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E-Learning Queen

E-Learning Queen focuses on online and distributed training and education, from instructional design to e-learning and mobile solutions, with emphasis on real-world e-learning issues and applications for higher education, training, K-12, and not-for-profit.

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Bruce Goff, Brilliant Rebel Architect -- Good luck...

E-Learning Queen ·

2025/08/04

I’ve always been captivated by the unconventional, the visionary, and the beautifully strange—and no architect embodies those qualities quite like Bruce Goff. His work speaks to me not just as an admirer of design, but as someone who values creativity that refuses to be boxed in by tradition. Goff’s use of unexpected materials—coal, glass cullet, feathers—and his imaginative, almost dreamlike structures make me feel like architecture can transcend mere function and become something poetic, deeply

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Teaching Technical Subjects Online? Tap Into the...

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2025/07/20

Designing effective online courses—especially for technical disciplines like engineering, data science, and computer programming—requires more than organizing lectures, videos, and assignments. It demands creativity at every level, from course structure to learner engagement. But what kind of creativity are we talking about?A fascinating 2018 paper by Leslee Lazar, "The Cognitive Neuroscience of Design Creativity," provides a roadmap. According to Lazar, design creativity is distinct from both

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Summary of a Conversation with Rochelle Owens, July 2

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2025/07/15

In this wide-ranging, philosophically rich conversation, (linked here) Rochelle Owens reflects on aging, bodily transformation, philosophical influences, quantum mechanics, and poetic creation. The main question – what have been the core issues and ideas that animated you during COVID and after, are addressed. The answer starts with a frank acknowledgment of the physical body the houses the ideas that lead to production of art and literature.Rochelle Owens, Patterns of AnimusOwens connects deeply

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Rochelle Owens: Reflections on Body, Mind, and Mystery

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2025/07/13

Conversation on July 2, 2025 with Susan Smith NashSusan Smith Nash: With the advent of COVID and devastating global events, Rochelle Owens produced new poetry with deep philosophical insights that connect with her body of work, and also forges new directions and connections.Her books during that time include The Aardvark Venus: New and Selected Poems (1961 – 2020) published in 2020 and Patterns of Animus: Poetry, with Accompanying Essays and Reviews (2022).I had the opportunity to have a

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Building Fortress-Level Assessment Security: What 591...

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2025/07/10

Picture this: You've just finished designing what you think is a bulletproof online course, complete with engaging content and thoughtful assessments. But then that nagging voice in the back of your head whispers, "How do I know students aren't just Googling or ChatGPTing their way through my carefully crafted exams?"If you're an instructional designer who's ever lost sleep over assessment security, you're not alone. A comprehensive study by researchers Nas Ahadiat and Mohamed I. Gomaa surveyed 591

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When Academia Meets the Abyss: Review of H. N....

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2025/07/09

H.N. Hirsch's mystery novel, Winter (Pisgah Press, 2025)operates as both an academic mystery and an intimate domestic drama, weaving together the public investigation of the murder of an obnoxious professor with the private crisis threatening a colleague and his long-term relationship The novel's strength lies in its authentic portrayal of academic culture, drawing on Hirsch's extensive experience in higher education to expose the toxic intersection of intellectual ambition, institutional politics,

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Kickapoo Kamp, Kerrville, TX -- 100 years old: ...

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2025/07/06

Many prayers for the victims of the tragic flooding at summer camps, including Camp Mystic, in the Texas Hill Country. What happened over the 4th of July weekend is truly heart-rending. The piece I am sharing here was written before the tragedy. It offers memories but changes identities, as a tribute to the life-changing experience of Kickapoo Kamp, hoping it encourages others to spend a moment to reflect on their own happy memories.Link to recording: https://youtu.be/8HuqAn7PXfISpeakers near the

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Todos Santos: Just published!

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2025/06/29

What if death wasn’t the end—but only a border? And what ifsomeone found a way to cross it? Dr. Wisteria Vanish, a trauma psychologist grappling with unbearable grief, is drawn to the remote desert town of Todos Santos, Mexico, where whispers of resurrection swirl around a rogue military medic. In an underground lab carved from ancient stone, the dead stir—but what returns may not be human. Available now on Amazon.comTodos Santos is a philosophical literary science fiction novel that follows

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Why Neuroscience Matters in Website and eLearning Design

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2025/06/20

When it comes to designing websites and eLearning programs, it's easy to get caught up in tools and templates—but there’s something deeper that can really elevate your work: understanding how the brain responds to design. Neuroscience isn’t just for labs and textbooks. It offers practical, powerful insights into how users take in information, stay engaged, and remember what they learn. And when we apply those insights, we can create learning experiences that are not just functional, but

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How Did Teresa de Avila keep from being killed as a...

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2025/06/18

Teresa of Ávila lived in 16th-century Spain during a time when the Catholic Church was incredibly suspicious of anyone claiming direct spiritual experiences. The Spanish Inquisition was at its peak, and mystical experiences were often viewed as potentially heretical or even demonic. Women, especially, faced scrutiny if they claimed to have visions or direct communication with God.Teresa became known as a mystic because of her extraordinary spiritual experiences - ecstatic visions, levitation during

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Sophie Charlotte Belnos: A 19th-Century Company...

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2025/06/04

Sophie Charlotte Belnos (1795-1865) stands as a significant figure among the Company Artists—European artists who documented Indian life during the British colonial period. Her meticulous illustrations of Hindu religious practices and Bengali cultural life represent some of the earliest ethnographic visual records of colonial India, offering unique insights into the intersection of European artistic techniques and Indian cultural documentation.‘Nautch Girl or Bengal Singing Girl’Early Life and

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Fountain Square, Baku, New Year's Eve 1999

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2025/05/31

The fountains surge at mechanical intervals against the Caspian night, their waters catching fragments of light from small fireworks that bloom and die in children's hands. Their sound mimics conversation—the rhythmic murmur of voices just beyond comprehension, like the Russian phrases that drift past my ears, half-familiar syllables that force me to strain for meaning that hovers always just out of reach. Art nouveau facades curve around the square in elegant contradiction—wrought iron railings

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Time-Lapse Expressions: The Modernist Vision of...

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2025/04/25

I would love to have seen the new art at the 1913 Armory Show and that which followed. Marcel Duchamp’s “Nude Descending a Staircase” was mocked and referred to as shingles flying everywhere. Earlier, in 1912, Giacomo Balla’s painting, likewise portrayed motion in multiples. Now, all audiences would automatically recognized it as individual frames from motion picture film. The way of seeing reality is fascinating – it’s a convergence of the new technologies in x-ray (seeing the skeletal form), and

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The Joy of Gymnastics: OU Meets Arkansas at Norman -...

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2025/02/02

I had an amazing experience! I had the chance to attend the OU-Arkansas women’s gymnastics meet at Lloyd Noble on Friday, January 31.University of Oklahoma gymnast getting ready for floor exercise.I love OU’s women’s gymnastics, and I was really excited to see that now that we’re in the SEC, we would have a meet against the University of Arkansas where World Cup Floor Ex champion and Olympics alternate, Joscelyn Roberson, is competing. I purchased great seats for myself, Shandell, and little

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Unsung Hero: My Mother-in-Law

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2025/01/12

Myrtle Juanita Robertson was born July 16, 1924 at the Central State Hospital in Norman, Oklahoma. Despite its name, Central State was no ordinary hospital. It was, in fact, the State of Oklahoma’s largest hospital for the mentally ill and the criminally insane. Her mother had been institutionalized after the death of her husband, but there are no remaining stories of why she was institutionalized, nor why her 11 children were all given up for adoption. Myrtle Juanita, who always went by “Juanita”

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Unsung Hero: Susan LaFlesche Picotte (1865 - 1915)

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2025/01/12

In July 2024, I had the chance to participate in an event at the National Academies of Science in Washington, D. C. The topic was how best to clean up the orphan oil and gas wells that can pollute the air and groundwater, and thus improve the living conditions for many people, especially those who suffer from socio-economic hardship.The building was a majestic example of intricate Art Nouveau with stained glass, wrought iron, and lovely nooks and hidden galleries where tributes to the nation’s most

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A Philosophy of Teaching using AI

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2025/01/12

Sharing my own thoughts and philosophy on teachingWith the advent of ubiquitous AI tools, I’ve renewed my emphasis on connections to real-world experiences as a way to both learn and to communicate the attainment of knowledge, and demonstrating achievement of learning objectives.It is interesting to see how people use Large Language Model generative AI. They may enter a prompt from the discussion board into AI to see what it delivers. It usually delivers information in the form of short lists, which

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Classically Sublime: The University of Oklahoma...

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2024/12/05

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful was published in 1757, and it quickly became a cornerstone of Romanticism. The “sublime” is supposed to inspire awe but also shock, even horror.“The passion caused by the great and sublime in nature, when those causes operate most powerfully, is astonishment: and astonishment is that state of the soul in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror.”Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria

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Rosa Bonheur's The Horse Fair: Representations of...

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2024/12/02

Over a three-year period, 1852 – 1855, French painter Rosa Bonheur filled a massive canvas, 8 feet tall and 17 feet wide, with a group of gorgeous white Lippizaner stallions, a dark black horse, and other brown horses, passionately in motion in a field surrounded by trees and bordered by a dirt road, ostensibly a horse market. Now, Bonheur’s The Horse Fair is housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. It is remarkable for a number of reasons. First, it is by a woman artist, one who

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How to Effectively Design Good Generative AI-Using...

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2024/05/05

If it were not bad enough to combat essays purchased from Course Hero, GradeSaver, or one of the other paper mills that purchase student essays, now one has to worry about papers generated by large language models such as ChatGPT, Scribe, Google Gemini, CoPilot or others. Generative AI tools are being developed for specific topics or domains, and the assumption is, at least from a student’s perspective, that the product will be well written and accurate, or at least well written and accurate enough

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