Your Passport

Your passport is your portfolio - For his idea for a user interface to go with an online fine art printmaking class for the 21st Century printmaker, the author has used the passport as a metaphor for building a portfolio. He uses a game made by a rock band, which has a book, to get ideas. 330 Words. ri100120. ©2010 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emerald.com

Finding My Own Way to Printmaking World

Another metaphor for learning printmaking online - This journey on a new pathway started when his wife mentioned a rock group started an online game to help boost sales of their music. You pay to play, she said, and in the course of playing you are getting their advertising. Great idea! So he started out. 2230 Words. ri091206. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Play Space

Experimenting with learning printmaking online - The author works on ways to participate in teaching and learning, research, practice and community service online as well as in the real world. He has been inventing ways to do these things by using online 3D worlds—virtual worlds—for a printmaking world. 1601 Words. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. ri091017. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com