Musical Press

Lesson two in the course Learn Printmaking Online - While circulating a rough draft of the syllabus for the printmaking course he has proposed on learning printmaking, online, the professor deliberates on what kind of textbook students will need to make his proposal complete. Reinvention is key, he writes. 826 Words. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. ap090603. Full text via email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Teaching Materials

Needs for Learning Printmaking Online - The designer of the world’s first online, hybrid course in the art and craft of printmaking that incorporates video game elements in its syllabus describes reasons the course is needed, what is in the box for it, and explains the reasons for taking it on. 1584 Words. ©2008 Bill Ritchie. ap080403. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

How Big A Battleship is to Wash

ArtsPort’s shipwasher - Facing current education issues in the US is like approaching the job of washing a battleship: a very large job, and not something for which to volunteer. That is true, unless you live in Washington State. The author has an offering for the US Tech Corps. 1951 Words. Copyright 1997 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Why Play?

Keeping memory alive - Keeping his brain alive is as important to this author as good nutrition is to most people. As he is in his sixties he must guard against memory loss so he is inventing a game that exercises his memory, and he uses computers and the Internet to help play. 1060 Words. Copyright 2008 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Leaving Mind

A clue from J. S. Bach - Someone once said J. S. Bach left us his mind in the composition, Well Tempered Clavier—an instance of both a beautiful and instructional work of art. It is possible that today an artist can achieve the equivalent—combining instrumentation with digital media. 610 Words. Copyright 2008 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Comic Professor

News from Lake Emeralda - Affecting the style of the renowned radio show, Prairie Home Companion, and yarns that Garrison Keillor features each episode, the Emeralda Inventor writes what it would be like to describe himself as an eccentric character in the News from Lake Emeralda. 1111 Words. 5113 Characters. Copyright 2008 Bill H. Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

We Build Our Rhythms as we Live Them

Playing Emeralda - Games for the Gifts of Life-creates rhythms in the cycles of an artist's routine activity. It's like the circadian rhythms that effect so many in the world of living things, except it is a structure that comes from within and less so from without one's self. 582 Words. ap080104. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com