comments »

Science Fiction

In January, 2007, I sat down at my word processor to see if I could write a novel-length work of science fiction. I was tired of the save-the-universe stories where the hero was a king or the captain of the ship. I wanted to know what that famous red-shirted crewman did before he got sent [...]

September 3, 2011 | 10 Comments »

Voice Work

One of the axioms at Podiobooks is that everybody hates the sound of their own voice. The dichotomy between what you hear in your head when you speak and the actual sound that gets recorded and played back sets up a “this just ain’t right” loop in most folks. Imagine my surprise when people started [...]

September 2, 2011 | 4 Comments »

Teaching

In 2004 the University of Northern Colorado bestowed a Ph.D. in Educational Technology on me. I specialized in distance education, interactive media, and instructional design. Distance education is a personal mission. In my 20s I got out of the Coast Guard and tried to get a diploma. In rural Maine, that was a difficult proposition [...]

September 1, 2011 | Comments »

Accessibility

For thirteen years I worked in the field loosely known as accessibility. My job was technologies coordinator for the National Center on Severe and Sensory Disabilities at the University of Northern Colorado. I started in 1999 as a graduate assistant helping to build the first online master’s degree in education for the blind. The project [...]

September 1, 2011 | Comments »

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