Have you listened to NPR’s This I Believe series? Isn’t it wonderful to listen to the voices and (on the website of NPR) read through these very personal essays that focus in on a strand of belief from a range of people — some famous, and some not. I was thinking about this the other […]
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Touring the Museum of Museums
Some days, you just stumble across a very neat idea and have to share it with other people, you know? Someone fed me this link to the Museum of Museums through a Delicious account and I was hooked. This Museum of Museums collects links to the sites of any variety of museums from around the […]
Dogtrax Audiocasts: Rough Draft
This is the the third in a series of audiocasts that I am experimenting with through this Weblog site, which has really become a mishmash of my thoughts on education, music, personal writing, and my work with the National Writing Project. I hope anyone who reads my site doesn’t feel the lack of focus is […]
Other Meandering Minds and Sofa Kings
So I guess I am not alone as a Meandering Mind. I just happened to be doing that self-centered activity of googling my site and found a few other Meandering Minds way ahead of me in the search engine. It’s not that I thought I was being so original with my Weblog title, but still […]
Poetry e-Journal
A few months ago, I was helping some teachers at the Western Massachusetts Writing Project consider ways to use technology for classroom publications. We talked about Wikis, Weblogs and other possibilities, and I showed them how you could use Microsoft Word to create a Web document that could then be uploaded to a server. My […]
Dogtrax Podcast: The Note Who Got Lost
This is a new direction for me — creating podcasts that will center on some of my own music and compositions. I am experimenting with OurMedia as the site for hosting the audio files and I finally worked out most of the kinks of the system. This first edition features the musical play The Note […]
Watching my words on stage
This summer, I had the honor of watching a musical play that I had written during my Summer Institute at the Western Massachusetts Writing Project transformed into action on the stage by a summer theater camp. It was an amazing experience and so, being a writer, I wrote about it. Read my reflections on the […]
The Note Who Got Lost in the Masterpiece
Transforming Words on the Page to Characters on the Stage By Kevin Hodgson There’s a moment in my play where the main character – a little, confused musical note — discovers an exact replica of himself in the musical manuscript through which he is traveling. The other note is exactly like him, except there is […]
The Long Road to Chico
THE LONG ROAD TO CHICO A Collaborative Story of Adventure and Chaos on the Way to Tech Matters 2006 I was lucky the rain had finally stopped. For two days now, with little relief, the water had poured from the sky on my head as mile after mile faded into painful memories. I was on […]