Artifacts 2 and 3 of Sunseri's final portfolio are immediately below!

Artifact 2: Russify your typing

This short interactive video will help students of Russian learn how to teach themselves to type. Guess what? It's fun and easy and very, very empowering!

About doing the podcast

I have never spent so many hours on ten minutes as I did on creating my first podcast, posted on this page. In contrast, creating a 50-minute powerpoint lecture is a piece of cake, at least for me. Hope the Professor X identity isn't too cheesy. Still, been a long time since I have experienced such a sense of accomplishment. Doing this project really got me over some technology phobias I never fully realized I had!  Now I have to resist trying to force all my friends and family to listen to it.

Artifact 3: Professor X's First Podcast

Ever wonder what it's like for first generation college students? Listen to Professor X's first podcast to hear from three of Texas Tech's own.

Opening post

All that you touch

You Change.

All that you Change

Changes you.

The only lasting truth

is Change.

God

Is Change

from Octavia Butler's  Parable of the Talents

What do I hope to accomplish with this blog? I would like to encourage a dialogue that enables people to communicate through the "stuff" of their life. What books do you read? What music do you plug into? In the past, was it the same? Are you in a state of stasis? I think most would find that their tastes and interests have evolved over the years. My thesis is that if we consider how we spend our time, we come to understand how we have evolved. Have you ever kept a journal? Then, years later you stumble upon it and realize that you can't completely identify with that person any longer, but the change was so incremental, you didn't even realize it was occurring. For me, it is the books I choose to read, the music I choose to soothe or excite me, and yes, the websites I choose to lurk around in that best reflect my interests and concerns as they now stand. It is culture, both with a capital "C" and a small "c". And so I invite you to blog with me about the ideas we come across, the thoughts that entertain us, the portals we enter when we are alone or with those close to us. Hopefully, a fruitful dialogue will emerge as we get to know one another.