Capping the TO on purpose.
I’m at North West Missouri State University in Liberty, MO (I think, the university itself is in Marysville but the workshop is in Liberty and I flew into Kansas City).
Media Computation by Mark Gurdail. Now he teaches the way I want to learn. Still a lot of talking BUT most people need a lot of the background. I’ve done both pictures and sound for a long time, and am comfortable with them, but I recognize that not all CS people are. Comes from ham radio and some other of my hobbies, plus a couple of years of teaching engineering.
I’ve also done some media computation his way.
Here’s what I like — lots of hands on examples, just you can type and try as he’s talking. And stuff you can tweak. Plus he doesn’t mind that.
I’ve been doing that a lot today.
He also does some "homework" — we had an hour in class to work each assignment and we’ve had a picture and a sound assignment.
Now doesn’t get me wrong — the Tapestry workshop is good and I’m still working on digesting that material. It’s just that this style fits me well, and fits most of my students.
Of course, my teaching philosophy tends to be –> point in the right direction and stay out of the way until they get stuck.