Opening Day

First day at ArtsPort 2009-2010 - He pretends like a little kid who is at his first day in camp. ArtsPort is the name of an island he made up, placing it in a great lake in an imaginary place called Emeralda Region—a mysterious place haunted by ghosts in his new “machines,” his computers. 1053 Words. ap091215. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Problem One

Thoughts of a dying diehard printmaker - Winding his way through a problem on his computer one morning he hits on an understanding of the first problem to set before online printmaking users—a kind of jigsaw puzzle of why to learn old-time printmaking in a time of digital reproduction of prints. 1287 Words. ap091021. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Coop Art

When artists share their world - This artist thinks the time is right for realizing a global artist’s co-operative that has been in existence for a hundred years, but—like people who live on a mountain so they cannot see the mountain—few artists have known about it. It is a shared world. 1475 Words. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. ap090603. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

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