by RYAN SESLOW | Feb 22, 2023 | Art, News, Teaching, Useful Articles / Essays |
7 Tips for Cultivating Empathy and Community in Your College Classroom Hey fellow educators (& Beyond)! We are now flowing into week #5 of the Spring 2023 semester -> welcome back! While there’s aways a lot to catch up on, let’s keep reminding...
by Ryan Seslow | Aug 24, 2021 | News, Teaching, Useful Articles / Essays |
Welcome Back! Obviously there is a lot to say and catch up on, but first and foremost, a reminder of Empathy. I would like to ask my fellow teaching colleagues far and wide to consider this information as you begin teaching your courses again this fall. Our students,...
by Ryan Seslow | Nov 8, 2019 | Art, Design, Digital Art, News, Teaching, Useful Articles / Essays |
Why Should I Make a Portfolio? Wait, what exactly is a portfolio? There seems to be a context…or is there? Let’s define it, and perhaps there is metaphoric value and context in each one of these “traditional definition” examples below.. According to...
by Ryan Seslow | Jul 8, 2019 | Animation, Art, Digital Art, Exhibition, GIF, NET ART, News, Teaching, Useful Articles / Essays |
“The Contemplation of Metaphoric Flight”, 2019, is a series of digital art illustrations & GIF animations generated from public domain source images via the NYPL digital archives. The illustrations were created by your old friend, Ryan Seslow. The new...
by Ryan Seslow | Feb 2, 2019 | Art, News, Press, Teaching, Useful Articles / Essays |
It was back to teaching this past week (and for some, the week before). The spring 2019 semester begins. Hard to image but this is my 15th year of teaching college students. I LOVE teaching! I would like to ask my fellow teaching colleagues far and wide to consider...
by Ryan Seslow | Sep 1, 2018 | Animation, Art, Deaf & Hard of Hearing, GIF, News, Teaching |
September is National Deaf Awareness Month How will you contribute? Im going to be practicing ASL and sharing the sign language alphabet with all of my hearing students (Im a college professor here in nyc). Im also going to make a series of new animations (like this...
by Ryan Seslow | Jun 30, 2018 | Art, Deaf & Hard of Hearing, Digital Art, GIF, News, Teaching, Useful Articles / Essays |
Nothing happens overnight. Inner and outer life changes are really a sum total of activating trigger points that disguise themselves as people, places, situations and occurrences. I keep reminding myself. We can only speak and communicate from own experiences and then...
by Ryan Seslow | May 11, 2018 | Animation, Art, Deaf & Hard of Hearing, GIF, News, Useful Articles / Essays |
Fears faced Continued, this is a series 🙂 As a deaf and hard of hearing person I have spent most of my life pretending that I wasn’t. It took me a very long time to fully understand the psychology and behavioral aspects of my case in particularly. The psychological...
by Ryan Seslow | Mar 29, 2018 | Art, News, Press, Teaching, Useful Articles / Essays |
The PressEd Conference on Twitter 2018! This blog post will function as a series of prepared tweets set up in advance for the conference. This is my first time participating so I am a little nervous and overly excited! My presentation time is scheduled for 1:35pm...
by Ryan Seslow | Mar 26, 2018 | Art, News, Teaching, Useful Articles / Essays |
Metrics of Contrast Things Im Learning on the Journey That “thing” that you want to be, do, have or learn…yup, that one. That thing that you have been talking about doing, becoming or having for the last (insert the number of years here) years but have not yet...