RadioJames

I have been a recluse for the last four months, so you can expect that this will be a ramble. Besides spending my time at and away from work, finishing up a whole series of small web-based communication applications that I will (finally) begin to pilot in some online courses, the only other thing I’ve been doing is reading; books-blogs and journals, and these activities, though welcomed by my wife, in that I would otherwise be interrupting her studies, are, after a time, just way too insular.

So yes, I can say that I am done with my communicator app, but as a result have felt the emptiness that always follows completing a big project. Not emptiness in an emotional sense, but in the sense that I feel the lull that makes itself known when you look at your computer screen and realize that you’re organizing folders, backing up data and otherwise performing the restless movements of looking for something interesting to do. On the other hand, I know that this is just the feeling of decompression, and when I pull back from the screen and decide for once to eat at the lunch table, or across the street in the park instead of at my desk, that I’ll appreciate being out of my self made loop, if only for a short time.

example of the web app I’ve been working on. It can be added to an instructor’s course allowing the instructor and/or students to post audio and video clips using a webcam or headset mic. the player (not shown) can be embedded into a discussion or as an adjunct to a lesson etc,.