I have a wonderful family that tries to spend quality time together. Since my two oldest children are teenagers, this has become harder and harder to do. We try to create ways to spend that time when we can and this week it was a drawing contest. We were supposed …
DISCLAIMER: I am an old school Star Trek movie Trekkie, so my opinion can be jaded by how close the newest additions to the series match up to the original movies. I walked into the AMC theatre on Saturday night excited to see J. J. Abrams’s newest action filled installment …
Review of Silver Linings Playbook I want to make a declaration first about my intention to see this movie. The only reason I went to see it was because I really needed to have a night away from the house with my wife. We love watching movies together and seeing …
Standing next to the elevator, I can see them coming through the mass of confusion exploding from the rooms of suppressed socialization. I am noticing, though not openly staring, two beautiful figures who are propelling along within a sea of energetic youth. It is hard not notice. They are noticeable …
Slowly, my eyes break the surface of the water. Ah the air feels so nice and cool! A slow blink rinses my eyes and clears my vision of the surrounding sky. Without moving or blinking, I scan the entire horizon for a hawk or an owl. Seeing nothing, I stretch …
I have been playing Star Craft 2 with my son for a few years now. It seems like my obsession goes back and forth between Star Craft 2 and World of Warcraft. I never seem to be playing both during the same period. During my most recent foray into SC2, …
It has been a while since my last post. The summer was busy and my family deserved every second of my time. They sacrificed time with my while I was in school, so I spent the summer repaying them in … Continue reading →…
I am determined to fish at least one day a weekend for the entire spring/summer season. I started at the end of April with a fishing trip to Lake Ontario. This week I visited Balsam Pond for panfish. It was … Continue reading →…
One of my favorite places in all of New York State is FairHaven Beach State Park. It is a nice family friendly park on Lake Ontario just north west of Syracuse. My wife and I have been visiting this park every … Continue reading →…
Well it has been a while since I last posted. I have been extremely busy working as a substitute at Harpursville CSD. It has been great and the staff and students have been great to me. Anyhow back to Naruto… … Continue reading →…
I had a thought as I read through the latest of installment of Mashashi Kishimoto’s Naruto series, am I being overly critical? I thoroughly enjoy reading the series, but I have been critical of the path that Kishimoto has taken … Continue reading →…
But do they say anything? In the latest installment of the Naruto series, Orochimaru is successful in reanimating the the four dead Hokages. Fans of the series finally get to see the personalities of the legendary characters that they have … Continue reading →…
Review of Silver Linings Playbook I want to make a declaration first about my intention to see this movie. The only reason I went to see it was because I really needed to have a night away from the house … Continue reading →…
For those of us who have read the latest chapter of Naruto Shippuden, does something feel wrong about the direction that Masashi Kishimoto is taking? It feels to me like he isn’t sure about the direction that chapters are taking. … Continue reading →…
Video Games get a bad rap with the older generations, but that tide should turning soon. It seems like education has been trying to catch up with the technology in our world for sometime. Ten years ago I remember taking … Continue reading →…
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Keith Kilmer
C. Sarver
4/30/12
For my efolio, I chose a black background because I think it projects a professional image. I want my personality to come through in the photos and the texts, so the background should emphasize simple professionalism. For the picture, I had my wife take a …
When the semester began, the idea of what a text was seemed cut and dry. Essays were simply textual constructions on paper to read by the professor. In a short span of time, that representation has become problematized. Reading the blog posts of my colleges …
This is my introduction to the Literature Review Article. I was just presenting some of the little tidbit facts about gaming and education before I talked about the research. I am going to be posting a tutorial on how I did it in the next couple of days. It was …
I entered this chat last week and thought the archive was working, but I still can get the twitter tools to work on my site. So I am tired of waiting. To be honest I was a bit disappointed by this chat. I chose it because I am seriously interested …
I know what you’re thinking, but no I am not blogging about the rising multi-culturalism of our classrooms. Instead, I am talking about the amount of time we spend in digital communities. It is reaching a moment of critical mass where we will be spending more time interfacing with technology …
Info fluency is an important topic when you want to consider 21st century skills of today’s kids. Students will need to know where they can get the information that they need for not only school projects, but their lives. Everyone is so connected, that soon everything you will need to …
Info fluency is an important topic when you want to consider 21st century skills of today’s kids. Students will need to know where they can get the information that they need for not only school projects, but their lives. Everyone is so connected, that soon everything you will need to …
Online collaboration allows for the work of students to be completed across the Internet without ever meeting. The most important component is that the students will have to be somewhat self sufficient. By not meeting they will have to be able to work independently or with a little connection between …
The podcast was a lot fun to do. I began a little apprehensive about how we were going to complete this project when half our group commuted to campus and spring right around the corner. At this time I am still unsure about what the final product sounded like. I …
Bleeding Magenta! I took this photo of this carnation and used the paint photoshop program to turn the flower to greyscale and then I sprayed magenta around it with the help of my beautiful wife to give it a reverse effect. TDC 59
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Southern Accent Audio Assignment #383 #2 stars
This was my rendition of a person with a southern accent ordering a quarter pounder with cheese at McDonald’s. I am from the New York so my southern is not very good. I hope I don’t offend anybody. I used garageband app with …
How about something like this for a bumper? Good Morning Vietnam with Robin Williams is a great movie about a Dj during the Vietnam war(obviously). The intro to the radio-cast is iconic and I think would be a good way to open up the shows. He flies at light speed …
