Ongoing Investigations

Blog

  • The Power of Games in Virtual Events

    I recently got to do something really cool: be a guest on a podcast! Maren Deepwell and I have worked together for several years in various capacities, including on a couple of virtual conferences, most recently Reclaim Open 2025 back in November. I was part of the blog-a-thon, but I also hosted a session, and…

  • Thoughts on Reclaim Open 2025

    Thoughts on Reclaim Open 2025

    It’s taken me a minute, but I wanted to sit down and write about Reclaim Open last week. It was a great conference, and since blogging was one of the key topics, I figured a blog post would be the best way to cap it off. The whole experience was really fantastic, but I’ll start…

  • Making Zines for Reclaim Open 2025

    When I was invited to be a part of Reclaim Open 2025, I decided I would use the opportunity as a challenge to do something I’d been mulling over for a long time: creating a zine. I tried my hand at zine making while I was at Reclaim, for a project that unfortunately had to…

  • Answering the Challenge

    Maren challenged me to take part in a sort of blogging chain mail challenge, answering questions about my blogging process and my history with the blog. I don’t post on here very often (my most recent post is from nearly a year ago, yikes!) but answering some questions seemed like a simple and quick way…

  • Drafting a Scope of Work

    This past week I had cause to make a scope of work for a client from scratch, which is something I don’t get to do very often. I figured I could blog the process just to document it, though I’m not going to share any examples from the actual SOW I made — just outlines.…

  • What I’m Learning from Learning French

    So there are people way more equipped than me to talk about How To Support Learning. But following up on my post from a couple weeks ago about what makes self-directed online learning difficult, I wanted to think about how to ease some of the issues I was talking about. The two things that came…

  • Mapping DoOO’s Systems

    So there’s two reasons for this post. The first is that I was going through my list of those miscellaneous ideas that you can do at some point in the future that would be fun or helpful (hopefully) but that you never quite get around to, and I saw something on there that seemed like…

  • Learning to Learn; or, Online Barriers for Total Beginners

    Coming off of Reclaim Open, one of the things I’m thinking about is online resources for self-teaching beginners. When we were interviewing people for the documentary, we asked people what they were glad the internet had now, in the present, that it hadn’t had in the past. And a lot of people — not everyone,…

  • Emailcraft the Pilot Way

    So to start — this isn’t a formula. Or, the blog post might seem like a formula, or a checklist or something like that, but really what it’s meant to be is a distillation of a lot of things that I don’t actively think about when I write emails, turned into something explainable. So maybe…

  • Monster of the Week in 2022 & 2023

    I did a lot in 2022, but one thing I’m pretty proud of was dipping my toes into GMing an actual campaign for the tabletop RPG Monster of the Week. MOTW is a Powered by the Apocalypse game that takes its inspiration from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Supernatural, The Dresden Files, The X-Files, and other…

css.php