It is indeed showtime, folks. Like Weez, I’d forgotten how much I enjoy being in the classroom, especially when teaching the web design classes I enjoy most.
And on the professional front, interesting activities are just ahead. A social software workshop at USC, a visit to Redmond, and an NSF workshop in October; the CSCW conference in November.
Summer was a good and healing hibernation period for me, but I find that when I’m not regularly interacting with colleagues—in person, not just online—my mind is less active, less creative, less productive. Being around my RIT colleagues re-energizes my teaching self, and being able to travel this fall to see colleagues with whom I share research and writing interests is re-energizing my research self.
Thanks to Tona (and her student Chris), I’ve installed Chris Pederick’s excellent Web Developer Extension for Firefox (also available for Mozilla).
It adds a new toolbar to my browser, with a slew of useful tools—from quickly displaying and tweaking a document’s CSS to running validator and accessibility checks. One of the coolest features is its ability to outline elements on a page…so you can see all the block elements, for example, or all the frames. Extremely useful for me when grading student projects, and even more useful for showing underlying structure when teaching.
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