the whip

This week's goal:

Knot tying (proof of skill acquisition due 22 April 2015) - LATE

To kick off 2015, my writing whip partner and I decided to take on a new challenge: learning new skills. We would maintain the same weekly meeting schedule and method, but instead of completing (or talking about how to complete) our writing assignments, would assign ourselves a new skill to learn within one or two weeks time. By the time the due date rolls around, we should have completed a task which indicates that a new skills has been learned.

Below are the goals that I have assigned myself for 2015 - we'll see how many I get through before the end of the year.

Web Development

• Create a blog site using Markdown
  • DONE

Video

• Set up personal YouTube presence
• Create a series of short (3 mins or less - probably way less) videos on weekly themes

Programming language explorations

• Properly set up a Github presence and test it
  • DONE
• Code Academy
• Beginner projects in Python

Learning technology

• Figure out how to use Conducttr
• Figure out how to use ARIS
• Create a very small situated documentary
• Experience API explorations
  • Set up an LRS
  • Experiment with an authoring tool that will create xAPI statements
  • Create small interaction that will express said statements
  • Verify that statements were captured in an LRS
  • Install the Learning Locker LRS on a Raspberry Pi

Other (mostly unformed ideas)

• Get into Arduino
• Plan (not build) a reasonably complex transmedia experience
• Create a proof-of-concept using inklewriter
  • DONE
• Learn to read and write in hangul
• Knot tying (skill currently in acquisition)

Computer-assisted illustration/animation

• AfterEffects for motion graphics
• Pencil2D using the Wacom Bamboo tablet
  • DONE